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5:00 PM ET, August 16, 2017

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Robert Tracinski / The Federalist:
Donald Trump Needs To Not Be President Yesterday  —  We're done with the “Well, maybe it won't be so bad and we should take what we can get” phase of this administration.  It's time for the “He's a disaster and needs to go” phase.  For everybody's good, Donald Trump needs to not be president …
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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.
The Times of Israel:
Yair Netanyahu says leftists more dangerous than neo-Nazis  —  Echoing Trump, PM's son claims ‘thugs of Antifa and Black Lives Matter are getting stronger’ while Nazis are a thing of the past  —  The son of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said American left-wing groups are more dangerous than neo-Nazis.
Vice News:
Trump still hasn't called the Charlottesville mayor  —  President Donald Trump still hasn't called the mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia, about the violence that swept through the city during a white supremacist rally over the weekend.  —  “He was supposed to call me on Saturday,” …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump's Aides Tried to Conceal His Crazy, Racist Beliefs From the Country  —  Donald Trump's aides have been angry with him frequently — indeed, usually — since the beginning of his presidential campaign.  But they have rarely registered their dismay as nakedly as they did Tuesday night …
Molly Ball / The Atlantic:
‘The President Was Entirely Correct’  —  Every day, the White House communications office sends official talking points to Republican members of Congress.  These communiqués help the GOP stay on the same page (and, in the Trump era, help the embattled president's allies come up with arguments in his defense).
David Ferguson / Raw Story:
'I'm terrified': Neo-Nazi blubbers like a baby in video reporting he's wanted for arrest in Charlottesville  —  Neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell — who was one of the “Unite the Right” Charlottesville marchers interviewed by Vice.com — released a weepy, rambling video of himself discussing …
Discussion: Daily Mail, Towleroad and Vice News
Matt Latimer / Politico:
Time for My Fellow Republicans to Stand Up and Be Counted
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
New York Times:
Trump Ends C.E.O. Advisory Councils as Main Group Acts to Disband  —  President Trump's main council of top corporate leaders disbanded on Wednesday following the president's controversial remarks in which he equated white nationalist hate groups with the protesters opposing them.
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CNBC:
Top CEOs jump from Trump, disband strategic council of corporate giants  —  Members of President Donald Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum have agreed to disband the group, sources told CNBC, as corporate backlash mounts against the president.  —  The business advisory council …
CNNMoney:
White House business panels collapse as CEOs flee Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones and WTVR-TV
Mike Allen / Axios:
Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues; Mayor Cites Public Safety
CJ Hunt / GQ:
A Charlottesville White Supremacist Stripped Down to Escape Protesters and We Got It on Video
Discussion: The Root
Mike Levine / ABC News:
Special counsel's Russia probe loses top FBI investigator  —  One of the FBI's top investigators, tapped by special counsel Robert Mueller just weeks ago to help lead the probe of Russian meddling in last year's presidential election, has left Mueller's team, sources tell ABC News.
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Joe Uchill / The Hill:
High-ranking FBI official leaves Russia probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Courtney Kube / NBC News:
Right-Winger Jack Posobiec, Retweeted by Trump, Is Navy Intel Officer  —  WASHINGTON — A right-wing activist who brought attention to debunked conspiracy theories — and who gained new prominence when he was retweeted by President Donald Trump this week — is a U.S. naval intelligence officer detailed …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politicus USA
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 …
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:   Poll: Majority Believes Trump's Response To Charlottesville Hasn't Been Strong Enough
Ashley Jardina / Washington Post:   White identity politics isn't just about white supremacy. It's much bigger.
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Steve Bannon's Ideological Allies Inside the White House Are Souring on Him … Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump's besieged chief strategist, came into the White House in late January with a core group of right-wing allies and ideological fellow travelers, including senior policy adviser Stephen Miller …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Bloomberg:
Trump Drags GOP Onto Dangerous Ground, This Time Over Race
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Angry White Boys  —  What do the white nationalists actually want?  —  W  —  hat is it these white boys are so angry about?  —  You don't go to a protest because you're happy.  You go to a protest because you are mad about something or, in my case, because it is your job.
Discussion: The Week
Manu Raju / CNN:
Source: McConnell upset at Trump over latest Charlottesville comments  —  STORY HIGHLIGHTS  —  (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been publicly silent so far over President Donald Trump's latest remarks on Charlottesville, is privately upset with the President's handling of the episode …
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
THE FALLOUT: Republicans line up against Trump …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Fox's Abby Huntsman Humiliates Herself as Guests Weep Over ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Trump … What's a Fox & Friends host to do when they desperately want to push President Donald Trump's narrative the “both sides” are to blame for Charlottesville, but their guests want to talk about what's really going on in America right now?
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Pence ends international trip early amid Trump controversy  —  Vice President Pence will end his visit to South America early and fly home on Thursday, after President Trump sparked enormous controversy for his comments following deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and TheBlaze
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:   Pence says he stands with Trump but did not defend president's ‘both sides’ comments on 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.
New York Times:
In Ukraine, a Malware Expert Who Could Blow the Whistle on Russian Hacking  —  KIEV, Ukraine — The hacker, known only by his online alias “Profexer,” kept a low profile.  He wrote computer code alone in an apartment and quietly sold his handiwork on the anonymous portion of the internet known as the Dark Web.
Mike Allen / Axios:
If a top Trump aide leaves, it could ‘start a run on the bank’  —  White House aides say Trump lashed out because he felt that the barrage of media criticism for his Saturday remarks was unfair and wrong — that he was fighting back, campaign style.  —  A veteran of several Republican White Houses told us …
 
 
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Ben Gray / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
KKK's request to burn cross on Stone Mountain denied
Discussion: The Guardian
Rachel Roubein / The Hill:
Trump to make ObamaCare payments to insurers for August
German Lopez / Vox:
It sure looks like Trump's Charlottesville talking points came straight from Fox News
Discussion: ABC News and Wired
Ilya Arkhipov / Bloomberg:
The World Trusts Putin More Than Trump on Foreign Affairs, Pew Says
Discussion: Pew Research Center and The Week
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Jeff Sessions goes after Chicago in sanctuary cities speech
Discussion: Politico
Chicago Tribune:
Three arrested at anti-white supremacy protest outside North Side courtroom
Discussion: Chicagoist and IJR
 Earlier Items: 
Amber Randall / The Daily Caller:
Antifa Protesters Crash Heather Heyer's Funeral
Fox News:
FBI has ‘reopened’ case on search for Lynch-Clinton tarmac meeting records
CBS Chicago:
Pastor Wants Presidents' Names Removed From Washington, Jackson Parks Over Ties To Slavery
Discussion: IJR and Infowars
Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Republicans Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Voters, Court Rules
Burlington Free Press:
Pizza chain fires VT worker who joined Charlottesville rally
Liam Stack / New York Times:
Alt-Right, Alt-Left, Antifa: A Glossary of Extremist Language
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Wow’: Stunned TV Hosts Reacted in Real Time to Trump
Discussion: Axios and Political Wire
 

 
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