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Heather Vogell / ProPublica:
Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies — The president's businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert calls the differing numbers “versions of fraud.” — Stay up to date with email updates …
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Bess Levin / Vanity Fair:
Which Trump Will Take the Fall for Years of Tax Fraud? — Junior and Eric, it's time to prove your loyalty. — Last February, not long before he reported to prison, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen testified that his boss had regularly inflated his personal assets when it served his purposes to do so …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
CNN:
Federal investigation of Rudy Giuliani includes counterintelligence probe — (CNN)For months, investigators looking into Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine have dug into everything from possible financial entanglements with alleged corrupt Ukrainian figures to counterintelligence concerns raised …
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Dems Torn Over How Much to Punish Rudy Giuliani for Ignoring Subpoena — Should Trump's personal attorney be jailed for his stonewalling of a congressional subpoena—or would a court fight only delay the impeachment inquiry unnecessarily? — House Democrats are torn over how to respond …
ABC News:
4th defendant in federal case involving Rudy Giuliani associates arrested
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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:
Bipartisan House Majority Condemns Trump for Syria Withdrawal — Republicans and Democrats delivered a rebuke to the president over his decision to pull back American troops, an order many viewed as acquiescing to Turkey's incursion against a United States ally.
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
'Sanctions aren't going to do any good': Senate GOP blasts Trump's Turkey strategy
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Raw Story
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Lindsey Graham to Pat Robertson: 'I'll become Trump's worst nightmare' if he doesn't stop slaughter of Kurds
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Talking Points Memo
Washington Post:
Democrats walk out of Syria meeting with Trump, saying he was insulting and went on a ‘nasty diatribe’
Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Republicans drop their revolt against Trump on Syria
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Lauren Egan / NBC News:
Trump dismisses Turkey's invasion of Syria, says Kurds are ‘no angels’
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The Hill, Michigan Advance, The Week, Liberty Unyielding, Agence France-Presse, Daily Kos and Althouse
Washington Post:
Pompeo adviser to decry politicization of State Dept. in impeachment probe testimony — Michael McKinley, the former senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo until his sudden resignation last week, will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that career diplomats …
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Politico, Daily Kos, NPR, Talking Points Memo, The American Conservative, The Week, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Ex-Pompeo adviser tells Congress he resigned over Trump's attacks on Yovanovitch
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Associated Press, Sputnik International, The Hill and Washington Post
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
GOP senators say Erdoğan White House invitation should be revoked
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Axios
New York Times:
Ex-Aide Saw Gordon Sondland as a Potential National Security Risk — A former top White House adviser viewed Mr. Sondland, a Trump donor and the ambassador to the European Union, as a risk because he was so unprepared for his job. — WASHINGTON — A former top White House foreign policy …
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Barbie Latza Nadeau / The Daily Beast:
Grieving Parents ‘Ambushed’ by Trump, Who Had Teen's Killer Waiting at White House — The president had hoped to surprise the parents of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him—all in front of the media. — Correspondent-At-Large
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Michael Holden / Reuters:
U.S. security chief ‘heaped pain’ on grieving parents of UK teen: lawyer — LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump's national security adviser heaped pain and grief on the parents of a British teenager killed in a car crash by trying to hold a meeting at the White House between them and a U.S. diplomat's wife …
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Law & Crime and The American Conservative
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
Five ways the debate could have — and should have — been much, much better — Can a televised debate in 2019 really serve the public interest? — Given the state of American media and politics, it seems like a long shot. We're just too addicted to horse-race politics …
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CNBC, The Federalist, Liberty Unyielding, Townhall, twitchy.com and The Daily Caller
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Joe Biden Goes Off: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Are ‘Trying to Con the American People’ Like Trump
David Weigel / Washington Post:
The Trailer: The best and worst moment for each candidate in Tuesday's debate
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The Hill, Politico and Liberty Unyielding
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Dear Centrist Democrats: There Are No Moderate Republicans to Work With
Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell eyes quick impeachment trial in Senate — Senate Republicans are preparing for a speedy impeachment trial that concludes before the end of the year. — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that he expects Speaker Nancy Pelosi to approve articles …
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NBC News, Axios, The Hill and Political Wire
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
Joe Biden, Bleeding Cash, Spent Nearly $1 Million on Private Jets — Per the ex-veep's FEC data, roughly one out of every 16 dollars raised by the campaign has been spent on such aviation. — Joe Biden's presidential campaign is bleeding cash. And a big reason why appears to be an antiquated …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Post, The Daily Caller and The Week
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Congress Approval, Support for Impeaching Trump Both Up — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives work through an impeachment inquiry regarding alleged abuses of office by President Donald Trump, approval of Congress is now at 25%.
Bloomberg:
Trump-Erdogan Call Led to Lengthy Quest to Avoid Halkbank Trial — Barr, working with Mnuchin, sought a deferred prosecution deal — Prosecutors filed charges when Trump sought to punish Erdogan — President Donald Trump assigned his attorney general and Treasury secretary to deal …
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U.S. Department of Justice
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David Gauthier-Villars / Wall Street Journal:
Turkey Rejects U.S. Call for Immediate Cease-Fire in Syria
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Just Security and Foreign Policy
HuffPost:
Matthew Shepard's Parents Slam AG Barr For Supporting Trans Discrimination — The couple's scathing remarks came at a Justice Department event marking the anniversary of a hate-crime bill named after their murdered son. — The parents of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student murdered in 1998 …
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The Hill
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David Crary / Associated Press:
Matthew Shepard's parents criticize AG Barr on LGBT rights
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ABC News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Schiff pressed Volker to say Ukraine felt pressure from Trump — In a secret interview, Rep. Adam Schiff, leader of the House Democratic effort to impeach President Trump, pressed former U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker to testify that Ukrainian officials felt pressured …
Anna Orso / Inquirer.com:
Mark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person showed up — The bell in the Independence Hall tower rung at 9 a.m., and Mark Sanford took a deep breath. He grabbed a giant check for “one trillion dollars,” stood next to a tiny wooden podium …
David Shulkin / TIME:
I Ran the VA Under President Trump Until He Fired Me. Our First Trump Tower Meeting Was a Job Interview Unlike Any Other — David Shulkin, a physician and former healthcare executive, was an under secretary at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama and the Secretary of the VA under President Trump.
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