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10:40 PM ET, August 9, 2022

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Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Trump ally Rep. Scott Perry says the FBI seized his cell phone one day after Mar-a-Lago raid  —  The confiscation of Perry's phone comes one day after the FBI searched Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate  —  Bret Baier on Trump raid: There is a lot we don't know  —  EXCLUSIVE - Republican …
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Washington Post:
Mar-a-Lago search appears focused on whether Trump, aides withheld items  —  The FBI sought a warrant after Archives officials pressed Trump's circle to return what they believed was government property, according to people familiar with the discussions  —  In the months before the FBI's dramatic move …
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Do We Believe Our Own Dogma?  —  The FBI's serving a search warrant on Donald Trump's residence is not — in spite of everything being said about it — unprecedented.  The FBI serves search warrants on homes all the time.  Donald Trump is a former president, not a mystical sacrosanct being.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Why the Trump search warrant is nothing like Hillary's emails  —  The Justice Department official who oversaw the investigation of Hillary Clinton's handling of classified records says there's simply no comparing the search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence to the case against the former secretary of State.
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The FBI's Mar-a-Lago ‘Raid’: It's about the Capitol Riot, Not the Mishandling of Classified Information  —  This search was almost certainly about much more than classified documents.  —  There's a game prosecutors play.  Let's say I suspect X committed an armed robbery, but I know X is dealing drugs.
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Russia's Trump Raid Tantrum Is a Spectacle You Don't Want to Miss  —  The FBI raid on Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has reduced the Kremlin's cronies to live TV hysterics.  —  The FBI raid on former U.S. President Donald J. Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida triggered shockwaves across Russia …
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
Conservatives Believe Trump Is Above the Law  —  A former president's home was raided by federal law enforcement yesterday, reportedly over possession of classified documents.  Although prosecution of former heads of state has occurred in other democracies, a form of government in which ostensibly …
CNN:
Trump fields calls from Republican allies to speed up 2024 bid after FBI raid  —  Top Republicans who have spent months trying to dissuade Donald Trump from announcing another presidential campaign before the midterms are coming around to the idea, after an unprecedented search …
New York Times:
Questions swirl about what exactly the F.B.I. was looking for, and why.
Politico:
Federal agents took about a dozen boxes from Mar-a-Lago, Trump lawyer says
Discussion: CNBC and Raw Story
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:   What Is Really Unprecedented Is the Criminality … In response to the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago …
New York Post:
Judge who approved FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago once linked to Jeffrey Epstein
David Frum / The Atlantic:
Stuck With Trump  —  You might think that the FBI search at Mar-a-Lago yesterday would provide …
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Search Should Just Be Garland's Opening Act
Jason Koebler / VICE:
This Is the Data Facebook Gave Police to Prosecute a Teenager for Abortion  —  Motherboard has obtained court documents that show Facebook gave police a teenager's private chats about her abortion.  Cops then used those chats to seize her phone and computer.
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Forbes:
Facebook Gave Nebraska Cops A Teen's DMs So They Could Prosecute Her For Having An Abortion  —  A Nebraska teenager is facing criminal charges alleging she aborted a fetus in violation of state law, after authorities obtained her Facebook messages using a search warrant.
Hannah Allam / Washington Post:
Simmering threat of violence comes to fore with search of Trump property  —  Calls from right for militant action in response to FBI raid span mainstream and extremist circles  —  For months, right-wing agitators with millions of followers have peddled the idea that a moment was coming soon …
Discussion: The Hill
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NBC News:
After Mar-a-Lago search, users on pro-Trump forums agitate for ‘civil war’ — including a Jan. 6 rioter  —  Some users on pro-Trump internet forums told users to “lock and load,” agitated for civil war and urged protesters to head to Mar-a-Lago in the hours after news broke …
David Weigel / Washington Post:
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler concedes in Washington state  —  She is one of three pro-impeachment Republicans likely to be defeated this cycle.  —  Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.), one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Donald Trump last year, has conceded in her tough primary contest against Joe Kent.
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Washington Post:
Why does the IRS need $80 billion?  Just look at its cafeteria.  —  This is the cafeteria at the Internal Revenue Service offices in Austin.  —  Yes, the cafeteria.  —  It's part of what the IRS calls the “Pipeline”: a 1970s-era assembly line used to process tax returns at several locations around the country.
Discussion: The Federalist
Eric Cortellessa / TIME:
Trump Allies Are Attacking Biden For a Plan to Hire 87,000 New IRS Agents That Doesn't Exist  —  Since news broke on Monday that the FBI searched former President Donald Trump's South Florida home, Republican members of Congress and right-wing media figures have launched a new line of attack …
Discussion: HotAir, CNBC and Breitbart
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Michael Goldberg / Associated Press:
Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing  —  A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and an unpublished memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Politico:
Neera Tanden takes the wheel  —  Welcome to POLITICO's West Wing Playbook, your guide to the people and power centers in the Biden administration.  With help from Allie Bice.  —  Inside the White House, NEERA TANDEN has taken a far more assertive role in determining what papers …
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The DOJ Crosses the Rubicon  —  “DEFUND THE FBI”  —  I had planned to devote this newsletter to Our Very Stupid Politics, but after the events of last night, I had to call an audible, and so will instead devote today's Morning Shots to our Extremely Stupid Politics.  —  Happy Tuesday.
Discussion: The Bulwark
Washington Post:
Md. governor hopeful Dan Cox says he would use state police against Biden  —  The Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee calls the FBI search of Trump's residence ‘nothing short of communist stasi police state tactics’  —  Maryland Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Cox on Tuesday called …
Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Pizzagate promoter tapped for Kremlin-backed propaganda campaign  —  Russia's state-backed media apparatus is financing four new TV programs produced by a U.S. conspiracy theorist and aimed in large part at undercutting America's image and interests in the developing world, records show.
Discussion: OpenSecrets.org
CREW:
CREW urges USPS Board of Governors to fire Louis DeJoy  —  Louis DeJoy poses a serious threat to the United States Postal Service (USPS)—time and time again, the Postmaster General has failed to uphold his ethical obligations and protect our democratic system of free and fair elections.
Michael Isikoff / Yahoo News:
Trump could be charged with violating the Espionage Act, former DOJ national security chief says  —  The former chief of the Justice Department's national security division said Tuesday that the search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., suggests that the former president …
Amie Parnes / HuffPost:
I Finally Got To Date My Crush Years After Middle School.  Then The Unthinkable Happened.  —  “A woman introduced herself as a longtime friend of Jeremy's ... 'I'm so sorry if I am the first one to share the news,' she wrote.  ‘He would want you to know...’”  —  Everyone remembers their first big crush.
New York Times:
F.B.I. Search of Trump's Home Pushes Long Conflict Into Public View  —  Justice Department officials were worried that the former president had not fully complied with requests to return material taken from the White House that included possible classified information.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Dareh Gregorian / NBC News:
With primary win, Becca Balint is likely to be Vermont's first female and openly gay member of Congress  —  Becca Balint, Vermont's state Senate president, has won the Democratic nomination for the state's at-large congressional seat, NBC News projects.  —  The victory makes her likely …
Discussion: The Hill, ABC News and WTOP News
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast:
POLICE STATE  —  In this episode, Dinesh examines the ramifications and motivations behind the Biden DOJ raiding the home of the leading figure of the opposition, Donald Trump.  Trump lawyer Christina Bobb joins Dinesh to give a first-hand account of what happened.
John Gramlich / Pew Research Center:
Biden has appointed more federal judges than any president since JFK at this point in his tenure  —  President Joe Biden has appointed more judges to the federal courts at this stage in his tenure than any president since John F. Kennedy, and his appointees include a record number of women …
Discussion: Townhall and Washington Post
 
 
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Julia Terruso / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Two super PACs are pouring tens of millions into Pennsylvania for Oz and Fetterman ads
Discussion: The Hill
Nick Minock / WSET-TV:
Should teachers be allowed to tell parents if their kids are LGBTQ+? Youngkin weighs in
Discussion: Blue Virginia
Financial Times:
Carlyle boss quit after failed request for $300mn pay package
 Earlier Items: 
Andrew Perez / The Lever:
Emails Raise Questions About WashPost Fact Checker
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
GOP discovers new standards on the mishandling of classified info
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump tax returns must be given to Congress, federal appeals court says in new ruling
Rolling Stone:
Inside Trump's Frantic Hunt for ‘Killer’ Criminal Defense Attorneys
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
There's a Storm Coming
Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Accounting of bodies in Bucha nears completion
Discussion: Washington Examiner
 

 
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