memeorandum: Email trail shows how Arron Banks and Andy Wigmore were cultivated (The Times & The Sunday Times)

8:10 AM ET, June 10, 2018

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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 Guardian:

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”.

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

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

Discussion: Associated Press, New Republic, Raw Story, Balloon Juice, New York Magazine, Canadian Press, ThinkProgress and Mother Jones

Washington Post:
Trump removes U.S. from G-7 joint statement over escalating feud with Canada's Trudeau

Discussion: Montreal Gazette, HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Reuters, The Gateway Pundit, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog and Splinter

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

Discussion: HuffPost

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

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

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, One America News Network and Raw Story

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

Discussion: France 24

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

Discussion: Politico and One America News Network

Anna Fifield / Washington Post:
For Kim Jong Un, meeting Trump is about cementing power at home

Discussion: Daily Caller News Foundation

Victoria Kim / Los Angeles Times:
Singapore preps for Trump-Kim summit with fresh paint and arrests

Discussion: Washington Post and Singapore Police Force

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

Liz Robbins / New York Times:

Judge Stops Deportation of a New York Pizza Delivery Man — A federal judge in Manhattan on Saturday temporarily halted the deportation of a New York pizza delivery man at least until a court hearing on July 20. — The judge, Alison J. Nathan, of Federal District Court in New York …

Discussion: NPR

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, The White House and The Daily Caller

John Paul Tasker / CBC News:
Trump arrives late and leaves early as G7 leaders talk gender, oceans and climate

Discussion: Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and Mother Jones

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 …

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 …

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.

Coral Davenport / New York Times:

In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. — As the president prepares for nuclear talks, he lacks a close adviser with nuclear expertise. It's one example of a marginalization of science in shaping federal policy. — WASHINGTON — As President Trump prepares …

Discussion: Axios

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 and Mother Jones

Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:

The 1st 2020 Race Is Underway: Scrambling for New York Donors — Senator Elizabeth Warren has come calling as recently as April. Kamala Harris, the first-term senator of California, has made repeated visits, starting as early as her third month in office.