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7:20 AM ET, December 18, 2019

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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 …
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.).
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Washington Post, The Hill and Raw Story
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 …
Anna Palmer / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Impeachment Day. Here's how it will go down.
Elise Viebeck / Washington Post:
Schiff says Pence's office may have purposefully misled panel about contents of his Zelensky call
Discussion: Occupy Democrats
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
Trump appears resilient as he faces the ‘very ugly word’ of impeachment
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Trump impeachment: What time is the vote?
Discussion: Breitbart
Los Angeles Times:
Trump's most expansive defense against impeachment is just as lame and dishonest as his tweets
Discussion: 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 …
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
Discussion: The Week
Politico:
Rep. Jeff Van Drew says Democratic staff had no choice but to quit
Discussion: Fox News and Wall Street Journal
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 …
Discussion: Axios
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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 …
Discussion: Fox News
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Giancarlo Sopo / TheBlaze:
Pete Buttigieg kicks off his Latino outreach campaign with a slogan popularized by communists
Discussion: 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.
Discussion: IJR
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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 …
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
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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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Top Democrat excoriates Pompeo for ‘unceremoniously recalling’ top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine
Discussion: ABC News, Associated Press and HuffPost
Pete Williams / NBC News:
Secret FISA Court issues highly unusual public rebuke of FBI for mistakes  —  The criticism comes after a report by the DOJ inspector general that found “so many basic and fundamental errors.”  —  WASHINGTON — The secret court that approves orders to conduct surveillance on suspected foreign terrorists …
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BBC:
Trump says Armenia massacres were not genocide, directly contradicting Congress  —  President Trump has said he does not consider the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 to be a genocide, contradicting a unanimous vote by the US Senate.  —  The historic vote last week incensed Turkey …
Discussion: Mediaite and Twitchy
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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 …
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.
Discussion: 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 …
Discussion: The Week
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 …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
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 …
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.
ABC News:
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort hospitalized for cardiac event: Sources  —  Manafort is slated to be released from prison Christmas Day 2024.  —  President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been hospitalized for a cardiac event while serving …
Doha Madani / NBC News:
Possible mass grave from 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre found by researchers  —  Experts in Oklahoma believe they found a mass grave site from the deadly race riots, recently recreated in HBO's “Watchmen.”  —  Experts at the University of Oklahoma believe they have found a possible mass grave site …
Discussion: Daily Kos, KSLTV.com and FOX2now.com
 
 
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