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2:45 PM ET, September 5, 2020

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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.
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Blake Hounshell / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Where's the Republican defense of Trump?  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  AMID ALL THE FURIOUS responses to the Atlantic article alleging that President DONALD TRUMP had called American troops “suckers” and “losers,” one thing leaps out: You didn't see Republican members …
Discussion: Raw Story and Florida Politics
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The deafening, devastating sound of John Kelly's silence
Discussion: Raw Story, Deadline and Contemptor
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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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.
Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans
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 …
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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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:   Sarah Sanders calls Trump admin colleague a ‘liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew’ in memoir: report
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Eric Tucker / Associated Press:
Ex-FBI agent: Attacks from Trump ‘outrageous’ and ‘cruel’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Peter Strzok spent his FBI career hunting Russian and Chinese spies, but after news broke of derogatory text messages he'd sent about President Donald Trump, he came to feel like he was the one being hunted.
Discussion: NPR, Bloomberg 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
Adam Goldman / New York Times:
Ex-F.B.I. Agent in Russia Inquiry Says Trump Is a National Security Threat
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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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Tori B. Powell / The Daily Beast:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Attorney Resigns From Legal Fundraiser After Dodgy Financial Past Revealed  —  ROLLING IN DEBT  —  John Pierce, the lead attorney for accused Kenosha killer Kyle Rittenhouse, has resigned from the #FightBack Foundation, a day after The Daily Beast reported that some of the funds …
Discussion: The Daily Beast
David Cay Johnston / DCReport.org:
The Ugly Numbers Are Finally In on the 2017 Trump Tax Rewrite  —  Radical Republicans Ramrodded that Law through Congress, and, You Guessed It, the Rich Made Out Like Bandits While the Rest of Us Got Bupkis  —  The first data showing how all Americans are faring under Donald Trump reveal …
Discussion: Raw Story
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 and Raw Story
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump has repeatedly questioned why Americans who served in Vietnam went to war  —  Watch Trump's response when asked about John Kelly and bombshell story  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump has repeatedly questioned why Americans who served in Vietnam went to war, according to someone who has heard him make the remarks.
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New York Post:
Black Lives Matter protesters riot in Manhattan, cause $100,000 damage: NYPD  —  Eight people were arrested Friday night when a group of 150 Black Lives Matter protesters smashed windows and graffitied the storefronts of Lower Manhattan chain stores and banks, police sources said.
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 …
New York Times:
Parents Got More Time Off.  Then the Backlash Started.  —  Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don't have children.  —  OAKLAND, Calif. — When the coronavirus closed schools and child care centers …
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.
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
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
ABC News:
Which states will have Kanye West on the ballot now that access deadlines have passed?  —  West will be on the ballot in at least 11 states.  —  It's becoming clearer which states Kanye West might have an impact on the 2020 election, though it remains unclear what difference his long shot campaign could make in the overall results.
Discussion: Washington Post, Deadline and The Wrap
 
 
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party
Discussion: Raw Story
Caitlin Dickson / Yahoo News:
‘The Gotaway’: Online video produced and posted by the Border Patrol spreads fear of migrants
Harmeet Kaur / CNN:
Covid-19 has killed more law enforcement officers this year than all other causes combined
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jon Levine / New York Post:
Joe Biden once joked about China helping him become president
Discussion: The Unz Review
Chris Megerian / Los Angeles Times:
Trump and Russia echo each other in presidential race
Marissa Lang / Washington Post:
After 100 days of demonstrations, more radical protest tactics are likely here to stay
 Earlier Items: 
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:
After 6 Murder Trials and Nearly 24 Years, Charges Dropped Against Curtis Flowers
Holly Otterbein / Politico:
Sanders: America must be prepared for when Trump refuses to leave office
Discussion: Axios
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Rittenhouse Mistake
Nancy Rommelmann / Reason:
'You're Not Allowed To Film': The Fight To Control Who Reports From Portland
The Texas Tribune:
In Texas, Republicans fight voting by mail expansion while encouraging their voters to use it
Michael Anton / The American Mind:
The Coming Coup?  —  Democrats are laying the groundwork for revolution right in front of our eyes.
 

 
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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Trump may erode press protections but the ABC case is not evidence of that as the decision to settle appears reasonable given Stephanopoulos' imprecise remarks

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

New York Times:
In a first, Telegram is set to be profitable in 2024, with $1B+ in revenue, up from ~$350M in 2023, and 12M subscribers; source: 50%+ of its revenue is from ads

 
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