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Jon Levine / The Wrap:
White House Condemns ‘Vile and Vicious’ Samantha Bee, Calls on Time Warner, TBS to Act  —  “Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned,” White House press secretary tells TheWrap
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Sonia Rao / Washington Post:
Samantha Bee apologizes for calling Ivanka Trump a vulgar word after White House condemnation  —  Ivanka Trump sparked online outrage earlier this week when she tweeted a photo of herself with her younger son around the same time as reports circulated that the U.S. government had lost track of nearly 1,500 migrant children last year.
The Daily Beast:
White House Demands TBS Cancel Samantha Bee's Show  —  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed comedienne Samantha Bee's comments about Ivanka Trump on Thursday.  “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious.  The collective silence by the left …
Lisa de Moraes / Deadline:
White House Blasts Samantha Bee Over Ivanka Slur, Demands TBS Cancel Show  —  The White House this morning blasted Samantha Bee and TBS over Bee having called White House staffer/ First Daughter Ivanka Trump a “feckless c**t” in a segment about President Donald Trump's immigration policy.
Discussion: Politico and Hollywood Life
Maegan Vazquez / CNN:
White House says Samantha Bee's attack on Ivanka Trump was ‘vile and vicious’
Saagar Enjeti / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Dinesh D'Souza Tells Backstory Of His Pardon  —  FBI Spy Stefan Halper's Media Contacts Could Pose A Problem, Retired FBI Officials Say  —  INVESTIGATIVE GROUP |  CHUCK ROSS  —  EXCLUSIVE: First Lady's Office Responds To Samantha Bee's Vulgar Tirade: ‘Double Standard Is Truly Astounding’
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BuzzFeed:
Trump Allies Don't See “Three-Dimensional Chess” In Dinesh D'Souza's Pardon  —  “More often than not he's just eating the pieces.”  —  Reporting From Washington, DC  —  President Donald Trump's announcement that he was pardoning far-right commentator Dinesh D'Souza, who pleaded guilty …
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump pardons conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza, suggests others could be coming
David A. Graham / The Atlantic:
Trump Is Weaponizing Pardons
Discussion: CNN, twitchy.com and Hullabaloo
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Trump's self-serving pardons
Discussion: Shakesville, Hot Air and CNN
Washington Post:
Trump imposes steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Canada and Mexico  —  By Washington Post Staff May 31 at 9:43 AM  —  The move is certain to trigger retaliation by the E.U. against a range of American products, including Kentucky bourbon and Harley-Davidson motorcycles …
Discussion: Axios
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Ana Swanson / New York Times:
White House to Impose Metal Tariffs on Europe, Canada and Mexico, Risking Retaliation  —  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it would impose tariffs on metals imported from its closest allies, a measure that could provoke retaliation against American businesses.
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:   Conservative billionaire Koch brothers' network denounces Trump's tariffs on EU, Canada and Mexico
CNBC:   Dow drops 300 points after EU, Canada say they will retaliate to Trump's tariffs
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
White House once touted FBI informant's support for Trump's trade agenda  —  Before President Donald Trump tagged him a “spy” who had “infiltrated” his campaign, Stefan Halper had a different relationship with the White House: helping advance Trump's trade agenda with China.
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump flubs endorsement of N.Y. congressman
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Trump bends the truth as he tries to beat back Russia probe
Discussion: Washington Post, NBC News and The Week
New York Times:
F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing
Caleb Melby / Bloomberg:
Trump's Net Worth Slides to $2.8 Billion, Lowest Since Campaign
Ken Haddad / WDIV-TV:
John Boehner in Michigan: ‘Republican Party is taking a nap somewhere’  —  Boehner sits down with Local 4's Devin Scillian  —  MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. - Former Speaker of the House John Boehner delivered a keynote address and was joined by Devin Scillian during the 2018 Mackinac Policy Conference on Thursday morning.
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Michael Sykes / Axios:
Boehner: “There is no Republican party. There's a Trump party”
Discussion: Politico and Breitbart
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Trump to impose total ban on luxury German cars: report  —  wants to impose a total ban on the imports of German luxury cars, according to a new report from CNBC and German magazine WirtschaftsWoche.  —  Several U.S. and European diplomats told the news outlets that Trump told French President …
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Sam Meredith / CNBC:
Trump reportedly said he wants to stop German luxury car imports in the US  — Trump reportedly told French President Emmanuel Macron last month that he would maintain his trade policy with the aim of stopping Mercedes-Benz models from driving down Fifth Avenue in New York.
Tim Mak / NPR:
LISTEN: How Michael Cohen Protects Trump By Making Legal Threats  —  Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen is facing legal peril, including an FBI raid of his home and office — and involvement in a civil lawsuit with porn star Stormy Daniels.  —  But in the past, it was Cohen who has sought …
Lauren Meier / Axios:
Pompeo: “Real progress” toward Trump-Kim summit  —  Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with North Korean Vice Chairman Kim Yong-chol in New York, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed optimism about the planned summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
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Steve Holland / Reuters:   Exclusive: Trump - nuclear deal may take more than one meeting with North Korea's Kim
Associated Press:
Saving Sessions: Inside the GOP effort to protect the AG  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Days after President Donald Trump deemed Jeff Sessions “beleaguered” and threatened to fire him last July, members of the president's inner circle made a desperate case to save the attorney general's job.
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Bradley Hope / Wall Street Journal:
British Expert on the Royal Family Is Actually Tommy From Upstate New York  —  As the royal wedding unfolded, Thomas J. Mace-Archer-Mills, Esq. was on screen to enlighten many on the monarchy; he's from north of Albany  —  When Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle walked …
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Right About Roseanne  —  Of course ABC and its parent company Disney were right to cancel the sitcom “Roseanne” after its eponymous star, Roseanne Barr, wrote a racist tweet.  There are necessary taboos and essential decencies in every morally healthy society.
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VICE News:
Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party  —  Less than one week before the California primary, Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.  —  In the “knowledge panel” that provides easy access to information next to search results …
BuzzFeed:
Joy Reid's Blog Published A Photoshopped Image Of John McCain As The Virginia Tech Shooter  —  The MSNBC host's controversial old blog posts continue to surface, as Reid and the network stick to hacking claims.  —  MSNBC host Joy Reid's new-defunct blog published an image …
Hallie Jackson / MSNBC:
At least 8 white nationalists running for federal office  —  MSNBC's Morgan Radford spoke with white nationalists who are running for federal office this year on the Republican ticket.  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least eight white nationalists are running, more than ever before.
Matt Stevens / New York Times:
Jury Leaves $4 to Family of Man Killed by Sheriff's Deputy, Along With Many Questions  —  For more than four years, questions swirled about the shooting death of Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr. at his home in Fort Pierce, Fla. After all, there were only three witnesses to how the entire episode unfolded …
Discussion: Splinter, Raw Story and Althouse
 
 
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Trump's self-serving pardons
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
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