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5:45 PM ET, August 28, 2020

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New York Times:
Two P.R. Experts at F.D.A. Have Been Ousted After Blood Plasma Fiasco  —  The agency's chief spokeswoman, Emily Miller, was removed from her position just 11 days into the job.  —  Two senior public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration have been ousted from their positions …
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: 2 F.D.A. Public Relations Experts Are Fired After Plasma Fiasco  —  A coalition of local health departments called on the C.D.C. to change new recommendations that people without Covid-19 symptoms do not need to be tested.  —  RIGHT NOW Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks  —  FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has ousted his top spokesperson after only two weeks on the job, following unhappiness with the agency's communications strategy.  The move sets up a potential fight with the White House, according to four individuals with knowledge of the decision.
CNN:
FDA spokeswoman Emily Miller fired, sources say
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police  —  ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’  —  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …
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Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
21 states sue White House over rollback of bedrock environmental law  —  A coalition of 21 states sued the Trump administration Friday for rolling back what they say is a “rule that is, at its heart, the gutting” of America's bedrock environmental law.  —  The White House in July finalized …
Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC
Politico:
Trump aides interviewing replacement for embattled FTC chair
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:   Trump Warns America: 'Biden's America' Will Look Like Trump's America
Stephen Battaglio / Los Angeles Times:
President Trump's acceptance speech draws 21.6 million TV viewers, trailing the audience for Biden  —  The final night of the Republican convention, which featured President Trump's acceptance speech from the White House South Lawn, had an average audience of 21.6 million viewers Thursday …
Discussion: Mercury News
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
Biden hits Trump where it hurts: in the convention speech ratings  —  New York (CNN Business)President Trump's Thursday night convention speech making the case for his reelection was lower-rated than his challenger Joe Biden's speech one week ago, according to overnight Nielsen ratings.
Roger Friedman / Showbiz411:   RNC Ratings for Night 4, on Broadcast Networks Remains Low with Just 5 Million Viewers
jsonline:
Suburbs are vital, but Donald Trump needs another rural rout to win Wisconsin again  —  It was no fluke a farmer from Wisconsin was featured at the Republican National Convention.  —  Donald Trump won Wisconsin four years ago in small towns and rural counties.
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn
German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo
Discussion: Political Wire
Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
2 attendees, 2 RNC workers in Charlotte test positive for coronavirus, NC county says
KARE-TV:   Biden planning campaign visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin and other battleground states
Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
“Melania Did.  Not.  Care”: In a Blistering New Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump Sounds a Lot Like Her Husband  —  Wolkoff's book is remarkable both for its intimacy and for the sheer volume of receipts it contains.  It's also the first real look at what's under Melania Trump's hood …
Andrew Sullivan / The Weekly Dish:
The Trap The Democrats Walked Right Into  —  If law and order are what this election is about, they will lose it. … It finally happened.  We have lethal battles in the streets between the two tribes of our polarized politics.  This week, a 17-year-old man, Kyle Rittenhouse …
The Daily Beast:
Trump Advisers: He Was ‘Triggered’ by Talk of White Supremacy  —  Two disaffected officials recount a president who simply didn't want to hear things he thought were bad for him.  —  Two former top Homeland Security officials in the Trump administration tell The Daily Beast …
Discussion: Raw Story
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Top general says no role for military in presidential vote  —  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testifies during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, July 9, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.  (Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP)
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New York Times:
A Word Not Uttered by Republican Officials at the Convention: Obamacare  —  A longtime refrain, promise and rallying cry is gone.  —  In 2012, right in the middle of his convention speech, Mitt Romney declared Obamacare repeal a crucial priority.  It was part of his five-part plan for a “better future.”
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Markian Hawryluk / Kaiser Health News:
Opposition to Obamacare Becomes Political Liability for GOP Incumbents
Discussion: Mother Jones and Denver Post
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention  —  Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.  —  For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Is a Secessionist From the Top
Discussion: Raw Story
Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News:
Facebook Employees Are Outraged At Mark Zuckerberg's Explanations Of How It Handled The Kenosha Violence  —  Frustrated Facebook employees slammed CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday during a companywide meeting, questioning his leadership and decision-making, following a week …
The Daily Beast:
Ivanka Is an Idiot but Unequivocally the Smartest Trump  —  In the last RNC episode of The New Abnormal, GOP operative Tim Miller makes a hilarious wager about Trump and his family and the trio rate the Trump kids.  —  Trump and everyone in his orbit tell lots of lies and questionable truths …
Discussion: Raw Story
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George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
Marty Johnson / The Hill:
Harris delivers virtual call to action to protesters at new march on Washington  —  Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) made a video appearance at Friday's civil rights event at the National Mall, delivering a call to action to demonstrators on the 57th anniversary …
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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ABC News:
Washington march updates: Thousands demonstrate in ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’ protest
Discussion: WISC-TV
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’  —  Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.
CNN:
Controversial organization led by Trump allies has tax-exempt status revoked by IRS  —  Trump ally uses controversial tactic to woo black voters  —  (CNN)A nonprofit organization started by two Trump administration allies that stirred up controversy earlier this year for holding cash giveaways …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's parade of desperate lies reveals one big and awful truth  —  When Donald Trump accepted the presidential nomination from the Republican Party in 2016, he declared to the nation: “I alone can fix it.”  —  Four years later, as he accepted the nomination for a second term on Thursday night …
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Feds gripe about wall backer's rants against prosecution  —  Federal prosecutors are urging a recently indicted border-security advocate to clam up or face the possibility of a gag order limiting his ability to speak out publicly about the criminal case he is facing.
CNN:
Top Colorado RNC official spread conspiracy theories and made Islamophobic and sexist comments  —  (CNN)A recently installed Republican National Committee official for the state of Colorado has a history of spreading conspiracies and making sexist and Islamophobic comments.
Discussion: Political Wire
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Sen. Thom Tillis says he “fell short” by not wearing mask at Trump's RNC speech  —  Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) in a statement Friday said he “fell short of [his] own standard,” by choosing not to wear a face mask at President Trump's Republican National Convention acceptance speech on Thursday night.
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
The perfectly logical case for Donald Trump  —  To make America great again, again, you must vote for Donald Trump!  —  If you think things are bad now under Donald Trump, vote for Donald Trump, who will fix things.  The chaos will continue unless you vote for Donald Trump …
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
Video shows activists in Kenosha arrested by officers who jumped out of unmarked vehicle  —  A Seattle-based nonprofit group that serves food to protesters said Thursday that several of its members were still in police custody in Kenosha, Wis., after law enforcement officers sprang …
 
 
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Associated Press:
Esper supports Medal of Honor for soldier's Iraq heroism
Discussion: Breitbart
KING-TV:
Father of man killed inside Seattle's CHOP zone files $3 billion in claims against city, county, state
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Instapundit
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
The Police Are Pretty Sure They're Going to Get Away With It
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Billionaire Trump friend and donor Ronald Lauder goes quiet on the fundraising front in 2020
Discussion: Raw Story
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Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail
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Reuters:
Law Firm for Teenager Accused of Kenosha Killings Has Represented Trump Lawyer Giuliani
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