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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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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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Mark Leibovich / The Atlantic:
Trump's Mug Shot Gives His Haters Nothing — Donald Trump dropped in for a photo op in Georgia last night—not the usual kibbitz on the hustings for a former president, but a killer visual to end the week with: a mug shot. — And just like that, Trump was restored to his accustomed place in the Republican dogpile: everywhere.
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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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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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Soo Rin Kim / ABC News:
Donald Trump's campaign using mug shot in fundraising push — The campaign says Trump's legal battles are “election interference.” — Former President Donald Trump's campaign is using the mug shot from his election interference indictment to fundraise, after the campaign quickly posted …
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Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
Trump Gets a Mug Shot — If you happened to search the records for inmates housed in the Fulton County, Georgia, jail this evening, you would have found this. Briefly. — No designation as “President Trump,” the way his new lawyer, Atlanta criminal defense lawyer Steve Sadow, referred to him in a motion today.
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Rolling Stone:
Arizona Prosecutors Are Probing Rudy Giuliani's Role as Fake-Elector Kingpin
Arizona Prosecutors Are Probing Rudy Giuliani's Role as Fake-Elector Kingpin
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
5 more Trump defendants booked at Fulton jail overnight
5 more Trump defendants booked at Fulton jail overnight
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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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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’
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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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
“Trump is in the final stage of cult leadership”: Fulton County arrest elevates his MAGA “martyrdom”
“Trump is in the final stage of cult leadership”: Fulton County arrest elevates his MAGA “martyrdom”
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New York Times:
Trump's mug shot is released, a first in his four criminal cases this year.
Trump's mug shot is released, a first in his four criminal cases this year.
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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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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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The Daily Beast:
Trumpworld Isn't Turning on Vivek Ramaswamy—Yet — The first GOP debate launched Ramaswamy to the front of the field challenging Trump—putting his ambitious campaign under the MAGA microscope. … Vivek Ramaswamy may have opened the first Republican presidential debate by ripping …
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Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Vivek Ramaswamy is America's demagogue-in-waiting
Vivek Ramaswamy is America's demagogue-in-waiting
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Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Ramaswamy raises $450,000 shortly after Republican debate
Ramaswamy raises $450,000 shortly after Republican debate
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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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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 …
Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
'He's an insider': Ramaswamy's deep ties to rightwing kingpins revealed — Republican candidate brands himself as an ‘outsider’ but has close links to prominent figures Leonard Leo and Peter Thiel — Vivek Ramaswamy has described himself as an “outsider”, accusing rivals …
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Washington Post:
DeSantis group prepares $25 million ad buy in Iowa and New Hampshire — Commitment by Never Back Down comes as supporters hope his debate performance reverses polling slide — Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plan to buy at least $25 million in television advertising in Iowa …
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Press & Sun-Bulletin:
Endicott man sentenced to federal prison for telephone threats to Marjorie Taylor Greene — A Broome County man will spend three months in federal prison for threatening a member of the U.S. Congress last year. — Joseph F. Morelli, 51, of Endicott was also sentenced to three years …
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