memeorandum: If There's a Red Wave Election in 2018, This Will Be Why (Christopher Buskirk/New York Times)

10:10 AM ET, June 10, 2018

Top Items:

Arron Banks ‘met Russian officials multiple times before Brexit vote’ — Arron Banks, the millionaire businessman who bankrolled Nigel Farage's campaign to quit the EU, had multiple meetings with Russian embassy officials in the run-up to the Brexit referendum, documents seen by the Observer suggest.

The Times & The Sunday Times:

Email trail shows how Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were cultivated — September 2015 Ukip holds its annual conference at Doncaster racecourse. Alexander Udod, a Russian diplomat, is there. — Udod contacts Arron Banks and says Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador, “would be happy to invite you for lunch at his residence”.

BBC:

Leave.EU ‘downplayed Russian links’ — The founder of Leave.EU, Arron Banks, has confirmed he will appear before MPs this week to answer new allegations about his links with Russia. — It has been reported that Mr Banks, who bankrolled the unofficial leave campaign, had more contact …

The Times & The Sunday Times: Exclusive: Emails reveal Russian links of millionaire Brexit backer Arron Banks

Ashish Kumar Sen / Atlantic Council:

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats: Russia is Attempting to Influence US Midterms, Divide Transatlantic Alliance — Russia is attempting to influence the midterm elections in the United States in November as well as divide the transatlantic alliance, US Director …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and HuffPost

New York Times:
Trump's Blasts Upend G-7, Alienating Oldest Allies

Discussion: HuffPost

Guy Lawson / New York Times: First Canada Tried to Charm Trump. Now It's Fighting Back.

Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
Trump again calls for readmitting Russia to G7, blames Obama for Crimea's annexation

Discussion: RedState, Axios, Washington Monthly, AOL and Quartz

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Be 'Piggy Bank That Everybody's Robbing'

Discussion: Associated Press, Althouse, New Republic, AOL, Daily Kos, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, Mother Jones, New York Magazine, Canadian Press, ThinkProgress and Washington Post

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.

Discussion: NBC News, The Guardian and RedState

Eliza Collins / USA Today:
German Chancellor Merkel's stare down photo sums up Trump's time at G-7

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Splinter and Washington Post

Axios:

Scoop: Trump open to U.S. embassy in Pyongyang, North Korea — President Trump is willing to consider establishing official relations with North Korea and even eventually putting an embassy in Pyongyang, according to two sources familiar with preparations for the Singapore summit.

Discussion: Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Politico, Political Wire, Reuters, One America News Network and Raw Story

Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
North Korea's Kim Jong Un arrives in Singapore for historic summit with Trump

Discussion: Politico, The Daily Caller and TheDrive

Mark Landler / New York Times:
Meeting With Kim Tests Trump's Dealmaking Swagger

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Lawyers, Guns & Money and France 24

David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Trump says he'll size up Kim Jong Un ‘within the first minute’ of Singapore summit

Discussion: Axios, Politico, Breitbart and One America News Network

New York Times:

Turning Affluent Suburbs Blue Isn't Worth the Cost — Ms. Geismer is the author of “Don't Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party.” Mr. Lassiter is the author of “The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South.”

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway

John Paul Tasker / CBC News:

Trump demands Canada dismantle supply management or risk trading relationship — 'We don't want to pay anything, why should we pay anything?' Trump says of Canadian tariffs on dairy products — U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada will have to dismantle its supply-managed dairy system …

Discussion: Power Line, BuzzFeed, The White House, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin reeling from tariffs coming from Mexico, Canada, Europe

Washington Post:

‘They just took them?’ Frantic parents separated from their kids fill courts on the border — By Michael E. Miller June 9 at 6:44 PM Email the author — MCALLEN, Texas — The words “all rise” were still ringing in the brightly lit South Texas courtroom last week when Peter E. Ormsby slipped unceremoniously into his seat.

Discussion: Breitbart, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mother Jones and Hullabaloo

Washington Post:

Why can't we hate men? — Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, is the editor of the gender studies journal Signs. — It's not that Eric Schneiderman (the now-former …

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Blake Montgomery / BuzzFeed:

A Restaurant Owner Featured On “No Reservations” Said Anthony Bourdain Changed Their Lives — Xi'an Famous Foods said it was donating all of its June 8 sales to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to honor Bourdain's memory. — After Anthony Bourdain was found dead Friday of a reported suicide …

Sean Rossman / USA Today:

USA TODAY foreign affairs reporter Oren Dorell killed in hit-and-run — Oren Dorell, a former construction contractor who became a globe-trotting foreign affairs reporter for USA TODAY, died Friday evening in Washington D.C. He was 53. — Dorell was hit by a suspected impaired driver while riding his motorcycle.

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.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal:

Jayapal Goes Inside Federal Detention Center to Meet With Asylum-Seeking Women: “The mothers could not stop crying” — SEATTLE, WA - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after demanding and being given access to the Federal Detention Center …

Justin Caruso / The Daily Caller:

George Soros Complains: ‘Everything That Could Go Wrong, Has Gone Wrong’ — George Soros recently lamented the rise of President Trump and anti-establishment parties across the globe, saying “everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong.” — Soros made the comment in an interview with The Washington Post published Saturday.

Discussion: infowars.com, Front Page Magazine and Mediaite