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New York Times:
‘Enough Was Enough’: How Festering Anger at Comey Ended in His Firing  —  WASHINGTON — The countdown to President Trump's dismissal of James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director, began last weekend, which the president spent stewing over Mr. Comey's testimony to Congress last week in which he provided …
Discussion: Boing Boing and Axios
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Washington Post:
How Trump's anger and impatience prompted him to fire the FBI director  —  Every time FBI Director James B. Comey appeared in public, an ever-watchful President Trump grew increasingly agitated that the topic was the one that he was most desperate to avoid: Russia.
Jake Tapper / CNN:
Source close to Comey says there were 2 reasons the FBI director was fired  —  Washington (CNN)There are two reasons why President Donald Trump fired James Comey, according to a source close to the now-former FBI director:  — Comey never provided the President with any assurance of personal loyalty.
New York Times:
Days Before He Was Fired, Comey Asked for Money for Russia Investigation  —  WASHINGTON — Days before he was fired, James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, asked the Justice Department for a significant increase in money and personnel for the bureau's investigation into Russia's interference …
Wall Street Journal:
Comey's Firing Came As Investigators Stepped Up Russia Probe  —  FBI director had been providing updates to top members of the Senate Intelligence Committee  —  WASHINGTON—In the weeks before President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, a federal investigation …
The Daily Beast:
White House Lawyers Warned Trump: Stay Away From Michael Flynn … White House lawyers have had to warn President Donald Trump repeatedly against reaching out to his fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, two people familiar with the matter tell The Daily Beast.
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Why Trump expected only applause when he told Comey, 'You're fired.'  —  Donald Trump has always acted in the moment, with little regard for the past and proud contempt for the way things are usually done.  —  For half a century, he's believed that by refusing to be weighed down by precedent or procedure …
Discussion: Raw Story
Reuters:
Comey infuriated Trump with refusal to preview Senate testimony: aides  —  The anger behind Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday had been building for months, but a turning point came when Comey refused to preview for top Trump aides his planned testimony to a Senate panel, White House officials said.
Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi threatens to force vote on outside Russia probe  —  House Democrats are eyeing plans to force a vote on the creation of an independent panel to investigate President Trump's ties to Russia following the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey this week.
Discussion: TheBlaze
John Hayward / Breitbart:
Gorka: Trump Fired FBI Director to Make a Statement After Comey's Latest Testimony  —  On Wednesday's Breitbart News Daily, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Deputy Assistant to President Trump, said the firing of FBI Director James Comey was an example of how “incredibly decisive” the president is.
Rosie Gray / The Atlantic:
‘There Is a Real Risk Here Things Will Spin Out of Control’
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
By firing James Comey, Trump has put impeachment on the table
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Chris Cuomo stunned as Kellyanne Conway says it's inappropriate to question Trump's Comey firing
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Anderson Cooper's eyeroll is all of us right now
Discussion: Mediaite and The Root
Bret Stephens / New York Times:   The Easy Tells of Comey's Canning
Joshua Keating / Slate:   If It Happened There: Political Chaos as Regime Purges Powerful Security Chief
James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Firing FBI director Comey is already backfiring on Trump.  It's only going to get worse.
Discussion: CNBC and Booman Tribune
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart:
Dershowitz: Comey Firing ‘Appropriate,’ No Special Prosecutor
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Sean Spicer ‘spent several minutes hidden in the bushes’  —  There are plenty of popular political television shows set in Washington, D.C. - “Scandal,” “House of Cards,” “Madam Secretary,” etc. - and for people who've never worked in Beltway politics, it's only natural to wonder which shows best capture real life.
Discussion: Washington Post and Shakesville
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump holds auditions while Spicer's away
Discussion: Political Wire and Raw Story
Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
After Trump fired Comey, White House staff scrambled to explain why
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside the WH scramble to defend Trump on Comey
Clive Irving / The Daily Beast:
U.S. to Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe … The Department of Homeland Security will ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast.  The announcement is expected Thursday.
Susan B. Glasser / Politico:
Russia's Oval Office Victory Dance  —  When President Donald Trump hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Oval Office on Wednesday just hours after firing the FBI director who was overseeing an investigation into whether Trump's team colluded the Russians, he was breaking …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Presence of Russian photographer in Oval Office raises alarms  —  A photographer for a Russian state-owned news agency was allowed into the Oval Office on Wednesday during President Trump's meeting with Russian diplomats, a level of access that was criticized by former U.S. intelligence officials as a potential security breach.
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Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Bethune-Cookman Graduates Greet Betsy DeVos With Turned Backs  —  Betsy DeVos went to Bethune-Cookman University on Wednesday, knowing her first commencement address as secretary of education could get ugly at the historically black institute of higher education.  —  It did — fast.
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Susan Svrluga / Washington Post:
Students boo Betsy DeVos as commencement speaker at historically black university
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
Commentator who amplified Macron hacks given White House press access  —  A U.S. far-right online activist credited with initially sharing on Twitter hacked emails from the French presidential campaign of centrist Emmanuel Macron is the latest conservative media figure to receive White House access from the Trump administration.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
GQ:
Dwayne Johnson for President!  —  No one gets up earlier than Dwayne Johnson.  Or goes to bed later.  Or is more awake during the hours in between.  No one in Hollywood is more buff, more driven, or gets paid better.  The man has so much charisma and ambition he can do anything.
AJ Willingham / CNN:
Cops: DUI suspect who struck a family returning from Disneyland had been deported 15 times  —  (CNN)A mother, father and their 6-year-old son were returning from a trip to Disneyland when, according to the survivors' family, a man in a pickup truck turned a corner, smashed into their car and sped off.
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CNBC:
Russia probe: Senate requests Trump documents from agency that monitors money laundering  — The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested information about President Donald Trump and his top aides from a financial intelligence unit in the Treasury Department.
Discussion: IJR
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Ali Watkins / Politico:
Senate Intelligence Committee subpoenas Flynn
Discussion: ABC News and Axios
Zachary Tracer / Bloomberg:
Aetna Is Latest Health Insurer to Quit Obamacare Markets  —  Insurer had already pulled out of most ACA health exchanges  —  Move comes as Republicans in Congress work to dismantle law  —  Aetna Inc. will leave the few remaining states where it had been selling Obamacare plans next year …
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Kimberly Leonard / Washington Examiner:
Aetna completely exits Obamacare exchanges, cites massive losses
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Andrew Joseph / STAT:
Tom Price commends West Virginia officers who arrested journalist asking questions  —  ONCORD, N.H. — Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price on Wednesday commended police in West Virginia for “doing what they thought was appropriate” in arresting a journalist who shouted questions at him …
 
 
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