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12:10 PM ET, August 13, 2022

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John Solomon / Just The News:
New twist in FBI raid: Trump had ‘standing order’ to declassify documents taken to residence  —  Donald Trump's office told Just the News on Friday that the classified materials the FBI seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate were declassified under a “standing order” while he was president …
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Alia Shoaib / Insider:
Trump's latest defense for Mar-a-Lago documents is everyone ‘brings home their work from time to time’ and the files were automatically declassified  — Trump's new explanation for Mar-a-Lago documents is that “everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time.”
Discussion: Reuters and b'Raw Story
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump claims he declassified all the documents at Mar-a-Lago. Even if that's true, it probably doesn't matter.
Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Listen: Lauren Boebert's neighbors' 911 calls describe threats, husband running over mailbox  —  Garfield County Sheriff's deputies decided to let neighbors of U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert settle a dispute between themselves and the congresswoman's husband after he reportedly threatened them and destroyed their mailbox.
Discussion: Insider and New York Post
Andrew Solender / Axios:
Cracks emerge in GOP's Mar-a-Lago response  —  Republicans are dividing over how or whether to defend former President Trump after the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago — and what to do about some members' heated rhetoric toward law enforcement. … - But even some Intelligence Committee Republicans …
Discussion: b'Raw Story, Politico and Forbes
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New York Times:
As Search Shows Trump Had Secret Files, G.O.P. Splits Over Assailing F.B.I.  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans struggled to come together on how to respond to the F.B.I.'s search of Mar-a-Lago as it emerged on Friday that federal law enforcement officers had recovered top secret files from former President Donald J. Trump's home.
Aila Slisco / Newsweek:
Marjorie Taylor Greene Seeks to Impeach Garland for ‘Persecuting’ Trump
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Ex-Trump Aide Sics MAGA Lackeys on Alleged FBI Agents' Families  —  Garrett Ziegler posted the personal info of purported FBI agents—along with links to one of their kids' social media accounts.  —  Just hours after a list began circulating among right-wing media of FBI agents who signed off …
Discussion: Insider
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Techno Fog / The Reactionary:
Here is the Trump Search Warrant
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive: Warrant Shows DOJ, FBI Waited Several Days After Judge Approved to Conduct Mar-a-Lago Raid
Joshua Goodman / NBC New York:
Who Is Hadi Matar?  NJ Man Suspected in Salman Rushdie Attack Had Shia Extremist Sympathies  —  Police are learning more information about the suspect who allegedly stormed onto a New York stage and stabbed author Salman Rushdie in the neck on Friday.  —  The suspect, 24-year-old Hadi Matar …
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BBC:
Salman Rushdie: Author on ventilator and unable to speak, agent says  —  Salman Rushdie's agent has said “the news is not good” after the author was stabbed at an event in New York state.  —  He was attacked on stage, and is now on a ventilator and unable to speak, Andrew Wylie said in a statement …
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Author Salman Rushdie attacked at speaking event in New York state
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Sinema took Wall Street money while killing tax on investors  —  Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party's longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals …
NBC News:
How Democrats' surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals  —  WASHINGTON — Like many others in this town, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema first saw the news on Twitter.  —  Her fellow centrist Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia …
Discussion: Bangor Daily News
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Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
House Dems Send Sweeping Spending Bill to Biden's Desk
New York Times:
A Victory of Biden, and a Bet on America's Future  —  Congress gave final approval to the Inflation Reduction Act, which will lower the cost of prescription drugs, extend health care subsidies and invest billions into climate and energy programs.  —  WASHINGTON — He promised a new social safety net.
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David Marino Jr / Bangor Daily News:
Jared Golden will vote for Democrats' climate, tax and health spending package
Amy Sherman / PolitiFact:
Why Trump is wrong to suggest Obama personally kept ‘33 million pages of documents’  —  The Chicago Tribune reported in spring 2016 that the paperwork, electronic data and artifacts from Obama's presidency would temporarily go to a facility in Hoffman Estates, Illinois.
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Wall Street Journal:
The White House and Twitter Censorship  —  There's new evidence that Biden officials wanted the site to ban Alex Berenson.  —  WSJ Opinion: Censorship as Usual as Elon Musk Abandons Twitter Bid  —  Skip Ad  —  in 15  —  YOU MAY ALSO LIKE  —  Created with sketchtool.
Newt Gingrich / Newsweek:
Crossing the Rubicon at Mar-a-Lago  —  In response to the outrageous invasion of Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, several people have suggested the deep state in general—and the FBI in particular—have “crossed the Rubicon.”  —  On Monday, Buck Sexton told Jesse Waters:
Zoë Richards / NBC News:
Fetterman says he is ‘grateful’ to be alive in first Senate campaign rally since suffering a stroke  —  Fetterman ‘grateful’ to be alive after suffering stroke, says wife saved his life  —  John Fetterman, the Democratic nominee for an open Senate seat in Pennsylvania …
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Harrison Cann / City & State Pennsylvania:   PA farmers slam Dr. Oz for cashing in on a major tax credit designed for farm and forestland
Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Best of frenemies: Ron DeSantis stalks Trump with Republican primary tour  —  The Florida governor has been dubbed a ‘mini-Trump’ and was once boosted by the ex-president but a potential rivalry in 2024 has turned relations sour  —  As Florida's governor, Ron DeSantis …
Discussion: HuffPost and b'Raw Story
 
 
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