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11:15 AM ET, December 17, 2019

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New York Times:
We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated  —  The president and his enablers have replaced conservatism with an empty faith led by a bogus prophet.  —  The authors have worked for and supported Republican campaigns.  —  Patriotism and the survival of our nation in the face of the crimes …
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Steve Peoples / Associated Press:
Trump conservative critics launch PAC to fight reelection  —  NEW YORK (AP) — A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
CNN:
Disparate group of Republican senators worry White House and GOP leaders ahead of impeachment trial  —  (CNN)Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's high-profile push for witnesses to testify in the Senate's expected impeachment trial of President Donald Trump shifted attention and political pressure …
Discussion: The Hill, Breitbart, HuffPost and Raw Story
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Impeachment moves to Senate. Get ready for a scramble — and a January surprise
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:   Seth Meyers Goes Off on Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham for ‘Rigging’ Trump Impeachment Trial
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   McConnell takes heat from all sides on impeachment
Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:   McSally 'hasn't been convinced' Trump should be impeached
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Moderate Dems take a leap on impeachment
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
Wall Street Journal:
GOP Senators Seek Quick Acquittal for Trump. The President Wants More.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
How far can the House go to stop a sham trial?
Discussion: Althouse, NBC News and The Mahablog
USA Today:
USA TODAY Poll: Impeached or not, Trump leads his Democratic rivals for another term  —  Susan Page William Cummings Nicholas WuUSA TODAY  —  WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, the first modern president to face impeachment during his first term in the White House, now leads …
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
On Tuesday, March for Impeachment  —  The anti-Trump majority needs to make itself seen.  —  Brian Kilmeade — the dark-haired guy on “Fox & Friends,” Fox News's morning show — was surprised.  During the program on Monday, a correspondent reported that a Fox News poll showed that 50 percent …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, Mediaite, Redstate, Raw Story and CNN
Washington Post:
Americans locked in partisan stalemate on removing Trump from office, Post-ABC poll finds
Gary Langer / ABC News:   Most expect fair trial for Trump; 7 in 10 say let aides testify (POLL)
Mark Weiner / Syracuse Post-Standard:
Rep. Anthony Brindisi will vote to impeach President Trump (Exclusive)  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Anthony Brindisi says he plans to vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump after concluding the president abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress.
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Press Herald:
Our View: President Trump betrayed nation and should be impeached  —  It's a vote not to punish the chief executive, but to protect our democracy.  —  BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD  —  Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office.  And it's not even a close call.
Discussion: Raw Story
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump invokes Kavanaugh to fight impeachment
Discussion: Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Giuliani Provides Details of What Trump Knew About Ambassador's Removal  —  Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview that he briefed the president “a couple of times” about Marie Yovanovitch, the envoy to Ukraine, setting her recall in motion.  —  WASHINGTON — Rudolph W. Giuliani said on Monday …
Medium:
HISTORIANS' STATEMENT ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP  —  President Trump's numerous and flagrant abuses of power are precisely what the Framers had in mind as grounds for impeaching and removing a president.  Among those most hurtful to the Constitution have been his attempts to coerce …
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:   More Than 750 Historians Call For Donald Trump To Be Impeached
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:   More than 700 scholars pen letter urging House to impeach Trump
USA Today:
Yea or nay on impeachment: USA TODAY Opinion contributors take sides  —  Would you take a case to trial that you know you could never win?  That's what is on the table with Trump impeachment.  —  USA TODAY asked a diverse group of contributors to its Opinion section how they would vote on impeaching President Donald Trump.
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:   IG Report Undercuts Credibility of Impeachment Manager Nadler
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FISA Report Was So Bad That FBI's Top Lawyer During Russia Probe Felt ‘Distressed’ After Reading It
Discussion: BizPac Review
Axios:   GOP monetizes impeachment as Dems try to change the subject
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Trump Is Forever  —  The four reasons why Republicans won't turn on Trump, no matter what.  —  The level of loyalty Donald Trump commands from elected Republicans seems qualitatively different from that offered to previous Republican presidents.  —  For instance: Republicans told President Nixon to resign his office.
Discussion: Raw Story and DCReport.org
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Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP State Senator Rebukes Trump, Declares ‘Republicans All Over the Country’ Want President Impeached
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Peter Thiel at Center of Facebook's Internal Divisions on Politics  —  Billionaire investor thinks political-ad policy shouldn't change; some directors and executives disagree  —  Facebook Inc. FB 1.96% 's senior leadership is increasingly divided over how to address criticism of the company's effect …
Discussion: Vanity Fair and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Mormon Church has misled members on $100 billion tax-exempt investment fund, whistleblower alleges  —  A former investment manager alleges in a whistleblower complaint to the Internal Revenue Service that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has amassed about $100 billion …
Mark Niesse / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge allows Georgia to purge 309K voter registrations overnight  —  About 309,000 names were set to be erased from Georgia's list of registered voters Monday night, a mass cancellation that a federal judge allowed to move forward.  —  A voting rights group, Fair Fight Action …
Tal Axelrod / The Hill:
Union reaches agreement, Democratic debate to proceed as scheduled  —  The California union at the center of a labor dispute that threatened Thursday's 2020 primary debate on Tuesday announced that a deal has been struck to allow the event to proceed as scheduled at Loyola Marymount University (LMU).
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Tom Rogan / Washington Examiner:
The real reasons the US government is so secretive about UFOs  —  Two years ago Sunday, the New York Times broke the stunning story of a secret Pentagon program to study unidentified flying objects.  That story led me to delve into this strange world.  I've learned some interesting stuff about UFOs …
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The New York Times's political coverage has completely imploded at the worst possible time  —  The New York Times's three-year struggle to sustain its reporting algorithms, built for two political parties that have comparable relationships to reality, collapsed into sordid heap of nonsense over the weekend.
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Russian disinformation network said to have helped spread smear of U.S. ambassador to Ukraine  —  The web analysis firm Graphika has linked posts to a ‘known Russian operation’  —  The story that appeared on The Hill website on March 20 was startling.  —  Marie Yovanovitch …
New York Times:
Strict Vaccine Law Stumbles in N.J. Legislature  —  There were not enough votes in the State Senate to end religious exemptions to vaccine requirements for all students.  —  The New Jersey Legislature, seemingly on the verge of passing one of the strictest vaccine laws in the nation on Monday …
Discussion: New Jersey Online, The Hill and DNyuz
Clay Risen / New York Times:
Liquor Taxes Could Go Up 400%, Thanks to Congressional Dysfunction  —  A temporary cut in federal taxes on alcohol fueled the growth of American distilleries, but its expiration threatens their demise.  —  The last two years have been good ones for Lyon Distilling.
Maya Kosoff / GEN:
The Human Toll of the 2019 Media Apocalypse  —  More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs this year.  These are some of their stories.  —  eing a journalist in 2019 meant working under the gun.  In January, over a thousand journalists lost their jobs as layoffs hit Gannett, BuzzFeed, AOL, and HuffPost.
 
 
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Suzanne Nossel / New York Times:
Fool Us Once, Shame on You. Fool Us in 2020, Shame on Us.
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
To win reelection, Trump should try to deliver on his economic populist promises
Washington Post:
China appears to add a sickening new dimension to its treatment of Uighurs
Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
“Bloomberg Is Paying Organizers $70 or $80K”: Bloomberg Spends Huge on Ground Game—Through November, Even If He's Out
Los Angeles Times:
U.S. to send asylum seekers to Honduras, bypassing American asylum
Discussion: KTLA
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Vulnerable House Democrats Announce Support For Impeaching Trump
Discussion: Associated Press
 Earlier Items: 
Jason DeParle / New York Times:
The Tax Break for Children, Except the Ones Who Need It Most
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Chao's team helped McConnell's state win its largest DOT grant
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Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Lessons From the Tory Landslide
Discussion: Financial Times
Australian / Daily Mail:
Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh prison (pictured above) …
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Screenplay About Barron Trump Sabotaging Dad's 2016 Presidential Campaign Makes Annual Black List
Stamford Advocate:
A tweet gave a journalist a seizure. His case brings new meaning to the idea of ‘online assault.’
Charles Homans / New York Times:
How the Internet Came to Loathe Pete Buttigieg
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

 
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