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From The Reporter’s Notebook
In an internal memo sent Wednesday, FBI Director James Comey defended the timing of document releases from the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as well as his decision not to recommend charges, TPM’s Esme Cribb reported. “My judgment was that we had promised transparency and it would be game-playing to withhold it from the public just to avoid folks saying stuff about us,” he wrote. “So we released it Friday.”
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “It’s pretty well established that Trump is lying when he says he opposed the Iraq War. That’s simply not true. What’s far more important is that what Trump actually says, commits to for the future, isn’t Realism or non-interventionism but magical thinking. Consider this: Trump says that he’ll destroy ISIS quickly (even making occasional wild remarks about using nuclear weapons); he says he’ll set up and defend vast ‘safe zones’ in the Syrian desert; he says he’ll tear up the Iran nuclear deal and bring Iran to heal. And he’ll do all this while avoiding the foreign entanglements and ruinous foreign wars of Clintonism. There are definitely solid critiques of Clinton’s interventionism. But this isn’t one of them. What Trump is proposing isn’t Realism. It’s wild interventionism with the promise that everything will go great and nothing will go wrong. Everybody promises that.”
Say What?!
“I figure they can’t treat me any worse!”
– Donald Trump has decided to stop blacklisting media outlets that he claims covered his campaign unfairly.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Add to your notes that [Trump] brought Ailes in—and other staffies say Ailes isn’t consulting on the campaign—and just what would Ailes be doing then? How about advising/designing TrumpTV, working with Stone, etc. As you say he now has a ready-made stable of potential employees/contributors/writers for that, and will likely have more after the election and when Faux finishes crumbling. This would explain very nicely the way in which Trump continues the shock/awe ramping up of frenzy in his base–the nucleus of his new TV Limbaugh-type show.”
Related: One Fox host says that it’s not “comfortable” for him that ex-CEO Roger Ailes advises Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
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What We’re Reading
The uncounted human toll of drug-resistant “superbugs.” (Reuters)
The Clinton campaign’s “invisible” statistical guiding hand. (Politico)
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