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8:45 AM ET, August 16, 2017

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New York Times:
Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump buoyed the white nationalist movement on Tuesday as no president has done in generations — equating activists protesting racism with the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who rampaged in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
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ITV:
Theresa May attacks Donald Trump over refusal to condemn white supremacists  —  Theresa May has attacked Donald Trump for refusing to condemn neo-Nazis after violent protests in the US city of Charlottesville in which a woman was killed.  —  The Prime Minister said those in power …
Washington Post:
The nation can only weep  —  TUESDAY WAS a great day for David Duke and racists everywhere.  The president of the United States all but declared that he has their backs.  —  When a white supremacist stands accused of running his car into a crowd of protesters, killing one and injuring 19 …
The Definitive Source:
How to describe extremists who rallied in Charlottesville  —  The events in Charlottesville are an opportunity to take another look at our terminology around “alt-right” and the way that we describe the various racist, neo-Nazi, white nationalist and white supremacist groups out there.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Associated Press:
Lawmakers weigh in on Trump's comments on Charlottesville
Discussion: Politico
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump goes off script, and white supremacists cheer
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Why Trump Can't Respond to Charlottesville
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump has not yet reached out to Charlottesville victim's family
Discussion: New York Post and RedState
New York Times:
Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
Discussion: CNN and Fox News
New York Times:
A Combative Trump Criticizes ‘Alt-Left’ Groups in Charlottesville
Rachel Stoltzfoos / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Hope Hicks To Be Named White House Comms Director  —  Hope Hicks will be named the new White House communications director, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.  —  President Trump has offered the job to Hicks and she has accepted the position, according to a White House insider.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump  —  “What I just saw gave me the wrong kind of chills,” a visibly stunned Chuck Todd said on MSNBC.  “Honestly, I'm a bit shaken by what I just heard.”  —  Unable to disguise her disgust, the Fox News host Kat Timpf said …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Russell Goldman / New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues in Overnight Operation  —  Statues dedicated to Confederate heroes were swiftly removed across Baltimore in the small hours of Wednesday morning, just days after violence broke out over the removal of a similar monument in neighboring Virginia.
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
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Baltimore Sun:
Confederate monuments taken down in Baltimore overnight  —  Confederate statues in Baltimore were removed from their bases overnight, as crews using heavy machinery loaded them onto flat bed trucks and hauled them away, an end to more than a year of indecision surrounding what to do with the memorials.
Discussion: NPR, CIVIL WAR MEMORY and twitchy.com
Jamie Grierson / The Guardian:   Baltimore takes down Confederate statues in middle of night
John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump has a very clear attitude about morality: He doesn't believe in it  — President Trump, in a raucous press conference, again blamed “both sides” for deadly violence in Charlottesville  — He attacked business leaders who quit a White House panel over Trump's message on the weekend incident
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Bloomberg:
Trump Drags GOP Onto Dangerous Ground, This Time Over Race  —  Pivots back to blame ‘both sides’ for Virginia violence  —  Controversy adds new peril for Republican legislative agenda  —  Follow @bpolitics for all the latest news, and sign up for our daily Balance of Power newsletter.
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: IJR, Political Wire and Mediaite
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New York Times:
Alabama Election Results: Two Republicans Advance, Democrat Wins in U.S. Senate Primaries  —  Roy Moore, a former state Supreme Court justice, and Senator Luther Strange, who was appointed earlier this year, advanced on Tuesday in the Republican primary for the Senate seat in Alabama vacted by Jeff Sessions, now the attorney general.
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David French / National Review:
Donald Trump Just Gave the Press Conference of the Alt-Right's Dreams  —  Let's be very clear about what just happened at Donald Trump's press conference.  He gave the alt-right its greatest national media moment ever.  He even called some of them “very fine people.”  Don't believe me?
Discussion: CNBC, The Resurgent and The Week
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Trump's horrifying ‘take three’ on Charlottesville
Discussion: The Week, Gizmodo and LewRockwell
Vice News:
Watch VICE News Tonight's full episode  —  On Saturday hundreds of white nationalists, alt-righters, and neo-Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to participate in the “Unite the Right” rally.  By Saturday evening three people were dead - one protester and two police officers - and many more injured.
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Jack Holmes / Esquire:   This Vice News Documentary from Charlottesville Is Horrifying
Marist Poll:
8/16: Trump at Lowest Point With 35% Job Approval Rating... Crack at the Base  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating is at its lowest point since taking office with only 35% of Americans giving him a positive score.  —  President Donald Trump's job approval rating …
Discussion: Political Wire
Aaron Young / Des Moines Register:
This sleepy boy and his heifer at the Iowa State Fair are winning over the internet  —  Mitchell Miner and his heifer, Audri, have spent nearly every day together for the past two months.  They've developed an unspoken connection during that short period of time.  Aaron Young/The Register  —  CONNECT
Discussion: WKRG-TV, WGNO, TheBlaze and FOX News Radio
Governor Roy Cooper:
North Carolina Monuments  —  Last weekend, I watched with horror as events in Charlottesville unfolded.  Having served as North Carolina Attorney General for 16 years, I am all too familiar with the racism, bigotry and full-out white supremacy that exist in corners of our society.
Steven Perlberg / BuzzFeed:
Did Trump Get His George Washington And Thomas Jefferson Line From Fox News?  —  The night before the president's press conference, Fox's Martha MacCallum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich discussed the same thing.  —  At a wild, defensive press conference on Tuesday afternoon …
Reuters:
Banish Bannon?  Trump weighs his options as top aides feud  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - For months, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser and his chief strategist have battled for influence behind the scenes, and their feud may force another shake-up at the White House.
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Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:   Firing Steve Bannon Won't Change Donald Trump
 
 
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Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’
Alan Zimmerman / ReformJudaism.org:
In Charlottesville, the Local Jewish Community Presses On
Bloomberg:
PepsiCo's Nooyi Comes Under Fire as Trump Council Splinters
The Texas Tribune:
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Steve Crump / The Charlotte Observer:
'I'm glad that girl died' during Virginia protest, says NC KKK leader
Amy B Wang / Washington Post:
A teen checked into an Internet-addiction camp in China. He was dead two days later.
Discussion: BBC
Michael Qazvini / Daily Wire:
Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt
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