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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy  —  Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal.  He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump's plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was completely ignorant of what he was doing.
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
In May, Ukrainian oligarch said Giuliani was orchestrating a ‘clear conspiracy against Biden’  —  Months before an intelligence community whistleblower accused President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani of digging for dirt on former vice president Joe Biden in Ukraine …
Fadel Allassan / Axios:
3 GOP senators called for Ukrainian government reform in 2016 letter
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump keeps making it harder for supporters to defend him  —  As President Trump keeps talking, he makes it more and more difficult for his supporters to mount an actual defense of his underlying behavior.  —  Trump's pushback against impeachment efforts seemed to be gaining some traction …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Just Committed More High Crimes on the White House Lawn  —  Donald Trump is being impeached for using his office to pressure foreign countries to investigate his political rivals.  It is not clear Trump understands that, because he simply continues committing this offense in broad daylight.
Discussion: Washington Post and Political Wire
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Trump Publicly Urges China to Investigate the Bidens  — President Trump said he had not personally asked President Xi Jinping of China to examine the Bidens, “but it's certainly something we can start thinking about.”  — The public statement came as the House begins an impeachment inquiry …
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Irony is dead: The Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue
Discussion: Politico, PolitiFact and The Atlantic
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Schiff calls Trump's call for China to investigate Bidens “repugnant”
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mad King's Enablers
Susan Page / USA Today:
Perilous times for President Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over allegations related to Ukraine, poll finds  —  From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been cloaked in controversy and shadowed by investigations.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump's impeachment defiance spooks key voting blocs
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House Floats Potential DOJ Investigation Into ‘Joe Biden and His Family’  —  A tiny, largely unnoticed edit to a daily White House newsletter this week suggests the Trump administration is leaving open the possibility of siccing the Justice Department on Joe Biden.
Discussion: The White House
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How this scandal could get much worse for Trump — and Pence
Tess Bonn / The Hill:
Trump approval climbs to highest level of 2019 amid impeachment inquiry
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Trump team throwing sand in impeachment gears
Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior  —  The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses.  The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
‘Crazy to withhold security assistance’ to Ukraine for political purposes: Top US diplomat  —  In newly disclosed text messages shared with Congress, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine at the time writes to a group of other American diplomats that “I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
Discussion: Raw Story
George T. Conway III / The Atlantic:
Unfit for Office  —  On a third-down play last season, the Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith stood in shotgun formation, five yards behind the line of scrimmage.  As he called his signals, a Houston Texans cornerback, Kareem Jackson, suddenly sprinted forward from a position four yards behind the defensive line.
Discussion: Axios, Mediaite, Law & Crime and Raw Story
Judd at Popular Information / Popular Information:
Facebook says Trump can lie in his Facebook ads  —  Last week, Facebook quietly changed the language of its advertising policies to make it easier for politicians to lie in ads.  —  On Tuesday, the Trump campaign launched a new ad on Facebook, which includes a claim that was ruled false by Facebook-approved third-party fact-checkers.
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Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Biden ads focus on early-voting states as he counters Trump
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Political Wire
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Trump's video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains  —  US president receives copyright censure over video that took aim at political rival Joe Biden  —  A video posted by Donald Trump has been removed from Twitter following a copyright claim by the rock band Nickelback.
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad Pushing Biden-Ukraine Claims and Bashing Network Anchors  —  The 30-second spot paints the president as a victim of Democrats and alleged “media lapdogs” like CNN.  —  In a move that is sure to ratchet up tension with the White House, cable news channel CNN …
BuzzFeed News:
The New Way To Hack Democracy: The Political Operatives Who Fake Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments  —  Sarah Reeves sat on her couch in Eugene, Oregon, staring at her laptop screen in furious disbelief.  She was reading the website of a government agency, where her mother appeared …
Discussion: Politico
Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
Watch: Trump arrives to The Villages today amid impeachment probe  —  THE VILLAGES - The official subject of President Trump's visit to The Villages this afternoon is Medicare.  —  But his first large event before a friendly crowd since Congress began impeachment hearings last week could make it hard for him to resist sounding off.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Book Alleging Biden Corruption in Ukraine Lifted Passages From Wikipedia  —  In more than a dozen instances, Peter Schweizer's book “Secret Empires” appears to have copied complete sentences or large parts of them from other sources.  —  A book that has fueled corruption allegations …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
For the last time, Trump's every move is brilliant and calculated  —  “There are different ways to bake the cake, depending on what sort of cake you want.  Different flavoring, different temperatures, different ingredients yield different types of cake, and the president as the master baker …
Lee Drutman / FiveThirtyEight:
If Republicans Ever Turn On Trump, It'll Happen All At Once  —  In the House, Democrats are inching ever closer to impeaching President Trump.  Some are even pushing for drafting articles of impeachment by Thanksgiving and, potentially, sending proceedings to the Senate by early next year.
Discussion: Raw Story
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump's removal would require Republican dissidents.  But those who speak out become targets of viral disinformation.  —  In the conspiracy-obsessed echo chambers of conservative talk radio and far-right websites, Sen. Mitt Romney has some explaining to do — answering for ties …
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Going to Burn Down Everything and Everyone, and Republicans, That Means You  —  That press conference was terrifying.  And congressional Republicans should be more afraid than anyone.  Trump's going down and taking them with him.  —  BEAST INSIDE
BuzzFeed News:
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps  —  Attorney General Bill Barr, along with officials from the United Kingdom and Australia, is set to publish an open letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, asking the company …
Washington Post:
Giuliani consulted on Ukraine with imprisoned Paul Manafort via a lawyer  —  In his quest to rewrite the history of the 2016 election, President Trump's personal attorney has turned to an unusual source of information: Trump's imprisoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
Kyle Kondik / Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Senate: Ratings Changes and the Shadow of Impeachment  —  KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE  — Nationalization is an increasingly important trend in American election outcomes.  It's hard to think of a more nationalizing issue than a presidential impeachment.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Matt Lieberman, son of former VP nominee, runs for Senate in Georgia  —  Matt Lieberman, an entrepreneur who is the son of former U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, became the first Democrat to enter the race for retiring Republican Johnny Isakson's seat on Thursday with a promise to be a voice for frustrated Georgians.
Discussion: ABC News, YouTube and Politico
Molly Ball / TIME:
Why Kamala Harris Is Struggling to Find Her Footing  —  Sometimes Kamala Harris wakes up in the middle of the night because there's something on her mind.  Did anybody get back to so-and-so?  How is my stepdaughter adjusting to her apartment in New York City?
Discussion: Fox News, Axios and Los Angeles Times
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
No Longer Crying Wolf: Why the GOP Went Cold on Calling for Impeachment  —  Impeachment does strange things to people.  With the revelation that President Donald Trump asked the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden as a personal favor—and the subsequent creation of an impeachment inquiry …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Alex Moe / NBC News:
McCarthy calls for Pelosi to suspend impeachment inquiry
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Tom Jackman / Washington Post:
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Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr / Los Angeles Times:
Good luck to the whistleblower who reported Trump's Ukraine call. He or she needs it.
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed News:
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
When the Story Is Written, the Whistleblower Will Just Be an Afterthought
Discussion: Raw Story, RedState and Washington Post
Rick Noack / Washington Post:
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Discussion: Politico
Eric Felten / RealClearInvestigations:
Whistlegate Reveals Some Very Chatty Minders of State Secrets
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Natasha Korecki / Politico:
Biden invests in an insurance policy against Warren's surge
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