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S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Giuliani: Trump Could Have Shot Comey And Still Couldn't Be Indicted For It — Congress would have to impeach Trump first before any criminal prosecution could move forward, the president's lawyer says. — WASHINGTON Candidate Donald Trump bragged that he could shoot someone …
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James Hohmann / Washington Post:
The Daily 202: Cops are called when a senator tries to see kids taken from their immigrant parents — THE BIG IDEA: As the sun set Sunday night, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) went to a shuttered Walmart in Brownsville, Texas, that has been converted into a detention center for immigrant children who have been separated from their parents.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
Trump's Lawyers Say He Is the Law
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Washington Post, JONATHAN TURLEY and Talking Points Memo
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’
Trump Says Appointment of Special Counsel is ‘Totally Unconstitutional’
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Vox, CNN and Mother Jones
Washington Post:
The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team.
The many holes in the memo from the president's legal team.
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RedState, POLITICUSUSA and Lawfare
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Trump lawyers reveal previously unknown evidence in Michael Flynn case
Trump lawyers reveal previously unknown evidence in Michael Flynn case
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JustOneMinute, New York Times, Bloomberg, MSNBC, Raw Story, BloombergQuint and Instapundit
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Four things to watch as Washington begins the summer
Harry Litman / New York Times:
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
President Trump Thinks He Is a King
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Bill Clinton: I wouldn't have done anything differently in Lewinsky scandal even in #MeToo era — Clinton stuck by his decision to fight his impeachment rather than resign. “I think I did the right thing. I defended the Constitution,” he said. — Former President Bill Clinton says that …
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Daily Mail:
Bill Clinton insists he doesn't owe Monica Lewinsky an apology for hijacking her life by taking advantage of her while president - and says HE'S a victim because he left the White House deeply in debt — Clinton rocked the political world during the 1990s when he was forced to admit an affair …
Axios:
What we're watching: Bill Clinton confronted on #MeToo, Monica Lewinsky
What we're watching: Bill Clinton confronted on #MeToo, Monica Lewinsky
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Politico, Washington Post, National Review, HuffPost and The Daily Beast
Andrew Kugle Follow / Washington Free Beacon:
Clinton Accuses Reporter of Giving One Side of the Facts When Asked About Monica Lewinsky
Clinton Accuses Reporter of Giving One Side of the Facts When Asked About Monica Lewinsky
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The Gateway Pundit
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court rules in favor of baker who would not make wedding cake for gay couple — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled narrowly for a Colorado baker who refused to create a wedding cake for a gay couple. — In an opinion by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the court held …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court throws out lower court decision that allowed immigrant teenager to obtain abortion — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a lower court's decision that allowed an undocumented immigrant teenager to obtain an abortion over the protests of the Trump administration.
Washington Post:
Pruitt had aide do numerous personal tasks, including a hunt for a used Trump hotel mattress — In mid-September, the Environmental Protection Agency administrator's director of scheduling and advance, Millan Hupp, reached out to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., with an unusual request.
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Political Wire
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New York Times:
Aide Sought a New Apartment for Scott Pruitt, as Well as an ‘Old Mattress’ From Trump Hotel — WASHINGTON — A senior Environmental Protection Agency official acted essentially as the personal assistant to the administrator, Scott Pruitt, helping him hunt for an apartment …
CNN:
Trump's phone call with Macron described as ‘terrible’ — Washington (CNN)A call about trade and migration between US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron soured last week after Macron candidly criticized Trump's policies, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Raw Story and Political Wire
Ben White / Politico:
Cohn kept the jobs numbers for Trump — COHN KEPT THE JOBS NUMBERS FROM TRUMP — MM hears that before he left the White House, former National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn would withhold jobs report data from President Trump until shortly before their release because he was worried …
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Axios, Townhall, Financial Times, New York Times and CNBC
Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
New US ambassador to Germany under fire for rightwing support — Politicians accuse Richard Grenell of breach of protocol after interview in Breitbart — German politicians have criticised Donald Trump's new ambassador to Germany after he said he wanted to “empower” anti-establishment rightwing forces throughout Europe.
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New York Times:
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends — The company formed data-sharing partnerships with Apple, Samsung and dozens of other device makers, raising new concerns about its privacy protections. — As Facebook sought to become the world's dominant social media service …
Courier-Journal:
Crowd cheers when valedictorian quotes Trump. Then reveals it was Obama — Ben Bowling graduation speech Courtesy of Ben Bowling — Bell County high school student and valedictorian Ben Bowling wanted to share some words of wisdom with his graduating class, but there was a twist that no one saw coming.
Washington Post:
A historic exodus is leaving Venezuela without teachers, doctors and electricians — An unruly 9-year-old bolted from his classroom, prompting a volunteer teacher to chase him down the hall. He would normally be hauled straight to Romina Sciaca's office. But the guidance counselor was gone …
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Instapundit
Reuters:
North Korea's top three military officials replaced, U.S. official says — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's top three military officials have been removed from their posts, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un prepare to meet on June 12 in Singapore.
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Yonhap News Agency and The Daily Caller
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Bryan Bender / Politico:
The ‘weirdness’ of dealing with North Korean officials
Patti Davis / Washington Post:
Mourning America: What my father, Ronald Reagan, would say today — Patti Davis is an author and the daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. — My father used to talk about a recurring dream he had in which he was walking into a beautiful white building with grand columns, knowing that it was his new home.
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Talking Points Memo, AOL, The Week and HuffPost
Jane Ross / Reuters:
California city fights poverty with guaranteed income — STOCKTON, Calif. (Reuters) - Michael Tubbs, the 27-year-old mayor of Stockton, California, has a radical plan to combat poverty in his cash-strapped city: a “no strings” guaranteed basic income of $500 a month for its residents.
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
The Scandal on the Other Foot — Consider the following alternate reality. — Imagine that it is now summer 2024. A 78-year-old lame-duck President Trump is winding down his second term, basking in positive polls. His dutiful vice president in waiting, Mike Pence, is at last getting his chance to run for president.
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Jim VandeHei / Axios:
Trump's mind-control superpowers — In our lifetime, no president has matched Donald Trump's ability to summon the power of the pulpit, friendly media, and the tweet-by-tweet power of repetition and persuasion to move minds en masse. — The big picture: You see this in the silence of Republican critics …
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Daily Kos
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
First lady Melania Trump will not join President Trump on G7, Singapore summits — First lady Melania Trump will not be joining President Donald Trump on his upcoming trips to the G7 summit in Quebec and the highly anticipated summit between the United States and North Korea in Singapore, her spokeswoman told ABC News.
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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Business economists worry about possible recession in 2020 — WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of top business economists believes the major tax cuts President Donald Trump pushed through Congress will give a significant boost to economic growth this year and next year.
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Axios
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Sports Site ‘The Athletic’ Expands Aggressively, Betting on Subscriptions — Premium salaries lure writers; skeptics caution business model is risky — Stephen Curry, the star point guard for the Golden State Warriors, looked puzzled at a news conference last fall when a journalist introduced himself …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
The president as the persecuted: Donald Trump's strategy of self-victimization — Unfair is one of his favorite words, and he has used it in 69 tweets. He calls the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election a rigged witch hunt.