memeorandum: The New Foreign Flavor of CPAC's Red Meat (Ben Jacobs/New York Magazine)

12:50 AM ET, March 1, 2021

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Trump's Republican Hit List at CPAC Is a Warning Shot to His Party — In his first public appearance since leaving office, Donald Trump went through, by name, every Republican who supported his second impeachment and called for them to be ousted. — ORLANDO, Fla. — After days of insisting …

Discussion: NBC News, Raw Story, Bloomberg, The Hill, Associated Press, National Review, Chicago Sun-Times, RedState, Mother Jones, KYMA-TV, KRON4, Washington Times, UPI, Palmer Report, New York Post, Washington Examiner and Mediaite

USA Today:

Is Donald Trump a declining parody or a terrifying threat? Mastio & Lawrence on CPAC 2021 — Can we agree with Trump? Yes, we are 'in the middle of a historic struggle for America's future, America's culture, and America's institutions, borders and most cherished principles.'

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Times and Florida Politics

New York Times:
Trump Wins CPAC Straw Poll, but Only 68 Percent Want Him to Run Again

Discussion: The Bulwark, Slate, The Week, Big League Politics, Forbes, Townhall and Insider

David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump stages GOP comeback at CPAC by refusing to concede 2020 defeat

David Siders / Politico:
Trump teases 2024 run in CPAC remarks, as he looks to keep his grip on GOP

Discussion: Palmer Report, New York Times, CNN, Vox, Washington Post, Big League Politics, Rolling Stone, The Wrap, CBS Miami, The Daily Beast and pjmedia.com

Tara Palmeri / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Fears about Trump out of the cage

Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and HotAir

Ben Jacobs / New York Magazine:
The New Foreign Flavor of CPAC's Red Meat

Discussion: Twitchy and Washington Post

Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Trump wins CPAC straw poll with 55 percent

Discussion: HuffPost, TheBlaze, New York Post, Breitbart, IJR, The Floridian, Mock Paper Scissors and Political Wire

Quint Forgey / Politico:
Rick Scott: GOP is ‘voters’ party,' not Trump's

Discussion: Washington Post, USA Today, Fox News, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, Power Line, Insider, IJR, CBS Miami, NBC Los Angeles, The Hill and Breitbart

John Bowden / The Hill:
Cassidy: Trump won't be GOP nominee in 2024

Discussion: HuffPost, CNN, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, IJR, BizPac Review, Politico, The Guardian, Washington Times, National Review, TheBlaze, Mediaite and NBC News

Carly Roman / Washington Examiner:
Trump vows to CPAC crowd not to start a new party

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and RedState

Alex Marquardt / CNN:

Three names mysteriously removed from Khashoggi intelligence report after initial publication — U.S. intel report: Saudi Crown Prince approved operation to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi — (CNN)Shortly after the US intelligence community published its long-awaited report on Friday afternoon …

Discussion: The Guardian, The Daily Beast, The Western Journal, KYMA-TV and BizPac Review

Ben Terris / Washington Post:

Neera Tanden's confirmation fight is the first morality play of post-Trump Washington — All the fighting must be exhausting, really. — The fights over her reputation, over how she ran her liberal think tank. The battles with journalists who published her stolen emails.

Discussion: New York Times

Josefa Velasquez / THE CITY:

Cuomo Sexual Harassment Claims Follow Years of Public Warning Signs — and Anti-Misconduct Training He Mandated — Even as the governor advocated a Women's Equality Act that promised to “ban” workplace sexual harassment, female Albany reporters and employees heard a very different message.

Discussion: HuffPost, New York Magazine, USA Today, Washington Post, The Hill, Rolling Stone, ABC News and CNBC

Dana Rubinstein / New York Times:
Cuomo Attacked Over His Plan for Review of Sex Harassment Claims

Discussion: HuffPost, The Week, Townhall, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit, Insider, BizPac Review, Deadline, The Hill, KYMA-TV, Washington Post, The Western Journal, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Vox and Mediaite

Bradford Betz / Fox News:
Clinton, Harris, Warren all silent on Cuomo after second woman brings sexual misconduct allegations

Discussion: Politico

Arya Hodjat / The Daily Beast:
Cuomo Says He's Sorry His ‘Playful’ Banter Was ‘Misinterpreted’ by Harassment Accusers

Discussion: Fox News and NBC New York

Zack Budryk / The Hill:
New York AG says Cuomo statement is not sufficient for independent investigation

Discussion: Associated Press, Mediaite, Law & Crime, New York Post, KYMA-TV and Political Wire

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Far-Right Platform Gab Has Been Hacked—Including Private Data — The transparency group DDoSecrets says it will make the 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more available to researchers, journalists, and social scientists. — WHEN TWITTER BANNED Donald Trump and a slew of other far-right users …

Jeff Stein / Washington Post:

Senior Democrats abandon backup plan on $15 per hour minimum wage hike — Lawmakers are backing off a Plan B to raise pay for workers through tax penalties on corporations — Senior Democrats are abandoning a backup plan to increase the minimum wage through a corporate tax penalty …

Discussion: Insider, The Hill, KYMA-TV, Wall Street Journal and Fox News

Jordain Carney / The Hill: Senate mulls changes to $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill

Just Security:

Litigation Tracker: Pending Criminal and Civil Cases Against Donald Trump — On both the criminal and civil litigation fronts, former President Donald Trump faces a bevy of lawsuits and investigations, with more cases likely to follow. Some are civil suits stemming from his pre-presidential business dealings.

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez / KQED:

After Leading School Closures, Berkeley Teachers' Union President Spotted Dropping Daughter Off at In-Person Preschool … Parent groups are crying “hypocrisy” after a video surfaced showing the president of the Berkeley teachers union dropping off his two-year-old daughter at an in-person preschool.

Discussion: Fox News and Twitchy

John McWhorter / It Bears Mentioning:

Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real? — Yes, serious people are arguing this. Make sure they don't infect your school district. — 1 hr ago — There is a document getting around called Dismantling Racism in Mathematics Instruction, a guide put together by a group of educators.

Zachary Petrizzo / Mediaite:

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell Gets MUTED During Live Interview at CPAC as He Spews Vaccine Conspiracy Theories — The conservative pro-Trump YouTube channel Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) cut off MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell during an interview at the Conservative Political Action Conference …

Discussion: Twitchy and Crooks and Liars

Kim Lyons / The Verge:

Disinformation experts aren't happy about the trailer for HBO's QAnon series — It teases what looks like a Hollywood blockbuster rather than a serious documentary — The teaser video for Q: Into the Storm, an upcoming documentary series from HBO about the QAnon conspiracy movement has a lot …

Washington Post:

Two of Biden's top DOJ nominees are subjected to baseless smear campaigns — Opinion by Editorial Board — VANITA GUPTA is among the nation's most esteemed civil rights lawyers, revered by liberals for her decades of effective, levelheaded advocacy, and by many of the nation's biggest police …

Discussion: Townhall

Stef W. Kight / Axios:

Border Democrat warns Biden about immigrant fallout — A Democratic lawmaker representing a border district warned the Biden administration against easing up too much on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals and their potential to spread the coronavirus.

Discussion: The Guardian, HotAir, Breitbart, The Hill and Political Wire

The Hill:

Ex-Trump aide Pierson planning run for Congress — A former top strategist for Donald Trump's presidential campaigns is taking steps to run for a U.S. House seat left vacant by the late Rep. Ron Wright (R-Texas), who succumbed to the coronavirus earlier this year.

Kim Bellware / Washington Post:

‘Three percenters’ truck at Capitol belongs to husband of congresswoman who said, ‘Hitler got one thing right’ — An Illinois lawmaker married to a member of Congress, who was herself recently criticized for quoting Hitler, is facing his own rebuke for displaying the logo of an extremist movement …

Discussion: The Hill and USA Today

CNN:

Goya Foods CEO falsely says election was illegitimate, Trump is ‘the real, the legitimate, and the still actual president’ — Washington (CNN)The chief executive officer of Goya Foods, Robert Unanue, made a series of false claims about the 2020 election at the Conservative Political Action Conference …

Discussion: HuffPost

Ben Smith / New York Times:

Forget ‘Succession.’ You Can Watch ‘90 Day Fiancé’ for 100 Hours Straight. — Discovery's new app has taken off largely because viewers love watching people fix houses, tour diners and bicker about their relationships. — “Ninety Day Fiancé” is, on some Sunday nights, the most-watched show on television.

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John Harwood / CNN:

White evangelicals' dominance of the GOP has turned it into the party of resistance — (CNN)For obvious reasons, President Joe Biden made the coronavirus pandemic his first legislative priority. Polling shows wide public support for his $1.9 trillion relief plan.

Discussion: USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Insider, Fox News and Washington Examiner

Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:

‘Frightening’: Devin Nunes Says FBI Informant ‘Made Up A Bunch Of Lies’ About Michael Flynn — California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that newly declassified FBI documents show that a confidential source for the bureau lied …