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12:55 PM ET, August 27, 2017

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Washington Post:
Trump asked Sessions about closing case against Arpaio, an ally since ‘birtherism’ … As Joseph Arpaio's federal case headed toward trial this past spring, President Trump wanted to act to help the former Arizona county sheriff who had become a campaign-trail companion and a partner in their crusade against illegal immigration.
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Jon Gabriel / USA Today:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is no conservative and no hero, no matter what President Trump says  —  Convicting Arpaio of contempt of court was like busting Al Capone on tax evasion.  It was the tip of an iceberg of misdeeds I saw my longtime sheriff commit.  —  CONNECT
Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
House Speaker Paul Ryan Criticizes Donald Trump's Pardon for Joe Arpaio  —  Republican joins two GOP senators from Arizona in opposing the move  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan on Saturday criticized President Donald Trump for pardoning a former Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, becoming the highest-ranking Republican to object to the move.
Amanda Erickson / Washington Post:
What authoritarianism experts think of Trump's decision to pardon Joe Arpaio  —  On Friday night, as Hurricane Harvey was bearing down on the Texas coast, President Trump pardoned Joe Arpiao.  The former Arizona sheriff had been convicted of criminal contempt for ignoring a judge's orders …
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Schiff: Trump pardon sends message to Russia investigation witnesses
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Asked Top Aides Months Ago if Arpaio Case Could Be Dropped, Officials Say
Discussion: Vox
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Trump's pardon of Arpaio fits a pattern: A divider, not a uniter
Discussion: Politico and FiveThirtyEight
Francisco Chairez / Washington Post:
The year I spent in Joe Arpaio's tent jail was hell. He should never walk free.
Joe Biden / The Atlantic:
‘We Are Living Through a Battle for the Soul of This Nation’  —  In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States.  I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
David Caplan / ABC News:
Harvey slams Texas: Rescue operations underway as historic flooding hits Houston area  —  Houston is being inundated with flooding of historic proportions after the ferocious Hurricane Harvey set in over the Texas Gulf Coast this weekend, dumping torrential rain on the city with no end in sight for days.
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Associated Press:
Hurricane Harvey: Houston residents urged to climb to their roofs
Discussion: ABC News
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 8-27-17: Gov. Greg Abbott and Thomas Bossert
Discussion: Politico
Dave Lawler / Axios:
First Cohn, now Tillerson, turn on Trump  —  Asked by Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace about President Trump's values, Secretary of State Tillerson said, “the president speaks for himself.”  Wallace followed up by asking Tillerson if he was separating himself from Trump's values …
Peter Wehner / New York Times:
Behold Our ‘Child King’  —  REPUBLICAN lawmakers have seen the Trump disaster coming for a while now.  They simply have no clue what to do about it.  —  A couple of months ago — before we learned that Donald Trump Jr. wanted to spend quality time with people he believed represented the Russian government …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
What if Trump ditched the GOP?
Discussion: The Guardian and Daily Kos
Adolfo Flores / BuzzFeed:
ICE Left 50 Immigrant Women And Kids Stranded At A Bus Station Before Hurricane Harvey Struck  —  The bus depot had been closed due to the approaching storm.  —  Federal immigration authorities left about 50 immigrant women and children, most of them asylum-seekers from Central America …
Jayme Fraser / Billings Gazette:
Zinke's veteran daughter excoriates Trump in response to transgender military ban  —  The daughter of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, like her father a Navy veteran, appears, in the rawest of terms, to have excoriated President Donald Trump in a social media post after the announcement …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Political Wire
Frances Robles / New York Times:
Two Men Arrested in Connection With Charlottesville Violence  —  The police arrested two men, including a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and were seeking a third in connection with violent episodes that took place at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., this month …
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
EXCLUSIVE-'Like the Last Scene of Star Wars': Sebastian Gorka Compares Battle Against Globalist Cabal to Rebel Alliance Fighting Evil Empire  —  Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a now former Deputy Assistant to President Donald J. Trump, says that the West Wing Democrats, the left, and the Fake News Industrial Complex …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Low Level White House Staffer Inflates Credentials to Lie About Dr. Sebastian Gorka's Resignation to Press
Cristiano Lima / Politico:
Gorka says he's heading back to Breitbart
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
The Trouble With Ivanka's Business Partner  —  His vendors call him a “career grifter.”  His father's creditors claim he's a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges.  With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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