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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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Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Mediaite, EA WorldView, Raw Story, Contemptor, Twitchy and Donald J. Trump for President
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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
Trump calls for Fox News journalist to be fired for report on war dead scandal
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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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Cockburn / Spectator USA:
Sources: Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg weeps in his office ‘all the time’ — This week, the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg dropped what could be his biggest piece since he won a major award for drawing bogus links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. The piece claims that during a 2018 visit …
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Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Twitchy and New York Times
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 …
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Fox News, POLITICUSUSA, Althouse, New York Times, The Hill and Political Wire
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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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Axios, Politico, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’
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Bloomberg, NPR and Political Wire
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
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Raw Story
CNN:
Ignoring warnings from election officials, Trump again suggests supporters should try to vote twice — Trump appears to encourage people to vote twice — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump suggested to his supporters on Friday night that if they vote by mail they should also attempt …
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Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, FactCheck.org and The Daily Caller
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.
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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 …
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KOIN-TV, Wall Street Journal, Breitbart, INSIDER and The Post Millennial
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.
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Political Wire and Daily Kos
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.
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.
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Parker Yesko / APM Reports:
Charges against Curtis Flowers are dropped
Charges against Curtis Flowers are dropped
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Forbes, UPI, Washington Post and The Wrap
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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The Verge, Science, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
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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 …
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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 …
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The Hill, IJR, Mercury News, Political Wire and Contemptor
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 …
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.
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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 …
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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.
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 …
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Associated Press, Political Wire, The Guardian, Mercury News, The Hill and New York Times
Annie Karni / New York Times:
John Kelly, at Center of Report on Trump Disparaging U.S. Soldiers, Keeps Silent — The former chief of staff's public reticence has frustrated groups that are hoping that he will publicly endorse Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic presidential nominee. — WASHINGTON — John F. Kelly left …
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Politico, CNN, New York Daily News, INSIDER, Raw Story, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire and Washington Times
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.
John Binder / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Nearly 700 U.S. Veterans Issue Open Letter in Support of Trump — Nearly 700 American veterans have issued an open letter affirming their support of President Trump against establishment media attacks weeks before the 2020 presidential election. — This week, The Atlantic …