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4:55 PM ET, August 31, 2016

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Danielle Kantor / Hillary Clinton 2016:
Donald Trump is about to meet the president of Mexico.  Which of these tweets might they discuss?  —  A big, beautiful list of tweets.  —  Donald Trump is headed to Mexico to meet with the country's president, Enrique Peña Nieto.  If you're surprised by that news—well, you're not alone.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump to meet in Mexico with the country's president  —  Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City on Wednesday for a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before he delivers a high-stakes speech in Arizona to clarify his views on immigration policy.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Can Trump Be This Stupid?  (Not a Trick Question)  —  We have news tonight that tomorrow, in advance of his big immigration speech in Arizona, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.  This is such an outlandish idea it is not easy to make sense of it or predict its outcome.
Azam Ahmed / New York Times:
Mexicans Accuse President of ‘Historic Error’ in Welcoming Donald Trump  —  MEXICO CITY — If President Enrique Peña Nieto invited Donald J. Trump to visit Mexico for a dialogue in the interest of democracy, the message has fallen on deaf ears.  —  Instead, the predominant feeling here in the Mexican capital is one of betrayal.
Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Trump lands in Mexico for last-minute meeting with President Peña Nieto  —  MEXICO CITY — U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump landed here in his private jet Wednesday for a hastily arranged meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, according to local media reports …
Liz Kreutz / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Hits Trump for ‘Dropping In’ on Mexico
Discussion: Associated Press and alan.com
Nick Gass / Politico:
Mexico rages against Trump visit
CNN:
Donald Trump mulling Mexico trip
Washington Post:
Mexicans are angry at their own president for meeting with Trump
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
Clinton camp blasts Trump's Mexico visit
Discussion: Guardian and Daily Kos
Douglas Ernst / Washington Times:
WikiLeaks' Assange: Reporters ‘erecting a demon’ by protecting Hillary Clinton  —  Whistleblower says Democrat will 'put nooses around everyone's necks as soon as she wins'  —  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday accused “the American liberal press” of “erecting a demon” by shielding Hillary Clinton from criticism.
Discussion: Politico and The Gateway Pundit
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Gregory Holyk / ABC News:
Poll: Clinton Unpopularity at New High, on Par With Trump  —  Hillary Clinton's unpopularity reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, putting her on par with Donald Trump among registered voters.  —  The latest findings solidify their positions as the two most unpopular …
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GUCCIFER 2.0:
DCCC Docs from Pelosi's PC  —  As you see I've been gradually posting DCCC docs on different states.  —  But besides that I have a folder from the Nancy Pelosi's PC and I'd like to share some docs from it with you.  They are related to immigration, Hispanics, BLM, Islam and other issues.
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Newly-Leaked Democratic Memo Calls Black Lives Matter ‘Radical,’ Tells Staff Not To Offer Support
Richard W. Painter / New York Times:
The Real Clinton Foundation Revelation  —  When I was the chief White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, I asked many prospective administration officials if they would sell stock in companies, give up stock options, step down from nonprofit boards or make other painful choices to enter public service.
Discussion: Politico and LawNewz
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Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Win, Lose, but No Compromise
Daniel Halper / New York Post:
'It's outrageous': Clinton's aides had concerns about email setup  —  Hillary Clinton continued sending classified information even after leaving the State Department, The Post has exclusively learned.  —  On May 28, 2013, months after stepping down as secretary of state …
Nolan D. McCaskill / Politico:
LePage demands apology from reporter, vows to never speak to press again  —  Maine Gov. Paul LePage on Wednesday blamed a reporter in part for his fiery outburst to a state lawmaker last week and vowed never to speak with the press again.  —  LePage last Thursday left an obscenity-laced voicemail …
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Michael Levenson / BostonGlobe.com:
Paul LePage insists he's staying put
Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
Clinton camp thinks Trump fell for old trick  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign feels confident.  So confident that behind closed doors her team is taking some credit for forcing Donald Trump to seemingly defend territory that Republicans almost never lose.  —  After weeks of Brooklyn telegraphing …
Naomi Jagoda / The Hill:
Watchdog: IRS failed to notify over 1M people of identity theft  —  The Internal Revenue Service identified close to 1.1 million taxpayers who were victims of employment-related identity theft from 2011 through 2015, but almost none of the victims were informed, a Treasury Department watchdog found in a report made public this week.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
IRS doesn't tell 1 million taxpayers that illegals stole their Social Security numbers
Discussion: BizPac Review, Chicago Boyz and VDARE
Pat Rynard / Iowa Starting Line:
Awkward: All GOP State Senate Candidates Have Same Kids In Ads  —  It seems all the targeted Republican state senate candidates had a big TV shoot recently, as they've all posted their first ads online in the past few weeks.  The ads themselves are so-so at best, but you rarely see very creative TV spots at the statehouse level.
Florida Times Union:
Northeast Florida voters kick controversial State Attorney Angela Corey out of office  —  Melissa Nelson, an unknown corporate lawyer and former prosecutor three months ago, cleared her path to become one of the most powerful and influential figures in Northeast Florida on Tuesday night …
Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
U.S. High Court Won't Revive North Carolina Photo-ID Law  —  Supreme Court justices divide 4-4 on order in voting dispute  —  Action is win for Obama administration, civil rights groups  —  An evenly divided U.S. Supreme Court refused to reinstate North Carolina's Republican-backed voting restrictions …
Discussion: Vox and Joe.My.God.
Bruce Golding / New York Post:
Anthony Weiner bragged about using his kid as a ‘chick magnet’  —  When Weiner's sext partner jokingly told him to put his kid to work, he replied, “Already at work.  Being a chick magnet.”  —  Anthony Weiner didn't just send his latest sexting partner a crotch shot selfie with his young son curled …
Joe Cunningham / RedState:
NYT Columnist Nicholas Kristof Says the Holocaust is America's Fault  —  Nicholas Kristof is your stereotypical elite liberal media guy.  He has an absolute disdain for America and he has a grasp of history that rivals a five year old holding a 500-page college textbook …
Politico:
Full transcript: POLITICO's Glenn Thrush interviews Joe Scarborough  —  GLENN THRUSH: OK.  The pictures I've seen of you and your band, it looks like you have—is that an actual Gibson ES-335?  —  JOE SCARBOROUGH: It is.  —  Story Continued Below  —  THRUSH: What year?
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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