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9:35 PM ET, October 28, 2018

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Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Trump's Caravan Hysteria Led to This  —  On Tuesday, October 16, President Trump started tweeting. … Vice President Mike Pence also tweeted: … The apparent impetus for this outrage was a segment on Fox News that morning, which detailed a migrant caravan thousands of miles away in Honduras.
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Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
A conspiracy theory about George Soros and a migrant caravan inspired horror  —  Conspiracy theories are flourishing in America, from the Oval Office to the fever swamps of the Internet.  They include the viral notion that the liberal 88-year-old billionaire George Soros …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Fox condemns rhetoric used by Lou Dobbs guest as channel's star host faces growing criticism  —  (CNN)The Fox Business Network has a Lou Dobbs problem.  —  On Sunday, the network's senior vice president for programming, Gary Schreier, released a statement denouncing what many people called …
Julia Ioffe / Washington Post:
How much responsibility does Trump bear for the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh?  —  Political rhetoric matters, and he has had some unfortunate things to say about Jews.  —  Julia Ioffe, a correspondent for GQ Magazine, is currently at work on a book about Russia.
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism
Discussion: Updates, Mediaite and AOL
David Harsanyi / The Federalist:
The Left's Response To The Mass Shooting Of Jews Is An Act Of Bad Faith
Discussion: Reason, Algemeiner.com and Breitbart
Tamar Auber / Mediaite:   Hospital President Who Looked Pittsburgh Mass Shooter in the Eyes: ‘He Listens to the Noise’
Ben Shapiro / Daily Wire:   Why We Cling To The Tree Of Life
Joyce Karam / The National:
US Muslims start fundraisers to help Pittsburgh synagogue victims
Discussion: CNN, Daily Wire and ThinkProgress
New York Times:
Jair Bolsonaro, Far-Right Populist, Elected President of Brazil  —  Far-Right Populist Elected President of Brazil  — After choosing leftist presidents in four successive elections, Brazilians opted for a radical new course for Latin America's largest nation.
Discussion: Jezebel and Mediaite
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Travis Waldron / HuffPost:
Brazil Elects Far-Right Authoritarian Jair Bolsonaro As President  —  “Brazil's Trump” — who has praised dictatorship and promised a “cleansing” of his political opponents — will take charge of the world's fourth-largest democracy.  —  The rise of right-wing movements and parties across …
Discussion: Breitbart
BBC:
Jair Bolsonaro: Far-right candidate wins Brazil poll  —  Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro has won a sweeping victory in Brazil's presidential election.  —  With almost all of the votes counted, Mr Bolsonaro has 55% of the votes against 45% for Fernando Haddad from the left-wing Workers Party.
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News:   Brazil's Election Is The End Of The Far-Right, Populist Wave. Now We Live With The Results.
Mariana Simões / New York Times:   Brazil's Polarizing New President, Jair Bolsonaro, in His Own Words
Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Synagogue victims Cecil and David Rosenthal remembered as loving, inseparable  —  Raye Coffey raised three children, but she could have been considered a surrogate mom, of sorts, for Cecil and David Rosenthal.  —  The brothers lived next door to the Coffeys in Stanton Heights and often could be found at the Coffey residence.
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Josh Nathan-Kazis / The Forward:
Holocaust Survivor Cheated Death At Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre By 4 Minutes  —  Judah Samet was four minutes late to synagogue.  —  Services at Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh start at 9:45 A.M. Samet, who is 80 years old, pulled into a handicapped spot in front of the building on the morning of October 27 at 9:49.
New York Times:
Pittsburgh Synagogue Massacre Suspect Was the Bland Man from Apartment 1  —  PITTSBURGH — Robert Bowers poured out murderous, anti-Semitic hatred online.  But in person at home, people remembered him on Sunday as the bland neighbor from Apartment 1 who offered no clues about his racist views, his dark plans, or really anything at all.
Discussion: Fox News, IJR, CityLab and Gizmodo
Associated Press:
Some Sessions allies hope White House allows graceful exit  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sensing that Jeff Sessions' days at the Justice Department may be numbered, some of his supporters want the White House to allow for a graceful exit for an attorney general they believe has dutifully carried …
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Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump Cabinet exodus likely after midterms
April Glaser / Slate:
The Moral Bankruptcy of Hate Speech on Gab  —  Robert Bowers killed 11 people in a synagogue Saturday because they were Jewish.  According to his social media activity, he had been harboring his hatred for Jewish people for months, and just hours before Bowers entered the Tree of Life synagogue …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trump's Attacks on the News Media Are Working  —  He was at it again.  —  At 3:14 a.m. on Friday, President Trump was awake and tweeting.  —  “Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNN
CBS News:
Tight contests mark critical Senate races — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll  —  Florida  —  Tight contests dominate the Senate landscape: In Florida, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott are tied among likely voters, 46 percent to 46 percent including those who have cast ballots already.
Julie Zauzmer / Washington Post:
In the wake of the Pittsburgh attack, Rep. Steve King's Iowa supporters brush aside concern about his white nationalist views  —  REMSEN, Iowa — As the polka band played and the volunteers started serving the bratwurst, word slowly rippled through the annual Oktoberfest in this remote Iowa farm town …
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Inside Trump's last-minute road trip  —  President Trump is adding an 11th rally to his final six-day blitz leading into the Nov. 6 midterm elections.  Trump will be ending his campaign swing, on election eve, in the pivotal Senate state of Missouri, according to a source with direct knowledge of Trump's plans.
Discussion: Associated Press, Raw Story and KRTV-TV
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Blexit  —  I have returned from Turning Point USA's Young Black Leadership Summit, the first part of which I wrote about here, including our visit to the White House.  A highlight of the second half of the event was the announcement of “Blexit,” a new project spearheaded by Candace Owens.
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Selling Donald Trump: A First-Time Campaign Manager Tries to Defy the Doubters  —  WASHINGTON — Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for President Trump's planned re-election effort in 2020, has never run another political race of any kind.  Republican establishment figures are watching him closely …
Washington Post:
Trump mocks Democratic megadonor Tom Steyer, the target of a pipe bomb, as ‘stumbling lunatic’  —  President Trump on Sunday lashed out at billionaire Democratic activist Tom Steyer, ridiculing him as a “stumbling lunatic” days after Steyer was targeted by one of more than a dozen pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of the president.
New York Times:
Trump's Corruption: The Definitive List  —  The many ways that the president, his family and his aides are lining their own pockets.  —  They don't even try very hard to hide it.  —  President Trump, his family and more than a few of his appointees are using his presidency to enrich themselves.
 
 
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Tara Copp / Military Times:
'I won't even call him a man': Mattis rips into synagogue shooter
Discussion: Axios, Townhall and The Daily Caller
Kyle Swenson / Washington Post:
‘I looked up, and there were all these dead bodies’: Witness describes horror of synagogue massacre
Discussion: The Daily Beast
David Rothkopf / Haaretz:
Trump didn't pull the trigger on Jews in Pittsburgh, but he certainly prepped the shooter | Opinion
Matt Pearce / Los Angeles Times:
Attacked Jewish congregation responds to neo-Nazi gunman: ‘Many of us, frankly, feel great pity for this man’
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
These things are not the same
Ema O'Connor / BuzzFeed News:
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BuzzFeed News:
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National Journal:
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Associated Press:
Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violence
Marco Giannangeli / Daily Express:
Khashoggi BOMBSHELL: Britain ‘KNEW of kidnap plot and BEGGED Saudi Arabia to abort plans’
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