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New York Times:
Read Trump's Letter to Pelosi Protesting Impeachment — President Trump sent a letter on Tuesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi expressing his “most powerful protest” against the impeachment process. The House is expected to vote on two articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump on Wednesday.
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump presents his own impeachment defense — On the eve of his likely impeachment, President Donald Trump has opted to act as his own defense lawyer. — In a six-page, stream-of-consciousness diatribe sent to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and released by the White House on Tuesday afternoon …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Writes Insane Letter to Pelosi Showing Why He's Unfit For Office — If you worked in print media, you became accustomed to receiving long, unhinged letters from agitated members of the general public. Often these letters tied together facts, pseudo-facts, paranoid insinuations …
Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Letter from President Donald J. Trump to the Speaker of the House of Representatives — Speaker of the House of Representatives — Dear Madam Speaker: — I write to express my strongest and most powerful protest against the partisan impeachment crusade being pursued by the Democrats in the House of Representatives.
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PolitiFact and BizPac Review
New York Times:
Trump Wanted to Get Something Off His Chest, and in His Letter to Pelosi He Did — The letter was a diatribe that played loose with facts and sometimes disregarded them outright. A former Clinton aide called it a reflection of the president's “id.” — WASHINGTON — The letter read …
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Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
It is hard to capture how bizarre and frightening Trump's letter to Pelosi is — On the eve of his impeachment, a stain that obviously torments him more than his enablers have let on, President Trump issued a rambling, unhinged and lie-filled letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
CNN:
Fact check: Trump's wild letter to Pelosi is filled with false and misleading claims — Washington (CNN)It was on White House letterhead. It read like a string of President Donald Trump's tweets. — And it was just as dishonest. — On Tuesday afternoon, Trump released a six-page letter …
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Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Schiff says Pence's office may have purposefully misled panel about contents of his Zelensky call
Schiff says Pence's office may have purposefully misled panel about contents of his Zelensky call
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Occupy Democrats
Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Impeachment Day. Here's how it will go down.
POLITICO Playbook: Impeachment Day. Here's how it will go down.
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New York Times, The Daily Beast and NBC News
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump appears resilient as he faces the ‘very ugly word’ of impeachment
Trump appears resilient as he faces the ‘very ugly word’ of impeachment
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Hullabaloo
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's most expansive defense against impeachment is just as lame and dishonest as his tweets
Trump's most expansive defense against impeachment is just as lame and dishonest as his tweets
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The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Caitlin Andrews / Bangor Daily News:
Jared Golden will vote with Democrats on one Trump impeachment article, not the other — AUGUSTA, Maine — U.S. Rep. Jared Golden of Maine's 2nd District said Tuesday he will vote to impeach President Donald Trump for abusing the power of his office, but not on a second impeachment that charges …
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
McConnell selling Pompeo on Senate as perfect platform for 2024 White House run
McConnell selling Pompeo on Senate as perfect platform for 2024 White House run
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Joe.My.God.
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump impeachment: What time is the vote?
Trump impeachment: What time is the vote?
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Townhall, Joe.My.God. and Breitbart
Associated Press:
Trump on brink of impeachment as House readies historic vote
Trump on brink of impeachment as House readies historic vote
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Sen. Susan Collins during 1999 impeachment: ‘I need witnesses ... to get to the truth’
Sen. Susan Collins during 1999 impeachment: ‘I need witnesses ... to get to the truth’
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Raw Story, CNBC, Slate, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, DSCC and Associated Press
Julian Sanchez / New York Times:
How Out of Control Is Our Surveillance State? — Americans deserve a stronger assurance than “hope” that their Fourth Amendment rights are being respected. — Mr. Sanchez is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. — The F.B.I.'s investigation of the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page …
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Pete Williams / NBC News:
Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes
Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes
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Associated Press, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FISA Judge Blasts FBI For Providing False Information To Wiretap Carter Page
FISA Judge Blasts FBI For Providing False Information To Wiretap Carter Page
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New York Times, Mediaite and The Minnesota Sun
Maggie Severns / Politico:
Buttigieg omitted high-powered bundlers from disclosure — Pete Buttigieg's presidential campaign omitted more than 20 high-level fundraisers from a list of top bundlers it disclosed last week. — The public list of bundlers, featuring more than 100 people who have raised at least $25,000 for Buttigieg …
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Giancarlo Sopo / TheBlaze:
Pete Buttigieg kicks off his Latino outreach campaign with a slogan popularized by communists
Pete Buttigieg kicks off his Latino outreach campaign with a slogan popularized by communists
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Instapundit and Vox
Reuters:
Associate of Rudy Giuliani received $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch -prosecutor — U.S. prosecutors said in court on Tuesday that Lev Parnas, an associate of U.S. President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, received a $1 million payment from Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash.
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Rep. Jeff Van Drew Was ‘Almost Obsessively Anti-Trump’ Before He Considered Joining His Party — Democrats heard the New Jersey freshman call President Trump crazy and unfit to be commander-in-chief. — For months, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a freshman Democrat from New Jersey …
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Lindsey McPherson / Roll Call:
Jeff Van Who? Democrats slam Van Drew, talk Jersey justice for party flipper
Jeff Van Who? Democrats slam Van Drew, talk Jersey justice for party flipper
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump's campaign manager once again accidentally publishes poll showing Democrats are on track to keep the House — Two weeks ago, President Donald Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale tried to threaten Democrats off of impeachment by posting a private poll of the race for freshman Rep. Kendra Horn …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump campaign poll: Impeachment unpopular in swing districts
Trump campaign poll: Impeachment unpopular in swing districts
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The Gateway Pundit and Florida Politics
Maxwell Tani / The Daily Beast:
Adam Driver Walks Out of NPR ‘Fresh Air’ Interview Over ‘Marriage Story’ Clip — The star actor allegedly left after expressing displeasure with listening to a clip of his own acting—a fear Driver has repeatedly voiced in the past. — In the midst of promoting three of his latest starring turns …
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BBC:
US acting ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, to step down — Acting US Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, whose testimony helped build the case for impeaching Donald Trump, is to leave his post next month. — Mr Taylor will step down in January when his temporary appointment is due to expire, the New York Times reported.
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The Daily Caller, New York Times and Axios
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Top Democrat excoriates Pompeo for ‘unceremoniously recalling’ top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine
Top Democrat excoriates Pompeo for ‘unceremoniously recalling’ top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine
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ABC News, Associated Press and HuffPost
David Sharp / Associated Press:
GOP Sen. Collins of Maine launches reelection bid — FILE - In this Nov. 6, 2019, file photo, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is surrounded by reporters as she heads to vote at the Capitol in Washington. U.S. Sen. Collins officially launched her bid for a reelection Wednesday, Dec. 18 …
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Axios, The Hill, Joe.My.God. and The Week
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Fatigue? Spare Me — Yep, he's exhausting. And the nation's pundits owe us more than a plea for sympathy. — Mark Wilson/Getty Images — You can barely taste the opinion pages anymore without being drowned in the carping and moaning from the commentariat about how President …
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Bloomberg
New York Times:
Among the World's Most Dire Places: This California Homeless Camp — We spent three months documenting the conditions of one homeless camp in the wealthiest state. Then we traveled to a slum in Mexico City for comparison.
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SFist
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Rallies Spread on Eve of House Impeachment Votes — A coalition of liberal groups that included MoveOn.org and Indivisible organized hundreds of protests across the country. — From Boston Common to the French Quarter in New Orleans, a series of protests reverberated across the country …
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The Week
Wil S. Hylton / The Atlantic:
20,000 Feet Under the Sea — Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven't spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast expanse of sand, but it's a jagged and dynamic landscape with as much variation as any place onshore.
Leo Shane III / Military Times:
Half of active-duty service members are unhappy with Trump, new Military Times poll shows … President Donald Trump received a loud ovation when he participated in the coin toss ahead of Saturday's Army-Navy football rivalry game in Philadelphia. But troops' actual feelings about the commander …
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The Independent and Raw Story
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Trump Approval Inches Up, While Support for Impeachment Dips — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's job approval rating has inched up again and is now at 45%. The president's ratings have increased six percentage points since the House of Representatives opened an impeachment inquiry against him in the fall.
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The Hill and Joe.My.God.
Rachana Pradhan / Politico:
Trump slashed Puerto Rico's Medicaid money as part of budget deal — President Donald Trump intervened to cut the federal government's Medicaid funding for Puerto Rico as part of a larger government spending deal, according to four sources with knowledge of the discussions.
Melissa Malamut / New York Post:
Men are showing up to The Wing and women are pissed — Ladies, leave your man at home. — The Wing was supposed to be the ultimate sanctuary for women: decidedly feminine in design, with walls and furniture in shades of millennial pink and a thermometer set at a women's-clothing-friendly 72 degrees.
Washington Post:
House passes $1.4 trillion spending deal and sends it to Senate ahead of shutdown deadline — The legislation raises the tobacco purchase age, secures miner pensions and repeals health taxes. — The House on Tuesday approved a massive $1.4 trillion spending package that would stave off …
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