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Justice News:
Leaders Of ‘We Build The Wall’ Online Fundraising Campaign Charged With Defrauding Hundreds Of Thousands Of Donors  —  Brian Kolfage, Stephen Bannon, and Two Others Alleged to Have Funneled Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars From the Organization to Kolfage; All Four Defendants Allegedly Profited From Their Roles in the Scheme
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New York Times:
Steve Bannon Is Charged With Fraud in ‘We Build the Wall’ Campaign  —  Mr. Bannon and three others are accused in a scheme to use funds raised for construction to pay for personal expenses.  —  Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former top adviser, was charged on Thursday in New York …
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Stephen Bannon, three others charged with defrauding donors to online fundraising campaign for border wall  —  Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump's former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds …
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon arrested on charges of defrauding donors in fundraising scheme
Discussion: TheBlaze
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Bannon's indictment confirms that the American right is made up of con artists
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Each of the three people who led Trump's 2016 campaign has now faced criminal charges
Discussion: CNBC
Corinne Ramey / Wall Street Journal:
Steve Bannon Charged in Alleged Border Wall Fundraising Scheme
Discussion: Townhall
CNN:
Steve Bannon, three others charged with fraud in border wall fundraising campaign
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Bannon Grifter Indictment: More Steel Bracelets for Team Trump
Discussion: Eschaton
Los Angeles Times:
‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks  —  Six weeks ago, U.S. Postal Service workers in the high desert town of Tehachapi, Calif., began to notice crates of mail sitting in the post office in the early morning that should have been shipped out for delivery the night before.
Adm. Steve Abbot / Defending Democracy Together:
A STATEMENT BY FORMER REPUBLICAN NATIONAL SECURITY OFFICIALS  —  We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Top Republican National Security Officials Say They Will Vote for Biden  —  In a letter released hours before Joe Biden is set to deliver his nomination acceptance speech, over 70 senior officials called President Trump “unfit to lead” and outlined their support for his opponent.
Discussion: Reuters
Hanna Trudo / The Daily Beast:   Controversial GOP Foreign Policy Hand John Negroponte Endorses Biden
Ryan Lizza / Politico:
Obama torches Trump like American democracy depends on it  —  Barack Obama went high.  —  On the third night of the Democratic convention — a word that seems increasingly absurd to describe what is really just two hours of nightly programming from the DNC — the former president delivered …
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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Hunter Biden to talk at Democratic convention  —  Hunter Biden, the son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and a favorite punching bag of Republicans, plans to speak on Thursday during the last night of the Democratic National Convention.  —  Hunter Biden has been a common focal point …
Orion Rummler / Axios:
Hunter Biden slated to speak at final night of DNC
Discussion: Politico
Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Jon Meacham to speak on Democratic convention's last night
Discussion: Penguin Random House and The Hill
Aaron Gordon / VICE:
USPS Headquarters Tells Managers Not to Reconnect Mail Sorting Machines, Emails Show  —  “We are not to reconnect any machines that have previously been disconnected.”  —  Aaron Gordon  —  Shortly after USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy issued a public statement saying he wanted to …
New York Times:
Trump Must Turn Over Tax Returns to D.A., Judge Rules  —  A federal judge rejected the president's argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of his tax returns was ‘wildly overbroad.’  —  A federal judge on Thursday rejected President Trump's latest effort to block the Manhattan district attorney …
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Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Pelosi endorses Kennedy over Markey in tight Massachusetts Senate primary
Discussion: Associated Press
Brian Stelter / Vanity Fair:
“Hannity Has Said to Me More Than Once, 'He's Crazy'”: Fox News Staffers Feel Trapped in the Trump Cult  —  Inside the network staffers are cringing, and even Trump's “shadow chief of staff” has his doubts.  “If you were hearing what I'm hearing, you'd be vaping too,” Sean Hannity told a colleague during Trump's early days.
NBC News:
Trump cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say officials  —  WASHINGTON — In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president's most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked …
Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
Trump's QAnon embrace draws GOP backlash  —  President Donald Trump's embrace of QAnon is drawing backlash from some prominent Republicans, who say his comments Wednesday on the group that believes he is saving the world from a satanic cult of pedophiles and cannibals have “no place” in the party.
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Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on Thursday became the highest-ranking House Republican to condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory, calling it “dangerous lunacy …
Discussion: The Hill
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for coronavirus  —  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said Thursday that he tested positive for the coronavirus, and is “strictly following the direction of our medical experts” by quarantining, local ABC affiliate WBRZ reports.  —  The big picture …
Discussion: WBRZ, Politico, Associated Press and Reuters
New York Times:
Aleksei Navalny Hospitalized in Russia in Suspected Poisoning  —  The prominent opposition leader was reported to be in “serious condition” in intensive care in Siberia after his flight to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing.  —  MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny …
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Politico:
Falwell's use of yacht comes under scrutiny  —  Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. has repeatedly used a 164-foot yacht owned by NASCAR mogul Rick Hendrick for family vacations after the university committed to a lucrative sponsorship deal with Hendrick Motorsports …
Discussion: Raw Story
Laura Olson / Morning Call:
Joe Biden leads Donald Trump narrowly among Pennsylvania voters in new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll  —  As Democrat Joe Biden formally accepts his party's presidential nomination, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll shows him with a narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump …
Discussion: New York Times
Richard Salame / The Intercept:
Trump Comes Up Empty When Pressed for Evidence of Election Fraud in Court  —  President Donald Trump's campaign, ordered by a federal court judge in Pennsylvania to back up its claims of fraud in the state's vote-by-mail system, has documented only a handful of cases of election fraud in recent years …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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