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CNN:
Trump and the Town Hall  —  It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.  —  Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come.  She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.
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Axios:
Key takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall … - He inserted himself into the delicate negotiations over the debt ceiling and said congressional Republicans should let the U.S. government default unless Democrats agree to “massive” budget cuts.  — He downplayed the potential fallout from a default …
Rolling Stone:
‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally  —  Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall  —  CNN INVITED DONALD Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night.
Politico:
Playbook: How Trump dominated CNN  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TITLE 42 GETS EIGHTY-SIXED — NYT: “U.S. Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’” ... WaPo: “Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants …
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Moment That You Knew  —  Critics had worried that giving the indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, chronically lying sexual predator an unedited, live television forum might turn out badly.  —  The reality, however, was far ghastlier: a sh*tshow for the ages, and a moment that captured …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers  —  Here's what Chris Licht said the day he took over at CNN: “Sadly, too many people have lost trust in the news media.  I think we can be a beacon in regaining that trust by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN town hall shows the network still doesn't know how to handle Donald Trump  — CNN is trying to rebrand itself as a down-the-middle, facts-only network.  — Trump's Wednesday town hall performance felt more like a rally than an attempt to keep him tethered to the truth.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN Chairman Defends Decision to Host Trump Town Hall  —  “People woke up and they know what the stakes are in this election in a way that they didn't the day before,” Chris Licht, said in a morning call at the network.  —  The chairman of CNN, Chris Licht, issued a robust defense on Thursday …
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Entirely Unrepentant  —  “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people,” former President Donald Trump declared during a CNN town hall tonight, shortly after he endorsed defaulting on the national debt.  —  Trump remains without shame.  Neither impeachment nor indictment nor arraignment nor …
Darren Tome / CNN:
The chilling reality of Trump  —  CNN Opinion asked expert contributors to weigh in with their reactions to former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall on Wednesday night.  The views expressed in this commentary are their own.  —  Paul Begala: Trump whined, griped and complained
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
Discussion: The Lincoln Project
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight
MSNBC:
Why CNN's Trump town hall was always doomed to fail
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
Wajahat Ali / The Daily Beast:
CNN Failed America With Its Train Wreck of a Trump Town Hall
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall
Ben Terris / Politico:
The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About  —  Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol.  —  He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden  —  After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.  —  Reporting from Washington
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ProPublica:
The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas' Relationship With Harlan Crow  —  The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy.  Here's where our reporting started and how we got the story.  —  Our reporting on the relationship between Supreme …
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Justice Elena Kagan was worried about the ethics of accepting bagels from friends, while Clarence Thomas was enjoying expensive vacations paid for by a GOP megadonor: report
Discussion: The Forward
Joseph Cotterill / Financial Times:
US accuses South Africa of supplying arms to Russia  —  Claim worsens foreign policy crisis for Cyril Ramaphosa's government over country's ties to Kremlin  —  The US has accused South Africa of supplying arms to Russia in a covert naval operation, escalating a foreign policy crisis …
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Juniour Khumalo / News24:
US ambassador says South Africa gave weapons, ammunition to Russia for Ukraine war
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Tragicomedy of George Santos and the GOP  —  Also, understanding the crimes Santos is charged with  —  What is the worst fate that could befall a political party?  Leaving Donald Trump (sexual assaulter, twice-impeached, insurrectionist, former president who badly lost his effort …
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New York Times:
The George Santos Indictment, Annotated
ProPublica:
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.  Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.  —  We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.
Discussion: Gothamist and www.wnyc.org
Connie Wang / New York Times:
Connie  —  IT WAS ON MY FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there.  —  Suddenly, I was among a student body that was almost 50 percent Asian.  While I was standing in line to order a sandwich at the campus cafe …
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters … But he's acting like it. … - Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's “radical climate agenda.”  — Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related …
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts  —  Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.
Discussion: The Nation and Mediaite
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court throws out ex-Cuomo aide's bribery conviction  —  The justices' ruling narrowed the scope of a law used to root out public corruption.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday narrowed the scope of a federal anticorruption law by ruling in favor of an ex-aide to former …
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah's drawings expose the US's depraved torture policy  —  Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release  —  Warning: the images and descriptions of torture in this article are extremely graphic
Lexi Lonas / The Hill:
Appeals court tosses convictions of parents in college admissions scandal  —  A federal appeals court exonerated two parents on Wednesday who were found guilty of using bribes to get their children into school, with the ruling overturned on largely technical grounds.
 
 
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