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With Feds Circling, Trump Asks Allies: Who's ‘Wearing a Wire’? — Donald Trump is worried he may have a rat — or multiple rats — in his midst. He's wondering if his phones are tapped, or even if one of his buddies could be “wearing a wire.” — As the federal and state investigations …
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FBI Quest for Trump Documents Started With Breezy Chats, Tour of a Crowded Closet — Why interactions between FBI, Trump team soured remains a mystery — FBI Searches Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home — Created with sketchtool. … 1x — Around lunchtime on June 3, a senior Justice Department …
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Questions grow about Trump raid after revelation of grand jury subpoena, extensive cooperation — Two months before his Florida home was raided by the FBI, former President Donald Trump secretly received a grand jury subpoena for classified documents belonging to the National Archives …

Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where
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Trump world gripped with anger, fear and a host of conspiracies about the FBI search
Trump world gripped with anger, fear and a host of conspiracies about the FBI search
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Mar-a-Lago Search Shows the Swamp's Trump Obsession
Mar-a-Lago Search Shows the Swamp's Trump Obsession
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
Citizen Trump may have broken a law that President Trump made a felony
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Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
'You Can't Play the Cable-News Game in Court'
'You Can't Play the Cable-News Game in Court'
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Tweets that have aged extremely poorly, FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago edition
Tweets that have aged extremely poorly, FBI executes search warrant at Mar-a-Lago edition
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FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say — 1,070 … - Meadows' former aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified to the House Select Committee that Perry was among a small group of people who talked with Meadows about a potential appearance by Trump at the Capitol following …
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Seizure of Congressman's Phone Is Latest Sign of Escalating Election Inquiry
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Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Search, seizure rankle Republicans
Search, seizure rankle Republicans
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Historians privately warn Biden that America's democracy is teetering — When Biden met with historians last week at the White House, they compared the threat facing America to the pre-Civil War era and to pro-fascist movements before WWII — President Biden paused last week …
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Gas prices tumble below $4 for the first time in months — London (CNN Business)Drivers in the United States can breathe a small sigh of relief — average gas prices have dropped below $4 a gallon for the first time since March. — The national average price for regular gasoline fell to $3.99 a gallon on Thursday, according to AAA.
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U.S. gas prices fall below $4 for the first time in months
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Isabella Simonetti / New York Times:
Gas Prices in the U.S. Fall Below $4 a Gallon
Gas Prices in the U.S. Fall Below $4 a Gallon
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An unusual deal gave Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin $8.5 million in stock. He paid $0 in tax on it. — In January 2020, Glenn Youngkin, now the Republican governor of Virginia, got some welcome news. A complex corporate transaction had gone through at the Carlyle Group …
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Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge — “Let's find out if he has children... where they go to school, where they live... EVERYTHING,” one person wrote on a message board where the judge's address was posted. — David Gilbert
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Why Wait? Here's Liz Cheney's Concession Speech in Advance — Liz Cheney is facing an awkward challenge. A few days from now, she will deliver the most consequential speech of her career to date. The polls indicate it will almost certainly be a concession speech.
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Hispanic Voters Are Normie Voters — Time for Woke Democrats to Wake Up — Democrats are having a great deal of trouble holding on to Hispanic voters. In 2020, running against Donald Trump for a second time, in the midst of a COVID/economic crisis and after the George Floyd summer of …

Yellen directs IRS not to use new funding to increase chances of audits of Americans making less than $400,000 — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday directed the Internal Revenue Service not to use any of the new funding allocated in the Democrats' new health care and climate bill …
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Trump and James sat across from each other for hours as he said ‘same answer’ again and again. — The New York State attorney general, Letitia James, sat across from Donald J. Trump as he repeatedly declined to answer questions, invoking his right against self-incrimination during a deposition on Wednesday …
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A mom's campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town — and her own family — Weston Brown had given up challenging his mother's anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But that was before she started coming after library books. … GRANBURY, Texas — Weston Brown was scrolling through Twitter last month …

Lincoln Project co-founder speculates if Jared Kushner was the mole who sold out Trump to the feds — Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson appeared on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon to talk about the group's new 60 second ad that they are running in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Donald Trump typically summers.

The Decisive Vote — Now that Joe Manchin has saved the Democratic agenda, how should liberals think about him? — Joe Manchin has spent much of the past year as the villain of liberal America, receiving the kind of criticism that's usually reserved for Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell or a conservative Supreme Court justice.
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Yearning for a Banana Republic — Emboldened by fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies. — What an amazingly stupid time this is. — Here's an easy thought experiment. Imagine a Third World banana republic.
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How Not To Talk To The Public About Monkeypox — A case study in hiding the ball, public health official-style — Happy Wednesday! You may have seen some FBI-related news this week — if you're interested in the Mar-a-Lago raid, including some inferences about the status of the investigations …
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Europe's Energy Crisis May Get a Lot Worse — I don't think many Americans appreciate just how tense and tenuous, how very touch and go the energy situation in Europe is right now. — For months, as news of the Ukraine war receded a bit, it was possible to follow the energy story unfolding across …
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FBI Has Reestablished Trump as the Alpha Dog in the Republican Party — Who could be in a better position to capitalize on outrage over the FBI searching Trump's home than Trump himself? — As the late political philosopher Hans Gruber once said, “You ask for miracles — I give you the F-B-I.”

Joe Arpaio loses 3rd comeback bid in town mayoral race — Joe Arpaio, the 90-year-old former Arizona sheriff who was a once powerful figure in Republican politics but was ousted nearly six years ago amid frustration over his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles …
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Fulton DA seeks to question Graham about any coordination with Trump — Prosecutors with the Fulton County District Attorney's office, who are leading the special purpose grand jury investigation into Georgia's 2020 election, are interested in questioning U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham …
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