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Ankush Khardori / Politico:
Lock Him Up? A New Poll Has Some Bad News for Trump — A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll punctures some prevailing political narratives about the Trump indictments. — To hear Donald Trump tell it, the fact that he keeps getting indicted by prosecutors is a boon to his reelection effort.
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Josh Meyer / USA Today:
The Georgia election case against Donald Trump and 18 others is about to get ugly. Here's why. — For former President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani and their 17 other co-defendants, the threat of jail time is getting very real for those charged, arrested and booked in the Georgia election fraud case.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Parsing Trump's post-surrender comments in Georgia — Donald Trump's visit to Georgia on Thursday was brief. He flew in to Atlanta, drove to the Fulton County Jail, surrendered to authorities, was processed on criminal charges and then released. Back into the SUV and back to the airport …
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Rolling Stone:
Arizona Prosecutors Are Probing Rudy Giuliani's Role as Fake-Elector Kingpin — State investigators have also started gathering information on Trump's personal involvement in the plot, knowledgeable sources tell Rolling Stone — PROSECUTORS IN ARIZONA are “aggressively” …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
5 more Trump defendants booked at Fulton jail overnight — X — Five more defendants in the Fulton County Trump case surrendered overnight at the Fulton County jail, hours after former President Donald Trump himself traveled to Atlanta to be booked. — First up, Michael Roman, a Trump campaign official.
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Mugshot — This presidential portrait was inevitable, wasn't it? — Think for a moment what it took to bring us to this point: the twisted, bizarre, tangled story, with so many chapters, and legions of enablers, rationalizers, clowns, cowards, and co-conspirators.
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump Gets a Mug Shot
Trump Gets a Mug Shot
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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Trump's Mug Shot Gives His Haters Nothing
Trump's Mug Shot Gives His Haters Nothing
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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Donald Trump's campaign using mug shot in fundraising push
Donald Trump's campaign using mug shot in fundraising push
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Karen Townsend / HotAir:
You can buy Trump's mugshot on a t-shirt
You can buy Trump's mugshot on a t-shirt
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Stephen Kruiser / PJ Media:
The Morning Briefing: Can the Trump-Hating Psycho Prosecutors Be Stopped?
The Morning Briefing: Can the Trump-Hating Psycho Prosecutors Be Stopped?
Vanessa Friedman / New York Times:
A Trump Mug Shot for History
A Trump Mug Shot for History
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Three Trump codefendants say they became false electors at Trump's ‘direction’
Three Trump codefendants say they became false electors at Trump's ‘direction’
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Trump says taking a mugshot was 'not a comfortable feeling, especially when you've done nothing wrong'
Trump says taking a mugshot was 'not a comfortable feeling, especially when you've done nothing wrong'
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Giulia Carbonaro / Newsweek:
Donald Trump Sold Mar-a-Lago Before Arrest, Listing Claims — A Zillow listing claimed to have shown that Donald Trump has sold his signature Mar-a-Lago luxury residence in Florida. The listing claimed the resort was purchased on August 4—weeks before the former president voluntarily turned himself …
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Natalie Allison / Politico:
GOP picks Houston for Republican National Convention in 2028 — The decision comes a full year before the GOP holds its 2024 nominating event. — The Republican Party will host its 2028 convention in Houston, party officials decided in a private meeting on Friday.
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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
RNC Chooses Houston For Its Mid-Summer 2028 Nominating Convention
RNC Chooses Houston For Its Mid-Summer 2028 Nominating Convention
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Vivek Ramaswamy is America's demagogue-in-waiting — The Republican debate became the entrepreneur's coming-out party, with the news media boosting him along his way — e thinks the climate crisis is a hoax, supports Vladimir Putin's aggression in Ukraine, and would gladly pardon Donald Trump on Day 1 of his would-be presidency.
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Steve Kornacki / NBC News:
How one Republican nearly blew a lead bigger than Trump's — and what it means for 2024 — Bob Dole's 1996 near-collapse in Iowa after racking up a huge polling lead offers some hope for Trump challengers, but the underlying numbers show key differences. — For Republicans hoping to avoid …
Maui County:
County of Maui releases validated list of names of individuals who remain unaccounted for following — 8/24/2023 — County of Maui releases validated list of names of individuals who remain unaccounted for following Lahaina wildfire disaster — The County of Maui on Thursday released …
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Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:
Sarah Palin Says Civil War Is ‘Going to Happen’ After Trump's Arrest — ‘RISE UP’ — Sarah Palin responded to Donald Trump's arrest in Georgia on Thursday night by talking up the possibility of civil war. Speaking to Eric Bolling as the former president was booked at the Fulton County Jail …
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Susan Tebben / Ohio Capital Journal:
Split ballot board approves reproductive rights amendment summary written by Ohio Sec. of State — COLUMBUS, Ohio — AUGUST 24: Ohio Ballot Board Chair, Secretary of State Frank LaRose at the Ballot Board meeting to certify the language for Issue 1, the proposed constitutional amendment entitled …
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Katie Bo Lillis / CNN:
Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners — Russian intelligence is operating a systematic program to launder pro-Kremlin propaganda through private relationships between Russian operatives and unwitting US and western targets, according to newly declassified US intelligence.
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Anne Flaherty / ABC News:
Judge rejects argument by abortion pill maker that state ban violates Constitution — GenBioPro claimed West Virginia's ban on mifepristone was at odds with the FDA. — West Virginia has the right to block the sale of the abortion drug mifepristone, even though federal regulators have decided …
Washington Post:
Following Elon Musk's lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation — Facebook and YouTube are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election — Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation …
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