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11:30 AM ET, February 1, 2022

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New York Times:
Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines  —  New accounts show that the former president was more directly involved than previously known in plans developed by outside advisers to use national security agencies to seek evidence of fraud.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
New details about Trump's threat toward voting machines show danger ahead  —  The beating heart of Donald Trump's 2020 coup attempt was his effort to use the machinery of government to manufacture pretexts for delaying the electoral count in Congress.  To this end, as we know …
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Some records sent to Jan. 6 committee were torn up, taped back together — mirroring a well-known Trump habit  —  The National Archives confirmed Trump's unusual habit of ripping up documents, which forced aides to attempt to piece them back together in order to comply with the Presidential Records Act.
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ABC News:
Ex-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany turned over text messages to Jan. 6 committee  —  McEnany was around then-President Trump before and during the Capitol attack.  —  Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany turned over text messages to the House select committee investigating …
Washington Post:
Trump says congressional investigators should examine why Pence didn't reject electoral college results  —  Former president Donald Trump on Tuesday advocated a new focus for congressional investigators: why then-Vice President Mike Pence did not take steps on Jan. 6, 2021 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Political Wire
Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Promise to Pardon Jan. 6 Rioters Is Worse Than Watergate
Discussion: CNN, MSNBC and Raw Story
CNN:
Exclusive: Mike Pence's former chief of staff testifies in House January 6 investigation
Politico:
House accuses Trump attorney John Eastman of stalling on Jan. 6 subpoena
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump gave $1M to Meadows nonprofit weeks after Jan. 6 panel's creation  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump's political action committee donated $1 million to the conservative nonprofit organization where his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is a senior partner …
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Ex-President Bush backs two high-profile Republicans slammed by Trump  —  Former President George W. Bush gave money to the reelection campaigns of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the final months of 2021, a show of support for two of former President Donald …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Trump-backed candidates confront cash wave  —  Some of Donald Trump's handpicked candidates are hitting an obstacle in their efforts to purge the Republican Party of Trump skeptics: money.  Lots of it.  —  Driving the news: Key Trump-backed Republican challengers were heavily outraised …
Discussion: CNN and The Lincoln Project
New York Times:
Angry US-Russia Exchange at UN Punctuates Deepening Ukraine Rift  —  With vitriolic accusations that echoed the Cold War era, the United States and Russia sparred in a bitter debate over the Ukraine crisis in a Security Council meeting watched by the world on Monday.
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Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
Critics slam Cruz for saying Biden's vow to nominate first Black woman to Supreme Court is ‘offensive’  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) says President Biden's vow to nominate and confirm the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court is “offensive” and “an insult to Black women,” …
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Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
Georgetown Suspends Lecturer Who Criticized Vow to Put Black Woman on Court
Buck Sexton / The Hill:
Buck Sexton says Kavanaugh's confirmation means ‘liberty won’
Discussion: The Federalist
Washington Post:
N.Y. attorney general subpoenaed Trump D.C. hotel records from feds  —  The request sought information about whether Trump used false information to secure hotel lease, according to people familiar with inquiry  —  New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) subpoenaed the General Services Administration …
Discussion: The Hill
Miami Herald:
DeSantis's failure to condemn Nazis gives cover for hate  —  OPINION AND COMMENTARY  —  Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters.  —  BY THE MIAMI HERALD EDITORIAL BOARD
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Politico:
Biden vs. Trump: The Makings of a Shattering Constitutional Crisis  —  Donald Trump is already signaling that he will run for president in 2024.  A Biden-Trump rematch risks worsening our country's already deep divisions.  But there's more to be worried about: The next election will provoke …
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump ally pushes Republican Party to expel Cheney, Kinzinger  —  The resolution, to be debated at the RNC annual meeting in Salt Lake City this week, would be an unusual and public rebuke from a political party against two of its incumbent members of Congress
Discussion: The Hill, NBC News, Raw Story and Power Line
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Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Conflict of Interest: New Washington Post National Editor Recused From FBI Coverage  —  The Washington Post has recused its new national editor, Matea Gold, from the news organization's coverage of the FBI and Justice Department over a personal conflict of interest.
David Jackson / USA Today:
Who will win Florida in 2024?  A new poll has Biden losing to these Republicans  —  WASHINGTON - A new poll says President Joe Biden is struggling in the politically pivotal state of Florida, where more than half of potential voters disapprove of his handling of the economy and of his job overall.
Kevin R. Johnson / The Hill:
Congress, not Biden, should be held accountable for immigration reform  —  As the Biden administration completed its first year, a flurry of news reports highlighted the bipartisan disappointment with its record on immigration.  While liberals objected to the continuation …
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Amnesty International:
Israel's apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity  —  Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International said today in a damning new report.
Mike Hixenbaugh / NBC News:
Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers  —  Facing pressure from parents and threats of criminal charges, some districts have ignored policies meant to prevent censorship.  Librarians and students are pushing back.
Discussion: National Zero
Vagner Barbosa / Associated Press:
Heavy gunfire heard around Guinea-Bissau's government palace  —  BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Heavy gunfire erupted Tuesday near the Government Palace in Guinea-Bissau's capital, witnesses said, raising fears of a coup attempt in this West African country with a long history of military takeovers.
Discussion: Bloomberg
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
‘Show up armed’ to protect election observers, Michigan candidate suggests  —  Lansing — Republican Mike Detmer, a candidate for the Michigan state Senate, told a crowd Saturday that people should “show up armed” to protect Republican election observers' access to monitor the counting of ballots.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
The Marxist Who Antagonizes Liberals and the Left  —  The renowned Black scholar Adolph Reed opposes the politics of anti-racism, describing it as a cover for capitalism.  —  Within the world of racial politics, Adolph Reed is the great modern denouncer.  His day job, for forty years, was as a political scientist.
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Airing 2020 election grievances, Trump appears in first TV ad for Georgia gubernatorial hopeful David Perdue  —  Donald Trump speaks directly to the camera, flanked by a pair of American flags, in the first television ad aired by Georgia gubernatorial candidate David Perdue …
 
 
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Josh Chin / Wall Street Journal:
China's Communist Party Quietly Inserts Itself Into Everyday Life
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American Greatness:
Justice Department Continues to Go Easy on 2020 Rioters
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden Admin Has Records on Nearly One Billion Gun Sales
Discussion: Breitbart and Ace of Spades HQ
Piers Morgan / New York Post:
Give me Joe Rogan over cancel culture vultures like Harry and Meghan anytime
Discussion: Mediaite
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
All-out effort to keep Biden COVID-free; no ‘normal’ yet
Discussion: HotAir and NBC News
 Earlier Items: 
Nick Miroff / Washington Post:
U.S. sends Venezuelan migrants to Colombia under Biden's new border plan
Huizhong Wu / Associated Press:
A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books
Patricia McCarthy / American Thinker:
Joe Biden, enemy of America
Alayna Treene / Axios:
Scoop: Trump helps launch NRSC podcast
Washington Post:
Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children under 5 could be available by the end of February, people with knowledge say
Associated Press:
US federal prisons on lockdown after 2 Texas inmates killed
Discussion: The Hill
 

 
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