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3:00 PM ET, August 16, 2017

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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 …
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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.
Mike Allen / Axios:
Top Trump business group to disband amid Charlottesville tumult  —  CEOs on President Trump's top outside business-advisory group decided Wednesday to disband amid the tumult over his response to this weekend's white-nationalist violence in Charlottesville, top business sources tell Axios.
Discussion: Raw Story
Bloomberg:
Trump Ends Business Councils as CEOs Turn Against President
CNNMoney:
White House business panels collapse as CEOs flee Trump
Discussion: Mother Jones
Michael Sheetz / CNBC:   3M CEO Thulin resigns from Trump's manufacturing panel, 7th to leave this week
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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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).
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 …
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 …
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.
Bloomberg:
Trump Drags GOP Onto Dangerous Ground, This Time Over Race
ITV:   Theresa May attacks Donald Trump over refusal to condemn white supremacists
New York Times:
Baltimore Removes Confederate Statues; Mayor Cites Public Safety  —  BALTIMORE — The mayor said Wednesday that she was acting in the “best interest of my city” when she ordered the removal overnight of statues dedicated to Confederate heroes, just days after violence broke out over efforts …
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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.
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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Josh Dawsey / Politico:
White House aides wrestle with Trump's race comments
New York Times:
Mr. Trump Makes a Spectacle of Himself
Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Donald Trump's failure in Charlottesville wasn't political — it was moral
Morgan Winsor / ABC News:
RNC chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel to white supremacists: 'We don't want your vote'
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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.
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Hope Hicks expected to take over comms director duties
Discussion: Politico and Shakesville
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
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
Bloomberg:
Texas Voter Maps Blocked as Racially Biased by U.S. Judges  —  Federal courts declare Texas voter maps unfair for fourth time  —  State given three days to say whether it will correct maps  —  Texas can't use its current voter maps in the upcoming congressional midterm elections after a panel …
Discussion: Axios
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Ari Berman / Mother Jones:
Texas Republicans Intentionally Discriminated Against Minority Voters, Court Rules
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
The Texas Tribune:
Federal court invalidates part of Texas congressional map
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 …
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.
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?
 
 
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CBS Chicago:
Pastor Wants Presidents' Names Removed From Washington, Jackson Parks Over Ties To Slavery
Discussion: Infowars
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump's Charlottesville rhetoric ‘dividing Americans, not healing them’
Discussion: Politico and IJR
Burlington Free Press:
Pizza chain fires VT worker who joined Charlottesville rally
Ashley Jardina / Washington Post:
White identity politics isn't just about white supremacy. It's much bigger.
Discussion: ABC News
Matthew Walther / The Week:
Censor white supremacy
Discussion: RedState
Nathan Englander / New York Times:
What Jewish Children Learned From Charlottesville
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John Harwood / CNBC:
Donald Trump has a very clear attitude about morality: He doesn't believe in it
 

 
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