Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
11:35 AM ET, May 6, 2018

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Justin Fishel / ABC News:
Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani won't rule out that president could take the Fifth Amendment in Russia probe  —  President Donald Trump's top personal attorney Rudy Giuliani said he can't rule out the possibility of the president taking the Fifth Amendment if he testifies in the Russia investigation.
RELATED:
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
The Naked Truth About Trump  —  WASHINGTON — Before I get to America's Mayor and America's Nightmare, I would like to say this:  —  Michelle Wolf was right when she turned a gimlet eye on the media.  —  “You guys are obsessed with Trump,” the comedian said at the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Victoria Guida / Politico:
Giuliani: Trump doesn't have to comply with potential Mueller subpoena  —  Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that President Donald Trump wouldn't have to comply with a potential subpoena from special counsel Robert Mueller.  —  “We don't have to,” the former New York City mayor now working …
Discussion: ABC News
Travis M. Andrews / Washington Post:
SNL brings in Ben Stiller, Scarlett Johansson, Stormy Daniels and more for star-studded cold open … Now, that was a cold open.  —  Ben Stiller, Martin Short, Jimmy Fallon, Scarlett Johansson, Alec Baldwin and Stormy Daniels herself all showed up for one of the more star-studded cold opens …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Erica Pandey / Axios:
Rudy's return to the television circuit  —  Rudy Giuliani — currently serving as President Trump's personal lawyer — was back in front of the camera this weekend after his bombshell comments about Stormy Daniels to Fox News' Sean Hannity spurred controversy last Wednesday.
Associated Press:   Trump attorney not ruling out his taking the 5th Amendment
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Trump Is Winning  —  As Donald Trump entered the second year …
Discussion: CNN
The Guardian:
Revealed: Trump team hired spy firm for ‘dirty ops’ on Iran arms deal  —  Israeli agency told to find incriminating material on Obama diplomats who negotiated deal with Tehran  —  Aides to Donald Trump, the US president, hired an Israeli private intelligence agency to orchestrate a “dirty ops” …
RELATED:
Amos Harel / Haaretz:   U.S. Exit From Nuclear Deal Would Help Iran, Former Israeli General Says
Haaretz:   Kerry Met With Iranian Foreign Minister in Bid to Save Nuclear Deal, Report Says
Jonathan Cohn / HuffPost:
This Is The Toughest Gun Law In America  —  Reformers love what Massachusetts is doing.  The NRA?  Not so much.  —  NEWTON, Mass. A thirtysomething man sought to buy a rifle here last September, and if he had been living in almost any other part of the country, he could have done so easily.
Garry Kasparov / New York Daily News:
Saving America from itself: Trump is a symptom, not the disease  —  American friends, you might not like to hear this coming from a Russian, but your Founding Fathers did not trust you at all.  Don't feel bad, because that most remarkable constellation of 18th-century intellect and courage didn't trust anyone.
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
McCain says he regrets picking Palin as running mate  —  (R-Ariz.) said he regrets choosing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.  —  The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin's performance …
RELATED:
Benjamin Hart / New York Magazine:
John McCain Regrets His Palin Pick for the Wrong Reasons
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
McCain doesn't want Trump at funeral, friends tell White House
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Blankenship surging on eve of West Virginia Senate primary  —  There is growing concern among Republicans that Don Blankenship, a bombastic coal baron who has spent time in prison, is surging ahead of Tuesday's West Virginia Senate primary — and a last-minute campaign is underway to stop him.
Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire
RELATED:
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Early GOP primaries shaping up as rightward march with Trump
Discussion: RedState and Political Wire
Greg B. Smith / New York Daily News:
EXCLUSIVE: Former NYC media player finds himself living in homeless shelter after life took ‘unfathomable’ downward spiral  —  Once upon a time in New York City, Sherman Jackson lived at the glittering heights of public life in a privileged place of bold-faced names and media stars.
Wall Street Journal:
Mueller Probe Might Have to Go Dark for Midterm Election  —  Though there is no legal deadline, Justice Department guidelines say prosecutors should avoid the appearance of trying to sway elections  —  WASHINGTON—The clock is ticking for special counsel Robert Mueller.
Eric Talmadge / Associated Press:
North Korea says US ruining mood of detente ahead of summit  —  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With just weeks to go before President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold their first-ever summit, Pyongyang on Sunday criticized what it called “misleading” …
RELATED:
Jonathan Karl / ABC News:
Trump's coming war on Mueller: ANALYSIS  —  With the shakeup of the president's legal team, he is now all-in on a new strategy to deal with special counsel Robert Mueller: fight, delay, vilify.  —  The legal strategy dovetails with the Trump team's political strategy: rallying the base …
Vianna Davila / The Seattle Times:
Fury, frustration erupt over Seattle's proposed head tax for homelessness services  —  A day after Amazon's surprise announcement regarding a proposed new business tax for homelessness services, flare-ups of opposition show deep frustration with Seattle's handling of the crisis.
Josh Delk / The Hill:
Kushner makes additional mistakes on financial disclosure  —  has made additional mistakes on his financial ethics disclosure forms, this time regarding two loans for properties in Brooklyn.  —  A representative for Kushner — President Trump  —  's son-in-law — told ProPublica …
Anna Sanders / New York Post:
Rosie O'Donnell's campaign donations to Dems went over legal limit  —  Rosie O'Donnell made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings.  —  The liberal comedian has regularly broken Federal Election …
Bob Brigham / Raw Story:
WATCH: MSNBC segment explodes after Dershowitz calls lawyer Richard Painter ‘un-American and a liar’  —  Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was shut down on MSNBC Saturday after launching a bizarre tirade against former chief White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter.
Discussion: NBC News
Salena Zito / New York Post:
The 2016 election was far from a fluke  —  America's political experts got it wrong in 2016 — not because they took too few polls, but because they made the false assumption that American elections are immune to societal change.  —  They are, in large part, still getting things wrong …
Discussion: twitchy.com
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 11:35 AM ET, May 6, 2018.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Who's Hiring in Media? 
 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
John Bowden / The Hill:
Michelle Obama says she's not running for office
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Carville: Clinton unlikely to run again but she's ‘always gotten the most votes’
Discussion: Political Wire
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Our Addiction to Trump
Brent Staples / New York Times:
When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching
Diane Lederman / Union-News:
Police report describes footage of woman slashing Hadley bus passengers' throats
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Sharyl Attkisson / The Hill:
For Mueller, a question of three conflicts
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Between Two Pennsylvania Lawmakers, Plenty of Ill Will — and a Bodyguard
Bill Cummings / Connecticut Post:
Popular vote for president passes General Assembly
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
 Earlier Items: 
Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
The fake news Russians hear at home
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
John McCain Battles Donald Trump With His Dying Breaths
HuffPost:
How The ACORN Scandal Seeded Today's Nightmare Politics
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
FBI Faced ‘Conundrum’ In Its Investigation Of Michael Flynn
Caroline Orr / Shareblue Media:
NRA hopes you won't notice the Kremlin-linked company at its convention
New York Times:
How Michael Cohen, Trump's Fixer, Built a Shadowy Business Empire
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
As the ‘King of Debt,’ Trump borrowed to build his empire.  Then he began spending hundreds of millions in cash.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Splinter