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1:30 PM ET, August 17, 2018

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump and Omarosa Had a ‘F*cking Weird’ Fight With Vietnam Vets … Early on in the Donald Trump administration, the president vested many of his nearest and dearest with tasks they were woefully unprepared for—and Apprentice superstar Omarosa Manigault Newman was no exception.
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Yahoo:
Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements  —  A Manhattan judge issued a ruling on Thursday that thwarted the Trump campaign's attempts to keep a lawsuit out of open court, with potential implications for the looming battle over fired Trump aide Omarosa …
New York Times:
Omarosa Manigault Newman Releases Tape of Lara Trump's $15,000-a-Month Job Offer  —  Omarosa Manigault Newman released a secret recording on Thursday that she said backed her claim that President Trump's daughter-in-law had offered her a $15,000-a-month contract in exchange for her silence about her time as a White House adviser.
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   Trump Picked Fight With Vietnam Vets Over Who Better Understood What Agent Orange Was
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Manafort trial is a ‘very sad day for our country’  —  President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who's been wrapped up in the special counsel's Russia investigation, could count on a pardon from the White House.
Discussion: ABC News
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Nancy Gertner / Washington Post:
The extraordinary bias of the judge in the Manafort trial  —  Nancy Gertner, a retired U.S. District Court judge in Massachusetts, is a lecturer at Harvard Law School.  —  It is not unusual for judges to intervene in court proceedings from time to time — to direct the lawyers to move …
Discussion: Fox News and Breitbart
New York Times:
Melania Trump, a Mysterious First Lady, Weathers a Chaotic White House
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Splinter
Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:   Trump Calls Manafort ‘Good Person’ and Criticizes Fraud Trial
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Mueller's team has 3 times the evidence for Paul Manafort's next trial than his current trial
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Hero Exposed as Pro-Trump Gamer … In the world of #Resistance Twitter, @GuardianRover was a hero.  As a former intelligence operative and Delta Force soldier, the person behind the account used a cartoon secret agent avatar and the alias “Mr. Smith” …
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Press needs to restore its credibility on FBI and Justice Department  —  I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.”  But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years.  No matter how egregious their errors …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
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Fox News:
DOJ's Bruce Ohr wrote Christopher Steele was 'very concerned about Comey's firing — afraid they will be exposed'  —  A collection of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr's emails, texts and handwritten notes, reviewed by Fox News, reveals that he was deeply connected to the unverified Steele dossier …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?  —  Justice releases some damning documents, but much of the truth is still classified.  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia investigation.
Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Judge: Trump's release of dossier memos opens door to disclosures from FBI
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free-speech conservatives, this is your call to arms  —  To all those supposed constitutional conservatives out there, consider this your call to arms: The First Amendment is under direct attack, and this time from a much more powerful foe than misguided college freshmen.
Discussion: Daily Kos and BuzzFeed News
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Olivia Gazis / CBS News:
Top former intelligence bosses speak out in favor of John Brennan  —  Twelve former directors and deputy directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and a former Director of National Intelligence signed a letter of support for former CIA director John Brennan, calling the signal sent …
Axios:
Trump's favorite presidential powers
New York Times:
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year  —  Elon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure.  “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he said.  “It was excruciating.”  —  The year has only gotten …
Christopher Barca / m.qchron.com:
Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall  —  MEDIA WAS BARRED AFTER REPORTERS ‘MOBBED’ HER AT AN EARLIER EVENT  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her “listening tour” throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively …
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Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Banned the Media From Her Latest Town Hall Event
NBC News:
Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan  —  “I know he's frustrated,” Blackwater founder Prince said of the president.  “He gave the Pentagon what they wanted.  And they haven't delivered.”  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire
Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'  —  More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
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Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial slurs
Stephanie Murray / Politico:
Trump cancels military parade, feuds with D.C. mayor over ballooning cost  —  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has canceled plans for a military parade in Washington, and ignited a feud with the D.C. mayor after accusing “local politicians” of price gouging.
Discussion: IJR and The Week
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CNN:
Pentagon postpones Trump's military parade
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Trump Paris-Bound in November to Watch a Military Parade Instead
Discussion: Vox, NBC News and Shareblue Media
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook PM: NEW: Dem super PAC hammers House GOP leadership in new ad  —  NEW ... YOU NEED TO WATCH THIS BOMBSHELL AD ... HOUSE MAJORITY PAC — a top super PAC that aims to elect Democrats to the House — drops a shockingly tough and sharp ad on House GOP leadership …
Discussion: Political Wire
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Morning Call:
Lehigh Valley velodrome board put Pennsylvania congressional candidate Marty Nothstein on leave after sexual misconduct allegation  —  Congressional candidate Marty Nothstein was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation prior to leaving his job this summer as leader …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Debt-Shaming of Stacey Abrams  —  Our pernicious double standard on politicians who owe money.  —  The campaign for governor of Georgia is a supersaturated microcosm of American politics right now, offering the starkest possible choice between irreconcilable visions of the country's future.
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Signs of Trump-Putin collaboration, starting years before the campaign?  —  Shane Harris is a staff writer at The Washington Post.  He covers intelligence and national security and the Russia investigation.  —  Of all the allegations contained in the “Steele dossier,” …
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to lift sanctions on Russian leaders  —  (R-Ky.) says he will ask President Trump  —  this weekend to lift sanctions against top Russian officials so they can visit the United States later this year.  —  Paul said members of both bodies of Russia's legislature …
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In a Divided Era, One Thing Seems to Unite: Political Anger  —  Ken Storey was in a pique, the kind that often seizes and overwhelms the better judgment of people who follow politics closely these days.  —  Hurricane Harvey was about to douse Texas with deadly flooding, and Mr. Storey had identified the culprit: Republicans.
Joe Johnson / Athens Daily News:
Half-naked Athens woman punches officer  —  A 32-year-old Athens woman was arrested early Wednesday after she created a disturbance on Bray Street and then fought with a police officer, Athens-Clarke County police said.  —  Police said they responded to the area at about 12:30 a.m. on a report …
Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
565 Migrant Children Remain Separated From Families 3 Weeks Past Judge's Deadline  —  The number of kids who have been reunited in the last couple of weeks can be counted on two hands, according to court filings on the immigration detentions.  —  Only a small fraction of the nearly 600 …
Maggie Severns / Politico:
'Oh that's cool — do that!':  Super PACs use new trick to hide donors  —  Mere days after it sprang to life in a burst of paperwork, the new super PAC Red and Gold spent nearly $1 million attacking Rep. Martha McSally, a battleground GOP Senate candidate favored by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Discussion: Splinter
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Our republic will never be the same  —  From the beginning of the American republic, its founders obsessed about how it all would end.  “Democracy never lasts long,” said John Adams.  “There never was a Democracy Yet, that did not commit suicide.”  —  George Washington used his farewell address …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
DOJ Sues Ivanka's Ex-Business Partner for Massive Fraud  —  Moshe Lax and members of his family allegedly conspired to deprive the U.S. of $60 million.  —  The Justice Department is suing a friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump for his alleged role in schemes to defraud …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
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Annie Gowen / Washington Post:
Taxpayers' bill for Trump Jr.'s business trip to India: $32,000 and counting, documents show
Discussion: The Democrats
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
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Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:
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WSYX:
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Musa al-Gharbi / Heterodox Academy:
Vox's Consistent Errors on Campus Speech, Explained
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jericka Duncan / CBS News:
Woman accusing Rep. Keith Ellison of abuse speaks out
Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Meet the Special Counsel Team: So Careful They Won't Even Disclose Their Shake Shack Orders
Discussion: The Week