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10:20 AM ET, February 19, 2017

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Alexandra Topping / The Guardian:
‘Sweden, who would believe this?’:  Trump cites non-existent terror attack  —  At Florida rally president refers to attack in Sweden that did not happen, possibly confusing it with Sehwan in Pakistan … Donald Trump appeared to invent a terrorist attack in Sweden during a campaign-style rally …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and TheBlaze
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Daniel Marans / The Huffington Post:
Donald Trump Appears To Make Up Sweden Terror Attack  —  It didn't happen.  —  President Donald Trump falsely suggested at a Florida rally Saturday that Sweden had suffered a terror attack the previous night.  —  After announcing that the White House planned to renew its efforts to restrict immigration …
Sewell Chan / New York Times:
‘Last Night in Sweden’?  Trump's Remark Baffles a Nation  —  LONDON — Swedes reacted with confusion, anger and ridicule on Sunday to a vague remark by President Trump that suggested that something terrible had occurred in their country.  —  During a campaign-style rally on Saturday in Florida …
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
Trump cites non-existent terrorist attack ‘last night in Sweden’ to justify Muslim ban at Florida rally  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  At his rally in Melbourne, Florida on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump listed a terror attack that never happened as part of the rationale for his controversial anti-Muslim travel ban.
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
Donald Trump's Great Escape  —  MELBOURNE, Fla.—After four miserable weeks of being locked up in presidential prison—starved of affection, suffocated by bureaucracy, tormented by the press—Donald Trump made a break for it Saturday.  —  Touching down just before sunset here in the heart of Trump Country …
Discussion: New York Times and Axios
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Ralph Ellis / CNN:
Surprise!  Trump hands the mic to supporter at Florida rally  —  (CNN)In what appeared to be an improvised moment, President Donald Trump invited one of his supporters to join him on stage and take the microphone during a rally in Melbourne, Florida, on Saturday night.
Discussion: BizPac Review
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Trump takes feud with press to campaign rally in Florida
Dan Merica / CNN:
Trump gets what he wants in Florida: Campaign-level adulation
CBS News:
White House chief of staff says take Trump seriously when he calls press “the enemy”  —  Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff, advised Americans to take President Trump's attacks on the media “seriously,” following the president's denunciations of the press as the “enemy.”
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Aaron Short / New York Post:
Christie tells his staff he is taking White House job  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is telling friends and staff he is taking a role with the Trump administration, according to a source close to the White House.  —  The GOP governor's position has not been worked out …
Discussion: Political Wire
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
Gen. Barry McCaffrey: Trump can't find a Flynn replacement because no one wants to ‘risk their career’  —  DON'T MISS STORIES.  FOLLOW RAW STORY!  —  Appearing on MSNBC, retired Gen. Barry McCaffery said the Trump administration is having difficulties replacing ousted National Security Adviser Mike Flynn …
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Eliana Johnson / Politico:
White House dismisses NSC aide after harsh criticism of Trump
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:   Senior White House Officials Support Bolton To Replace Flynn
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
Flynn replacement pick dropped out over Trump's press conference: report
Discussion: Politico, CANNONFIRE and IJR
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Are Liberals Helping Trump?  —  Jeffrey Medford, a small-business owner in South Carolina, voted reluctantly for Donald Trump.  As a conservative, he felt the need to choose the Republican.  But some things are making him feel uncomfortable — parts of Mr. Trump's travel ban, for example …
Discussion: twitchy.com
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants  —  Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border.
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New York Times:
Breaking the Anti-Immigrant Fever  —  Americans have been watching the Trump administration unfold for almost a month now, in all its malevolent incompetence.  From morning tweets to daytime news to late-night comedy, many watch and fret and mock, and then sleep, sometimes fitfully.
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
'That's how dictators get started': McCain criticizes Trump for calling media ‘the enemy’ … Sen. John McCain spoke out Saturday in defense of the free press after President Trump lashed out against the news media several times over the past week, at one point declaring it “the enemy of the American People!”
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Eugene Scott / CNN:
McCain: Dictators ‘get started by suppressing free press’
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
Top Democrat says Trump's calling media ‘the enemy’ is something ‘you hear tin-pot dictators say’
Joseph Menn / Reuters:
U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes  —  The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is pursuing at least three separate probes relating to alleged Russian hacking of the U.S. presidential elections, according to five current and former government officials with direct knowledge of the situation.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hot Air
Bloomberg:
China Message to Trump With North Korea Coal Ban: Let's Deal  —  Beijing's move effectively cuts neighbor's exports in half  —  China wants to restart talks on North Korea's nuclear program  —  China's move to ban coal imports from North Korea, effectively slicing the country's exports by about half …
Susan B. Glasser / New York Times:
Our Putin  —  Don't worry too much about whether Trump and the Russian leader are working together.  Worry about what they have in common.  —  WASHINGTON — On June 18, 2001, I attended Vladimir V. Putin's first meeting with the American news media.  We were seated at a large round table in the wood-paneled Kremlin Library.
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Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:   Lawmakers say Trump's words matter — and hurt the country's standing abroad
Christine Rousselle / Townhall.com:
CPAC Keynote Speaker Announced  —  It was announced on Saturday that Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos will deliver next Saturday's keynote address at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference.  Reports that he will be the keynote speaker leaked early Saturday morning on The Hollywood Reporter.
Discussion: The Guardian
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Voice of America:
Trump's Attack on Media as ‘Enemy of the People’ Has Historic Echoes
Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Post
David Caplan / ABC News:
Mike Pence, family visit Nazi concentration camp in Germany
David Chazan / Telegraph:
Workmen's cafe overwhelmed with customers after it is accidentally awarded a Michelin star
Thomas Escritt / Reuters:
Wilders at Dutch campaign launch vows to crack down on ‘Moroccan scum’
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Warner Todd Huston / Breitbart:
After 8 Years of Campaigner-in-Chief Obama, NPR Accuses Trump of ‘Permanent Campaign’
George Takei / CNN:
On this Remembrance Day, I hear terrible echoes of the past
The Guardian:
Chaos in the White House: 'There's never been anything like this'
Discussion: The Mahablog
 Earlier Items: 
Breitbart:
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Fox News:
F-15s scramble to intercept unresponsive aircraft over restricted airspace over West Palm Beach
Discussion: The Last Tradition
New York Times:
Trump, an Outsider Demanding Loyalty, Struggles to Fill Top Posts
Discussion: The Guardian and Simple Justice
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:
CNN host abruptly ends segment after guest makes ‘fake news’ claim
Discussion: RedState
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Will Pence's loyalty to Trump be returned in full by the president?
Discussion: Politico and The Week
 

 
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Chris Morris / Fortune:
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