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2:40 PM ET, January 14, 2025

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New York Times:
Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case  —  “But for Mr. Trump's election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report said.
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Hafiz Rashid / New Republic:
The Most Damning Lines in Jack Smith's Brutal Trump January 6 Report  —  Special counsel Jack Smith did not hold back in his final report on the investigation into Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election.  —  While much of it contains information already made public …
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. releases Trump special counsel report on Jan. 6 case  —  President-elect Donald Trump has tried to prevent the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report before he takes office next week.  —  If Donald Trump wasn't elected president in November, the Justice Department …
Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
The Report on Trump's 2020 Election Subversion Is Damning  —  “The admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” Jack Smith's team wrote in the 130-page report … The 130-page report is damning, and concludes that “the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
Norman Eisen / The Contrarian:
A Contrarian Take on Volume One of Jack Smith's Report  —  The fact that we are already familiar with almost all of the facts in the first volume of Jack Smith's final report on January 6th and Donald Trump's attempted self-coup, makes them no less horrifying.
Discussion: The Atlantic
Punchbowl News:
Jan. 6 committee members talk to White House about pardons
Discussion: HuffPost and Raw Story
Filip Timotija / The Hill:
Trump rages after Smith report release: ‘Lamebrain prosecutor’
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
The Pressure Campaign to Get Pete Hegseth Confirmed as Defense Secretary  —  Supporters of Donald Trump's nominee have intimidated potential witnesses and suppressed the F.B.I. background check of the former Fox News host in the run-up to his Senate hearing.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hirono grills Hegseth over allegations of drinking on the job  —  Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing got heated when Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) challenged him over press reports that he drank while on the job in his previous employment, charges that Hegseth denied.
Sarah Fitzpatrick / NBC News:
Former Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson makes request ahead of hearing  —  Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson and her nonprofit group sent a letter yesterday asking the Senate Armed Services Committee to allow an alleged victim of sexual assault to testify anonymously at Hegseth's confirmation hearing.
Discussion: Associated Press and Al Jazeera
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Vice Is a Moat  —  1. Secretary Pete  —  Here is the thing about Pete Hegseth:  —  Imagine that his character was sterling.  That he was a fine, upstanding man, admired by all who know him.  That he had dedicated his life to service and been judged to be as good a human being as Mister Rogers or Dolly Parton.
NBC News:
Live updates: Pete Hegseth grilled on misconduct allegations and views on women at Senate confirmation hearing
Discussion: Washington Examiner and NPR
New York Times:
Live Updates: Pete Hegseth to Face Sharp Questions at Confirmation Hearing
New York Times:
Democrats Say F.B.I. Did Not Interview Critical Witnesses About Pete Hegseth
Washington Examiner:
Hegseth fights back against ‘smear campaign’ as Democrats charge he is unqualified to lead Pentagon
NBC News:
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to attend Trump's inauguration  —  The three will be seated together on the inauguration platform with other prominent guests.  —  Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday …
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Tara Suter / The Hill:
Bannon: Zuckerberg 'can't be trusted'  —  Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President-elect Trump, went after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Monday episode of his “Bannon's War Room” podcast.  —  “Zuckerberg can't be trusted, at all,” Bannon said on his show, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite.
Discussion: New Republic, Mediaite and Vanity Fair
Wall Street Journal:
Zuckerberg Debuts ‘Real Mark’ in Push to Woo Trump
Ryan Patrick Jones / Reuters:
Trump says will create ‘External Revenue Service’ to collect revenue from foreign sources  —  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will create a new department called the External Revenue Service “to collect tariffs, duties, and all revenue” from foreign sources.
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Joseph Choi / The Hill:
How Trump's Greenland demands could impact Ozempic costs
Discussion: RADAR
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Michelle Obama will skip Trump inauguration, but ex-Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush will be there  —  Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses …
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Johnson announces flags will fly full-staff during Trump's inauguration  —  American flags will fly full-staff for President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday after all, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced Tuesday, “to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President.”
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Robert Jimison / New York Times:
Speaker Orders Capitol Hill Flags Raised for Inauguration
Nahal Toosi / Politico:
Marco Rubio Isn't Likely to Last Long as Secretary of State  —  He's being undermined by fellow Republicans, and that's before he shows up to lead a workforce Trump distrusts.  —  Congratulations, Marco Rubio!  You'll soon be secretary of State.  —  Condolences, too.  You're not likely to last long in the job.
Jonathan Alter / Washington Monthly:
A Life Sentence of Disgrace  —  It goes without saying that the big historic event of last week—maybe of the year—is the catastrophic L.A. Fire, which I will write about in the weeks ahead.  But before we say farewell to Jimmy Carter's Long Goodbye, I wanted to tell you a bit about my experience …
Jennifer Jacobs / CBS News:
Harris declines to invite Vance for courtesy visit to vice president's residence before inauguration  —  When JD Vance, his wife Usha and their three young children move into the Naval Observatory residence on Jan. 20, it will be their first time inside the white Queen Anne-style mansion …
Dylan Matthews / Vox:
The president who could not choose  —  “To govern is to choose, however difficult the choices may be.”  —Pierre Mendès France, prime minister of France 1954-'55  —  If you want to understand where Joe Biden's presidency went wrong, when his administration stopped looking …
Christopher Knight / The Federalist:
No One Wants A Biden Presidential Library  —  There is absolutely nothing commendable about Biden and his career, especially about his four years in the White House.  —  During the California leg of a year-long journey across America, I devoted a day to visiting two presidential libraries within a short distance of each other.
Discussion: The Knight Shift
Politico:
Johnson backs away from go-it-alone debt ceiling plan  —  The speaker acknowledged the borrowing limit could be included in government funding talks — where he'll need Democratic votes.  —  Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday backed away from a plan to address the approaching federal debt cliff …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Top Democrat rejects any conditions on wildfire aid  —  House Democratic Caucus Chairman Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) on Tuesday flatly rejected Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) proposal for conditions to be put on federal aid for California wildfires, setting up a potential partisan fight …
David R. Lurie / Public Notice:
Putin needs Trump's help more than ever  —  And Trump is signaling that he'll deliver.  —  It's been nearly three years since Vladimir Putin's despotic regime began its reign of terror against Ukraine by attempting to conquer the country and, in Putin's words, put an end to the “fictional” Ukrainian nation.
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Ivanka Trump: Politics ‘a very dark, negative business’  —  Ivanka Trump says she has a hatred of politics, calling it a “very dark, negative business,” while opening up about her decision not to work in her father's second administration.  —  “I love policy and impact.  I hate politics.
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Food shoppers could see nutrition facts on the front, as FDA unveils proposed packaging rules  —  The Food and Drug Administration released on Tuesday its long-awaited proposal to require food manufacturers to put some nutrition facts on the front of packages, in a bid to nudge Americans …
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
The Washington Post just endorsed 19 Trump nominees.  Here are the 5 worst.  —  Remember when Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos spiked the paper's planned editorial board endorsement of Kamala Harris and then Bezos piously insisted that endorsements demonstrate bias and his publisher William Lewis claimed …
Discussion: New Republic and The Daily Caller
Taylor Giorno / The Hill:
Consumer bureau sues Capital One for ‘cheating’ customers on savings account interest  —  The government's consumer watchdog on Tuesday sued Capital One for alleging “cheating” customers out of billions in interest payments.  —  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) …
 
 
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Charlie Spiering / Daily Mail:
I was fully indoctrinated into the Democrat ‘cult.’ Here's why I left my liberal influencer life behind to raise money for Trump
Discussion: The Hill
Olivia Fletcher / Bloomberg:
Ireland's Main Parties Reach Government Deal, Irish Times Says
Discussion: Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
California's Wildfire Climate Excuse
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Democrats will get amendments to Senate immigration bill, says key Republican
Washington Post:
Ethics worries grow for Florida Democrat as state sues over $5 million covid payment
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New York Times:
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it harder to get screened for cancer
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Financial Times:
Is corporate America going Maga?
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CNN:
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Ben Weiss / Fortune:
Internal memo: the US DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the agency is “not a digital assets regulator”

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