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12:30 PM ET, May 13, 2017

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New York Times:
‘Looking Like a Liar or a Fool’: What It Means to Work for Trump  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule …
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The Daily Beast:
White House Staff React in Real-Time as Trump Tweets: ‘Jesus’ … It was 7:51 a.m. eastern time on a Friday, and the president was angrily tweetstorming again.  —  This time, it was about “Fake News,” “the Russians,” China and beef, James Comey and “tapes,” and his sometimes hapless White House staff.
Discussion: Politicus USA
New York Times:
President Trump Craves Loyalty, but Offers None  —  It is often at moments of crisis that Americans get the clearest glimpses of a president's character, and this week they had the chance to learn a good deal about the true Donald Trump after his abrupt decision to fire James Comey, the F.B.I. director.
Wall Street Journal:
Former Trump Adviser Paul Manafort's Bank Records Sought in Probe  —  Federal investigators looking into Russian election interference requested information; New York investigators also examining his real-estate transactions  —  The Justice Department last month requested banking records …
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Adam Davidson / New Yorker:
The Senate Starts to Look at Trump's Businesses  —  I spoke recently to a longtime business associate of Donald Trump's, and asked his thoughts about the various investigations into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.  He laughed and said that there is no way Trump could have been part of such a conspiracy.
Wall Street Journal:
Financial-Crimes Monitor to Share Records in Trump-Russia Probe
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Gingrich urges Trump: ‘Close down the press room’  —  Former Speaker Newt Gingrich is urging President Trump to follow through on his threat to cancel daily White House press briefings, accusing news media of being “dishonest opponents” of the president.  —  “What they ought …
Discussion: RedState
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Weighs Shake-Up of Press Team
Discussion: Political Wire
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings because it is ‘not possible’ …
Sydney Ember / New York Times:
Sinclair Requires TV Stations to Air Segments That Tilt to the Right  —  They are called “must-runs,” and they arrive every day at television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group — short video segments that are centrally produced by the company.  Station managers around the country …
Steven Rosenfeld / Alternet:
Donald Trump's Financial Ties to Russian Oligarchs and Mobsters Detailed In Explosive New Documentary from the Netherlands  —  Dutch TV did what no American TV network dares, suggesting Trump's past includes illegal racketeering.  —  Donald Trump's business partners have included Russian oligarchs …
Discussion: Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump meltdown sets off GOP alarms over 2018 midterm  —  CORONADO, Calif. — With the White House in meltdown mode, top Republican Party officials and operatives gathered at a posh oceanside resort here and contemplated a 2018 midterm election that will test them in unimaginable ways.
Discussion: Political Wire
Avi Selk / Washington Post:
The New Yorker drew Comey being dragged off a plane.  The United passenger's lawyer critiqued it.  —  Thomas Demetrio is no art critic; he's the attorney for David Dao — whom you and probably the rest of the world saw dragged off a United Airlines flight last month.
Discussion: CNN, Althouse and TheBlaze
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
This is not a crisis, Republicans say as a large spider slowly devours them  —  I would recognize a crisis if it were happening.  —  When the president seized me, stunned me with his venom and covered me with digestive fluid from his chelicerae, I was initially taken aback …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Source: 4 to be interviewed for FBI Director post Saturday  —  Top Justice Department officials are scheduled to interview four candidates Saturday to serve as FBI director on a permanent basis, a source familiar with the process told POLITICO Friday night.  —  The four potential nominees set …
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Chris Smith / Vanity Fair:
Inside Trump's Coming War with the F.B.I.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Austin Wright / Politico:
Comey declines to testify before Senate committee
Mike Allen / Axios:
Dumbfounded, demoralized GOP publicly defends Trump  —  Elected Republican officials are publicly defending Trump but privately are dumbfounded, disgusted and demoralized by this turn of events.  —  We haven't had a single conversation with a top Republican that doesn't reflect this.
Jessica Huseman / ProPublica:
Trump's Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist  —  The USDA's research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition.  Under the 2008 Farm Bill, its leader is supposed to serve as the agency's “chief scientist” and be chosen “from among distinguished scientists …
Marc Fisher / Washington Post:
Trump has a long history of secretly recording calls, according to former associates  —  Throughout Donald Trump's business career, some executives who came to work for him were taken aside by colleagues and warned to assume that their discussions with the boss were being recorded.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Why it's likely that Trump does have recordings of his Oval Office conversations
MSRC:
Customer Guidance for WannaCrypt attacks  —  Microsoft solution available to protect additional products  —  Today many of our customers around the world and the critical systems they depend on were victims of malicious “WannaCrypt” software.  Seeing businesses and individuals affected by cyberattacks …
Kenneth Chang / New York Times:
NASA Denies Trump's Request to Send Astronauts Past the Moon on New Rocket  —  When NASA launches its new big rocket for the first time — more than a year and a half from now, at the earliest — there will be no astronauts along for the ride.  —  In February, at the request of the Trump administration …
Discussion: The FADER
 
 
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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Trump stokes fears of how he'd handle real crisis
Discussion: Daily Kos
William Grimes / New York Times:
Nicholas Sand, Chemist Who Sought to Bring LSD to the World, Dies at 75
Discussion: Daily Mail and Althouse
Neil Munro / Breitbart:
President Donald Trump has slid back from his campaign promises to curb the annual legal immigration …
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
‘Rare as winning the lottery’: New dinosaur fossil so well-preserved it looks like a statue
Discussion: Daily Mail
John Binder / Breitbart:
Arrest Record Puts Activist DREAMer on ‘Priority’ Deportation List
Penny Starr / Breitbart:
Town Hall Protesters Mock Death of GOP Lawmaker's Special Needs Daughter
Jeremy Gorner / Chicago Tribune:
Chicago cop shot in vest, woman wounded in exchange of gunfire on West Side
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Megan Cerullo / New York Daily News:
Roger Stone contradicts Trump, says he has spoken to the President ‘very recently’
Discussion: Mother Jones
 Earlier Items: 
Alan Dershowitz / Washington Examiner:
Trump did not obstruct justice in firing James Comey
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
No, It Is Not ‘Treason’  —  We need to forgo irresponsible accusations of treachery.
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
‘You are paddleboarding next to approximately 15 great white sharks,’ chopper tells Calif. beachgoers
Hadas Gold / Politico:
New York Times publisher sends personal appeal to those who canceled over Bret Stephens
Julian Sanchez / Just Security:
A Misplaced Focus on “Collusion”
GreAt / Securelist:
WannaCry ransomware used in widespread attacks all over the world