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New York Times:
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows … The I.R.S. believes that former President Donald J. Trump violated a law meant to prevent double-dipping on tax-reducing losses.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times — Former President Donald J. Trump used …
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IRS Audit of Trump Could Cost Former President More Than $100 Million — The tax agency concluded in its long-running investigation that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on his failed Chicago tower. — Co-published with The New York Times
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Scoop: Trump quietly moves Haley off his blacklist … - Trump is scrambling to make up a fundraising disadvantage against President Biden and pay legal fees. … - A reconciliation with Haley, his former UN ambassador, also could help Trump cut attract some of the college-educated Republicans …
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Zac Anderson / USA Today:
Donald Trump says Nikki Haley not under consideration for vice president — Former President Donald Trump is dismissing a report that he is considering his GOP primary opponent Nikki Haley as a running mate. — Trump wrote on his social Media platform Truth Social Saturday that …
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Politico:
Nikki Haley keeps racking up votes in final stretch of the GOP primary, and Donald Trump keeps ignoring them — Biden has a strategy for trying to bring anti-Trump Republicans to his side, while Trump still hasn't reached out to Haley two months after she dropped out of the primary.
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M.L. Nestel / Raw Story:
New lawsuit accuses Trump campaign of illegally attempting to hide payments to women — Donald Trump's election campaign has been hit with a sex discrimination lawsuit involving fresh accusations that his lawyers violated federal law by attempting to hide settlement payments to women accusers.
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Carl Gibson / Raw Story:
Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon — Brian K. Pritchard is no longer the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party after a large majority of his fellow Republicans voted to remove him from his position this week.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Associated Press
New York Times:
Amid Scrutiny, Paul Manafort Leaves Republican Convention Role — Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention.
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's Sleazy $1 Billion Shakedown of Oil Execs Gives Dems an Opening — Ever since Donald Trump descended that golden escalator in 2015, a central tenet of his bond with his supporters has been a simple promise to them: I have seen elite corruption and self-dealing from the inside, and I will put that know-how to work for you.
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New York Times:
A Way Back from Campus Chaos — Protesting the world's wrongs has been a rite of passage for generations of American youth, buoyed by our strong laws protecting free speech and free assembly. Yet the students and other demonstrators disrupting college campuses this spring are being taught …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Justice Alito warns of declining support for freedom of speech on college campuses — The conservative justice also warned that freedom of religion is “imperiled” as he delivered a commencement address at a Catholic college. — Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito on Saturday warned …
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Ross O'Keefe / Washington Examiner:
New York Supreme Court shoots down Long Island county transgender athlete ban — The New York Supreme Court struck down a directive from Long Island's Nassau County that banned transgender women from participating in girls' and women's athletics at county parks.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
The Long, Tortured Road to Biden's Clash With Netanyahu Over Gaza War — The president offered strong support to Israel after Oct. 7 but has grown increasingly frustrated over the conduct of the war. “He has just gotten to a point where enough is enough,” a friend says.
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
GOP escalates fight with Secret Service over convention protesters — Senior GOP representatives have been arguing for weeks with Secret Service officials, but the agency has not budged. — Top Republican Party officials are escalating their fight with the Secret Service over the party's convention …
Sam Cabral / BBC:
Trump's youngest son Barron ‘declines’ to be RNC delegate, his mother Melania says — Barron Trump is declining to serve as a delegate on behalf of his father at the Republican National Convention, according to his mother's office. — The Florida Republican Party announced on Wednesday …
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Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:
Melania Trump reveals son Barron, 18, has pulled out of being a delegate nominating his father for president because he has ‘prior commitments’
Melania Trump reveals son Barron, 18, has pulled out of being a delegate nominating his father for president because he has ‘prior commitments’
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