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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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Mediaite, Washington Post, The Wrap, The Hill, Outside the Beltway, Deadline, Contemptor, EA WorldView, Raw Story, Twitchy and Donald J. Trump for President
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Daniel Politi / Slate:
Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans
Trump Calls for Firing of Fox News Reporter Who Confirmed President Disparaged Veterans
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Breitbart, MSNBC, Political Wire and Washington Times
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
The deafening, devastating sound of John Kelly's silence — The sound of John F. Kelly's silence is deafening. — For President Trump, it is devastating. — The former White House chief of staff has remained quiet in the face of Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg's report …
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New York Times, New York Daily News and The Moderate Voice
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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.
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
Making Sure Trump's Troop Comments Matter
Making Sure Trump's Troop Comments Matter
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POLITICUSUSA, Al Jazeera and Redstate
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, Twitchy, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Sarah Sanders calls Trump admin colleague a ‘liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew’ in memoir: report — On Saturday, Business Insider reported that former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blasts one of her former colleagues as a “liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City,” in her memoir.
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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.
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 …
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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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, Political Wire, The Guardian, The Hill, New York Times and NBC News
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Katie Glueck / New York Times:
Top Biden Advisers Preview Fall Election Strategy
Top Biden Advisers Preview Fall Election Strategy
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NBC News, The Guardian, Fox News, East Bay Times and KTLA
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.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and POLITICUSUSA
KEYE:
Multiple boats in distress, sinking at Trump Boat Parade on Lake Travis — Multiple 911 calls have been made regarding boats being in distress, some sinking at the ‘Trump Boat Parade’ scheduled for Saturday afternoon on Lake Travis, according to the Travis County Sheriff's Office.
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.
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Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
FBI pondered whether Trump was ‘a Manchurian candidate elected,’ former agent alleges in new book
FBI pondered whether Trump was ‘a Manchurian candidate elected,’ former agent alleges in new book
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Politico, Axios, The Daily Caller and The Hill
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
Caroline Kelly / CNN:
‘I will not take his word for it’: Kamala Harris says she would not trust Trump alone on a coronavirus vaccine — Harris says she won't trust Trump's word alone on a vaccine — Washington (CNN)Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said that President Donald Trump's word alone …
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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 …
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ABC News, Redstate, Mother Jones, Fox News, Axios, Mashable, Raw Story, POLITICUSUSA, Althouse, UPI, New York Times, Real Clear Politics, The Hill and Political Wire
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Allum Bokhari / Breitbart:
Party's Over: Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory’ from Federal Agencies
Party's Over: Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory’ from Federal Agencies
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Townhall, Vox, BuzzFeed News, The US Sun, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial and The Daily Caller
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 …
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Raw Story, Florida Politics and Deadline
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 …
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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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Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Washington Post, FactCheck.org and The Daily Caller
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.
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Redstate, Spectator USA and Associated Press
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 …
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.
Eric Bradner / CNN:
Biden expands transition team, adding key campaign allies and top Obama-Biden policy hands — Biden fires back at Trump: My son wasn't a sucker — (CNN)Democratic nominee Joe Biden is expanding his transition team, adding a former presidential rival, vice presidential contenders …
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Politico, Redstate, ABC News, Mother Jones, Bloomberg, Washington Post, The Nation, The Daily Caller, The Unz Review and Reuters
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Cory Gardner and the Toxic Republican Party — This is what “Party Over Country” looks like. — 1. Cory Gardner — Very quickly: If you haven't, you should read Charlie's excellent piece on Trump and Jeffrey Goldberg's story in the Atlantic. — I don't have anything to add except …
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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.
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Washington Post, Deadline and The Wrap
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 …
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Forbes and New York Post