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12:45 PM ET, August 8, 2022

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New Yorker:
Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals  —  How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.  —  In the summer of 2017, after just half a year in the White House, Donald Trump flew to Paris for Bastille …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
New Book Chronicles Trump's Fraught Relationship With Top Military Officials  —  Mr. Trump once asked his chief of staff why his military leadership couldn't be more like the German generals who had reported to Adolf Hitler, according to an excerpt.  —  WASHINGTON — Former President Donald J. Trump told …
Mike Allen / Axios:
Exclusive photos: Trump's telltale toilet  —  Remember our toilet scoop in Axios AM earlier this year?  Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book about former President Trump will report that White House residence staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet — and believed the former president …
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: How it really happened: the Inflation Reduction Act
Shania Shelton / CNN:
Photos show handwritten notes that Trump apparently ripped up and attempted to flush down toilet
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Politico:
The Sinema-Manchin split that shaped Dems' deal
Bloomberg:
Five US States Will Decide If the 2024 Election Can Be Stolen
Discussion: Dispatches From Exile
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Axios to Sell Itself to Cox Enterprises for $525 Million  —  The digital media company's founders, Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz, will continue to run the company.  —  Axios, the digital media company that quickly gained traction since its founding five years ago …
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Axios agrees to sell to Cox Enterprises for $525 million  —  Axios has signed a deal to sell to its most recent lead investor, Cox Enterprises, the companies announced Monday.  The cash deal values the company at $525 million, according to sources familiar with the deal.
Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Exclusive: Paul Manafort admits he passed Trump campaign data to a suspected Russian asset  — Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, sat down for an exclusive interview with Insider.  — Manafort made his first public admission that he shared polling data with Konstantin Kilimnik …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
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Mattathias Schwartz / Insider:
Paul Manafort in his first in-depth interview since going to prison for Trump: 'I don't apologize'
Discussion: The Hill
Tim Miller / Morning Shots:
I'm Sorry, But He's Running  —  Trump's CPAC speech was his 2024 blueprint.  —  Hey y'all, it's Tim in for Charlie with your Monday Morning Shots (you might need to make it a Jägermeister after reading today's).  —  First, a few quick housekeeping items:
Discussion: Althouse
Skyler Swisher / Orlando Sentinel:
‘Constitutional’ sheriff movement escapes DeSantis' scrutiny  —  Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren isn't the only elected official in Florida who has promised not to enforce laws he thinks are unconstitutional.  —  Some elected sheriffs have suggested they wouldn't enforce …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork, with Chris Geidner:   Ignoring Kansas vote, Indiana bans almost all abortion
Daniel Lewis / New York Times:
David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America's Past, Dies at 89  —  His research — on Adams, Truman and so much more — was deep, his writing was lively, and his narrator's voice in documentary films was familiar to millions.  —  David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning …
Michael Wines / New York Times:
Maps in Four States Were Ruled Illegal Gerrymanders.  They're Being Used Anyway.  —  A Supreme Court shift, frowning on changes close to elections, gives House Republicans a big advantage in November.  —  WASHINGTON — Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found …
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
‘Baffling and traumatizing’: Queens man arrested at Rockaway Beach after off-hours swim  —  Andre Velasquez arrived at Rockaway Beach on Friday afternoon hoping to beat the sweltering heat with a cool swim in the open ocean.  —  Instead, he was escorted from the sand in handcuffs …
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
In Wisconsin, G.O.P. Voters Demand the Impossible: Decertifying 2020  —  Donald Trump's supporters have turned anger over his defeat two years ago, and the false notion that it can still be reversed, into central campaign issues ahead of the battleground state's primary.
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
Trump's pick for Wisconsin governor won't weigh in on 2020 results
Discussion: Common Dreams and WTOP News
Popular Information:
The people behind the bizarre non-profit trying to kill Biden's climate agenda  —  This story is being published in partnership with FWIW, a newsletter tracking digital spending, strategy, and trends in our elections.  —  For more than a week, a group called United for Clean Power has run …
Nathan Layne / Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show  —  The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general led a team that gained unauthorized access to voting equipment while hunting for evidence to support former President Donald …
Alexander Vindman / Foreign Affairs:
Stop Tiptoeing Around Russia … For the last three decades, the United States has bent over backward to acknowledge Russia's security concerns and allay its anxieties.  The United States has done so at the expense of relations with more willing partners in Eastern Europe—Ukraine in particular.
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Washington Post:
Abortion bans complicate access to drugs for cancer, arthritis, even ulcers  —  Some chronically ill women face questions about critical medications that could be used to end a pregnancy.  —  Becky Hubbard, 46, has decided to get sterilized so that she can go back on the only medication …
Discussion: Eschaton
Washington Post:
Iraq broils in dangerous 120-degree heat as power grid shuts down  —  Almost 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion, the country is ill-prepared to cope as temperatures soar  —  BAGHDAD — Extreme heat is paralyzing Iraq, forcing shutdowns in the overstretched power grid as authorities extend public holidays …
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
No One Despises MAGA Voters More Than MAGA Elites  —  1. ABP: Always.  Be.  Projecting.  —  We talk a lot about how projection is the sincerest form of Trumpism:  — The people who jeer about “cucks” turn out to be super into literal cucking.  — The people who won't stop obsessing …
Discussion: BizPac Review, Mediaite and Insider
Washington Post:
Strangers huddled together under a tree.  Then lightning struck.  —  The blast killed a retired couple from Wisconsin and a bank official from California.  A woman raising money for refugees was badly wounded but survived.  —  All day long, the tall, leafy tree had been a source of shade and comfort for Amber Escudero-Kontostathis.
Discussion: WTOP News
Brittany Gibson / Politico:
‘Nobody wants a runoff’: Georgia braces for chance of overtime — again  —  All of the pieces are falling into place for Georgia to decide control of the Senate again.  And just like in 2020, it might take extra weeks of campaigning to do it.  —  Public polling data shows the race between …
Discussion: New Republic
Brad Dress / The Hill:
Pro-SALT deduction House Democrats say they'll back Senate bill  —  House Democrats who are pushing to lift a $10,000 fixed cap on state and local taxes (SALT) said they will support the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed the U.S. Senate on Sunday, even without the SALT deduction.
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Washington Post:
Biden visits flood-stricken Kentucky ahead of bill signings this week
 
 
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Consumers' expectations of future inflation decreased significantly in win for the Federal Reserve
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
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New York Times:
Biden Appeared to Overstate the Role of Al Qaeda's Leader
The New York Times Company:
Carlos Lozada Joins The Times As Opinion Columnist
Stephanie Liechtenstein / Politico:
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Catherine Lucey / Wall Street Journal:
Biden Schedule Is Heavy on Delaware, Light on Press Interviews and Golf
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The Lawfare Podcast:
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David Horowitz / Front Page Magazine:
IRS: Gestapo in the Making
Discussion: jihadwatch.org
Trita Parsi / MSNBC:
Biden already has two foreign crises on his hands. It's not too late for him to avoid a third.
German Lopez / New York Times:
A Drop in Murders  —  Despite the grim headlines, 2022 is less violent so far than last year.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Nomaan Merchant / Associated Press:
One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China
Discussion: Washington Examiner and HotAir