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emptywheel:
Trump's Defense: He Intended to Steal Boxes and Boxes of Classified Documents — As I have been noting for months, in all of Jack Smith's rebuttals to Trump's claims that Presidents have absolute immunity, he floated scenarios that are pretty similar to stuff that Trump is known or suspected of doing.
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Politico:
Trump moves to dismiss classified documents case — In a series of seven motions, he argued that the criminal charges against him in Florida are flawed. — Donald Trump is asking a federal judge in Florida to throw out his criminal case for hoarding classified secrets at his Mar-a-Lago estate …
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USA Today, The Hill, Axios, The New Civil Rights Movement, ABC News, KUSA-TV, Associated Press and Raw Story
Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Wisconsin ethics commission refers Trump fundraising arm for prosecution — The bipartisan body recommended felony charges against Donald Trump's Save America committee as well as other Republicans — MADISON, Wis. — Bipartisan ethics regulators in Wisconsin have recommended felony charges …
MSNBC:
Trump's takeover of the RNC will destroy it from within — His hand-picked candidates to lead the party don't show an understanding of what the job actually entails, and the GOP will pay the price. — As a real estate developer, Donald Trump loved to put his name on other people's buildings.
Brandon Gillespie / Fox News:
Ballot harvesting, poll watchers and more: Lara Trump reveals her plan to turbocharge RNC
Ballot harvesting, poll watchers and more: Lara Trump reveals her plan to turbocharge RNC
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
How Trump is becoming more authoritarian
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
How a Bill Barr ‘assignment’ led to a Biden impeachment effort based on a lie — The Fact Checker — “We were not making a representation that everything in this 1023 [FBI report] was credible.” — Former U.S. attorney Scott Brady in an interview with congressional investigators, Oct. 23
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emptywheel, Raw Story and The Daily Caller
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Biden impeachment effort on the brink of collapse
Biden impeachment effort on the brink of collapse
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New Yorker, Washington Post, CNN, Twitchy, The Hill, TASS, New Jersey Online and CBS News
Tori Otten / New Republic:
Guess What Just Disappeared From GOP's Biden Impeachment Website
Guess What Just Disappeared From GOP's Biden Impeachment Website
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Fox News, The Bulwark, Washington Post, Raw Story, Tangle, Daily Kos and CBS News
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial
The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial
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Blue Virginia, Raw Story, TIME and Mediaite
Hannah Rabinowitz / CNN:
Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens is re-arrested as prosecutors fight to keep him behind bars
Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens is re-arrested as prosecutors fight to keep him behind bars
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Lawyers for ex-FBI informant, charged with lying about Bidens, say he's been re-arrested
Lawyers for ex-FBI informant, charged with lying about Bidens, say he's been re-arrested
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NBC News, The Gateway Pundit and Associated Press
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Biden's cheat sheets at fundraisers worry donors … - The staged Q&A sessions have left some donors wondering whether Biden can withstand the rigors of a presidential campaign, let alone potential debates with former President Trump, 77. — Biden advisers say the president is given notecards …
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Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, Breitbart, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Lawyers, Guns & Money, IJR, CNN, The Hollywood Reporter and Mercury News
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Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
No one is replacing Joe Biden, ffs — The bed-wetting needs to stop. … New York Times columnist Ezra Klein argued last week that President Joe Biden should step aside and not run for another term. Klein argues Biden is too old to successfully run for president, and that Democrats …
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New Republic, nationalinterest.org, Washington Times and Vanity Fair
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Biden's Terrible Student Loan Gamble
Biden's Terrible Student Loan Gamble
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New York Post, Power Line, BizPac Review, IJR, Fox News, Louder With Crowder, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, American Greatness and New York Times
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
A New Orleans magician says a Democratic operative paid him to make the fake Biden robocall — Dean Phillips' presidential campaign denounced the alleged actions of one of its consultants and said it may take legal action against him. — NEW ORLEANS — A Democratic consultant who worked …
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Joe Sommerlad / The Independent:
Trump struggles to say ‘evangelical’ and muddles up Israel in wild, incoherent speech at Christian event — Republican candidate arrived late to Nashville speech looking flushed and exhausted to rant about Democrats, the Department of Education, the Capitol riot and the ‘silencing’ of religious groups
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Raw Story and MeidasTouch
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Matt Simon / Wired:
What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump — Getting these climate superheroes into more US homes would massively cut emissions, and it would be cost-effective. Here's how the revolution would play out. — One of the most powerful weapons you can wield to fight climate change is ... an appliance.
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
The Cash-Strapped Trump Campaign Is Trying to Get Away With a New Donor Loophole — As a cash crunch looms, Trump's campaign is miraculously not reporting donor refunds—an untested trick that makes it harder to tell how tired his donors really are. … Campaign donor refunds have been a part …
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The American Conservative, Australian Financial Review, Raw Story and OpenSecrets.org
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive: Well-funded new super PAC joins Trumpworld
Exclusive: Well-funded new super PAC joins Trumpworld
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OpenSecrets.org
Caroline Kitchener / Washington Post:
An ectopic pregnancy put her life at risk. A Texas hospital refused to treat her. — The 25-year-old woman and her mother blame the state's abortion ban for a delay in care that doctors say put her “in extreme danger of losing her life” — ARLINGTON, Tex. — Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried …
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Political Wire
Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
CBS seizes confidential files of fired reporter pursuing Hunter Biden laptop story in ‘unprecedented’ move: sources — The acclaimed CBS reporter who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal before she was fired last week had her personal files seized by the network in an “unprecedented” …
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RedState, Yellowhammer News, Twitchy, JONATHAN TURLEY, acecomments.mu.nu, Mediaite, The Post Millennial, IJR and Newsbusters
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Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show — Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker indicated on the show he was a proponent of the “Seven Mountains Mandate,” an explicitly theocratic doctrine at the heart of Christian nationalism.
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Media Matters for America, Wonkette and Pharyngula
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Washington Post:
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak — As a Florida elementary school tries to contain a growing measles outbreak, the state's top health official is giving advice that runs counter to science and may leave unvaccinated children at risk of contracting …
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The Root, CBS News, Wonkette, Sun-Sentinel, PBS NewsHour, World Socialist Web Site, Pharyngula, STAT and The Atlantic
BBC:
Alabama IVF ruling a political gift for Democrats, headache for Republicans — An Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos created through fertility treatment are children has delivered an election-year opportunity for Democrats - and a political headache for Republicans.
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KGW-TV, New York Times, Vox, Associated Press, Fox News, Media Matters for America, al.com, MeidasTouch and Politico
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: House GOP rushes to distance from Alabama IVF ruling
Scoop: House GOP rushes to distance from Alabama IVF ruling
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CBS News, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Caller, NBC News, Washington Post, HuffPost, Associated Press, Twin Cities, Washington Examiner and Semafor
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
Tommy Tuberville On Alabama Deeming Embryos Children: Great! Wait, Bad!
Tommy Tuberville On Alabama Deeming Embryos Children: Great! Wait, Bad!
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USA Today, MeidasTouch, NBC News, New Republic, The Guardian, al.com, Mediaite, Raw Story, WSLS-TV, Fox News, Semafor, The Hill and BBC
Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
Kristi Noem offers 5 requirements to serve as Trump's VP — Noem was among a ‘short-list’ for the vice presidency offered by Trump in a Fox News townhall earlier this week — Join Fox News for access to this content — Plus get unlimited access to thousands of articles, videos and more with your free account!
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Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
You'll Never Guess Who Was Behind Those Fake Biden Robocalls! — Hint: It wasn't a Republican. — Video — Can you help us out? — For nearly 20 years we have been exposing Washington lies and untangling media deceit, but now Facebook is drowning us in an ocean of right wing lies.
Politico:
Biden planning to hit food ‘shrinkflation,’ corporate greed in SOTU — Food inflation is still a major drag on voter approval of the Biden economy ahead of November. — President Joe Biden is weighing how hard to hammer big food companies over painfully high grocery prices in his upcoming State of the Union Address.
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