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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Trump's $91.6 million question — New York juries have found, by a preponderance of the evidence, that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted writer E. Jean Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-90s and then repeatedly defamed her, falsely accusing Carroll of lying about the incident.
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New Republic, Civil Discourse …, The Hill, New Jersey Online, Newsweek, Raw Story, The Moderate Voice and New York Magazine
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Stephen Robinson / Public Notice:
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No More Mister Nice Blog
NBC News:
Trump floats ‘cutting’ retirement spending, drawing quick pushback from Biden — The Republican nominee-in-waiting said that “there's a lot you can do in terms of cutting” when pressed on CNBC about the solvency of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. — Presumptive Republican nominee …
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Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Raw Story, Semafor, The White House, Rolling Stone, Democrats and Fox Business
Sean O'Driscoll / Newsweek:
Donald Trump May Be Closer To Bankruptcy Than It Seems — Donald Trump may be in a worse financial situation than most people think, a financial analyst has said. — Jon Gabrielsen, an Atlanta-based market economist, told Newsweek that Trump's liquidity problems may be more acute than they first appear …
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New York Times:
Trump Gives Rambling Answer on Why He Backtracked on a TikTok Ban — Donald Trump told CNBC that banning TikTok would make young people “go crazy” and could benefit Facebook, which he called an “enemy of the people.” — Former President Donald J. Trump offered a rambling and confusing explanation …
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Axios, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, New Republic, Associated Press, Raw Story, Political Wire, BizPac Review, Breitbart and HuffPost
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
E. Jean Carroll lawyer suggests third Trump defamation lawsuit possible after new comments — Donald Trump again denied rape and defamation claims against him by E. Jean Carroll. — The presumptive Republican presidential nominee claimed on CNBC's “Squawk Box” that the numerous judgments …
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New York Times, HuffPost, Newsweek, NBC News, The Independent, The Post Millennial, Raw Story, Law & Crime, MeidasTouch and The Daily Beast
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Adding to an ugly record, Trump mocks Biden's stutter (again) — Donald Trump's fractured relationship with human decency is especially evident when it comes to those with disabilities. — A couple of months ago, while on the campaign trail in Iowa, Donald Trump had plenty …
Washington Post:
Trump's freewheeling speeches offer a dark vision of a second term
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Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Georgia Recorder
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
‘Not on my watch’ — Biden blasts Trump over suggested cuts to Social Security, Medicare
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USA Today
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The twin challenges of warnings about Trump's support of authoritarianism
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Digby's Hullabaloo, Reuters, Raw Story, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Business Insider, PoliticusUSA and Big League Politics
CNBC:
CNBC Transcript: Former President of the United States Donald Trump Speaks with CNBC's “Squawk Box” Today
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ABC News, Gizmodo, Whittier Daily News and Fox Business
Dan Primack / Axios:
Shotgun divorce: How ByteDance could save TikTok from a U.S. ban
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Mediaite
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Biden returns to the key battleground state he snubbed in the presidential primaries
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and Wonkette
Rasmussen Reports:
Most Democrats Don't Want Congress to Certify Election if Trump Wins
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Washington Examiner and Breitbart
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Trump Finds Another Line to Cross
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Washington Post, Raw Story, New Jersey Online, DNyuz and New York Times
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Biden takes aim at Trump following his embrace of Hungary's Orbán
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Wonkette, Washington Post and Raw Story
Jim Sciutto / CNN:
Former advisers sound the alarm that Trump praises despots in private and on the campaign trail — To Donald Trump, Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán is “fantastic,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping is “brilliant,” North Korea's Kim Jong Un is “an OK guy,” and, most alarmingly …
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Claudia Chiappa / Politico:
Donald Trump won't give ‘a penny’ to Ukraine if elected, Orbán says
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Josephine Harvey / HuffPost:
John Kelly Shares His ‘Theory’ On Why Trump Likes Dictators So Much: New Book
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The Guardian
Chris Lehmann / The Nation:
The MAGA Aesthetic Is Beginning to Rot — The stable of imagery associated with the far-right insurgency no longer seems as fresh as it did when Trump first donned his red cap. — Pocket — For headline writers and Beltway pundits, the takeaway from last week's State of the Union address was clear …
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Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The GOP can't leave MAGA — “Americans must electorally mercy-kill the Republican Party”
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Raw Story
The Hill:
Trump seeks to derail New York hush money trial over immunity claims — Former President Trump is seeking to derail the start of his first criminal trial just two weeks out from when it is scheduled to begin, asserting a presidential immunity defense in the case for the first time.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Trump claims he has ‘never been a fan’ of Ken Langone, Home Depot co-founder who backed Nikki Haley
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The Hill and Washington Examiner
Tom Jones / Poynter:
How a tenacious reporter revealed Sen. Katie Britt's SOTU response to be ‘beyond misleading’ — Britt tied an anecdote about a woman who survived sex trafficking to Biden's border policies. But it happened during the George W. Bush admin. — Last Thursday was President Joe Biden's big State of the Union address.
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American Greatness, Associated Press, Metro.co.uk, Off Message, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, HuffPost and The Daily Beast, more at Mediagazer »
CNN:
Sex trafficking victim says Sen. Katie Britt telling her story during SOTU rebuttal is ‘not fair’ — The woman whose story Alabama Sen. Katie Britt appeared to have shared in the Republican response to the State of the Union as an example of President Joe Biden's failed immigration policies told CNN …
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New York Times:
Why Democrats Are Hopeful in North Carolina and Nervous in Georgia — President Biden's campaign and its allies are targeting both battlegrounds — but only one state has a highly controversial Republican nominee lower on the ballot. — Democrats are starting to dream that President Biden …
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North Carolina Republican …, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Hill
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Deborah Barfield Berry / USA Today:
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge to resign, says affordable housing is ‘an American issue’ — WASHINGTON ‒ Housing and Urban Development Secretary Marcia Fudge will step down from her top post in the Biden administration this month, she announced Monday, saying that after decades of public service, she's retiring and returning to Ohio.
NBC News:
House Republicans release report seeking to undermine Jan. 6 Committee and star witness — The report takes aim at key Jan. 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson, citing unnamed Trump White House staffers who did not corroborate her testimony. — WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating …
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New York Times, The Guardian and PJ Media
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
How Big Pharma is fighting Biden's program to lower seniors' drug costs — In court cases nationwide, drug companies are trying to block a new law that would cut prices on drugs for high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer and diabetes. — TRENTON, N.J. — Pharmaceutical giants are mounting …
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