memeorandum: Donald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting (Jenna Johnson/Washington Post)

9:20 PM ET, June 13, 2016

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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 …

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 …

Discussion: Washington Post, Gawker, Little Green Footballs, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Media Matters for America, Real Clear Politics, Political Wire and Mediaite

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” …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Howie Carr, Mediaite and Washington Post

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 …

Discussion: Politico, Hit & Run, Washington Post, USA Today, ThinkProgress, Politicus USA, Mother Jones, Vox, The National Interest, Trump Lies and Guardian

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 …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NBC News, Raw Story, CBS New York, Outside the Beltway and Mediaite

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.

Discussion: Business Insider, The Atlantic, Washington Post, New York Post, Yahoo, Common Dreams, New York Times, National Review and BizPac Review

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 Ignatius / Washington Post:
Trump's Islamophobia helps to motivate the Islamic State

Discussion: Slate, Bloomberg, ThinkProgress and Politifact.com Truth …

Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Donald Trump revokes Washington Post press credentials

Discussion: Hot Air and CBS San Francisco, more at Mediagazer »

Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Speeches: What You Missed

Discussion: Raw Story, Media Matters for America, Media Matters for America and Hit & Run

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

Danielle Kurtzleben / NPR:
In Wake Of Orlando Shooting, Clinton Suggests Broader Terrorist Watch Lists

Discussion: Washington Post, FiveThirtyEight, NBC News, Business Insider, PRI, Mother Jones, The Federalist and RedState

Max Ehrenfreund / Washington Post: The four cryptic words Donald Trump can't stop saying

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Clinton: I'm happy to say ‘radical Islamism’

Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Politicus USA and ABC News

Daily Mail:
'It's absolute war!' …

Discussion: The Hill, New Urban Legends and The Gateway Pundit

Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Calls for Reinstatement of Assault-Weapons Ban After Orlando Shooting

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, Guardian and Balloon Juice

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.

Discussion: RedState, Business Insider, news9.com KWTV, The Last Refuge, Towleroad, Mediaite, WNCN and The Week

Los Angeles Times:

Orlando gunman had used gay dating app and visited LGBT nightclub on other occasions, witnesses say — FBI investigators gather on the morning of June 13 outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) — The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Week and National Review

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.

Discussion: Politico, ABC News, WRBL-TV, New York Magazine, Raw Story, Washington Post, The Jawa Report, CBS Los Angeles, alan.com, Heat Street, The Week, Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon

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 …

Stephanie Petit / People.com:
Orlando Nightclub Gunman Scouted Walt Disney World as Potential Target: Source

Discussion: Telegraph, AOL, Pamela Geller and Fox News Insider

The Daily Beast:
Drag Queen: Anti-Gay Terrorist Omar Mateen Was My Friend

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Witness: Orlando shooter a regular at gay club

Discussion: Orlando Sentinel, Towleroad and Politicus USA

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

Gio Benitez / ABC News:
Inside the Orlando Nightclub Massacre, Breaking Down the Three Horrific Hours Inside

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Business Insider and mynews13.com

NBC News:
Why FBI Flags Didn't Block Gunman's Weapons Purchase

Discussion: Newsweek, Boston Globe, Mike Cernovich Presents …, Breitbart, Raw Story, KTLA, AOL and The Truth About Guns

East Orlando Post:
Report: Orlando Nightclub Shooter Cased Other Gay Clubs

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Fox News, FiveThirtyEight and Orlando Sentinel

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: Mediaite and Al Jazeera English

CNN:
Dutch woman jailed in Qatar after reporting rape convicted of ‘illicit sex’

Discussion: AOL and Instapundit

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.

Discussion: Politicus USA and New York Magazine

Roy Edroso / Village Voice:

Thoughts and Prayers: After Orlando, Rightbloggers Defend Guns, Denounce Muslims — The horrific murder of fifty people at the gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando was a bonanza for rightbloggers. On the one hand, the victims were gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans; on the other, the perpetrator, U.S. citizen Omar Mateen, was Muslim.

Discussion: Salon, ThinkProgress, Media Matters for America, alicublog and Hullabaloo

Fusion:
Orlando played host to anti-gay Muslim speaker, just weeks ago

Discussion: Raw Story and Balloon Juice

Kristine Marsh / NewsBusters: Anything But Islam: Media Attack Guns, Men, Christians, GOP Instead of Ideology in Terror Attack

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

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

A Party Agrift — This is not a column about Donald Trump. — It's not about the fraudulent scheme that was Trump University. It's not about his history of failing to pay contractors, leading to hundreds of legal actions. It's not about how he personally profited while running his casinos into the ground.

Discussion: bradford-delong.com and The Nation

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.