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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry says the FBI seized his cell phone one day after Mar-a-Lago raid  —  The confiscation of Perry's phone comes one day after the FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate  —  Bret Baier on Trump raid: There is a lot we don't know  —  EXCLUSIVE - Republican …
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Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago search appears focused on whether Trump, aides withheld items  —  The FBI sought a warrant after Archives officials pressed Trump's circle to return what they believed was government property, according to people familiar with the discussions  —  In the months before the FBI's dramatic move …
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The FBI's Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’: It's about the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information  —  This search was almost certainly about much more than classified documents.  —  There's a game prosecutors play.  Let's say I suspect X committed an armed robbery, but I know X is dealing drugs.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why the Trump search warrant is nothing like Hillary's emails  —  The Justice Department official who oversaw the investigation of Hillary Clinton's handling of classified records says there's simply no comparing the search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence to the case against the former secretary of State.
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Rep. Scott Perry says FBI seized his phone  —  Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.), the chair of the House Freedom Caucus, said Tuesday that FBI agents seized his phone. … - Perry has denied the testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that he requested a pardon, telling Axios “this never happened.”
Discussion: Forbes, CBS News and Raw Story
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia's Trump Raid Tantrum Is a Spectacle You Don't Want to Miss  —  The FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has reduced the Kremlin's cronies to live TV hysterics.  —  The FBI raid on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida triggered shockwaves across Russia …
NBC News:
After Mar-a-Lago search, users on pro-Trump forums agitate for ‘civil war’ — including a Jan. 6 rioter  —  Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke …
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
What the F.B.I.'s Raid of Mar-a-Lago Could Mean for Trump  —  A former federal prosecutor and general counsel for the F.B.I. explains the process and implications of obtaining a search warrant on the home of a former President.  —  On Monday, F.B.I. agents searched the Florida home …
CNN:
Trump fields calls from Republican allies to speed up 2024 bid after FBI raid  —  Top Republicans who have spent months trying to dissuade Donald Trump from announcing another presidential campaign before the midterms are coming around to the idea, after an unprecedented search …
New York Times:
Questions swirl about what exactly the F.B.I. was looking for, and why.
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   What Is Really Unprecedented Is the Criminality … In response to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago …
New York Post:
Judge who approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago once linked to Jeffrey Epstein
NBC News:
Rep. Scott Perry, a top Trump ally, says FBI agents seized his cellphone
Discussion: OutKick, East Bay Times and Politico
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Search Should Just Be Garland's Opening Act
David Gilbert / VICE:
Trump Supporters Are Calling for Civil War After FBI Search of Mar-a-Lago
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP discovers new standards on the mishandling of classified info
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump tax returns must be given to Congress, federal appeals court says in new ruling
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Stuck With Trump  —  You might think that the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago yesterday would provide …
Wall Street Journal:
FBI Search of Trump's Florida Home Mar-a-Lago Is Criticized by Republicans
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Appeals court says House can obtain Trump's taxes from the IRS
Fox News:
Trump FBI raid: Lindsey Graham says Mar-a-Lago search increases likelihood he runs for president again in 2024
Discussion: RedState and Insider
Politico:
Trump's 2024 GOP rivals rally behind him after FBI search
Jason Koebler / VICE:
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion  —  Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.  Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.
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Forbes:
Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion  —  A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.
Washington Post:
Why does the IRS need $80 billion?  Just look at its cafeteria.  —  This is the cafeteria at the Internal Revenue Service offices in Austin.  —  Yes, the cafeteria.  —  It's part of what the IRS calls the “Pipeline”: a 1970s-era assembly line used to process tax returns at several locations around the country.
Discussion: The Federalist
Politico:
Neera Tanden takes the wheel  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Inside the White House, NEERA TANDEN has taken a far more assertive role in determining what papers …
Amie Parnes / HuffPost:
I Finally Got To Date My Crush Years After Middle School.  Then The Unthinkable Happened.  —  “A woman introduced herself as a longtime friend of Jeremy's ... 'I'm so sorry if I am the first one to share the news,' she wrote.  ‘He would want you to know...’”  —  Everyone remembers their first big crush.
Michael Goldberg / Associated Press:
Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing  —  A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Pizzagate promoter tapped for Kremlin-backed propaganda campaign  —  Russia's state-backed media apparatus is financing four new TV programs produced by a U.S. conspiracy theorist and aimed in large part at undercutting America's image and interests in the developing world, records show.
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The DOJ Crosses the Rubicon  —  “DEFUND THE FBI”  —  I had planned to devote this newsletter to Our Very Stupid Politics, but after the events of last night, I had to call an audible, and so will instead devote today's Morning Shots to our Extremely Stupid Politics.  —  Happy Tuesday.
Discussion: The Bulwark
CREW:
CREW urges USPS Board of Governors to fire Louis DeJoy  —  Louis DeJoy poses a serious threat to the United States Postal Service (USPS)—time and time again, the Postmaster General has failed to uphold his ethical obligations and protect our democratic system of free and fair elections.
Brooke Leigh Howard / The Daily Beast:
‘Racist, Heinous’: County Slams Treatment of Derek Chauvin's Jailers  —  The Ramsey County Adult Detention Center segregated non-white guards after the white cop was detained for the fatal arrest of George Floyd.  —  A Minnesota county board has blasted its local sheriff's office for the …
 
 
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Graham: ‘God help us’ when IRS gets 87,000 new agents
Discussion: The Daily Wire and Breitbart
Nick Minock / WSET-TV:
Should teachers be allowed to tell parents if their kids are LGBTQ+? Youngkin weighs in
Discussion: Blue Virginia
John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Post
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
How Wall Street wooed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and preserved its multibillion-dollar carried interest tax break
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Rolling Stone:
Inside Trump's Frantic Hunt for ‘Killer’ Criminal Defense Attorneys
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
There's a Storm Coming
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Accounting of bodies in Bucha nears completion
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jordan Moreau / Variety:
‘The Flash’ Star Ezra Miller Charged With Felony Burglary in Vermont
 

 
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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