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11:10 AM ET, March 31, 2024

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Politico:
Hill GOP to Trump: Tamp down the talk of grudges and Jan. 6  —  Donald Trump's bid to oust a Florida Republican who backed Ron DeSantis over him is reviving a long-running GOP anxiety: that he can't be dissuaded from the grudges and inflammatory rhetoric that plagued his party's lawmakers during his first term.
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Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Former Defense Secretary Tells Bill Maher He Is ‘Definitely Not’ Voting for Ex Boss  —  ‘DEFINITELY NOT’  —  “There's no way I'll vote for Trump, but every day that Trump does something crazy, the door to voting for Biden opens a little bit more, and that's where I'm at,” Esper said.
Chauncey DeVega / Salon:
The “martyrdom” of Donald J. Trump  —  “It's all slapstick comedy: Posing as a Christ-like figure is so outlandish and absurd”  —  Donald Trump has repeatedly shown that he can reasonably be described as evil.  Yet, white “Christian” evangelicals are among his most loyal, stalwart, and enthusiastic supporters.
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Jim Wallis / The Daily Beast:
Trump's Bible Just Might Earn Him Eternal Damnation  —  NOT-SO-GOOD BOOK  —  Trump's Holy-Week grift not only makes him a heretic and an idolator but endangers his immortal soul. … I have vivid memories of then-President Donald Trump standing in front of St. John's Episcopal Church …
Discussion: Mediaite, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
Chris Quinn / Plain Dealer:
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren't two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor  —  A more-than-occasional arrival in the email these days is a question expressed two ways, one with dripping condescension and the other with courtesy:  —  Why don't our opinion platforms …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Scripting News
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid  —  Michigan U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg suggested that nuclear weapons should be dropped on Gaza, which his office said was a metaphor to “support Israel's swift elimination of Hamas.”  —  “It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online  —  US telco giant takes action after 2019 data spill  —  Phone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Associated Press:
Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge  —  A floating crane arrived at the wreckage of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in the Patapsco River, as teams of engineers are working on the daunting task of hauling away the twisted steel and shattered concrete.
David Cohen / Politico:
Van Hollen: Defy Netanyahu to guarantee Gazans don't starve  —  “We have a situation where Netanyahu continues to essentially, you know, give the finger to the president of the United States,” the senator said.  —  Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday continued to push President Joe Biden …
Discussion: The Hill and ABC News
New York Post:
Dem clients of daughter of NY judge in Trump hush money trial raised $93M off the case  —  Two major Democratic clients of the daughter of the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush-money trial have raised at least $93 million in campaign donations — and used the case in their solicitation emails …
Jason Beeferman / Politico:
‘No one told me to leave’: Hochul defends decision to attend slain NYPD officer's wake  —  Hochul defended her decision to attend the wake for NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller after a confrontation with a mourner and increased scrutiny around her policies on crime.
Robert Reich:
Record corporate profits from your thinning wallets  —  The latest economic data shows two big things:  —  (1) Corporate profits reached a record high in the fourth quarter of last year.  —  (2) Inflation is still with us.  The government reported Friday that the Fed's preferred inflation …
Tom Perkins / The Guardian:
US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS  —  Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA's ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound  —  A federal appeals court in the US has killed a ban on plastic containers contaminated …
Discussion: Inside Climate News
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
Who wouldn't like prices to start falling?  Careful what you wish for, economists say  —  Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high.  Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago.
Discussion: Twitchy and Associated Press
 
 
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Rekindles Relationships With Key 2016 Donors
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Kathleen Culliton / Raw Story:
Publisher's slip-up reveals James Comer is hawking book about Biden impeachment inquiry
Discussion: The Hill and Axios
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