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4:10 AM ET, May 12, 2024

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Politico:
Trump, escalating attacks at rally, says Biden is ‘surrounded by fascists’  —  He's still under threat of jailtime if he violates a gag order.  —  After spending the week sitting in silence as a parade of witnesses — from porn star Stormy Daniels to a former White House aide …
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Marianne LeVine / Washington Post:
Trump insults prosecutor at Jersey Shore rally filled with vulgar jabs  —  The presumptive Republican nominee spoke at a large rally where there were plenty of personal attacks and vulgar expressions from Trump and his supporters.  —  WILDWOOD, N.J. — Donald Trump on Saturday insulted …
New York Post:
Trump blasts Biden as ‘total moron’ before crowd of 100K at NJ rally: ‘Whole world is laughing at him’  —  WILDWOOD, NJ — Donald Trump recited all his greatest hits at a massive Saturday evening rally in Wildwood, NJ — but managed to avoid violating his court-imposed gag order by focusing …
David Jackson / USA Today:
A guilty verdict? Donald Trump and allies are bracing voters for the worst
Discussion: Progress Pond 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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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 …
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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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
Politico:   Nikki Haley keeps racking up votes in final stretch of the GOP primary, and Donald Trump keeps ignoring them
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.
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. …
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Switzerland's Nemo wins 68th Eurovision Song Contest after event roiled by protests over war in Gaza  —  Swiss singer Nemo won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer's journey toward embracing a nongender identity.
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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