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10:52 AM ET, September 5, 2020

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Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Jennifer Griffin of Fox News Did Not Confirm ‘Most Salacious’ Part of Atlantic Story  —  Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported Friday that two anonymous former “senior” U.S. officials had confirmed “key parts” of the Atlantic's story about the president, but could not confirm “the most salacious” part.
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, Contemptor and Twitchy
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Defenders: He Doesn't Hate the Troops, He Just ‘Sounds Like an Asshole’  —  Yes, his allies admit, Trump routinely makes callous comments about U.S. military personnel.  But it's because he hates the wars they're forced to fight, not the troops themselves.
Donald Trump / The Guardian:
Trump calls for Fox News journalist to be fired for report on war dead scandal  —  The row over Donald Trump's alleged remarks denigrating American soldiers has now seen the US president target one of his core areas of support as he called for a Fox News journalist who reported details of the scandal to be fired.
Discussion: Breitbart, EA WorldView and Raw Story
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
Journalism's New Propaganda Tool: Using “Confirmed” to Mean its Opposite … One of the most humiliating journalism debacles of the Trump era played out on December 8, 2017, first on CNN and then on MSNBC.  The spectacle kicked off on that Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. when CNN …
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Washington Post:
White House directs federal agencies to cancel race-related training sessions it calls ‘un-American propaganda’  —  Administration seeks list of contracts for those that refer to ‘white privilege,’ according to memo  —  President Trump is moving to revamp federal agencies' racial sensitivity trainings …
Discussion: Althouse, New York Times and The Hill
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Philip Wegmann / Real Clear Politics:   Trump to Feds: Stop ‘Anti-American’ Training on ‘Critical Race Theory’
Washington Post:
White House memo seeking to block federal agencies from certain race-related training
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat  —  Peter Strzok, who was fired for sending anti-Trump texts, played a central role in both the Hillary Clinton email and Trump-Russia investigations.  —  WASHINGTON — A former senior F.B.I. agent at the center …
Discussion: Bloomberg, Raw Story and The Atlantic
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI pondered whether Trump was ‘a Manchurian candidate elected,’ former agent alleges in new book
Discussion: Axios, Associated Press, Politico and NPR
Nancy Rommelmann / Reason:
'You're Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland  —  “YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO FILM!” is a cry you hear incessantly at protests in Portland, Oregon, always shouted at close range to your face by after-dark demonstrators.  You can assert that, yes, you can film …
Jim Small / Arizona Mirror:
Trump campaign going dark in Arizona, cancels planned TV blitz  —  Donald Trump's re-election campaign is going off Arizona airwaves after the Labor Day holiday, and may not resume television advertising in the Grand Canyon State until early voting begins in early October.
Discussion: Political Wire and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Pharma Companies Plan Joint Pledge on Vaccine Safety  —  The statement is meant to reassure the public that the companies will not seek a premature approval of vaccines under pressure from the Trump administration.  —  A group of drug companies competing with one another to be among …
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CNN:
Fauci unsure what Trump means by saying the country is ‘rounding the corner on the virus’  —  (CNN)Dr. Anthony Fauci said Friday that he's not sure what President Donald Trump meant when he said earlier that evening that the country is “rounding the corner” on the coronavirus pandemic.
Reed Richardson / Mediaite:
Captain ‘Sully’ Sullenberger Urges ‘Vote Him Out’ in Blistering Anti-Trump Tweetstorm: ‘President Has Repeatedly Shown Utter and Vulgar Contempt’ for Military  —  Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III unleashed a blistering tweetstorm on President Donald Trump on Friday night, condemning him …
Michael Anton / The American Mind:
The Coming Coup?  —  Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.  —  As if 2020 were not insane enough already, we now have Democrats and their ruling class masters openly talking about staging a coup.  You might have missed it, what with the riots …
Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Review Of Federal Charges In Portland Unrest Show Most Are Misdemeanors  —  In President Trump's telling of it, Portland, Ore., is a city under siege by violent radical leftists, and he's suggested that only the strong hand of federal law enforcement can save it.
CNN:
FDA rejects oleandrin, an unproven coronavirus therapeutic pushed by MyPillow CEO, as a dietary supplement ingredient  —  (CNN)The US Food and Drug Administration has rejected a submission from Phoenix Biotechnology Inc. to market oleandrin as a dietary supplement ingredient, citing …
Discussion: Forbes and New York Post
Ashley Collman / Business Insider:
Sarah Huckabee Sanders called one of her former White House colleagues a ‘liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City’  —  Foto: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, March 11, 2019.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Rittenhouse Mistake  —  The speech blackout for his defense threatens due process.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Will Facebook let users share this editorial?  We'll see.  The social-media giant seems to have declared Kyle Rittenhouse's fatal shooting of two people amid riots in Kenosha, Wis., a mass murder.
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Eric Zorn / Chicago Tribune:
Column: Here's why Kyle Rittenhouse, the teen shooting suspect in Kenosha killings, is likely to get off
Discussion: Rod Dreher, Redstate and alicublog
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
How Trump Draws on Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills  —  As he has done with other aspects of the presidency, Donald J. Trump has redefined the practice in ways that have unsettled even some Republicans.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump was proudly litigious before his victory in 2016 and has remained so in the White House.
Discussion: The Hill
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat  —  White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.  —  Two later draft versions of the same document — all of which were reviewed …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A new Trump ad features some oddly placed footage.  Now its owner may sue.  —  A new ad launched by President Trump's campaign in Wisconsin offers viewers a split universe: The first half displays violence, looting, fires and imagery of Joe Biden shrouded in dark, sinister hues.
The Texas Tribune:
In Texas, Republicans fight voting by mail expansion while encouraging their voters to use it  —  What was once a lightly used and largely uncontroversial voting option in Texas, one even Republicans relied on, is now the crux of the latest fight over who gets to vote and, equally as crucial in a pandemic, who has access to safe voting.
Washington Post:
NFL asked Snyder to ‘back off’ use of private investigators, lawyer says, as PI visits rattle ex-employees  —  While Washington Football Team owner Daniel Snyder pledged to “fully cooperate” with the probe into allegations of widespread sexual harassment at his organization …
Discussion: The Root
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Michael Cohen says Trump will ‘do anything’ to stay in office, even start a war  —  Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen said Friday he believes his former boss will “do anything and everything” to win re-election and “even go so far as to start a war” to remain in office.
Discussion: Raw Story, Mediaite and Breitbart
Parker Yesko / APM Reports:
Charges against Curtis Flowers are dropped  —  The Mississippi man who was tried six times for the same crime and whose case was the subject of Season 2 of the APM Reports podcast In the Dark sees his two-decade saga come to an end.  —  At long last, Curtis Flowers is free.
 
 
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office
Discussion: Axios
Richard Grenell / The Hill:
Serbia-Kosovo agreement results from Trump's different brand of diplomacy
Andy Puzder / Fox News:
New jobs, unemployment numbers point to ‘V’-shaped recovery — only a Biden lockdown could end it
Discussion: TheBlaze and Fox Business
Aaron Ross Coleman / Vox:
Kenosha's looting is a symptom of a decrepit democracy
Shipwreckedcrew / Redstate:
Vice News Interview of Deceased Portland Shooter Is Quite Revealing — A Pathetic Psychosis Afflicts The Left
Discussion: Twitchy
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Caught Stockpiling Enriched Uranium Needed for Bomb
 Earlier Items: 
Courier-Journal:
UPDATES: Breonna Taylor protesters say ‘No justice, no Derby’ ahead of race
John Binder / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Nearly 700 U.S. Veterans Issue Open Letter in Support of Trump
Nicole Ogrysko / Federal News Network:
Non-negotiable: all military members will be subject to Trump's payroll tax deferral
Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica:
Facebook's Political Ad Ban Also Threatens Ability to Spread Accurate Information on How to Vote
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft's JEDI cloud contract win despite procurement mistake
USA Today:
South Dakota dismisses ‘elite class of so-called experts,’ carries on with state fair after Sturgis rally fueled COVID-19 surge
 

 
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