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3:20 PM ET, April 12, 2018

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Associated Press:
$30,000 rumor?  Tabloid paid for, spiked, salacious Trump tip  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Eight months before the company that owns the National Enquirer paid $150,000 to a former Playboy Playmate who claimed she'd had an affair with Donald Trump, the tabloid's parent made a $30,000 payment …
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Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
The National Enquirer, a Trump Rumor, and Another Secret Payment to Buy Silence  —  Late in 2015, a former Trump Tower doorman named Dino Sajudin met with a reporter from American Media, Inc., the publisher of the National Enquirer, at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania.
RADAR:
Prez Love Child Shocker!  Ex-Trump Worker Peddling Rumor Donald Has Illegitimate Child  —  Fake news or an Oval Office bombshell?  You be the judge.  —  PRESIDENT Donald Trump fathered a secret love child with a Trump Organization employee — a gorgeous 29-year-old medical graduate who is currently living in California!
New York Times:
Investigators Focus on Another Trump Ally: The National Enquirer  —  President Trump has long had ties to the nation's major media players.  But his connections with the country's largest tabloid publisher, American Media Inc., run deeper than most.  —  A former top executive …
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
National Enquirer paid second source with embarrassing Trump rumor … The owner of the National Enquirer paid $30,000 in late 2015 to a onetime Trump Tower doorman who was offering an embarrassing story about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump but never published it, according to a person familiar with the payment.
Discussion: Raw Story and Joe.My.God.
The Daily Beast:
James Comey: John Kelly Called Trump ‘Dishonorable’ for Firing Me … Within minutes of his firing in May, former FBI Director James Comey received a call from John Kelly, then the head of the Department of Homeland Security and now the White House chief of staff.
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Jeff Zeleny / CNN:
Exclusive: Inside the GOP plan to discredit Comey  —  Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's allies are preparing an extensive campaign to fight back against James Comey's publicity tour, trying to undermine the credibility of the former FBI director by reviving the blistering Democratic criticism …
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
GOP launches aggressive ‘Lyin’ Comey' website ahead of release of former FBI chief's book
Washington Post:
Trump weighs rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership amid trade dispute with China  —  President Trump told top administration officials Thursday to look at rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the multination trade agreement he pulled the United States out of shortly after taking office.
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:   Trump Reverses Course and Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership
Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:   Trump Asks Advisers to Study Rejoining Pacific Trade Pact Talks
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Trump directs top economic advisers to look at re-entering TPP
Discussion: National Review and The Week
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Lawmakers' Letter Claims Further Spending Abuses by the E.P.A. Head, Scott Pruitt  —  WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator, insisted on staying in luxury hotels that were costlier than allowed by government standards, while also pushing to fly on an airline …
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Zahra Hirji / BuzzFeed:
A New Bombshell Letter Alleges “Unethical And Potentially Illegal” Acts By EPA Head Scott Pruitt  —  The letter from congressional Democrats comes after an interview with a former staffer to the EPA administrator.  —  A former top EPA official has come forward with allegations of …
Discussion: New Republic, ProPublica, HuffPost and Grist
Washington Post:
Scott Pruitt has four different EPA email addresses. Lawmakers want to know why.
Discussion: Politico, Axios and Political Wire
Maggie Astor / New York Times:
Holocaust Is Fading From Memory, Survey Finds  —  For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement.  —  But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
President Donald J. Trump Proclaims April 12 through April 19, 2018, as the Days of Remembrance …
Discussion: CBS New York
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Bannon pitches White House on plan to cripple Mueller probe and protect Trump … Stephen K. Bannon, who was ousted as White House chief strategist last summer but has remained in touch with some members of President Trump's circle, is pitching a plan to West Wing aides and congressional allies …
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Kaitlyn Burton / Politico:   Trump's push to redo $1.3T spending bill he signed sparks GOP revolt
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Eight brutal months are coming up
Axios:
Ryan may be forced to leave speakership by summer  —  Paul Ryan said he plans to remain as speaker and not call an early leadership election, but well-wired Republicans tell Jonathan Swan and me that Ryan may be forced out sooner.  —  What we're hearing: One source close to leadership told us …
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Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:   Donald Trump Takes Out Paul Ryan, and 'It's Going to Be a Civil War'
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan is abandoning the ship before it sinks
Chris Sommerfeldt / New York Daily News:
Trump federal judicial nominee refuses to say whether she supports racial segregation in schools  —  Brown v. Wendy Vitter?  —  A Louisiana lawyer nominated by President Trump for a federal judgeship refused to affirm whether she's opposed to school segregation during a congressional hearing Wednesday.
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Emma Platoff / The Texas Tribune:
Former Texas Congressman Steve Stockman found guilty of 23 felonies  —  A federal jury in Houston has ruled that Steve Stockman, a conservative former Texas congressman, is guilty of all but one charge in his federal fraud trial.  —  Steve Stockman, a former Texas congressman …
Madeleine Marr / miamiherald:
This Parkland teacher left his gun in a public bathroom.  It was loaded, BSO says.  —  Not the most normal sight: a gun left in the bathroom stall.  —  But that's exactly what went down on Sunday in a men's room at the Deerfield Beach Pier.  —  The circumstances of how the Glock 9mm got there are unusual.
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Senators  —  There's good news and bad news for Senate Democrats up for re-election  — Sanders (I-Vt.) and McConnell (R-Ky.) remains the most popular and unpopular senators, respectively.  —  2018's first quarter was a volatile one for several senators …
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Cameron Easley / Morning Consult:
America's Most and Least Popular Governors
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Mike Pompeo's confusing answer about whether Trump asked him to intervene in the Russia probe … One of the biggest questions hanging over Mike Pompeo's secretary of state nomination is whether he's too willing to do President Trump's bidding.  —  An answer he gave at Thursday's confirmation hearing …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Nikki Haley at Pompeo confirmation hearing
Discussion: Axios
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Ricky Waddell is leaving the White House  —  Trump's deputy National Security Adviser Ricky Waddell will leave the White House, according to two sources briefed on the decision.  New National Security Adviser John Bolton wants to bring his own person in, and Waddell was H.R. McMaster's hand-picked deputy.
NBC News:
U.S. officials: Blood samples show nerve agent, chlorine in Syria gas attack  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. now has blood and urine samples from last Saturday's deadly attack in Syria that have tested positive for chemical weapons, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence.
Discussion: Axios, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News and The Federalist
TIME:
The Story Behind TIME's ‘Stormy’ Donald Trump Cover  —  Nothing to See Here, Feb. 27, 2017 Stormy, April, 23, 2018 Illustrations by Tim O'Brien for TIME  —  The April 23 TIME cover, depicting the growing chaos within the Trump White House, may look familiar to some readers …
Discussion: Bustle
Adam SchefterESPN Senior / ESPN:
Seahawks postpone visit after Colin Kaepernick won't say if he'll stop kneeling  —  After arranging for Colin Kaepernick to work out for the Seattle Seahawks this week, team officials postponed the trip when the quarterback declined to say he would stop kneeling during the national anthem next season …
Discussion: AOL, The Root and Deadspin
Jonathan A. Greenblatt / Washington Post:
Don't overlook John Bolton and Mike Pompeo's anti-Muslim ties  —  Jonathan A. Greenblatt is chief executive and national director of the Anti-Defamation League.  —  Other than the president, the two most significant people determining the worldviews of the U.S. government are the secretary of state and the national security adviser.
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent:
Diamond, Silk, Facebook, and Facts  —  Facebook has tried several times to reach Diamond and Silk, but the duo have not replied to emails or returned calls.  —  Republicans in Congress have certainly made a lot of hay out of Facebook's handling of the Diamond and Silk situation and I got curious …
The Pew Charitable Trusts:
The State Pension Funding Gap: 2016  —  Investment shortfalls, insufficient contributions reduced funded levels for public worker retirement plans  —  Many state retirement systems are on an unsustainable course, coming up short on their investment targets and having failed to set aside enough money …
Discussion: Associated Press
Paul Rosenzweig / The Atlantic:
Firing Rosenstein Won't Save Trump  —  Let's be blunt.  Given what we know about President Trump's impulsive nature, there are good odds that sometime soon he will fire the special counsel, Robert Mueller, or perhaps the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein (who, because Attorney General Jeff Sessions …
Chris Mills / BGR:
Facebook is the least-trusted tech company by a country mile  —  While Mark Zuckerberg spent all day yesterday answering awkward questions about Facebook from his booster seat, Recode published a new poll showing which tech companies are trusted the least when it comes to handling your data.
Discussion: Daily Wire, Recode and The Daily Caller
Brian X. Chen / New York Times:
I Downloaded the Information That Facebook Has on Me.  Yikes.  —  Ask our reporter, Cecilia Kang, questions about the Facebook hearings now on The New York Times Politics Facebook page.  —  When I downloaded a copy of my Facebook data last week, I didn't expect to see much.
Victoria Gill / BBC:
Climate change dials down Atlantic Ocean heating system  —  A significant shift in the system of ocean currents that helps keep parts of Europe warm could send temperatures in the UK lower, scientists have found.  —  They say the Atlantic Ocean circulation system is weaker …
Brian Bennett / TIME:
Donald Trump Relied on Michael Cohen to Weather the Storm.  Now The President Is On His Own  —  As the sun was setting on the evening of April 9, President Donald Trump gathered the Vice President, senior military leaders and his newly minted National Security Adviser around the long wooden table …
Discussion: Mashable and Mediaite
Carolina Milanesi / Tech.pinions:
US Consumers Want More Transparency from Facebook  —  Mark Zuckerberg went on record to say that thus far the #DeleteFacebook meme did not have much impact.  We, at Creative Strategies, wanted to see if that was the case and more importantly we wanted to understand more about how the general public felt …
 
 
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