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1:05 PM ET, August 28, 2020

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Matthew Choi / Politico:
Protesters confront Rand Paul outside White House after RNC  —  Sen. Rand Paul was confronted by protesters early Friday morning after leaving the Republican National Convention at the White House.  —  “Just got attacked by an angry mob of over 100, one block away from the White House.
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Caleb Parke / Fox News:
Rand Paul calls for FBI arrests, investigation into ‘mob’ he believes ‘would have killed us,’ if not for police  —  ‘It was horrific,’ the GOP senator tells ‘Fox & Friends’  —  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told “Fox & Friends” he believes he would have been killed if not for the police …
KARE-TV:
Biden planning campaign visits to Minnesota, Wisconsin and other battleground states  —  The Democratic presidential nominee will start doing in-person events after Labor Day.  —  WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden says he's planning to hit the campaign trail - in person …
Discussion: France 24
Mike Barnicle / The Daily Beast:
A Sick President Scrambles to Spread His Contagion of Fear  —  It was easy to shut your eyes and see and hear Nixon tracking back and forth across the land in the fall of 1968, about how “the other” is coming for your way of life.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Before last night's neon obscenity …
Ed Scarce / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Barron Trump Is Tall, Conservatives Freak Out When Liberals Point Out This Fact  —  Trump's 14-year-old son towered over Mike Pence last night.  That's NOT an “attack on a child.”  —  One would think that after what the Right spent years spewing about Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls …
Discussion: Althouse
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German Lopez / Vox:
The absurdity of Trump's RNC speech, in one photo  —  Evelyn Hockstein/The Washington Post via Getty Images  —  Trump tried to make his Republican convention into a celebration.  America's current reality is much grimmer.  —  President Donald Trump's speech on Thursday …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
3 winners and 4 losers from the final night of the Republican National Convention  —  President Donald Trump delivers his acceptance speech for the Republican Party nomination from the South Lawn of the White House.  Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images  —  A big day for Black Republicans; not much social distancing.
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
Mary Trump says GOP convention ‘disturbing to watch,’ calls portrayal of president a sham
Discussion: Breitbart and POLITICUSUSA
Christopher Bedford / The Federalist:
Trump Lit Up The Skies (And The Right) While The Streets Raged — And Remade Conventions Forever
New York Times:
Two P.R. Experts at F.D.A. Have Been Ousted After Blood Plasma Fiasco  —  The agency's chief spokeswoman, Emily Miller, was removed from her position just 11 days into the job.  —  Two senior public relations experts advising the Food and Drug Administration have been ousted from their positions …
Discussion: Raw Story
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New York Times:
Covid-19 Live Updates: 2 F.D.A. Public Relations Experts Are Fired After Plasma Fiasco  —  A coalition of local health departments called on the C.D.C. to change new recommendations that people without Covid-19 symptoms do not need to be tested.  —  RIGHT NOW Chancellor Angela Merkel …
Politico:
FDA ousts top spokesperson after 2 weeks
Discussion: STAT and Kaiser Health News
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
The Malign Fantasy of Donald Trump's Convention  —  Using the White House as his prop, the President makes war on Joe Biden, and pretends the pandemic is all but defeated.  —  For four years, Donald Trump has been asking us to believe the unbelievable, to accept the unthinkable, to replace harsh realities with simple fantasies.
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump — defiant and dark as ever — claims Biden would destroy America
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Host Greg Gutfeld Pulls a 180 on Trump's ‘Very Fine People’ in Charlottesville, Now Calls It a ‘Hoax’  —  Gutfeld was one of the more forceful critics of Trump's equivocating on neo-Nazi marchers, but three years later he's all-in on defending the president.
Brandon Ambrosino / Politico:
‘She was the aggressor’: Former Liberty student alleges sexual encounter with Becki Falwell  —  A former Liberty University student says Becki Falwell, the wife of the university's then-President Jerry Falwell Jr., jumped into bed with him and performed oral sex on him while he stayed …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What we learned over the last two weeks
George Packer / The Atlantic:
This Is How Biden Loses  —  Here is a prediction about the November election: If Donald Trump wins, in a trustworthy vote, what's happening this week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will be one reason.  Maybe the reason.  And yet Joe Biden has it in his power to spare the country a second Trump term.
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Cut Troop Presence in Iraq by About One-Third, Officials Say  —  President Trump is expected to tout the reduction to about 3,500 troops as progress toward winding down what he has described as endless wars  —  WASHINGTON—The Pentagon is cutting the U.S. force in Iraq to about 3,500 troops …
Discussion: Political Wire and The Federalist
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Instead of Evolving as President, Trump Has Bent the Job to His Will  —  In a 40-minute phone call this week, Mr. Trump struggled to describe how he has changed in office.  “I think I've just become more guarded than I was four years ago,” he said.  —  WASHINGTON — For a man on the edge of history …
USA Today:
Donald Trump's big convention speech was filled with lies and gall: Mastio and Lawrence  —  David: I don't much like the Democrats or Joe Biden and I certainly don't like leftists, anarchists and cancel culture, so there was a lot in Trump's speech that I wanted to like.
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Charlotte / mecknc.gov:
​Data for August 26  —  As of 5 p.m. on August 27, 2020 there were 24,952 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) with 290 deaths due to COVID-19 reported among Mecklenburg County residents.  —  Of note, approximately 792 COVID-19 tests were conducted among individuals attending …
Katherine Sayre / Wall Street Journal:
MGM Resorts Lays off 18,000 Workers  —  Casino industry struggles to regain business after pandemic shutdowns  —  MGM Resorts International MGM 5.15% is laying off 18,000 furloughed workers in the U.S. as a global travel slowdown impedes the casino industry's recovery from the ongoing pandemic.
Marisa Fernandez / Axios:
House committee launches contempt proceedings against Pompeo  —  The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced Friday that it will launch contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records related to the State Department's involvement …
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Trump Botches His Big Speech and No One Will Care  —  He didn't put much effort into addressing voters other than his most avid supporters.  —  Nomination speeches at normal conventions are easy.  Joe Biden even showed last week that nomination speeches given remotely during a pandemic aren't that hard.
Natalie Winters / The National Pulse:
EXCLUSIVE: Joe Biden's “Republican” Endorser Runs A Chinese Communist Party-Staffed Consulting Firm  —  Cohen recently endorsed Biden, citing his belief that President Trump's actions were “the mark of a dictatorship” and “a tyrant.”  —  Today, The National Pulse can reveal that Cohen works closely …
Discussion: Fox News
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
What if Facebook Is the Real ‘Silent Majority’?  —  Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November.  —  Listen, liberals.  If you don't think Donald Trump can get re-elected in November …
Discussion: Reason
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Secretly recorded audio of Trump's sister prompts new call for investigation into his admission to Penn  —  A professor at the University of Pennsylvania has renewed a request to investigate how President Trump was admitted to the school in 1966, citing what he called “new evidence” …
TODAY.com:
Kamala Harris: Officer in Jacob Blake shooting should be charged  —  In her first one-on-one network interview since becoming the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Kamala Harris talks to TODAY's Craig Melvin about the shooting of Jacob Blake, saying “I don't see how anybody could reason …
Discussion: Politico
Ghysling / SoundCloud:
SoundCloud  —  Yelling about adrenochrome, fighting pedovores and going into trances for our Lord Jesus Christ.  We report from the ground in London, Los Angeles and Santee — where some of the hundreds of worldwide soft-QAnon “Save the Children” rallies were held.
Associated Press:
Judge voids 50,000 absentee ballot requests in Iowa county  —  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — A judge ordered an Iowa county Thursday to invalidate 50,000 requests for absentee ballots, agreeing with President Donald Trump's campaign that its elections commissioner overstepped his authority by pre-filling them with voters' personal information.
CNN:
Fact check: Trump makes more than 20 false or misleading claims in accepting presidential nomination  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump is a serial liar and he serially lied during his speech accepting the Republican nomination.  —  CNN counted more than 20 false, exaggerated or misleading claims from Trump on Thursday night.
 
 
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Lateshia Beachum / Washington Post:
A Black, female veteran could topple the Republican incumbent in her red Florida district
Discussion: National Review and The Capitolist
Ted Hesson / Reuters:
Legal hurdles, pandemic would bedevil Biden efforts to undo Trump immigration overhaul
Discussion: Washington Post and Newsbusters
Chuck DeVore / The Federalist:
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Nearly every claim Trump made about Biden's positions was false
Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg:
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Jason Whitlock / OutKick:
BLM 101: Continued Harassment From Protesters Reveals Bigotry And Hate, Not Progress
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
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 Earlier Items: 
Saeed Shah / Wall Street Journal:
Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Maker in Talks With Countries on Early Approval
Nicole Gaudiano / Politico:
DeVos out of sight even as her signature school issue gets top billing at RNC
Discussion: Political Wire
Michael Brendan Dougherty / National Review:
Against Self-Doubt  —  It took me until the last night, but I finally figured out the theme of this convention.
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Viral pro-Trump tweets came from fake African American spam accounts, Twitter says
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