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Aila Slisco / Newsweek:
Joe Biden Mocks Donald Trump Over Claim He ‘Declassified Everything’ — President Joe Biden has mocked former President Donald Trump for claiming that he secretly declassified all of the classified documents that were recovered by the FBI during the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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Ryan King / Washington Examiner:
WATCH: Karl Rove says Secret Service could have ratted Trump out over classified docs — A Secret Service member tasked with safeguarding former President Donald Trump may have been the one to spill the beans about the classified material at Mar-a-Lago, according to Karl Rove.
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Politico and Washington Post
Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Reading between the redacted lines: What affidavit tells us about DOJ's Trump intentions — Predictably, it was much nothing about ado. — To what should be the surprise of no one, the Justice Department so thoroughly redacted the affidavit supporting the FBI's raid of Donald Trump's Mar …
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Washington Examiner, Insider, The Times of Israel, CBS News, NBC News and HuffPost
Andrew Weissmann / New York Times:
What the Redacted Affidavit Shows in the Trump Mar-a-Lago Case — We always knew that whatever information about the Mar-a-Lago search would be released on Friday by a federal court was not going to help Donald Trump. — We know that not just because Judge Bruce Reinhart already concluded …
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Trump legal team says redacted affidavit raises ‘more questions than answers’ — Trump's legal team claims that heavily redacted document is evidence that a neutral third party is necessary to monitor DOJ handling of evidence — What did we learn from the heavily redacted affidavit?
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge
Republicans, Once Outraged by Mar-a-Lago Search, Become Quieter as Details Emerge
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HotAir, No More Mister Nice Blog and PoliticusUSA
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Trump's narrative takes big hit with affidavit's release
The Memo: Trump's narrative takes big hit with affidavit's release
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Vanity Fair and Digby's Hullabaloo
Politico:
Intel officials to assess national security fallout from Trump's Mar-a-Lago documents — The U.S. intelligence community will evaluate the potential national security risks stemming from former President Donald Trump's possession of top-secret documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence …
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CNN:
US intelligence chief tells Congress she's conducting damage assessment of documents taken from Mar-a-Lago — Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has sent a letter to the House Intelligence and House Oversight committee chairs, saying the intelligence community is conducting …
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Wall Street Journal
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Truth Social faces financial peril as worry about Trump's future grows — Payment disputes and a dwindling audience have fueled doubts about the former president's Twitter clone — Former president Donald Trump's Truth Social website is facing financial challenges as its traffic remains puny …
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
First on CNN: Utah Senate candidate accuses motorist of threatening him with gun — Utah independent Senate candidate Evan McMullin has accused a motorist of brandishing a firearm and pointing it at him and his wife as the couple was driving home from a campaign event in April.
Patricia Mazzei / New York Times:
As DeSantis Campaigns on Education, Crist Picks Teacher as Running Mate — Karla Hernández-Mats, head of the largest teachers union in the region, criticized the Republican governor for attacking educators. “This is what dictators do,” she said. — MIAMI — In choosing the head …
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New York Times:
Promoting His Memoir, Kushner Offers Tortured Defenses of Trump — Jared Kushner, who spent his years in the White House evading responsibility for his father-in-law's most extreme moves, has had to answer for some of them on his book tour. — WASHINGTON — Making the rounds promoting his new memoir …
Zachary D. Carter / In The Long Run:
The Real Student Debt Debate — It's about the social order. — I have a new piece up for Slate on the history of debt relief as an essential safety valve for a functioning credit-based economy. Hillary Frey is running a great shop over there, and I encourage you to read Mark Joseph Stern's piece …
Joan E Greve / The Guardian:
As Republicans stumble - could Democrats really hold on to the Senate? — Republicans need just one seat to regain the chamber, but recent failures mean things are looking up for the Democrats — Things appear to be looking up for Democratic Senate candidates.
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Olesia Plokhii / Washington Post:
Roland Mesnier, White House pastry chef for a sweet quarter-century, dies at 78 — He was a confident and methodical patissier who took as his motto ‘perfection is no accident’ — Roland Mesnier, the French-born pastry chef who whipped up desserts for five presidents and dignitaries …
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Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter
The Biden White House gets feisty on Twitter
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BizPac Review, The Daily Wire, Twitchy, Mediaite, Breitbart and Vanity Fair
John Hendricks / Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal:
Conflagration declared for Rum Creek fire in Josephine County — Oregon Governor Kate Brown invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act overnight in response to the Rum Creek Fire burning outside the town of Galice in Josephine County. The fire is currently estimated to be 4,700 acres in size.
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The Hill