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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
For Fear of William Barr — The attorney general gets attacked because his probe endangers many powerful people. — The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what's driving this week's blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr.
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Power Line and twitchy.com
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Trump, Wrecker of Reputations — On Attorney General William Barr's testimony and the coming constitutional crisis. — In the first year of the Trump Presidency, White House advisers often promised reporters that this would be the week when they would unveil Trump's plans for a massive investment in American infrastructure.
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The Resurgent, NB Blog, IJR, Slate, PJ Media Home and Raw Story
Paul Waldman / Washington Post:
Trump is already set to use the government to destroy the Democratic nominee — The 2020 election is going to be ugly in many different ways. If you thought Donald Trump ran a rancid campaign when he was trying to make it to the White House, just you wait until he's fighting to preserve his power.
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Salon, Washington Monthly, The Week, Fox News and RedState
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
In Barr, Trump has found someone who licks his boots out of principle
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USA Today, New Republic and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Trump finds in Barr the attorney general — and shield — he long sought
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, The National Interest, The Atlantic, Denver Post, Townhall and IJR
Kimberley A. Strassel / Fox News:
Kimberly Strassel: AG Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people
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RedState, Hot Air, The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Hill
Grant Stern / Washington Press:
A Democratic Congressman just brutally mocked the cowardice of Trump's attorney general with a hilarious stunt
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Townhall, Fortune and The Daily Caller
Quin Hillyer / Washington Examiner:
Barr's theory would create a tyrannical presidency
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New York Times, Vox and Washington Post
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Biden says Barr ‘should’ resign: 'He's lost the confidence of the American people'
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Daily Wire, Washingtonian and The Daily Dot
The Daily Beast:
Mark Halperin Enlists Pals Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Michael Smerconish to Rehab His Career After Sexual Misconduct Scandal — The disgraced pundit has re-emerged from #MeToo hiding and has met with media friends for new punditry work—including a scrapped gig with the hosts of MSNBC's ‘Morning Joe.’
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Outside the Beltway, Fox News and Mediaite
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Watergate had the Nixon tapes. Mueller had Annie Donaldson's notes. — The notes, scribbled rapidly on a legal pad, captured the fear inside the White House when President Trump raged over the Russia investigation and decreed he was firing the FBI director who led it: “Is this the beginning of the end?”
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Raw Story
Rachel Frazin / The Hill:
California Senate passes bill that would keep Trump off 2020 ballot unless he releases tax returns — The California state Senate on Thursday approved a bill to require candidates appearing on the presidential primary ballot — including President Trump — to release five years' worth of income tax returns.
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Adam Beam / Associated Press:
California renews bid to get presidential candidates' taxes
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Townhall, Joe.My.God. and Axios
Greg Farrell / Bloomberg:
Someone Did Get to Look at Trump's Tax Returns: Deutsche Bankers
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Talking Points Memo
Alexandria Neason / Columbia Journalism Review:
On Twitter, news outlets amplify Trump's false statements: study — When a president speaks, what he says is, by journalistic norms, inherently newsworthy. But when a president lies—on social media, at press conferences, and in speeches—news organizations have to reconsider old rules …
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
‘Anyone Ever Seen Cocaine?’ What We Found in the Archives of Bernie Sanders's Long-Lost TV Show. — Dozens of children scurry on the screen across Ethan Allen Park in Burlington, Vermont, bobbing for apples and running three-legged races. It is a beaming July day, and they're at a summer camp …
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Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Inside Bernie Sanders's 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union
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Althouse and Dispatches
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The 2019 governor's race that has Trump's team sweating — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is a presidential phone-buddy and White House regular who's become one of President Donald Trump's loudest surrogates. — He's also one of the most unpopular governors in the country, facing a treacherous reelection in November.
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
William Barr's Justice Department Just Filed the Most Nakedly Political Brief in the Agency's History — On Wednesday afternoon, after Attorney General William Barr finished his truculent and mendacious testimony before the Senate, the Department of Justice filed perhaps the most embarrassing …
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ThinkProgress and The Atlantic
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Jobs surge in April, unemployment rate falls to the lowest since 1969 — KEY POINTS — US added 263,000 jobs in April, vs 190,000 expected — The U.S. jobs machine kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation …
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JustOneMinute, Instapundit and The Week
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
U.S. Added 263,000 Jobs in April; Unemployment Rate at 3.6%
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Political Wire
John Solomon / The Hill:
Ukrainian embassy confirms DNC contractor solicited Trump dirt in 2016 — The boomerang from the Democratic Party's failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia's 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow's pesky neighbor, Ukraine.
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RedState, Fox News, twitchy.com, News Agency UNIAN, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Bloomberg:
Trump Hails Steel Tariffs in Defiance of GOP Request to End Them — Republican senators urged him not to impose new auto tariffs — Grassley says USMCA can't get a vote if metals tariffs remain — Republican senators said they warned President Donald Trump Thursday against imposing tariffs …
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The Last Refuge and Politico
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Moore is just the latest casualty of Trump's nomination process
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The Week, The Daily Beast and Townhall
Katie Galioto / Politico:
Trump says he leaned on God to survive Mueller probe
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Political Wire and ABC News
Daily Mail:
Grim-faced Obama with president-elect Trump as they depart of White House for the inauguration. — Obama was cordial to the president elect in their face-to-face meeting in the Oval Office, but in private Obama called Trump a conman straight out of Huckleberry Finn.
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Daily Wire and The Gateway Pundit
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John Gage / Washington Examiner:
Obama saw the 2016 loss of Hillary Clinton as a ‘personal insult’
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TheBlaze
Associated Press:
Cohen's prison reality: ‘The Situation’ and Shabbat services — NEW YORK (AP) — “The Situation” and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there. President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next. — It's not reality TV. It's a federal prison 70 miles …
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Mediaite
CNN:
Allegations remain in forefront for Kavanaugh, 7 months after his confirmation — Washington (CNN)Seven months after he joined the US Supreme Court, the cloud of Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault allegations still hangs over Justice Brett Kavanaugh, recalled in media reports across …
Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The White House wants Maduro gone. But it may be helping him stay in power. — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — In baseball parlance, you could say (and some already have) that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó may have struck out.
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Joe Schoffstall / Washington Free Beacon:
Poynter ‘Blacklist’ of Conservative News Sites Was Created by SPLC Employee — List contains sites such as Free Beacon, Daily Caller, Breitbart — A journalism institute released a “blacklist” of media outlets they deemed as “unreliable” that was created by an employee …
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Poynter, NB Blog, The Daily Signal and Instapundit
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:
Barr Unable to Give Honest Answer to Drive-Thru Window at Arby's — BETHESDA, Maryland (The Borowitz Report)—Attorney General William Barr on Thursday proved unable to give honest answers to a drive-thru window at a Bethesda, Maryland, Arby's restaurant. — Barr, who drove up to the window …
New York Times:
F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016 — WASHINGTON — The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia?
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CNN:
Bernie Sanders personally spearheaded campaign strategy to take on Joe Biden — Sanders: Dems must campaign on policy issues, not attacks — (CNN)The decision by Bernie Sanders' campaign to immediately engage with Joe Biden — in a series of public remarks, tweets and emails to supporters …
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