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2:20 PM ET, April 19, 2019

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New York Times:
Mueller Hints at a National-Security Nightmare  —  The missing piece of the report is a counterintelligence investigation that should set off alarm bells about our democracy and security.  —  Mr. Geltzer is the executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law.
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George T. Conway III / Washington Post:
George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency.  Congress should remove him.  —  George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York.  —  So it turns out that, indeed, President Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely,” as he claimed.
ABC News:
5 key takeaways from special counsel Robert Mueller's report  —  The report is a trove of information about the current presidency.  —  While there will be no legal case brought against President Donald Trump by special counsel Robert Mueller's team, the much-anticipated redacted report …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Comparing Barr's Excerpts With Mueller's Report  —  Attorney General William P. Barr sent a letter to Congress last month citing brief fragments from the Mueller report.  Now that the document is public, his selections are coming under scrutiny.  —  When Attorney General William P. Barr sent Congress …
David French / National Review:
The Mueller Report Should Shock Our Conscience  —  I've finished reading the entire Mueller report, and I must confess that even as a longtime, quite open critic of Donald Trump, I was surprised at the sheer scope, scale, and brazenness of the lies, falsehoods, and misdirections detailed by the Special Counsel's Office.
Lawfare:
What Mueller Found on Russia and on Obstruction: A First Analysis  —  “Really the best day since he got elected,” said Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, about a day on which 400 pages dropped into the public's lap describing relentless presidential misconduct and serial engagements between his campaign and a foreign actor.
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump suspected that former White House counsel Don McGahn wore a wire  —  Late in Don McGahn's tenure as White House counsel, President Trump became so suspicious that he wondered aloud whether McGahn was wearing a wire, a source familiar with the president's private conversations told Axios.
Cheyenne Haslett / ABC News:
Sarah Sanders grilled on her contradictory statements highlighted in Mueller report  —  The report found that Sanders' claims were “not founded on anything.”  —  In a tense exchange on “Good Morning America,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to defend statements …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Mueller Report Won't End Trump's Presidency, But It Sure Makes Him Look Bad  —  In the most memorable scene in the most anticipated government report in recent history, the special counsel, Robert Mueller, takes us inside the Oval Office on May 17, 2017.
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:   Re-Read Bill Barr's Infamous Letter With Full Quotes From the Mueller Report
Abe Greenwald / New York Post:   The Mueller report just left egg on Democrats' faces
Claire Spellberg / Decider:   Stephen Colbert Slams Trump After Mueller Report: “That's Not How an Innocent Person Reacts”
Timothy O'Brien / Bloomberg:   Does Mueller Think Trump's Guilty? Read Closely
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Mueller, Trump, and ‘two years of bullshit’
Discussion: Instapundit and Daily Wire
Ezra Klein / Vox:
The best defense of Trump is still a damning indictment
Discussion: Breitbart, IJR and USA Today
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   Trump Beat the Rap, but Mueller Uncovered a Historic Scandal
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Release of Mueller report finally sets Trump — and America — free
Discussion: Fox News and The Gateway Pundit
David Brooks / New York Times:   It's Not the Collusion, It's the Corruption
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
In the Mueller Report, Erik Prince Funds a Covert Effort to Obtain Clinton's E-mails from a Foreign State
Discussion: Axios
Britain Eakin / courthousenews.com:
Trump Feared End of Presidency, Mueller Report Recounts
Discussion: Missoula Current
Edward-Isaac Dovere / The Atlantic:
Joe Biden Is Running for President  —  Joe Biden is running.  The former vice president will make his candidacy official with a video announcement next Wednesday, according to people familiar with the discussions who have been told about them by top aides.  —  Seriously, he's actually made a decision.
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Biden hires over a dozen senior advisors from Obama administration for 2020 campaign: Sources
NBC10 Boston:   Buttigieg to Join Stop & Shop Workers on the Picket Line in Malden
Jerry Iannelli / Miami New Times:
South Florida Man Arrested for Threatening to Kill Democratic Lawmakers, Including Ilhan Omar … Lately, Donald Trump fans have enjoyed attacking left-leaning Americans.  Last year, for instance, Miami-area resident Cesar Sayoc sent pipe bombs to prominent liberals around the country and went to jail.
Leigh Ann Caldwell / NBC News:
Possible 2020 contender Michael Bennet gets clean bill of health after cancer treatment  —  Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, who is contemplating jumping in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential race, has been given a clean bill of health after undergoing surgery to remove cancer, his office said in a statement.
Discussion: Axios
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Sen. Michael Bennet's cancer surgery was ‘completely successful,’ spokeswoman says
Discussion: Politico
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Sarah Sanders admitted she lied to the White House press.  Does she have any credibility left?  —  New York (CNN Business)"Not founded on anything" is the new “alternative facts.”  —  The term applies to White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and her misleading statements from the press briefing room podium.
Discussion: IJR
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CBS News:
Mueller report fallout: Sarah Sanders says Trump never asked her to lie
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Mueller report reveals Sarah Sanders lied for Trump. It's time for her to resign.
Discussion: Slate, The Resurgent and Raw Story
Michael Hirsh / Foreign Policy:
How Trump Practices ‘Escalation Dominance’  —  “You have restraint on your side.  He has no restraint.  So you lose,” says outgoing French Ambassador Gérard Araud.  —  Following in the footsteps of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gérard Araud has made a study of the United States …
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Julian Borger / The Guardian:
‘Whimsical, uninformed’: French ambassador's parting verdict on Trump
Discussion: The Local
New York Times:
Pete Buttigieg Fired South Bend's Black Police Chief.  It Still Stings.  —  SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Pete Buttigieg had been mayor just 13 weeks when he faced a leadership crisis.  —  It was March 2012, and 300 residents of South Bend, Ind. solemnly marched to the Martin Luther King Center …
Alex Pareene / New Republic:
Democrats Are Hoping You Don't Understand What “Impeachment” Entails  —  The 1974 vote in the House of Representatives to give the Judiciary Committee broad subpoena power for its investigation into whether or not President Richard Nixon committed any impeachable offenses passed 410-4.
Discussion: The Federalist, Vox, Breitbart and Mediaite
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democratic equivocation over impeachment is a moral and political disaster
Discussion: Crooked Media, Rolling Stone and CNN
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Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast:
Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians  —  Julian Assange repeatedly blamed Seth Rich, the murdered DNC staffer, for Russia's leaks.  The Mueller report shows that Assange was lying from the start.  —  Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered Democratic National …
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Report Describes a Businessman President Indifferent to Facts, Unwilling to Take on Tough Tasks  —  President Trump's aides avoided controversial orders without directly rebuffing the requests, the report shows  —  President Trump in June 2017 gave his former campaign manager a directive …
 
 
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