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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
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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Washington Post:
Manafort will no longer take on Republican convention role  —  Manafort had offered to work free on the Republican convention, meeting with officials in recent weeks about his role.  —  Paul Manafort, the longtime political power broker who served as the 2016 chairman for Donald Trump's presidential campaign …
Discussion: Democrats
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:   GOP escalates fight with Secret Service over convention protesters
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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Fox News:
Trump supporters flock to massive New Jersey campaign rally to hear former president speak amid ongoing trials  —  The late-afternoon rally is expected to draw more than 40,000 supporters  —  Supporters of Donald Trump came out in droves Saturday to hear the former president speak …
David Jackson / USA Today:
A guilty verdict? Donald Trump and allies are bracing voters for the worst
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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.
Discussion: CREW and The Daily Beast
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.
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.
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 …
Kyle Morris / Fox News:
Pelosi rebuked to her face during Oxford debate after condemning Americans clouded by ‘guns, gays, God’  —  Pelosi suggested Americans refuse to listen to Democrats about certain issues due to their beliefs about ‘guns, gays, [and] God’  —  Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. …
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 …
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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