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3:45 PM ET, August 17, 2018

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Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump and Omarosa Had a ‘F*cking Weird’ Fight With Vietnam Vets … Early on in the Donald Trump administration, the president vested many of his nearest and dearest with tasks they were woefully unprepared for—and Apprentice superstar Omarosa Manigault Newman was no exception.
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Yahoo:
Judge says Trump campaign screwed up on wording of confidentiality agreements  —  A Manhattan judge issued a ruling on Thursday that thwarted the Trump campaign's attempts to keep a lawsuit out of open court, with potential implications for the looming battle over fired Trump aide Omarosa …
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:   Trump Picked Fight With Vietnam Vets Over Who Better Understood What Agent Orange Was
Christopher Barca / m.qchron.com:
Ocasio-Cortez bans press from town hall  —  MEDIA WAS BARRED AFTER REPORTERS ‘MOBBED’ HER AT AN EARLIER EVENT  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Monday that stops on her “listening tour” throughout the district, like the one held a day earlier in Corona, are “intended for lively …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will be facing really intense scrutiny  —  A mini-controversy erupted today on Twitter when a bunch of prominent national reporters — and a few conservatives — tweeted out a story from a local Queens paper, which reported that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez barred reporters from a campaign event.
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Banned the Media From Her Latest Town Hall Event
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Resistance Twitter Hero Exposed as Pro-Trump Gamer … In the world of #Resistance Twitter, @GuardianRover was a hero.  As a former intelligence operative and Delta Force soldier, the person behind the account used a cartoon secret agent avatar and the alias “Mr. Smith” …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
What Was Bruce Ohr Doing?  —  Justice releases some damning documents, but much of the truth is still classified.  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Justice Department have continued to insist they did nothing wrong in their Trump-Russia investigation.
Mark Penn / The Hill:
Press needs to restore its credibility on FBI and Justice Department  —  I will never call the mainstream media “the enemy of the people.”  But I will call them out for having strayed from fairly reporting some of the biggest stories of the last two years.  No matter how egregious their errors …
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Gabby Morrongiello / Washington Examiner:
Bruce Ohr could be out of a job if Trump strips his security clearance
Discussion: New York Times, Vox and CNBC
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Bill Nelson wasn't making things up when he said Russians hacked Florida election systems  —  Sen. Bill Nelson, who is in a tough reelection fight, was blasted for saying 10 days ago that Russians had penetrated his state's election systems.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat …
New York Times:
Elon Musk Confronts a Fateful Tweet and an ‘Excruciating’ Year  —  Elon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure.  “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” he said.  “It was excruciating.”  —  The year has only gotten …
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NBC News:
Officials worry Trump may back Erik Prince plan to privatize war in Afghanistan  —  “I know he's frustrated,” Blackwater founder Prince said of the president.  “He gave the Pentagon what they wanted.  And they haven't delivered.”  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump: Manafort trial is a ‘very sad day for our country’  —  President Donald Trump on Friday refused to say whether Paul Manafort, his former campaign chairman who's been wrapped up in the special counsel's Russia investigation, could count on a pardon from the White House.
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Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg:   Trump Calls Manafort ‘Good Person’ and Criticizes Fraud Trial
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
Alex Jones of Infowars Destroyed Evidence Related to Sandy Hook Suits, Motion Says  —  WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the families of two Sandy Hook shooting victims are accusing the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media business of intentionally destroying evidence relevant …
New York Times:
Melania Trump, a Mysterious First Lady, Weathers a Chaotic White House  —  WASHINGTON — Hours after Melania Trump moved into the White House in June of last year, she peered out a window and took in a stunning view of the Washington Monument: “Looking forward to the memories we'll make in our new home! …
Discussion: AOL, The Daily Beast and Splinter
Lydia Wheeler / The Hill:
Manafort judge says he's received threats  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The judge in the tax and bank fraud trial against one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort  —  said Friday he's been threatened over the case, denying a request from media outlets to release the names and addresses of the jurors.
Discussion: The Federalist and Joe.My.God.
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Nancy Gertner / Washington Post:
The extraordinary bias of the judge in the Manafort trial
Discussion: Fox News, CNN and Breitbart
Dan Desai Martin / Shareblue Media:
Trump will ditch US for Veterans Day because he can't have his parade  —  Since Trump's $92 million military parade in Washington, D.C., was canceled, he's decided to up and leave the country in November so he can watch a parade somewhere else.  —  Trump is abandoning veterans this Veterans …
Discussion: ABC News, NBC News and CNBC
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Axios:
Robert Gates joins intelligence leaders condemning Trump for Brennan slap  —  Dr. Robert Gates has added his name to a stunning list of former intelligence officials who signed a letter criticizing President Trump's decision to revoke former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance.
Discussion: ABC News
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: AP Sources: US ends Syria stabilization funding  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is ending funding for Syria stabilization projects as it moves to extricate the U.S. from the conflict, citing increased contributions from anti-Islamic State coalition partners.
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Shannon Vavra / Axios:
Trump cuts funding for projects to stabilize Syria
Violet Ikonomova / Detroit Metro Times:
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'  —  More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
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Beth LeBlanc / Detroit News:
Detroit legislator apologizes for racial slurs
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Rigged Witch Hunt,” Meet Trump's “Red Wave”  —  Donald Trump's Presidency is often described as a reality-show version of the White House, with Trump himself as the producer, director, and main character.  There's something to the metaphor, of course; Trump is a showman …
Morning Call:
Lehigh Valley velodrome board put Pennsylvania congressional candidate Marty Nothstein on leave after sexual misconduct allegation  —  Congressional candidate Marty Nothstein was the subject of a sexual misconduct investigation prior to leaving his job this summer as leader …
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
The Debt-Shaming of Stacey Abrams  —  Our pernicious double standard on politicians who owe money.  —  The campaign for governor of Georgia is a supersaturated microcosm of American politics right now, offering the starkest possible choice between irreconcilable visions of the country's future.
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
Free-speech conservatives, this is your call to arms  —  To all those supposed constitutional conservatives out there, consider this your call to arms: The First Amendment is under direct attack, and this time from a much more powerful foe than misguided college freshmen.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Rand Paul to ask Trump to lift sanctions on Russian leaders  —  (R-Ky.) says he will ask President Trump  —  this weekend to lift sanctions against top Russian officials so they can visit the United States later this year.  —  Paul said members of both bodies of Russia's legislature …
Discussion: DC Tribune
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox News, CNN Hired Ex-Trump Aides Bound by NDAs.  That's ‘Journalistic Malpractice,’ Experts Say. … “If you're not allowed legally to disparage the president or his family or anything they have to do with, any company they have or asset they have, why can we believe anything you say?”
Joe Johnson / Athens Daily News:
Half-naked Athens woman punches officer  —  A 32-year-old Athens woman was arrested early Wednesday after she created a disturbance on Bray Street and then fought with a police officer, Athens-Clarke County police said.  —  Police said they responded to the area at about 12:30 a.m. on a report …
Jon Campbell / Rochester Democrat and Chronicle:
Andrew Cuomo says ‘America is great,’ previous comment was ‘inartful’  —  (Governor's Office) Jon Campbell, jcampbell1@gannett.com  —  ALBANY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday walked back his controversial comments about American greatness from earlier in the week, calling them “inartful” …
RedState:
Why the Left Hates Western Culture  —  Promoted from the diaries by streiff.  Promotion does not imply endorsement.  —  After the apparent failures of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the failure of Marxism in Western Europe- the area Marx himself predicted a great socialist revolution …
Ben Schreckinger / Politico:
DOJ Sues Ivanka's Ex-Business Partner for Massive Fraud  —  Moshe Lax and members of his family allegedly conspired to deprive the U.S. of $60 million.  —  The Justice Department is suing a friend and former business partner of Ivanka Trump for his alleged role in schemes to defraud …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Democrats
Quinta Jurecic / New York Times:
What to Care About When Everything Is Terrible  —  In the Trump presidency, everything is a distraction from everything else, because it all matters.  —  Ms. Jurecic is the managing editor of Lawfare.  —  As of Thursday, 565 migrant children — 24 of them under the age of five …
Discussion: KTLA
 
 
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Austin Ruse / Crisis Magazine:
Rod Was Right and I Was Wrong
David French / National Review:
The New York Times Runs a Sloppy, Specious Democratic Hit on Brett Kavanaugh
Joseph A. Wulfsohn / Mediaite:
Kimmel Trashes Colorado Baker For Refusing to Bake Transgender-Themed Cake: ‘His Whole Life is Gay!’
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The Texas Tribune:
Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate gets to work in August — but many don't show up
Justin Wm. Moyer / Washington Post:
Small earthquake brought ‘slight shake and rumble’ to Northern Virginia
Discussion: WTOP
Politico:
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Discussion: Political Wire
Los Angeles Times:
California homeowners get to pass low property taxes to their kids.  It's proved highly profitable to an elite group
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Hussein Ibish / Bloomberg:
Palestinians Can't Keep Living Like This
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Plain Dealer:
John Kasich's sore-loser role as antagonist-in-chief: Bob Paduchik (Opinion)
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
In a Divided Era, One Thing Seems to Unite: Political Anger
Shane Harris / Washington Post:
Signs of Trump-Putin collaboration, starting years before the campaign?
Discussion: Shakesville
Matt Gallagher / Wall Street Journal:
‘The Fighters’ Review: An Honest Reckoning
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Our republic will never be the same
Carla Herreria / HuffPost:
565 Migrant Children Remain Separated From Families 3 Weeks Past Judge's Deadline
Maggie Severns / Politico:
'Oh that's cool — do that!': Super PACs use new trick to hide donors
Discussion: Splinter