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Trump cheered Kraft's team to Super Bowl victory with founder of spa where he was busted — Seated at a round table littered with party favors and the paper-cutout footballs that have become tradition at his annual Super Bowl Watch Party, President Donald Trump cheered the New England Patriots …
Alexi McCammond / Axios:
Scoop: White House leak to House Dems on Jared and Ivanka's clearances — From a White House source, the House Oversight Committee has obtained documents related to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's security clearances that the Trump administration refused to provide, according …
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POLITICUSUSA, Raw Story and Political Wire
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The “Enemies of the People” Have a Few Questions for the President — The White House press briefing is dead. It was awful, but we should still mourn it. — The President of the United States has called the media “the enemy of the people” dozens of times since taking office.
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Crooks and Liars, Variety and Roll Call
Fred Barnes / Washington Examiner:
None of this is normal — A front-page headline in the Washington Post the other day declared: “Trump keeps his grip on GOP.” Hardly a scoop. It's normal for a president to have a firm hold on his own party. And President Trump, an outsider who latched onto the Republican agenda, is no exception.
Alayna Treene / Axios:
House Democrats may probe Kushners' NYC real estate deal
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Washington Post:
House Democrats torn over how aggressively to scrutinize Ivanka Trump, president's other children
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
House Dems to bring resolution next week to make Mueller report public
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Ilhan Omar's Microaggression — Her words were bad. The reaction was worse. — The identity politics fiasco surrounding Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been excruciating. Half of me is angry at her. The other half is furious for her. — Among the most basic anti-Semitic tropes …
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Salon, USA Today, Washington Post, Slate and Hot Air
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Tim Alberta / Politico:
The Democrats' Dilemma — MINNEAPOLIS—They have gathered in defiance of the freezing temperatures on a late February's night, scores of them twirling Somali flags in one hand and American flags in the other, crowding around the arrivals terminal and waiting to welcome one of their own.
New York Times:
‘She Had a Poor Choice of Words’: Ilhan Omar's Constituents Grapple with Her Remarks — MINNEAPOLIS — When Mohamed Ahmed's third-grade daughter was assigned a school report about an African-American she admired, she chose to study her newly elected congresswoman, Ilhan Omar.
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Ilhan Communication — Column: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the collapse of the center-left — I have a new hobby. It's collecting the excuses Democrats make for Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota Democratic congresswoman who has an unhealthy fixation on Jewish influence, Jewish money, and Jewish loyalty.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Republicans manage to get Democrats out of a jam — by showing the GOP's true colors
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NBC News:
House passes resolution condemning anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Omar bails out Trump
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Instapundit, Washington Post and BuzzFeed News
Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Tech Giants Like Amazon — Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who is bidding to be the policy pacesetter in the Democratic presidential primary, is set to announce another expansive idea on Friday: a regulatory plan aimed at breaking …
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Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
Here's how we can break up Big Tech — Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world. It's a great story—but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets.
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
The ‘Otherwise Blameless Life’ of Paul Manafort — “He has lived an otherwise blameless life,” said Judge T. S. Ellis as he sentenced Paul Manafort to just 47 months in prison on Thursday. — In an otherwise blameless life, Paul Manafort lobbied on behalf of the tobacco industry and wangled millions in tax breaks for corporations.
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Elie Honig / CNN:
A shockingly lenient sentence for Paul Manafort
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Dennis Romero / NBC News:
Manafort's light sentence slammed as ‘disrespectful,’ ‘lenient,’ ‘an outrage’
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Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops — ‘Cost Plus 50’ plan could worsen tensions with key allies — Frustration over spending by NATO countries behind proposal — For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren't paying enough.
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Jon Swaine / The Guardian:
Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners — Creators of firms that donated revealed by Guardian as Indian financier, lobbyist with links to Taiwan and Israeli real estate developer — Donald Trump's inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars …
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Patterico's Pontifications, POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Associated Press:
Pentagon may tap military pay, pensions for border wall — WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.
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Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press:
More bad news for President Donald Trump in latest Michigan poll — WASHINGTON — A new poll has more bad news for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election hopes in Michigan, showing that more than half of those surveyed either plan to vote for someone else or are considering doing so next year.
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Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and NB Blog
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Case for Reparations — A slow convert to the cause. — I've been traveling around the country for the past few years studying America's divides — urban/rural, red/blue, rich/poor. There's been a haunting sensation the whole time that is hard to define. It is that the racial divide doesn't feel like the other divides.
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Tennessee Star
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Get Ready for the Struggle Session — In America, and even more so on Twitter, there's a whiff of China's Cultural Revolution in the air.
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The American Conservative
John F. Harris / Politico:
How Trump Is Like JFK — Why is the mainstream media so agitated about President Donald Trump's close relationship with Fox News host Sean Hannity? A right-wing critic emails with a taunt: “Everybody loved it when Bradlee and Kennedy were in bed together.” — Not sure I buy the premise.
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Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, NPR, Recode, Daily Kos, The Hill and Sara A. Carter, more at Mediagazer »
David Byler / Washington Post:
Everyone is underestimating Trump. It could hurt Democrats and Republicans alike. — We live in an era of horribly misinformed political decision-making. In 2015, the Trump-skeptical Republican elite believed that Trump would naturally fade over the course of the primary …
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
What Kirsten Gillibrand Is Missing: New York Endorsements for 2020 — WASHINGTON — Senator Cory Booker has been endorsed for president by New Jersey's entire 11-member Democratic congressional delegation, his state's governor and its other senator. Senator Bernie Sanders has the backing …
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