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House GOP looks to protect Trump by raising doubts about motives of his deputies — House Republicans' latest plan to shield President Trump from impeachment is to focus on at least three deputies — U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani …
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
I've Reported In Ukraine For 10 Years. Please Read This Before You Say Anything Else About Impeachment. — MARIUPOL, Ukraine — If you're lucky enough to be within microphone-reach of Volodymyr Zelensky these days and to see the Ukrainian president take a question about Donald Trump, you'll witness some impressive facial gymnastics.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: House committees subpoena Mick Mulvaney — The House committees investigating President Trump and Ukraine issued a subpoena Thursday night for acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to testify at 9 am on Friday as part of their impeachment inquiry, two sources familiar tell Axios.
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Trump's Ukraine defense: Blah, blah, blah — Sometimes a phrase can summarize an era. “We shall overcome.” “If it feels good, do it.” “It's morning again in America.” — My candidate for the age of Trump was coined by White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
New GOP Ukraine Defense: Trump Was Just a Patsy for Sondland
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Corky Siemaszko / NBC News:
Referee says he told Rep. Jim Jordan that Ohio State doctor performed sex act in shower — The referee said the response of Jordan and another former coach was, “Yeah, yeah, we know.” — A professional referee says in a lawsuit filed Thursday that disgraced doctor Richard Strauss masturbated …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Leon Cooperman, who has been battling Elizabeth Warren, says he will support fellow billionaire Mike Bloomberg for president — “I'm a huge fan of Michael. I know him personally. It's a breath of fresh air. Unless he changes his stripes, he will have my unequivocal support,” Cooperman told CNBC on Friday.
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#8 Michael Bloomberg … - He put in the seed funding for the company and now owns 88% of the business, which has estimated revenues of $10 billion. — After earning his M.B.A. from Harvard, Bloomberg got a job in 1966 in “The Cage” at Salomon Brothers, where he counted out securities by hand.
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Charles Sykes / The Bulwark:
Mike Bloomberg Should Go Away — Democrats woke up Friday morning with a development that pretty much nobody asked for: Michael Bloomberg's apparent entry into the presidential race. Because evidently we don't have enough billionaires in our politics. And the Democratic field is too small.
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Emily Stewart / Vox:
Michael Bloomberg has changed his mind on running for president yet again — Michael Bloomberg said he wouldn't run for president in March. Now it looks like he's going to go for it after all. — It looks like Michael Bloomberg might be running for president after all.
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Axios:
Exclusive: Mike Bloomberg will “spend whatever it takes” in 2020
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Alexander Burns / New York Times:
Michael Bloomberg Actively Prepares to Enter 2020 Presidential Race
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Analysis: Bloomberg's move a slam on Biden, 2020 Democrats
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Ivanka Trump to AP: impeachment aimed at undoing 2016 vote — RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Ivanka Trump on Friday weighed in on the House impeachment inquiry of her father from half a world away in Morocco. — President Donald Trump's daughter and White House adviser told The Associated Press …
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Lawyer for Ukraine whistleblower sends White House cease and desist letter to stop Trump's attacks — (CNN)A lawyer for the Ukraine whistleblower, whose complaint document triggered the House impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, has sent a letter to the White House warning the President to …
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Ryan Saavedra / The Daily Wire:
Hostin Attacks Trump Jr With False Claims On Whistleblower, Transcript. Here's The Truth.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Book by ‘Anonymous’ describes Trump as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation — Senior Trump administration officials considered resigning en masse last year in a “midnight self-massacre” to sound a public alarm about President Trump's conduct, but rejected the idea because they believed …
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
Who Will Betray Trump? — From the moment Francis Rooney expressed alarm to his House colleagues that Donald Trump might have abused presidential power in his dealings with Ukraine—and more dramatically, that an impeachment inquiry could be warranted—the Florida Republican was a marked man.
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Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
Trump ‘violates all recognized democratic norms,’ federal judge says in biting speech on judicial independence — In an unusually critical speech that lamented the public's flagging confidence in the independence of the judicial branch, a federal judge slammed President Trump for …
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Abbey Marshall / Politico:
Trump says he might attend Russian military parade — President Donald Trump said Friday he's considering accepting Vladimir Putin's invitation to attend Russia's May Day parade, a military event held in Moscow commemorating the capitulation of Nazi Germany.
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New York Times:
Democrats in Battleground States Prefer Moderate Nominee, Poll Shows — A New York Times/Siena College survey in six key states also showed voters want a candidate who can work with Republicans.
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Irin Carmon / New York Magazine:
It Is Shameful That ABC News and CBS News Are Punishing the Epstein Leaker — It gives me no pleasure to report that I agree, on just this one thing, with Donald Trump Jr., who went on The View Thursday to say he shouldn't be condemned for naming the Ukraine whistle-blower when ABC News …
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Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
CBS News sparks outrage for reportedly firing ex-ABC News staffer who leaked Epstein bombshell
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Jason Wilson / The Guardian:
Secret chats involving Republican lawmaker reveal fresh evidence of plots and paranoia — Messages from network involving Matt Shea provide insight into ‘patriot movement’ - and the extent of their conspiracy thinking — Leaked Signal messages from an online chat network around six-term …
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Is Trump Already Winning on Impeachment? — This coming Wednesday marks the official start of the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump in the House Intelligence Committee, the public beginning of what the historian Jon Meacham rightfully calls “a test for the country.”
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BBC:
Italy Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre under guard amid death threats — An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media. — Liliana Segre, who was sent to the notorious Auschwitz death camp at 13 …
Michael Brice-Saddler / Washington Post:
A white restaurant owner admitted to enslaving a black man. He got 10 years in prison. — John Christopher Smith initially liked working at J & J Cafeteria in Conway, S.C., where he was hired when he was 12 years old. — For about two decades, Smith washed dishes, bused tables and cooked food at the small-town diner without issue.
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James Arkin / Politico:
GOP senators hit by early wave of outside money ahead of 2020 — Democrats spent years sounding the alarm on “dark money” as groups pummeled their senators. Now, the left is the side delivering the early blow. — A quartet of new nonprofit groups has already spent millions …
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New York Times:
Impeachment Inquiry Tests Ties Between Barr and Trump — The attorney general has not jumped in to publicly defend the president against the Democratic inquiry as he did with the Mueller investigation. — WASHINGTON — For a while at least, he seemed to have found his Roy Cohn …
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Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Lawsuits: G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller Fostered Hostile Work Environment for Women — One sales executive alleges she lost half of her assignments after the CEO replaced her with a former colleague from Playboy. — G/O MEDIA — Two former G/O Media executives have sued the media conglomerate …
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
The Authoritarian Rot That Produced This President* Is Present in the Republican Party at All Levels — Need proof? Look at Kentucky and Wisconsin. … I guess we should start this week's tour in Kentucky, where the Republican majority in the state legislature is making all kinds of noises about how …
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Kansas City Star:
Pompeo scheduled to speak in South Carolina amid speculation on political future — As speculation about his political future continues, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit the early presidential primary state of South Carolina. — Pompeo, a possible 2020 U.S. Senate candidate …
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Reis Thebault / Washington Post:
Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's ‘sacrifices,’ he writes — It was the day before his father was inaugurated president of the United States when the weight of the office first washed over Donald Trump Jr. — President-elect Trump and the new first family …
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