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11:35 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.
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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: Politico, Political Wire and Breitbart
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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Philip Wegmann / Real Clear Politics:   Trump to Feds: Stop ‘Anti-American’ Training on ‘Critical Race Theory’
Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI pondered whether Trump was ‘a Manchurian candidate elected,’ former agent alleges in new book  —  Former FBI agent Peter Strzok alleges in a new book that investigators came to believe it was “conceivable, if unlikely” that Russia was secretly controlling President Trump after he took office …
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
Discussion: Bloomberg, Political Wire and NPR
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
Discussion: Raw Story
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
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 …
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: Raw Story and The Hill
Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Review Of Federal Charges In Portland Unrest Shows 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.
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
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
After 6 Murder Trials and Nearly 24 Years, Charges Dropped Against Curtis Flowers  —  Mr. Flowers had faced the possibility of a seventh trial in the quadruple-murder case from Mississippi.  —  Six times, prosecutors took Curtis Flowers, a Black Mississippi resident, to trial on the same murder case before mostly-white juries.
Discussion: The Root
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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:
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
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 …
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Osama bin Laden's niece says only Trump can prevent another 9/11  —  Another 9/11-style attack may be just around the corner if Joe Biden is elected president, warns Noor bin Ladin, the niece of Sept. 11 terror mastermind Osama bin Laden.  —  “ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe.
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.
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.
Discussion: Gothamist and Political Wire
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
Bloomberg:
Democrats Hold Secret Edge If Election Is Too Close to Call  — Majority of top swing state election posts held by Democrats  — Record mail-in voting expected despite Trump attacks  —  Twenty years ago, as Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush battled for weeks …
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office  —  Bernie Sanders fears President Donald Trump will refuse to leave office if he loses reelection and is calling on Congress and the media to take action to prepare for that scenario now, he said in an interview with POLITICO.
Discussion: Axios
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.
 
 
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Maxine Bernstein / Oregonian:
Michael Reinoehl appeared to target right-wing demonstrator before fatal shooting in Portland, police say
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
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Iran Caught Stockpiling Enriched Uranium Needed for Bomb
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
NFL asked Snyder to ‘back off’ use of private investigators, lawyer says, as PI visits rattle ex-employees
Discussion: The Root
Courier-Journal:
UPDATES: Breonna Taylor protesters say ‘No justice, no Derby’ ahead of race
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A new Trump ad features some oddly placed footage. Now its owner may sue.
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
 

 
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