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7:20 PM ET, February 5, 2020

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McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
How Mitt Romney Decided Trump Is Guilty  —  Mitt Romney didn't want to go through with it.  —  “This has been the most difficult decision I have ever had to make in my life,” he told me yesterday afternoon in his Senate office.  Roughly 24 hours later, Romney would deliver a speech announcing …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Romney votes to convict Trump on charge of abuse of power, becoming the first Republican to break ranks  —  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) sealed a place in history Wednesday when he voted to convict President Trump of abuse of power, becoming a rare lone voice in a Republican Party that otherwise …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Romney denies Trump unanimous Republican support  —  Romney: President's actions 'most abusive and destructive violation of one's oath of office'  —  Mitt Romney brought a stunning twist to the end of President Donald Trump's impeachment trial: A bipartisan vote to convict the president on charges of abuse of power.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney shows us all is not lost
Discussion: Breitbart
Erielle Davidson / The Federalist:
Romney's Entire Career Has Been About Punishing Republicans For Voting For Him
Discussion: American Greatness and Breitbart
Philip Bump / Washington Post:   No senator ever voted to remove a president of his party from office. Until Mitt Romney.
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:   ‘The president is guilty’: Mitt Romney's speech on his vote to convict Trump, annotated
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What's next — giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to David Duke?  —  So that the right-wing, faux-outrage crowd does not have a meltdown, let me be clear: I am sorry to hear talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh has cancer.  Any decent person should hope he has a full recovery.
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Politico:
Pelosi unloads on Trump in private meeting after SOTU standoff  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped into President Donald Trump in a private meeting with Democrats Wednesday, just hours after the two jousted in a silent sparring match during his State of the Union address.
Tamar Lapin / New York Post:
Nancy Pelosi ‘pre-ripped’ pages of Trump's SOTU speech, video shows  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears into her copy of President Trump's State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch.  —  As Trump introduced cancer …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Fox News
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Speech Was a Bataan Death March of Bullsh*t  —  And it was a wakeup call for Democrats, who have acted as if 2016 was a fluke and Trump's personal sh*tshow, corruption, and idiocy all but ensure an easy win in November.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Donald's Trump State of the Union speech Tuesday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
The Hill:
Pelosi trashes Trump address: ‘He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech’
Discussion: Redstate, Townhall and Breitbart
Cganemccalla / NewsOne:
Rush Limbaugh's Most Racist Quotes: A Timeline Of Destructive Commentary
Discussion: The Nation
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Pompeo accidentally proves the wrong point with Simpsons reference
Discussion: The Hill, HuffPost and Vanity Fair
theepochtimes.com:   Pelosi Does Her Best to Reelect Trump at State of the Union
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says she will vote to convict President Trump on impeachment charges  —  Citing her concern for the Constitution as well as the conduct of future presidents, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema will vote Wednesday to convict President Donald Trump on the impeachment charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Discussion: CNN, Townhall, The Hill and Twitchy
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Jessica Taylor / The Cook Political Report:   Alabama Senate Moves From Toss Up to Lean Republican
Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Sen. Jones says he will vote to convict Trump, drawing criticism from GOP rivals
Discussion: The Hill
Politico:
First head rolls after Biden's weak Iowa finish  —  DES MOINES — Joe Biden's campaign has parted ways with its Iowa field director, two days after the former vice president came in an embarrassing fourth place in the primary caucus state.  —  Adrienne Bogen, who headed field operations for Biden …
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Bhaskar Sunkara / The Guardian:   The DNC can't steal the election from Bernie Sanders despite the Iowa chaos
William Saletan / Slate:
How Pete Won  —  Last week in Iowa, former Vice President Joe …
Washington Post:
House managers: Trump won't be vindicated.  The Senate won't be, either.  —  Reps. Adam Schiff (Calif.), Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), Zoe Lofgren (Calif.), Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), Val Demings (Fla.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.) and Jason Crow (Colo.) were the Democratic House managers in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
McConnell announces he will award Chief Justice Roberts the ‘Golden Gavel’
Discussion: The Hill
Sherrod Brown / New York Times:
In Private, Republicans Admit They Acquitted Trump Out of Fear  —  One journalist remarked to me, “How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”  —  Mr. Brown is a Democratic senator from Ohio.  —  Not guilty.  Not guilty.
George Conway / Washington Post:
I believe the president, and in the president  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York and an adviser to the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump super PAC.  —  I believe the president, and in the president.  —  I believe the Senate is right to acquit the president.
Discussion: Mediaite
Rick Porter / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Ratings: State of the Union Falls in Early Broadcast Numbers  —  Preliminary figures show the annual address down by double digits versus 2019.  —  The State of the Union address drew a considerably smaller audience on the broadcast networks than it did a year ago, at least in the preliminary ratings from Tuesday.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and POLITICUSUSA
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Deadline:
State Of The Union Viewership Down Double-Digits From 2019; Fox News Tops All, Only Net To Rise Over Last Year - Update
Discussion: Raw Story and Bloomberg
Matthew Haag / New York Times:
Surprise for New York Renters: No More Broker Fees  —  Regulators unexpectedly banned broker fees for renters, which in the city have long amounted to as much as 15 percent of the annual lease.  —  In New York's City intensely competitive rental market, tenants usually deal with middlemen known as brokers …
Hollywood Reporter:
Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103  —  The actor starred in such films as ‘Champion,’ ‘The Bad and the Beautiful,’ ‘Lust for Life,’ ‘Gunfight at the O.K. Corral’ and ‘Spartacus,’ to name just a few.  —  Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep …
Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
New Evidence Shows Pressure Campaign Started Earlier With Prior Ukraine Prez  —  As the Senate votes to acquit President Trump over his bid to extort the Ukrainian government into providing him with domestic political help, TPM has new evidence suggesting that the pressure campaign came far closer …
Discussion: Fox News, Spectator USA and Raw Story
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Christopher Miller / BuzzFeed News:
Evangelical Christians Also Wanted To Get Rid Of The US Ambassador To Ukraine
Discussion: The Hill
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BuzzFeed News:
She Shunned Islam And Was Embraced By Trump World.  They Took Her Money, Then Turned On Her.  —  Rabia Kazan, a Turkish national who used to be a Trump fanatic, made a big donation to the president's campaign.  But she's not a US citizen.  —  A former rising star in MAGA world recently renounced …
Vivian Salama / CNN:
Pentagon officials stunned by White House decision to block Ukraine aid, new emails show  —  Washington (CNN)Days before the July 2019 call between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, US officials were still working to expedite the delivery of Javelin anti-tank missiles to the country …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:
'Acquittal doesn't mean innocence': #AmericansFindTrumpGuilty hashtag compares Trump to OJ Simpson
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Justice Department Announces Investigation into Conditions in Four Mississippi Prisons
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
DOJ reviews allegation that Erik Prince misled Congress in Russia probe
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Mike Bloomberg's Historically Diminutive Stature, In Context
Discussion: Townhall
Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune:
New Texas election process has Democrats expecting a delay in Super Tuesday delegate totals
Discussion: National Review and The Hill
Mairav Zonszein / Columbia Journalism Review:
What happened to The Forward?  —  How America's Jewish newspaper lost the left
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Hollywood Reporter:
Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: ‘Irishman’ “Was Boring,” Tarantino “Amazing,” “I Want an American Director to Win”
Discussion: New York Post and VICE
Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
What's in that bag marked ‘Bag Full of Drugs,’ sir?
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How much of Trump's rising approval numbers can be attributed to differential nonresponse?
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