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Noah Weiland / New York Times:
Trump Economic Adviser Ties G-7 Pullout to North Korea Meeting — WASHINGTON — President Trump's top economic adviser said on Sunday that Mr. Trump had pulled out of a joint statement with allies at the Group of 7 meeting over the weekend because a “betrayal” by the Canadian prime minister …
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Brent D. Griffiths / Politico:
Navarro: ‘Special place in hell’ for Trudeau — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro lit into Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, saying there's a “special place in hell” for a world leader who double crosses President Donald Trump. — “There's a special place in hell …
Maïa de La Baume / Politico:
France blasts ‘incoherent’ Trump after G7 fiasco — France pledged on Sunday to stand by the G7 summit statement disowned by Donald Trump and took a swipe at the U.S. president by declaring that international cooperation could not depend on “fits of anger” or “little words.”
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David Frum / The Atlantic:
Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies — “He's like Heath Ledger's Joker—but without the operational excellence.” That was the grim after-action assessment of one senior G7 official with whom I spoke in the shocked aftermath of President Donald Trump's savage post-summit tweets.
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Ellen Cranley / Business Insider:
White House trade council director says 'there's a special place in hell' for Justin Trudeau — White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro said Sunday there is a “special place in hell” for any leader who engages in “bad faith diplomacy” with President Donald Trump.
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RedState, Little Green Footballs, Montreal Gazette, Daily Caller News Foundation and NBC News
Sky News:
Merkel labels Trump behaviour ‘a bit depressing’ as G7 agreement lies in tatters — Angela Merkel has labelled Donald Trump's use of Twitter to withdraw from a G7 communique on trade “sobering and a bit depressing”. — The German chancellor used an interview with ARD to confirm the EU …
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Trump's top economic aide on Trudeau: ‘It was a betrayal’ — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser Larry Kudlow on Sunday accused Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of undermining the US and its allies with comments he made at the G7 summit.
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Eli Watkins / CNN:
Peter Navarro says 'there's a special place in hell' for Justin Trudeau — Washington (CNN)Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to President Donald Trump, escalated the White House's rebuke of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him weak and dishonest on Sunday.
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Steve LeVine / Axios:
Why Xi and Putin think “the West is in free fall”
Gregg Re / Fox News:
There's a ‘special place in hell’ for Trudeau after his G7 ‘stunt,’ top WH Trade Adviser Peter Navarro says
There's a ‘special place in hell’ for Trudeau after his G7 ‘stunt,’ top WH Trade Adviser Peter Navarro says
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Elise von Scheel / CBC News:
‘Special place in hell’: Trump advisers blast Trudeau for comments at G7 summit
W.G. Dunlop / Yahoo:
US blames Canada for G7 fiasco, says Trudeau ‘stabbed us in the back’
US blames Canada for G7 fiasco, says Trudeau ‘stabbed us in the back’
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Althouse
Axios:
Scoop: Trump's deal-of-the-decade North Korea plan — President Trump will confront Kim Jong-un using “a strategy to impress as well as intimidate” — and is open to planting a U.S. embassy in North Korea. — The big picture: U.S. officials involved in the summit preparations …
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Fox & Friends host slips: Trump's North Korea summit is a ‘historic meeting between two dictators’ — Abby Hunstman, host of the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, on Sunday said that summit between North Korea leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump is a meeting between “two dictators.”
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
Trump-Kim summit: What it would take to move forward
Trump-Kim summit: What it would take to move forward
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Axios, Townhall, Washington Post and One America News Network
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks
Iran, spurned by US, angrily watches Trump-North Korea talks
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Washington Times
Foster Klug / Associated Press:
Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit
Isolated Kim takes big gamble leaving home for Trump summit
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Politico
David Jackson / USA Today:
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un arrive in Singapore for nuclear summit
Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un arrive in Singapore for nuclear summit
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Annabelle Liang / Associated Press:
Singapore deports South Korean journalists in trespass case
Singapore deports South Korean journalists in trespass case
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The Daily Caller and Mediaite
Annie Karni / Politico:
Meet the guys who tape Trump's papers back together — The president's ‘unofficial filing system’ involves tearing up documents into pieces, even when they're supposed to be preserved. — Solomon Lartey spent the first five months of the Trump administration working in the Old Executive Office Building …
Matt Flegenheimer / New York Times:
Mitt Romney Wants In Again. There Is One Catch. — His wife said they were done with campaigns. But after two high-profile losses on the national stage, a Senate bid was too good to pass up, even if it means dealing with Donald Trump. — COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS, Utah — Mitt Romney never could resist a race.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Trump Tries to Destroy the West — The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former enemies and went on to win the Cold War, help spread democracy …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Debacle in Quebec
New York Times:
‘Drama, Action, Emotional Power’: As Exhausted Aides Eye the Exits, Trump Is Re-Energized — WASHINGTON — President Trump has gone overseas to embark on some of the most consequential diplomatic negotiations of his tenure, threatening an all-out trade war with allies and seizing a chance to make peace with a nuclear-armed menace.
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Liz Goodwin / BostonGlobe.com:
Down on the border, a new trail of tears — McALLEN, Texas — Every night before bed, Wil, who is 6 years old, says his prayers and then kisses two printed-out photos of his mom and dad that are taped on the wall by his bed goodnight. — A few hours later, he's likely to wander …
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Nico Hines / The Daily Beast:
How a Journalist Kept Russia's Secret Links to Brexit Under Wraps … LONDON—The extent of Russia's interference in the 2016 votes for Trump and Brexit has been investigated by intelligence agencies, congressional and parliamentary inquiries, the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller's office for more than a year.
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Erick Trickey / Washington Post:
When Hitler met Hoover: 9 photos of dictators scoring presidential face time — President Trump's slapdash, on-again-off-again summit with Kim Jong Un in Singapore on Tuesday will hand the North Korean dictator a diplomatic coup that his father and grandfather never achieved.
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Breitbart, Politico and One America News Network
Kansas City Star:
Behind the scenes of Eric Greitens' decision to resign. ‘No one saw it coming.’ — Missouri state lawmakers investigating Gov. Eric Greitens had just finished another marathon public hearing on May 29 when House Speaker Todd Richardson unexpectedly summoned them to his office.