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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.
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Talking Points Memo and Variety
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The Hill:
Pelosi trashes Trump address: ‘He shredded the truth, so I shredded his speech’ — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday trashed President Trump's raucous State of the Union address while huddling with rank-and-file Democrats and explained why she dramatically ripped up his speech as he wrapped up his remarks.
Discussion:
Townhall, Breitbart and New York Post
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story
Elizabeth Vaughn / Redstate:
Reaction to SOTU: ‘We Need to Put a Cape on His Back, an ‘S’ on His Chest, and Call Him Superman’ — Fox News' Pete Hegseth asked voters in Carthage, NC what they thought about President Trump's State of the Union address. One elderly woman told him, “We need to put a cape on his back, an “S” on his chest, and call him Superman.
Discussion:
New York Times, Vanity Fair and Real Clear Politics
Miami Herald:
Parkland father removed from State of the Union speech after shouting at Trump — The father of a high school freshman killed in the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was removed from the audience at President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night …
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The Hill, The Guardian, Vox, Mother Jones and Axios
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Pelosi's Petty Move
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The American Spectator, Washington Post and CNN
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump makes dazzling, divisive reelection pitch in State of the Union
Discussion:
Press Watch, COURIER, New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and alicublog, more at Mediagazer »
Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
With chants, walkouts and a ripped-up speech, bitter partisanship dominates Trump's State of the Union
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Washington Monthly, New York Times, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, Axios and Politico
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Pelosi ripped up a speech. Trump is ripping up our democracy.
Discussion:
POLITICUSUSA, New York Times and Mediaite
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Rush Limbaugh joins the likes of Mother Teresa and Rosa Parks as recipient of highest civilian honor
Discussion:
The Guardian, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
Cganemccalla / NewsOne:
Rush Limbaugh's Most Racist Quotes: A Timeline Of Destructive Commentary
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The Nation
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Speech Was a Bataan Death March of Bullsh*t
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Raw Story
jones.senate.gov:
Senator Doug Jones Statement on Impeachment Decision — “As this chapter of history draws to a close, one thing is clear: our country deserves better than this. We must find a way to come together, to set aside partisan differences, and to focus on what we have in common as Americans.”
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Mother Jones, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden concedes Iowa was ‘a gut punch’ — SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — Joe Biden is no longer denying his surprisingly weak performance in Iowa. — “I'm not going to sugarcoat it. We took a gut punch in Iowa,” Biden said Wednesday, before cracking a joke about Iowa's botched caucuses.
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Issie Lapowsky / protocol:
He complained about Democrats' tech ‘morass’ — then built the Iowa app — Shadow CEO Gerard Niemira had high hopes for improving Democrats' tech tools. — The CEO of the tech startup at the center of the Iowa caucus debacle complained last year that critical parts of the Democrats' election technology …
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Politico, VICE, Spectator USA, The Verge and WDTN-TV, more at Techmeme »
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Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:
Trump Has Never Looked More Comfortable as a Demagogue
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Raw Story
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 …
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Beyond the Partisan Fight, a Wealth of Evidence About Trump and Ukraine — Regardless of the Senate's verdict, the impeachment inquiry, President Trump's own words and other revelations yield a narrative establishing his involvement in the pressure campaign.
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Politico
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 …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Record economic optimism under Trump, better than Reagan, Clinton, Obama — Economic optimism has reached a 44-year high and economic gloom a record low under President Trump in the latest survey that shows people in the United States are cheering their best personal economy in decades.
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RJ Reinhart / Gallup:
Record-High Optimism on Personal Finances in U.S.
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Townhall, The Federalist, UPI and Twitchy
Politico:
How Rick Perry waltzed past the impeachment probe — Former Energy Secretary Rick Perry will skirt questioning by Congress during the impeachment of President Donald Trump despite his central role in the administration's contacts with Ukraine. — Perry stonewalled all requests from lawmakers …
Discussion:
Raw Story
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The Boston Globe:
Kill the tradition: NH and Iowa should not vote first — A hundred years ago, New Hampshire blazed a trail as the first among 20 states to hold a 1920 presidential primary election. It is a tradition that has endured for the century since, and will repeat on Feb. 11 — a fact owed not just to custom …
Discussion:
Axios and The Smoke Eater
Alex Griswold / Washington Free Beacon:
Bloomberg Used Box to Boost Height as NYC Mayor, Documents Show — The Bloomberg campaign was quick to shoot down President Donald Trump's claim that the Democratic presidential candidate plans to use a box to boost his height at Friday's Democratic debate.
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The Babylon Bee
George Conway / Washington Post:
All the things I believe about President Trump — 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
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
No, Susan Collins, Trump is never going to learn — President Trump is not going to change. Not now, not ever. “Chastened” is not in his vocabulary; pivoting to presidential is not in his repertoire. If there is anything the country should have learned in the age of Trump, it is this.
Discussion:
Crooked Media
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Grace Segers / CBS News:
Susan Collins will vote to acquit Trump, saying he's “learned” from impeachment
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Vox, Washington Post, Senator Susan Collins, CNN, IJR, The Hill, HuffPost, Common Dreams, Bangor Daily News, The Guardian, Beacon, POLITICUSUSA, Mediaite, emptywheel, Raw Story, Patterico's Pontifications, The American Independent, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Axios, Los Angeles Times and National Review
Tony Maglio / The Wrap:
Donald Trump's 3rd State of the Union Address Tumbles in Broadcast TV Ratings — We'll get cable news numbers later today — Donald Trump's State of the Union address was all anybody could talk about on Tuesday, but “Ellen's Game of Games” showed up for NBC too.
Washington Post:
Fact-checking President Trump's 2020 State of the Union address — President Trump's State of the Union speech once again was chock-full of stretched facts and dubious figures. Many of these claims have been fact-checked repeatedly, yet the president persists in using them.
Discussion:
Vox, Associated Press and Daily Kos
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Board fires two leaders of the 2020 DNC Host Committee — The two leaders of Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention are out. — Late Tuesday, the board for the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee terminated President Liz Gilbert and her chief of staff, Adam Alonso.
Discussion:
Politico, Washington Post, The Hill, Althouse, The Daily Caller and PJ Media Home
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Private payrolls soar in January, the best monthly gain in nearly 5 years — By Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM — Private payrolls rose by 291,000 in January, the best month since May 2015, according to ADP and Moody's Analytics. — The report was nearly twice the expected gains.
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Disrn
Lauren Hepler / protocol:
New Silicon Valley extreme: The 2:30 a.m. tech bus from Salida — In search of affordable housing, tech employees move all the way into the Central Valley. Private tech shuttles follow. — It's 2:30 a.m. in the Central California farm town of Salida, and the only sound is the tech bus pulling …
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