memeorandum: Trump DC hotel incurred more than $70 million in losses while Trump was president, documents show (CNN)

11:30 AM ET, October 8, 2021

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CNN:

Trump DC hotel incurred more than $70 million in losses while Trump was president, documents show — Washington (CNN)Former President Donald Trump racked up more than $70 million in losses over a four-year period from his Washington, DC, hotel, while publicly claiming that the hotel was making …

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CNN:

Bannon to defy subpoena from January 6 committee as Trump urges defiance, sources say — (CNN)At least two associates of former President Donald Trump have responded to the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection — with one saying they intend to defy the subpoena, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Washington Post:

Trump's D.C. hotel made millions from foreign governments but still struggled, federal documents show — Hundreds of pages of the hotel's financial documents show that the federally leased hotel lost $71 million while Trump was in office — Donald Trump's luxury Washington hotel lost …

House Committee on Oversight and Reform:

Committee Uncovers Evidence that Trump Concealed Millions in Losses, Hid Debts, and Received Millions from Foreign Governments at Trump Hotel — GSA Documents Raise New Concerns about Trump Hotel Lease and Former President's Conflicts of Interest — Washington, D.C. (October 8, 2021) …

Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Trump misled about D.C. hotel finances, House panel says

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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:

Manchin to Schumer: Your speech was “f*****g stupid” — Just how badly has Senate control undermined Democratic unity? And how far will it go? Punchbowl reports this morning that four different sources say that Joe Manchin confronted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

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Tara Palmeri / Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Will endorsement-happy Trump cost GOP the Senate? — DRIVING THE DAY — BREAKING OVERNIGHT — A shouting match erupted on the Senate floor after the vote to delay the debt limit crisis for two months. Sens. JOHN THUNE (R-S.D.) and MITT ROMNEY (R-Utah) …

Discussion: Insider, Associated Press, HuffPost and Raw Story

Alayna Treene / Axios:

No one likes the debt deal — The leaders of the Senate were happy Thursday with their deal to avoid a debt default. They were about the only ones. — Why it matters: The Band-Aid does nothing to solve the debt ceiling problem long term for Americans. Democrats fear it only kicks the can down the road to a very busy December.

Discussion: Washington Post, The Federalist and BizPac Review

Washington Post:
Trump and his allies target McConnell over deal to avoid default

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Ezra Klein / New York Times:

David Shor Is Telling Democrats What They Don't Want to Hear — President Biden's agenda is in peril. Democrats hold a bare 50 seats in the Senate, which gives any member of their caucus the power to block anything he or she chooses, at least in the absence of Republican support.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Vox and Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Eliza Shapiro / New York Times:

De Blasio to Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted and Talented Program — The mayor unveiled a plan to replace the highly selective program, which has become a glaring symbol of segregation in New York City public schools, for incoming students. It will be up to his successor to implement it.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Spectrum News NY1, National Review, Twitchy, Gawker, Breitbart and CNBC

James McClain / Yahoo Lifestyle:

Son of Afghanistan's Former Defense Minister Buys $20.9 Million Beverly Hills Mansion — He already owns a $5.2 million Miami Beach condo at the prestigious St. Regis Bal Harbour resort, but Daoud Wardak apparently also wants a West Coast outpost. To that end, he's heading for Beverly Hills …

Jeff Cox / CNBC:

September's jobs creation comes up short with gain of just 194,000 — Nonfarm payrolls increased by 194,000 in September, compared with the Dow Jones estimate for 500,000. — The unemployment rate dropped to 4.8%, better than the expected 5.1%. — Leisure and hospitality along …

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Josh Mitchell / Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Economy Added 194,000 Jobs in September — Unemployment rate dropped to 4.8% — The U.S. economy added 194,000 jobs in September and the unemployment rate fell to 4.8%. The Delta variant and a tight labor market held back hiring. — The labor market remains depleted …

Discussion: HotAir, New York Times, The Daily Caller, National Review and YouTube

Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:

The Truth According to Kari Lake — The MAGA candidate for governor of Arizona believes some strange things. — The candidate Donald Trump endorsed to be the next governor of Arizona made a big show of quitting the job she held for decades as the face of Phoenix's Fox 10 news because …

NobelPrize.org:

The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 — Announcement — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021 to Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.

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Washington Post:
Journalists known for taking on governments of Philippines and Russia win Nobel Peace Prize

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James Hookway / Wall Street Journal:
Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov

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Select Committee to Investigate …:

Select Committee Issues Subpoenas Related to January 6th Stop the Steal Rally at U.S. Capitol — Bolton, MS—Chairman Bennie G. Thompson today announced that the Select Committee has issued additional subpoenas seeking testimony and records related to the “Stop the Steal” …

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New York Times:
Trump Tells Former Aides to Defy Subpoenas From Jan. 6 Panel

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Washington Post:
Trump lawyer tells former aides not to cooperate with Jan. 6 committee

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Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost:

Trump-Loving Cousins IDed By Online Sleuths Are Arrested For Attacking Cops At Capitol — #MississippiFlagGuy and #KingstonAsh were identified by online sleuths back in February. — The FBI has arrested two cousins who attacked police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and were identified …

Ryan J. Reilly / HuffPost: Palm Beach Police Ball Will Enrich Trump, Whose Jan. 6 Mob Attacked Officers

Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:

Southlake, Texas, schools restrict classroom libraries after backlash over anti-racist book — The Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, is cracking down on the books teachers keep in their classroom libraries, drawing protests from educators who say the guidelines amount to censorship.

Discussion: The Hill and Dallas Morning News

Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:

The Battle of January 6th Has Just Begun — Nine months after the storming of the Capitol, Trump is more popular with the G.O.P. and his Big Lie is more widely believed. — Nine months to the day after the January 6th insurrection by a pro-Trump mob at the Capitol, I received nine statements …

Discussion: Salon, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story, Sacramento Bee, New York Times and The Daily Caller

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

In disparaging Haitian migrants, Trump is done with pretending he isn't who he is — A few months after he took office in 2017, President Donald Trump was handed a list of visas granted by the United States that year. He took the document (helpfully provided by aide Stephen Miller) …

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Matt Taibbi / TK News:

The Cult of the Vaccine — Yesterday, I ran a story that had nothing to do with vaccines, about the seeming delay of the development of a drug called molnupiravir (see the above segment with the gracious hosts of The Hill: Rising for more). In the time it took to report and write that piece …

David Marcus / Fox News:

Biden must apologize to the border agents he smeared — However he chooses to do it, Biden must address this situation — Biden, Harris denounce border agents after false claims of ‘whipping’ migrants — Two weeks ago, the Biden administration assured the nation that swift action …

Sam LaGrone / USNI News:

UPDATED: Attack Submarine USS Connecticut Suffers Underwater Collision in South China Sea — This post has been updated with additional details on the injuries to the crew of USS Connecticut and the location of the collision. — Almost a dozen sailors have been injured …

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David Leonhardt / New York Times:

The Covid Fable — When we treat Covid as a simple morality play, we can end up making bad predictions. — In the final weeks of this summer, with Covid-19 cases soaring and the rituals of autumn about to resume, many people assumed that the pandemic was on the verge of getting even worse.

MSNBC:

Forty-four percent of Republicans want a Trump run in 2024: poll — New Pew Research polling finds that 44 percent of Republicans want former President Trump to run again in 2024, and about a third of Republicans say they would not like Trump to remain a national political figure for many years to come.

Andrew Klavan / City Journal:

At the Heart of Our Divisions — Socialism is immoral—and it makes us hate one another. — The Social Order — Politics and law — We didn't need a new poll from The University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire to tell us that many Democrats see fascists …

Associated Press:

Taliban official: At least 100 dead, wounded in Afghan blast — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A blast went off Friday at a mosque packed with Shiite Muslim worshippers in northern Afghanistan, killing or wounding at least 100 people, a Taliban police official said.

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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:

Pence and Haley Aren't the Future of the GOP—They're Roadkill — DEAD ARMADILLOS — While they might have been formidable Republican presidential candidates in, say, 2012, the party has moved on. — There's a scene in The War Room, a documentary about the 1992 presidential campaign …

Discussion: Raw Story

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite:

Billy Bush Says He Was Victim of Access Hollywood Tape: NBC ‘Sacrificed Me’ For ‘Their Own Political Gain’ — Billy Bush celebrated a milestone this week: the five year anniversary of the release of the Access Hollywood tape, a day he described in an Instagram post as “the worst day of my life.”

Ariana Garcia / Houston Chronicle:

Matthew McConaughey says politics is ‘a bag of rats’ in interview weighing run for Texas governor — In an interview on the Sway podcast, the Lone Star State native wavered on whether he could affect real change as a politician and called the state's abortion ban ‘juvenile in its implementation.’

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Insider

Drew Allen / American Thinker:

L.A City Firefighters: From Heroes to Zeroes — Shortly after the ‘War Against COVID’ began, the government designated two new categories of American citizens — the largely arbitrary classification of ‘essential’ and ‘nonessential’ workers. Firefighters and paramedics were deemed essential, for good reasons.

Patrick Marley / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Michael Gableman, the GOP attorney reviewing Wisconsin's 2020 election, is backing off on the subpoenas to cities days after issuing them — MADISON - In a dramatic turnaround, an attorney reviewing the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans on Thursday canceled interviews with mayors …

Discussion: Raw Story

Ed Morrissey / HotAir:

Today's deep question: Why does Biden use a stage set instead of the White House? — The “fake set” question first came up a week ago, when a few critics speculated that Joe Biden's booster shot was as staged as the environs. There's not a shred of evidence that Biden didn't get his third dose …

Discussion: RedState and New York Post