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Inside Trump's fury: The president rages at leaks, setbacks and accusations — President Trump spent the weekend at “the winter White House,” Mar-a-Lago, the secluded Florida castle where he is king. The sun sparkles off the glistening lawn and warms the russet clay Spanish tiles …

Discussion: New York Magazine, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week, Balloon Juice and Mother Jones

Josh Dawsey / Politico:

Knives are out for Reince — With the White House struggling to gain its footing almost two months into Donald Trump's presidency, administration officials are increasingly putting the blame on one person: Reince Priebus. — In interviews, over a dozen Trump aides, allies …

Discussion: Raw Story and Little Green Footballs

New York Times:

Trump Seeks Inquiry Into Allegations That Obama Tapped His Phones — WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump, a day after leveling a widely disputed allegation that President Barack Obama had ordered the tapping of his phones, demanded a congressional inquiry into whether Mr. Obama abused …

Brian Ross / ABC News:

With tweetstorm, Trump may have exercised exclusive declassification authority — In tweeting accusations that former President Barack Obama ordered surveillance of his campaign, President Donald Trump potentially made public the existence of Top Secret wiretaps - a move that would be a federal crime …

Discussion: RedState

Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:

Former Bush attorney general: Trump right that there was surveillance … Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Sunday said that President Trump is likely correct that there was surveillance on Trump Tower for intelligence purposes, but incorrect in accusing former President Barack Obama

Discussion: IJR

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:

Trump's charge that he was wiretapped takes presidency into new territory — Donald Trump's presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails. — The president's accusation Saturday that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone “during the very sacred election process” …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Politico

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

FBI asked Justice Department to reject Trump claim: report — FBI Director James Comey reportedly asked the Justice Department this weekend to publicly reject President Trump's claims that former President Barack Obama — wiretapped Trump Tower before the election.

Eric Bradner / CNN:

Pelosi: Trump's Obama claim an ‘authoritarian’ tactic — Pelosi also questioned the sincerity of the Trump's request that Congress investigate whether Obama wiretapped him — Washington (CNN)House minority leader Nancy Pelosi accused President Donald Trump of using “authoritarian” …

Discussion: Political Wire

Pam Key / Breitbart:
Mark Levin on Trump Wiretapping Claims: ‘The Evidence Is Overwhelming’

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News and Media Matters for America

Kailani Koenig / NBC News:
Former DNI James Clapper: ‘I Can Deny’ Wiretap of Trump Tower

Discussion: New York Times, NBC News, The Last Tradition, Vox, AOL, Politico, CNBC, New York Magazine, Taylor Marsh, ThinkProgress and The Intercept

Eric Bradner / CNN:
Rubio: Whether Trump's claims are true will become clear ‘over the next few days’

Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and Politico

Riley Beggin / ABC News: Franken: 'We don't know what the Russians have on Donald Trump'

Daniel Nussbaum / Breitbart:
Barbra Streisand: ‘Donald Trump is Making Me Gain Weight’

Discussion: The Hill, Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit, twitchy.com and The Last Tradition

Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
It's literally pay to play at Mar-a-Lago

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Palm Beach Post

Associated Press:
THE LATEST: OBAMA INTEL DIRECTOR ON WIRETAP: ‘I CAN DENY IT’

Discussion: New York Post

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clapper denies wiretap of Trump Tower

Discussion: ABC News, Business Insider, twitchy.com, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Week and The Gateway Pundit

Thomas James Brennan / Reveal:

Hundreds of Marines investigated for sharing photos of naked colleagues — The U.S. Department of Defense is investigating hundreds of Marines who used social media to solicit and share hundreds — possibly thousands — of naked photographs of women service members and veterans.

Discussion: The Week, Washington Post, Mashable, fox4kc.com, The Verge and The Daily Caller

Axios:

Schumer's plan to stop the wall — Chuck Schumer has concluded that denying President Trump his wall is perhaps the surest major defeat Democrats can hand the President in his first year. — Trump needs 60 Senate votes to fund construction of his “great wall” along the Southern border.

Discussion: The Resurgent and The Gateway Pundit

Christopher Ruddy / Newsmax:

Trump and Democratic Smokescreens — When I woke up Sunday, I thought the morning news shows would all be talking about the unusual, perhaps dangerous, decision of the Obama administration to wiretap the offices of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. — I've been watching Chuck Todd's “Meet the Press” as I write this.

Discussion: Business Insider and twitchy.com

NBC News:
Meet The Press 03-05-17 — CHUCK TODD: — This Sunday …

Discussion: emptywheel and The Week

Bob Price / Breitbart:

Texas Girls Raped, 1 Killed by Illegal Alien Satanists — HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials confirmed to Breitbart Texas that the two MS-13 gang member accused of raping two teenage girls and killing one of them in a satanic ritual are illegal aliens from El Salvador.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:

Patrons Walk Out As Ala. Official Pushes Voter ID At Selma Anniversary Service — After Alabama's Secretary of State John Merrill promoted the state's voter ID law at a church service held Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of a civil rights milestone in Selma, patrons walked out.

Discussion: Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and William J. Barber, II

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Patience Gone, Koch-Backed Groups Will Pressure G.O.P. on Health Repeal — WASHINGTON — Saying their patience is at an end, conservative activist groups backed by the billionaire Koch brothers and other powerful interests on the right are mobilizing to pressure Republicans to fulfill …

Discussion: Power Line and Axios

Jonathan Cohn / The Huffington Post:
Maybe It's Time To Stop Calling The GOP Obamacare Plan A ‘Replacement’

Discussion: New York Times and ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Kristine Phillips / Washington Post:

Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws — Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of federal anti-slavery laws — a lawsuit claims.