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8:30 PM ET, June 13, 2016

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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting  —  Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub …
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Donald J Trump for President:
DONALD J. TRUMP ADDRESSES TERRORISM, IMMIGRATION, AND NATIONAL SECURITY  —  Thank you for joining me today.  —  This was going to be a speech on Hillary Clinton and how bad a President, especially in these times of Radical Islamic Terrorism, she would be.  —  Even her former Secret Service Agent …
Joe Pompeo / Politico:
Trump: I'm revoking ‘dishonest’ Washington Post's credentials  —  Donald Trump is rescinding the Washington Post's credentials to cover his campaign events, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee said Monday in his latest attack on the press.  —  “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Trump: People Can Figure Out What I Meant By My Comments On Obama And Radical Islam  —  “I'll let people figure that out for themselves.”  —  w.soundcloud.com  —  Donald Trump said people can figure out for themselves what he meant when he said Monday morning that “there's something going on” …
Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
Donald Trump's foreign policy speech revealed a dangerous mix of ignorance and arrogance  —  The point of a “major foreign policy address” is for a presidential candidate, who typically lacks foreign policy experience, to show that he or she is in the process of learning and capable of learning more in the future.
Discussion: alan.com and bradford-delong.com
Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: Orlando Shooter Was Only Here Because Of Our Immigration System  —  Presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump said Monday that the man suspected of opening fire on an LGBT nightclub Sunday in Orlando, Florida and killing 49 people was only able to do so because of the nation's “immigration system.”
Discussion: The Week
David Wright / CNN:
Clinton: I'll say the words ‘radical Islamism’  —  Mayor: 50 dead in Orlando nightclub shooting  —  (CNN)Hillary Clinton reacted to the Orlando nightclub massacre in an interview Monday, labeling the tragedy a “terrorist attack” that was “at a minimum...inspired” by ISIS.
NBC News:
Donald Trump Takes Conspiracy Turn After Orlando  —  Donald Trump waded into the fever swamps on Monday, suggesting in two interviews that President Obama may have a secret agenda that prevents him from combating Islamic terrorists.  —  The comments added to a long list of conspiracy theories …
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump attacks Obama: 'He's got something else in mind'
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Trump tears into Clinton over Orlando as he says attacks prove HE'S the man to protect Americans …
Discussion: The Last Tradition
Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's Islamophobia helps to motivate the Islamic State
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clinton: I'm happy to say ‘radical Islamism’
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:   Trump pans ‘political correctness’ in post-Orlando address
Daily Mail:
'It's absolute war!' …
CBS News:
Orlando gunman's father posts new video message  —  The Orland gay club gunman's father has well-known anti-American views and is an ideological supporter of the Afghan Taliban.  A new message posted by the father on Facebook early Monday morning also makes it clear he could have passed anti-homosexual views onto his son.
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New York Times:
Orlando Gunman Was ‘Cool and Calm’ After Massacre, Police Say  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — The gunman who went on a shooting rampage in a popular gay nightclub here shot nearly all of his victims in the first stages of the assault, then was utterly “cool and calm” while he talked by phone …
Orlando Sentinel:
Gunman Omar Mateen visited gay nightclub a dozen times before shooting, witness says … FORT PIERCE - At least four regular customers at the gay Orlando nightclub where a gunman killed 49 people Sunday morning said today that they believe they had seen the killer, Omar Mateen, there before.
The Daily Beast:
Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist Omar Mateen Was My Friend
Owen Jones / Guardian:
On Sky News last night, I realised how far some will go to ignore homophobia
New York Daily News:
Omar Mateen bought guns used in Orlando gay club massacre from Florida store owned by retired NYPD officer
Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo
Los Angeles Times:
Orlando gunman had used gay dating app and visited LGBT nightclub on other occasions, witnesses say
Jim Hoft / Breitbart:
After the Pulse Club Massacre, It's Time for Gays to Come Home to Republican Party
Paul Singer / USA Today:
Trump was accused of destroying email evidence in lawsuit 10 years ago  —  In 2006, when a judge ordered Donald Trump's casino operation to hand over several years' worth of emails, the answer surprised him: The Trump Organization routinely erased emails and had no records from 1996 to 2001.
BBC:
Qatar convicts Dutch woman held ‘after being raped’  —  A court in Qatar has convicted a Dutch woman of having sex outside marriage after she told police she was raped.  —  The 22-year-old was handed a suspended sentence and fined $824 (£580).  She will also be deported.
Discussion: Al Jazeera English
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CNN:
Dutch woman jailed in Qatar after reporting rape convicted of ‘illicit sex’
Discussion: AOL and Instapundit
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
Occupied Territory  —  The Republican élite struggles over whether to resist Trump or capitulate.  —  Last month, Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, and Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, met at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee, two blocks from the Capitol.
Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump ally: Clinton aide could be ‘terrorist agent’  —  In the wake of Sunday's deadly terrorist shooting in Orlando, Donald Trump's longtime friend and informal adviser wants the presumptive Republican nominee to hit Hillary Clinton even harder, suggesting the former secretary …
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Selling Trump In Park City  —  Scaramucci at the real Davos earlier this year.  —  The toughest guy in Park City this weekend was Anthony Scaramucci, a top Donald Trump fundraiser and his emissary to the anti-Trump resistance.  —  The compact hedge fund manager, well-cut blue suit …
Arthur Kane / The New York Observer:
Flying High on the Taxpayer Dime: These Three Senators Bust the Budget on Air Travel  —  Senators Chuck Schumer, Kristen Gillibrand and John Barasso spent more taxpayer money on private charter flights than their colleagues  —  Sen. Charles Schumer spent $292,000 in public money flying private airplanes last year.
 
 
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Tom Clark / Guardian:
EU referendum: leave takes six-point lead in Guardian/ICM polls
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
A Party Agrift  —  This is not a column about Donald Trump.
Discussion: bradford-delong.com and The Nation
Chloe Melas / CNN:
‘ALF’ actor Meszaros dies at 76
Scott Beveridge / Observer-Reporter:
New Peters bride in wedding dress revives woman on a Pittsburgh bench
Discussion: WNCN and Associated Press
Katie Bo Williams / The Hill:
Orlando shooter used Samsung phone: report
Discussion: Politico
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