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New York Times:
LONG-CONCEALED RECORDS SHOW TRUMP'S CHRONIC LOSSES AND YEARS OF TAX AVOIDANCE — The Times obtained Donald Trump's tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
18 Revelations From a Trove of Trump Tax Records — Times reporters have obtained decades of tax information the president has hidden from public view. Here are some of the key findings. — The New York Times has obtained tax-return data for President Trump and his companies that covers more than two decades.
Jason Easley / POLITICUSUSA:
Ivanka Trump Could Be Going Down Thanks To Her Dad's Tax Fraud — Donald Trump's tax returns show that he paid his daughter Ivanka as a consultant, even though she is a member of the company which is against IRS rules. — Via The New York Times: … Fake consulting deals with members …
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New York Times:
Charting an Empire: A Timeline of Trump's Finances — THE PRESIDENT'S TAXES — Tax records provide a detailed history of President Trump's business career, revealing huge losses, looming financial threats and a large, contested refund from the I.R.S. — President Trump's tax returns portray …
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Washington Post:
Trump avoided paying taxes for years, largely because his business empire reported losing more money than it made, report says
Trump avoided paying taxes for years, largely because his business empire reported losing more money than it made, report says
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Dean Baquet / New York Times:
An Editor's Note on the Trump Tax Investigation
An Editor's Note on the Trump Tax Investigation
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat
Trump's Taxes Show He's a National Security Threat
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Jennifer Starks / AOL.com:
NY Times: Trump paid $750 in U.S. income taxes in 2016, 2017
NY Times: Trump paid $750 in U.S. income taxes in 2016, 2017
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Brett Clarkson / Sun-Sentinel:
Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale hospitalized after he was armed and threatening to harm himself, Fort Lauderdale police say — FORT LAUDERDALE — A tense situation unfolded at a home owned by Brad Parscale, the former campaign manager for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign …
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Michelle Solomon / WPLG-TV:
Former Trump campaign manager, Brad Parscale, armed, barricades self in Fort Lauderdale home, police called — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Former campaign manager for Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, who was replaced by the President less than four month until November's vote was reportedly armed …
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New York Times:
Brad Parscale, Ex-Campaign Manager for Trump, Is Hospitalized in Florida — The Fort Lauderdale police said that Mr. Parscale's wife called the authorities to their home because he was armed and threatening to hurt himself. — MIAMI — President Trump's former campaign manager, Brad Parscale …
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Bloomberg
Sharyn Alfonsi / CBS News:
Why a private section of the border wall is allegedly failing — 60 Minutes reports on the construction firm that earned billions of dollars in government contracts after working with a conservative fundraising campaign accused of fraud to build sections of the border wall on private land that engineers say will likely fail.
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Political Wire
Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Project Veritas uncovers ‘ballot harvesting fraud’ in Minnesota — A ballot-harvesting racket in Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Minneapolis district — where paid workers illegally gather absentee ballots from elderly Somali immigrants — has been busted by undercover news organization Project Veritas.
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Project Veritas:
Ilhan Omar Connected Cash-For-Ballots Voter Fraud Scheme Corrupts Elections: 'There Here Are All Absentee Ballots...Look...My Car Is Full..." ‘Money Is The King Of Everything’ — Ballot Harvester Liban Mohamed: “Money is Everything. Money is the King in this World. If You Got No Money, You Should Not Be Here, Period.
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Marc Caputo / Politico:
Biden camp clapback: Trump's best debate case ‘made in urine’ — The 2020 campaign for the White House has reached the bizarre stage where the president wants his opponent drug tested before they debate — and his rival's campaign responds with a potty joke.
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Washington Post:
With five weeks left, Trump plays defense in states he won in 2016
With five weeks left, Trump plays defense in states he won in 2016
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Danielle Wallace / Fox News:
Trump calls for Biden to take a drug test before upcoming presidential debate
Trump calls for Biden to take a drug test before upcoming presidential debate
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Monica Alba / NBC News:
Redfield voices alarm over influence of Trump's new coronavirus task force adviser — WASHINGTON — The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has grown increasingly concerned that President Donald Trump, pushed by a new member of his coronavirus task force …
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Trump Wants to Discredit the Election. This Nerd Could Stop Him. — Fox News, the president's favored network, will face enormous pressure to call the election for Mr. Trump. The outcome rests on a little-known 65-year-old wonk who will declare the winner.
Washington Post:
Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka as his running mate in 2016, according to new book by Rick Gates — As Donald Trump's top campaign aides began a discussion in June 2016 about who the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should select as his running mate, the candidate piped up with an idea.
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Politico:
Pelosi begins mustering Democrats for possible House decision on presidency — Speaker Nancy Pelosi has begun mobilizing Democrats for the possibility that neither Joe Biden nor President Donald Trump will win an outright Electoral College victory, a once-in-a-century phenomenon that would send …
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Polls Show Lindsey Graham In Deep Trouble Amid Supreme Court Battle — New polls released Sunday show Sen. Lindsey Graham's reelection bid deeply threatened by Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison as the former gears up for what promises to be a brutal partisan battle over the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett.
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Hayley Miller / HuffPost:
Top Democrat: We Can ‘Slow’ Barrett's Confirmation Process But 'Can't Stop' It
Top Democrat: We Can ‘Slow’ Barrett's Confirmation Process But 'Can't Stop' It
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Contempt of “Notorious ACB” — One thing Justice Ginsburg used to say is how much she hated making a suggestion only to have a man suggest the same thing 10 minutes later and get the credit. It was an act of erasure that affronted her. And as much as she minded being erased herself …
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Erika Bachiochi / Politico:
Amy Coney Barrett: A New Feminist Icon
Amy Coney Barrett: A New Feminist Icon
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David Bauder / Associated Press:
Nearly a year after sudden exit, Shepard Smith returns to TV — NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks shy of a year after abruptly quitting Fox News Channel with a declaration that “truth will always matter,” Shepard Smith returns to television this week at his unexpected new home.
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Shepard Smith, Fox News Apostate, Is Starting Over at CNBC
Shepard Smith, Fox News Apostate, Is Starting Over at CNBC
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