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7:00 PM ET, August 15, 2017

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Jessica Schulberg / HuffPost:
Controversial Trump Aide Katharine Gorka Helped End Funding For Group That Fights White Supremacy  —  Life After Hate works to de-radicalize neo-Nazis.  The Trump administration decided it wasn't a priority.  —  WASHINGTON Weeks before a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville …
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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Not Planning on Charlottesville Trip; ‘Why The Hell Would We Do That?’  Aides Say … President Donald Trump does not have plans to visit Charlottesville, Virginia in the wake of the the white-supremacist and neo-Nazi gathering that took place in the city over the weekend.
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump ad-libbed ‘many sides’ remark in response to Charlottesville violence  —  President Donald Trump went off script and used his own words Saturday when he made that controversial decision to condemn “many sides” of the unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, rather than to single out white supremacists …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump asked to fire 3 White House staffers
New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville  —  President Trump angrily defended himself on Tuesday against criticism that he did not specifically condemn Nazi and white supremacist groups following the weekend's deadly racial unrest in Virginia, and at one point questioned whether …
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Politico:
Full text: Trump's comments on white supremacists, ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville  —  The following is a transcript of President Donald Trump's remarks at a news conference on infrastructure at Trump Tower on Aug. 15 and the Q&A with the media that followed.  —  PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hello, everybody.
Discussion: RedState and Axios
Meghan Keneally / ABC News:
Trump lashes out at ‘alt-left’ in Charlottesville, says ‘fine people on both sides’  —  President Donald Trump lashed out about the criticism of his initial statement about the Charlottesville violence today and quickly went on to blame both sides of protestors for the conflict …
Discussion: Axios and Politico
Robin Eberhardt / The Hill:
Fifth leader resigns from Trump's manufacturing council  —  The president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing has resigned from President Trump's American Manufacturing Council, making him the fifth business leader to do so.  —  “I'm resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative …
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New York Times:
Walmart's C.E.O. Joins Group to Rebuke Trump Over Charlottesville
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
Summers to CEOs: If you won't quit Trump's advisory councils now, then when?
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New York Times:
Trump Threat to Obamacare Would Send Premiums and Deficits Higher
Discussion: CNBC
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Fox News, Daily Caller delete posts encouraging people to drive through protests  —  Months before a man allegedly turned his vehicle into a weapon and plowed through a group of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, an article that made the rounds in conservative media encouraged readers to do something similar.
Discussion: Mediaite
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Henry Grabar / Slate:
In January, Fox News Posted a Video of Cars Mowing Down Protesters That Urged Viewers to “Study the Technique”  —  Conservatives are rightfully aghast at the terror attack on Saturday that left one woman dead and more than a dozen injured in Charlottesville, Virginia.  —  Henry Grabar is a staff writer for Slate's Moneybox.
Rafael Bernal / The Hill:
Rep. Gutiérrez arrested at White House immigration protest  —  Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.) and about 30 other protesters were arrested Tuesday outside the White House during a rally commemorating the fifth anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
CNNMoney:
Former Google engineer: ‘I do not support the alt-right’  —  Fired engineer: Google a “psychologically unsafe environment”  —  James Damore was fired from Google last week over his controversial 3,300 word essay on diversity.  His memo put him in the good graces of the alt-right — but he's now distancing himself from the movement.
Discussion: FOX2now.com
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Heather Mac Donald / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Even Think About Being Evil
Discussion: Instapundit
Julian Quinones / CBS News:
“What kind of society do you want to live in?”:  Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing  —  “CBSN: On Assignment” airs Mondays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and on our streaming network, CBSN.  Explore more on this topic in our “Behind the Lens” report.
Monmouth University:
Monmouth University Polling Institute  —  Trump Temperament Consequences … - Donald Trump making Washington politicians uncomfortable may be a good thing according to half of the American public.  But his behavior is seen as making it more difficult to get anything done according to the latest Monmouth University Poll.
Discussion: Washington Post
CNN:
Sheriff wants to charge protesters who pulled down Confederate statue  —  (CNN)Charges will be sought against demonstrators who took down a Confederate monument during a Monday protest, Mike Andrews, the sheriff of Durham County, North Carolina, said Tuesday in a statement.
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Fr. Mark Hodges / LifeSiteNews:
BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion … Advertisement … MUST-READS  — BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion BREAKING: Texas permanently bans taxpayer funding of abortion News By Fr. Mark Hodges  — LifeSite is hiring!
Andy Greene / Rolling Stone:
The Last Word: Jake Tapper on Trump, ‘SNL’ and Old-School Rap  —  CNN anchor explains how he's angered both sides of the political debate and why his wife thought a controversial ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit was sexist  —  Jake Tapper wasn't on the phone with Rolling Stone for more than 30 seconds …
Robin Wright / New Yorker:
Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War?  —  A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia, Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to this place?”  The more relevant question after Charlottesville—and other deadly episodes in Ferguson, Charleston …
Discussion: The Atlantic and Business Insider
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Some Thoughts on Public Memory
Discussion: IJR
McKay Coppins / The Atlantic:
From Trump Aide to Single Mom  —  A.J. Delgado and Jason Miller stood in the New York Hilton ballroom on the night of the 2016 election, watching the man they helped elect president deliver the unlikeliest of victory speeches.  It was a heady moment for the small band of aides and operatives …
Discussion: The Slot, Mediaite and The Week
Elliot Kaufman / National Review:
Campus Conservatives Gave the Alt-Right a Platform  —  They deserve their fair share of the blame for the entirely predictable consequences of that choice.  —  Why did so many otherwise respectable conservative groups host Milo Yiannopoulos, an apologist for the alt-right, on college campuses across America?
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
The Obama-Trump Voters Are Real.  Here's What They Think.  —  The story of the 2016 presidential election is simple.  Donald J. Trump made huge gains among white voters without a college degree.  His gains were large enough to cancel out considerable losses among well-educated white voters and a decade of demographic shifts.
Discussion: Mother Jones
Dominique Mosbergen / HuffPost:
White Supremacist In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne  —  The elite paratrooper unit continues to battle fascism — but now on American soil.  —  The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II.
Hunter Woodall / Kansas City Star:
Kansas Democrat Paul Davis announces congressional bid, says he won't vote for Pelosi  —  The man who many thought would make another run for Kansas governor is officially running for Congress instead.  —  Democrat Paul Davis announced his entrance into the race for the 2nd District congressional seat Tuesday morning.
Media Matters for America:
Fox guest: Confederate flag and LGBTQ pride flag “represent the exact same thing”  —  STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): What do you think about [House Minority Leader] Nancy Pelosi [(D-CA)], who made this statement yesterday: “It shouldn't take the president of the United States two days to summon …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion  —  Regarding last week's events in Charlottesville, Va., consider the following propositions:  —  (1) James Alex Fields Jr., the young man who on Saturday, police say, rammed his Dodge Challenger into a crowd in Charlottesville …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
An ugly pattern is taking shape.  Trump exaggerates certain threats.  He plays down other ones.  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  President Trump's reluctance to issue a direct, full-throated condemnation of the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville continues to be scrutinized for clues …
Jeff Stein / Vox:
Alabama GOP Senate frontrunner: “there are communities under Sharia law right now”  —  Judge Roy Moore's crusade may be coming to Capitol Hill.  —  HOMEWOOD, Alabama — Judge Roy Moore, perhaps the leading candidate in today's Alabama Senate race, pulled a laminated copy of Joseph Story's 1833 Commentaries …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and IJR
 
 
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Joe Heim / Washington Post:
How a rally of white nationalists and supremacists at the University of Virginia turned into a “tragic, tragic weekend.”
Discussion: Mother Jones
Michael Qazvini / Daily Wire:
Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Demands Data on Visitors to Anti-Trump Website, Sparking Fight
Jack Holmes / Esquire:
This Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying
Discussion: The Atlantic
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Democrats Fret as Clinton Book Rollout Looms
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Trump orders faster permitting on infrastructure projects
Discussion: Grist and Pacific Standard
Colin Dwyer / Africa : NPR:
Zimbabwe's First Lady Accused Of Beating South African Model With Extension Cord
Discussion: The Guardian and The Daily Caller
 Earlier Items: 
Luke Broadwater / Baltimore Sun:
Two top Hogan officials OK'd participation in Trump voter fraud commission, emails show
Derek Hawkins / Washington Post:
An Ohio officer beat a black man during a traffic stop. A town wants to know why.
Discussion: The Root
Josh Meyer / Politico:
Domestic hate groups elude feds
Discussion: Raw Story
Danielle Ryan / Salon:
What if the DNC Russian “hack” …
N. D. B. Connolly / Associated Press:
Charlottesville showed that liberalism can't defeat white supremacy. Only direct action can.
Sarah Wildman / Vox:
“You will not replace us”: a French philosopher explains the Charlottesville chant
Discussion: Latino Rebels and Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
Trump Retweets Cartoon of Train Killing CNN Reporter
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Political Wire