memeorandum: We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation (Dick Thornburgh/Washington Post)

2:10 PM ET, June 9, 2018

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Trump at G-7 floats end to all tariffs, threatens major penalties for countries that don't agree — QUEBEC CITY - President Trump told foreign leaders at the Group of Seven summit that they must dramatically reduce trade barriers with the United States or they would risk losing access …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Jonathan Allen / NBC News:

Trump hits the world stage, Day 1: Come late, leave early, offend host, alienate allies — The president made quite an impression at the G-7 meeting in Canada on Friday. Saturday he departs to Singapore for his summit with Kim Jong Un. — QUEBEC CITY — The world is getting a good look …

Discussion: NBC News, Sputnik International, HuffPost, CBS News, RedState, Sean Hannity and Mediaite

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Why Trump lit the fire — The biggest key to understanding Trump's dogmatism on trade is that even as he switched political parties and changed his views on issue after issue, his one consistent stance over 40 years is that other countries are “ripping off the United States” in trade deals, as he put it in 1987.

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing' — LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Trump said on Saturday that he had brought up with America's closest allies the dramatic prospect of completely eliminating tariffs on goods and services, even as he threatened to end …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Post, New York Magazine, Political Wire and Politico

Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:

In Trump, some fear the end of the world order — When does a feud become a separation? A separation a divorce? When do arguments, sharp-tongued put-downs and perceived betrayal among allies become the collapse of the Western-dominated order that has ruled the world, under U.S. leadership, for the past seven decades?

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:

An open letter on trade: The facts speak for themselves — By 29 E.U. Ambassadors to the U.S. June 8 at 2:07 PM — There has been a lot of talk recently about the trade and investment relationship between the European Union and the United States. Who wins? Who loses?

Discussion: Politico

David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:

Trump's surprise G-7 pitch: ‘We should at least consider no tariffs’ — LA MALBAIE, Quebec — President Donald Trump on Friday floated the idea of ending all tariffs and trade barriers between the U.S. and its G-7 allies — an unexpected pitch that comes amid a tit-for-tat trade war Trump recently launched.

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, No More Mister Nice Blog and NBC News

Associated Press: Trump delivers warning on trade as he leaves G-7 summit

Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump calls summit a “one-time shot” for Kim Jong Un, warns ally nations on trade

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Nick Miroff / Washington Post:

A family was separated at the border, and this distraught father took his own life — A Honduran father separated from his wife and child suffered a breakdown at a Texas jail and killed himself in a padded cell last month, according to Border Patrol agents and an incident report filed by sheriff's deputies.

Discussion: Shareblue Media, ThinkProgress and Political Wire

Avery Anapol / The Hill: Honduran man in US custody kills himself after being separated from wife and child at border: report

Dick Thornburgh / Washington Post:

We Republicans must all speak out to protect the Mueller investigation — Dick Thornburgh was U.S. attorney general from 1988 to 1991. — As a lifelong Republican, I am proud that my party has consistently revered the rule of law as a central tenet of our country's values.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Mueller's ‘witch hunt’ snags another witch

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, National Review and New York Times

Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:

Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests … Throw on a fresh coat of paint and refresh the tile grout. Install security cameras, start closing streets and putting up security checkpoints. And by all means, keep hordes of pesky reporters away.

Daniel Lippman / Politico:
Playbook: Trump takes on the G7

Discussion: BuzzFeed

Evan Osnos / New Yorker:
Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Summit and the Bid for History

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Julia Reinstein / BuzzFeed:

The Critic Whose Olive Garden Review Went Viral Remembers How Anthony Bourdain Spoke Up For Her — In 2012, then-88-year-old Marilyn Hagerty of Grand Forks, North Dakota, wrote arguably the most viral restaurant review ever written. It was for Olive Garden.

Helen Rosner / New Yorker:
Anthony Bourdain and the Power of Telling the Truth

Discussion: The Nation, The Guardian, SOFREP, CNN, CBS New York, Washington Post and Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »

Joshua Keating / Slate:
The Unlikely Ambassador — Anthony Bourdain very nearly ate …

Discussion: New York Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and The Mary Sue

Kirsten Powers / USA Today:

Americans are depressed and suicidal because something is wrong with our culture — On average, there are 123 suicides per day in the United States. If you or someone you know needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK. — Don't pathologize the despair …

Discussion: New York Times

Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:

Press Groups Criticize the Seizing of a Times Reporter's Records — The revelation that federal prosecutors seized years' worth of email and phone records from a New York Times reporter drew criticism on Friday from news organizations and press rights groups, which expressed outrage …

Discussion: Fox News, VICE News, Washington Post, Techdirt, RedState, twitchy.com, infowars.com, The Guardian, Mediaite and NBC News, more at Mediagazer »

Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Leak Investigations, Journalists, and Double Standards

Discussion: Power Line, Vox, Splinter, The Daily Signal, LifeZette and Conservative News Today

Washington Post:
Shocked by Trump aggression against reporters and sources? The blueprint was drawn by Obama.

Discussion: Chicago Tribune, Politico, Breitbart and Townhall, more at Mediagazer »

Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:

DNC panel adopts rule requiring candidates to run, serve as a Democrat — The Democratic National Committee (DNC) adopted a new rule on Friday aimed at keeping outsider candidates like Sen. Bernie Sanders — (I-Vt.) from trying to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.

Discussion: The Week and Politico

Hunter Walker / Yahoo:
With an eye on Bernie Sanders, the Democratic National Committee adopts new restrictions …

Discussion: Conservative News Today and Common Dreams

Shilpa Jamkhandikar / Reuters:

ABC apologizes for Hindu terror plot in Quantico after online backlash — MUMBAI (Reuters) - U.S. television studio ABC has apologies to Indian fans of its crime drama “Quantico” after an episode featuring Indian nationalists trying to frame Pakistan in a terrorist plot sparked online outrage …

Discussion: twitchy.com and Daily Wire

Ryan Grim / The Intercept:

Joe Crowley Complains His Primary Opponent, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Making This Race “About Race” — On a warm Sunday evening in Queens, New York, Joe Crowley stood before a group of about two dozen Democratic activists and made his case for why he should be returned to Congress for a 10th term.

Jeanne LaBrier Clarkson / CBS News:

Video of TSA agents searching 96-year-old woman in wheelchair sparks outrage — Nearly 9 million people have watched the video — and many have weighed-in about the security pat-down of a 96-year-old woman in a wheelchair. The screening happened at Dulles Airport in Washington.

Discussion: Raw Story

Lauretta Brown / Townhall:

Bill Clinton Defends Franken: It Was a ‘Difficult Case’ and the SNL Women Defended Him — PBS's Judy Woodruff asked former president Bill Clinton Thursday whether he thought it was a “good thing” that norms have changed when it comes to sexual harassment. Woodruff's example …

Discussion: The American Spectator, Breitbart, Althouse, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon and Online NewsHour

Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Bill Clinton's Me Too Reckoning

Discussion: HuffPost, Bloomberg and Instapundit

Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:

Iran Admits To Facilitating 9/11 Terror Attacks — Top Iranian official admits for first time Iran aided al Qaeda terrorists — Iranian officials, in a first, have admitted to facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S. by secretly aiding the free travel of al Qaeda operatives …

Discussion: The Mahablog, Power Line, Jihad Watch, Breitbart, TheBlaze, english.alarabiya.net, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Wire and RedState

Hanna Bogorowski / The Daily Caller:
Iran Facilitated Passage Of 9/11 Attackers, Iranian Politician Says

Discussion: Townhall

Chuck Goudie / abc7chicago.com:

Ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos, wife: from “paradise to hell” — The wife of Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying about his Russian contacts, has offered a detailed accounting of her intriguing relationship with the Chicagoan now at the core of a political firestorm.

Discussion: Raw Story