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10:45 AM ET, September 4, 2020

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’  —  When President Donald Trump canceled a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018, he blamed rain for the last-minute decision, saying that “the helicopter couldn't fly” and that the Secret Service wouldn't drive him there.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
After wild week, Trump looks close to full derailment  —  Washington (CNN)There have been many weeks when the Trump train has looked like it's going to jump the tracks.  But in the seven days since the Republican convention, the President has come perhaps as close as he ever has to a full derailment.
James Laporta / Associated Press:
Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’  —  DELRAY BEACH, FLa. (AP) — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead …
Washington Post:
Trump said U.S. soldiers injured and killed in war were ‘losers,’ magazine reports  —  President Trump called U.S. soldiers injured or killed in war “losers,” questioned the country's reverence for them and expressed confusion over why anyone would choose to serve, according to a new report …
New York Times:
Trump Angrily Denies Report He Called Fallen Soldiers ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’  —  The report, in The Atlantic, could be problematic for the president because he is counting on strong support among the military for his re-election bid.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump heatedly denied …
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and Eschaton
Donald J. Trump for President:   Officials go on the record to refute anonymous sources in false The Atlantic story
Teo Armus / Washington Post:
‘The last full measure of his disgrace’: Veterans scorn Trump over report that he calls fallen soldiers ‘losers’
Discussion: Raw Story
USA Today:
The Pentagon has ordered Stars and Stripes to shut down for no good reason  —  Even for those of us who are all too wearily familiar with President Donald Trump's disdain for journalists, his administration's latest attack on the free press is a bit of a jaw-dropper.
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New York Times:
Suspect in Fatal Portland Shooting Is Reported Killed as Officers Move In  —  Michael Forest Reinoehl, an antifa supporter, died when law enforcement went to arrest him.  He was being investigated in the fatal shooting of a member of the far-right group Patriot Prayer.
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VICE:
Man Linked to Killing at a Portland Protest Says He Acted in Self-Defense  —  “I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color.  But I wasn't going to do that.”  —  VN  —  Ever since a member of the right-wing “Patriot Prayer” group was shot and killed during …
Associated Press:
AP source: Suspect in Portland death killed by investigators  —  LACEY, Wash. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as investigators moved in to arrest him …
Discussion: Townhall, The Hill and KCLO-TV
Vincent Barone / New York Post:
Suspect in fatal Portland protest shooting killed by feds during arrest attempt
Discussion: Althouse
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls increase by nearly 1.4 million as the unemployment rate tumbles  —  Unemployment rate falls to 8.4% as U.S. economy adds 1.37 million jobs in August  —  Nonfarm payrolls increased by 1.37 million in August and the unemployment rate tumbled to 8.4% as the U.S. economy continued to climb its way out of the pandemic downturn.
Discussion: Redstate
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Sarah Chaney / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Unemployment Rate Fell to 8.4% in August as Hiring Continued
Discussion: Political Wire
Megan Cassella / Politico:
U.S. unemployment rate fell to 8.4 percent in August
Amy Walter / The Cook Political Report:
With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race  —  These last two weeks provided Pres. Trump the best opportunity to change the trajectory of this race.  His GOP convention offered a rosy (and inaccurate) portrayal of a president who effectively tackled the coronavirus pandemic.
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
Barr claims a man collected 1,700 ballots and filled them out as he pleased.  Prosecutors say that's not what happened.  —  In his latest warning about the dangers of mass mail-in voting, Attorney General William P. Barr pointed to a case in Texas that he said highlighted the risk of fraud.
ICE:
19 aliens charged with voter fraud in North Carolina following ICE investigation  —  GREENSBORO, N.C. - Nineteen foreign nationals face federal charges in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina for illegally voting in the 2016 federal elections, according to federal charges publicly announced on Wednesday.
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Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
Voters are already getting presidential ballots. Here's what to know as mail-in voting begins.
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Trump's rhetoric on protests seen as detrimental by majority of Americans: POLL  —  Even Republicans are divided on his approach, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.  —  A significant majority of Americans believe President Donald Trump's rhetoric on the unrest in parts of the country …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Gardner ‘Flatly Outnumbered’ by Independents as He Seeks Re-Election in Colorado Senate Race
Discussion: Political Wire
Em Steck / CNN:
Political group tied to Kanye West campaign law firm sent misinformation on Biden with mail-in ballot applications to battleground state voters  —  This mailer was sent by a dark money group to Pennsylvania voters last month.  —  (CNN)An Ohio-based political advocacy group that shares …
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Jacques Billeaud / Associated Press:
Judge bars Kanye West from appearing on Arizona's ballot
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost:
Trump Campaign Running Photo Ads Edited To Make Joe Biden Appear Older  —  Yet again, Trump officials are using deceptively altered imagery to attack the former vice president.  —  President Donald Trump's campaign launched a series of Facebook ads on Thursday featuring a manipulated photo …
Tim Craig / Washington Post:
‘The United States is in crisis’: Report tracks thousands of summer protests, most nonviolent  —  About 93 percent of the racial-justice protests that swept the United States this summer remained peaceful and nondestructive, according to a report released Thursday, with the violence …
Discussion: IJR and The Hill
Declan Leary / The American Conservative:
The Media Have Lost their Minds  —  Through the most newsworthy year in recent memory, reporters make a habit of gaslighting America.  —  “Why did police shoot my daddy?”  —  Now there's an impartial heading if ever I've seen one.  No attempts at emotional manipulation to be found.
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The 2020 Election, a Race in Which Everything Happens and Nothing Matters  —  If a pandemic that has killed nearly two hundred thousand Americans can't significantly hurt Trump's support, can anything?  —  Does anything matter anymore in American politics?
David Limbaugh / Townhall:
Are African Americans Truly Warming up to Trump?  —  I get the sense that rightward movement is occurring in the African American community.  This is more than anecdotal.  It's not random.  It is for good reason.  —  At least since the '60s, the Democrats have had a lock on the black vote …
Politico:
Trump team plots how to bust Biden in the debates  —  During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump blew off his first round of debate prep.  —  He refused to do a mock debate with a fake lectern, didn't want any single person to play Hillary Clinton and wouldn't simulate …
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Nearly 10 Miles Of Cars Line Up For Trump — And A Raucous Night In Small Town America  —  The county paper predicted a crowd of 2,000-plus for President Donald Trump's 7 p.m. hanger stop.  There are more than twice that many vehicles in the parking lots and fields by 4.  —  LATROBE, Penn.
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden lags among Florida Hispanic voters  —  MIAMI — Joe Biden is underperforming among Florida Hispanic voters while Donald Trump has marginally increased his numbers from 2016, according to a new poll in the must-win battleground state for the president.  —  Biden leads Trump among Hispanics …
 
 
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Trinady Joslin / The Texas Tribune:
Assistant Texas attorney general loses job after report surfaces racist tweets
Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
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Washington Post:
Senate GOP struggles to unify behind coronavirus relief bill amid dispute over DeVos education policy
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Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Trump ‘Swears on Whatever’ He Never Called Slain Soldiers ‘Losers’
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
Trump Went to Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, and Fred's Widow Is None Too Happy
Discussion: Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
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