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7:00 PM ET, August 7, 2023

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CNN:
Exclusive: Trump ally Bernie Kerik meets with special counsel investigators  —  Donald Trump ally Bernie Kerik met Monday with special counsel Jack Smith's investigators who are handling the probe related to the 2020 election aftermath and the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump and his new lawyer are not on the same page about judge's recusal  —  The former president's public statements are already diverging from the advice of his newest lawyer, John Lauro.  —  Donald Trump blared Sunday morning that his legal team would be “immediately asking for recusal” …
Amanda Terkel / NBC News:
‘Of course he lost’: Ron DeSantis rejects Trump's 2020 election claims  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Sunday rejected Donald Trump's claim that he was the true winner of the 2020 presidential election in his most forceful comments to date on the matter.  —  “Whoever puts their hand …
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Judge dismisses Trump's defamation claim against E. Jean Carroll  —  A U.S. judge on Monday dismissed Donald Trump's defamation counterclaim against the writer E. Jean Carroll, handing a fresh legal defeat to the former president as he seeks another White House term.
Washington Post:
‘Fake’ elector plot raised concerns over legal peril, indictment shows  —  A contingency plan, a crime or a ‘donkey show’?  Doubts across seven states and within the Trump campaign.  —  Six weeks after the 2020 election, senior campaign officials for Donald Trump called a group …
Ankush Khardori / New York Magazine:
The Pelosi Factor … If you were going to draw up a list of the people most responsible for the latest indictment of Donald Trump, the former president himself would be at the top, followed by the prosecutors who have brought the case.  Republicans in Congress perversely deserve a great deal of credit …
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
There's a Good Reason Trump Aides Don't Think the New Indictment Is a Joke
Discussion: Raw Story
Dawn White / WXIA-TV:
Fulton County insiders expect former President Donald Trump to be indicted this week in Georgia
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
John Eastman, awaiting potential indictment, asks judge to postpone his disbarment proceedings  —  The lawyer who advised Donald Trump in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 is known as “co-conspirator 2” in the special counsel's newest case.  —  Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump's …
SSU:
SSU detains russian informant preparing enemy air strike on Mykolaiv region during President's visit (video)  —  The SSU has detained an informant of russian intelligence services who on the eve of the visit of the President of Ukraine to Mykolaiv oblast was collecting information on the planned events.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
The Secret Hand Behind the Women Who Stood by Cuomo?  His Sister.  —  For nearly two years, Madeline Cuomo back channeled with grass-roots activists to help smear her brother's accusers.  He was “seeing everything,” she told his defenders.  —  The menacing posts began cropping up on Twitter …
emptywheel:
Judge Cannon Blows Off Concerns about Walt Nauta's Conflicted Representation  —  Before I attempt to explain the substance of the order that Aileen Cannon issued in response to DOJ's request for a Garcia hearing, let me point out how it looks on the docket.  —  Before DOJ filed its motion …
Hillary Rodham Clinton / The Atlantic:
The Weaponization of Loneliness  —  To defend America against those who would exploit our social disconnection, we need to rebuild our communities.  —  The question that preoccupied me and many others over much of the past eight years is how our democracy became so susceptible to a would-be strongman and demagogue.
Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast:
The Mystery Behind Russia's Secret VIP Flight to North Korea  —  The stealthy military flight comes a week after Russia's defense minister visited Pyongyang with the goal of convincing North Korea to boost weapons sales to Moscow.  —  A Russian military plane made a mysterious trip to Pyongyang on August 1, according to flight radar.
CNN:
Officer who held back crowd during George Floyd's murder sentenced to over 4 years in prison  —  Tou Thao, the former Minneapolis police officer who held back a crowd of bystanders during George Floyd's fatal arrest in May 2020, was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison Monday …
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N'dea Yancey-Bragg / USA Today:
Former Minneapolis officer sentenced to nearly 5 years for role in George Floyd's killing
Discussion: Associated Press and The Messenger
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump counterclaim against E. Jean Carroll dismissed, DA can get deposition  — A federal judge dismissed a counterclaim by Donald Trump against the writer E. Jean Carroll in her pending lawsuit that accuses him of defaming her after she wrote that he had raped her.
Brianna Herlihy / Fox News:
Some conservatives have surprising ‘Barbie’ take despite criticisms of liberal agenda  —  ‘Barbie’ surpassed $1 billion in global box office sales, despite ‘woke’ claims  —  Some conservatives are standing by the film “Barbie,” despite criticisms and reviews that blasted the blockbuster film for an allegedly liberal agenda.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
John Eastman shows the path from misinformation to revolution  —  Tom Klingenstein is a major donor to Republican political candidates and the chairman of the board of directors of the right-wing Claremont Institute.  It is not entirely clear which of those roles spurred his recent interview …
Discussion: Raw Story
Insider:
Rudy Giuliani puts luxury Manhattan apartment on the block for $6.5 million  — Rudy Giuliani's 3-bedroom Upper East Side co-op apartment just hit the market.  — The unit, in a landmarked Madison Avenue building, has extensive wood paneling and a library.
Discussion: The Messenger and Raw Story
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
China hacked Japan's sensitive defense networks, officials say  —  Tokyo has strengthened its defenses after a major cybersecurity breach, but gaps remain that could slow information-sharing with the Pentagon.  —  In the fall of 2020, the National Security Agency made an alarming discovery …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Nathaniel Weixel / The Hill:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
Benjamin Ryan / NBC News:
FDA policy allowing more gay and bisexual men to donate blood goes into effect
Discussion: Axios, The Messenger, The Verge and UPI
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NBC News:
Nursing pillows are associated with more than 160 infant deaths, NBC News investigation finds
Discussion: The Messenger
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Republican Party's Split on Economics
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Partisan Gaps Expand Most on Government Power, Climate
Discussion: Semafor and The Messenger
Ron DeSantis / USA Today:
America's economy is decimated. As president, I have a plan to rebuild it.
Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Kevin McCarthyism: Why the GOP's culture war on the troops will end badly
 

 
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Reuters:
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