Top Items:
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
TRUMP'S BREXIT BLAST I told May how to do Brexit but she wrecked it — the US trade deal is off, says Donald Trump — In a world-exclusive interview with The Sun, the US President said Theresa May had ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy — DONALD Trump today accuses …
Discussion:
CBS News, National Review, Townhall, Politico, CNN, Associated Press, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Axios, The Hill, New York Times, Financial Times, Roll Call, NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, WTKR-TV, Breitbart, USA Today, NPR, Raw Story, Daily Kos, VICE News, AOL, POLITICUSUSA, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Bruegel, The Week, Political Wire, The Intercept, Washington Post, CBS Pittsburgh, Fox News Insider, KTLA, Mediaite, WGN-TV, FOX 61, HuffPost, Bustle, LifeZette, BloombergQuint, CBS San Francisco, Leave.EU, Deadline, israpundit.org, Bloomberg, Hot Air, Washington Press, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, RedState, New Republic, NewsWars, The Atlantic, BBC, The Daily Caller, Vox, The American Conservative, GOV.UK, The Caldron Pool and YouGov, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Scotsman:
Leader comment: A denunciation of Donald Trump — Sorry, we're having problems with our video player at the moment, but are working to fix it as soon as we can — Waiting for Video... Donald Trump, due to arrive in the UK later today, is a racist, a serial liar, and either a sex abuser …
Discussion:
Mother Jones, Joe.My.God. and Mediaite
Euan McKirdy / CNN:
What President Trump said about May, Brexit and ‘England’ — (CNN)Staff at Britain's Blenheim Castle were likely still cleaning up after a lavish dinner Thursday when The Sun dropped the contents of its wide-ranging interview with US President Donald Trump.
Discussion:
The Sun, Breitbart, Bustle and Media Matters for America
New York Times:
With May's Government Teetering, Trump Gives It a Shove
With May's Government Teetering, Trump Gives It a Shove
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, CNN, The Guardian, Breitbart, The Week and TheBlaze
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
PROTESTERS BRUSHED OFF Donald Trump ‘feels unwelcome’ in London but insists real Brits ‘love the President’
PROTESTERS BRUSHED OFF Donald Trump ‘feels unwelcome’ in London but insists real Brits ‘love the President’
William Davies / New York Times:
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence
Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Rise of Radical Incompetence
Discussion:
The Independent, The Atlantic and The Guardian
Louis Nelson / Politico:
After criticizing May, Trump says relationship with UK ‘very, very strong’
After criticizing May, Trump says relationship with UK ‘very, very strong’
Discussion:
ABC News
Tom Newton Dunn / The Sun:
TRUMP'S BOJO TIP Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be a ‘great Prime Minister’
TRUMP'S BOJO TIP Donald Trump says Boris Johnson would be a ‘great Prime Minister’
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, CNN, New York Times, VICE News, The Guardian and The Daily Caller
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Giuliani says Mueller probe results should be dismissed after Strzok testimony — President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said Friday that congressional testimony by FBI agent Peter Strzok demonstrated such a bias against Trump that the results of the investigation being led …
Discussion:
Hill Reporter, The New Civil Rights Movement and The Atlantic
RELATED:
Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
The Peter Strzok Hearing Was a Total Fiasco, but One Moment Was Particularly Unreal — On Thursday, the House Oversight and Government Reform and the House Judiciary committees held a joint hearing on the Clinton email investigation in which they questioned FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Republicans Thought Peter Strzok Would Be a Punching Bag. He Just Knocked Them Out. … Those who forget the lessons of televised congressional hearings are doomed to repeat them, which is why the morning segment of the Capitol Hill show trial of veteran FBI agent and former head …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Breitbart, The New Civil Rights Movement and Washington Post
Luke Rosiak / The Daily Caller:
Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’
Gohmert: Watchdog Found Clinton Emails Were Sent To ‘Foreign Entity’
Discussion:
Fox News Insider and Scared Monkeys
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
Things will not be okay — Human beings often choose self-delusion over painful reality, and so in the days and weeks to come, we will hear reassurances that the NATO alliance is in good shape. After all, there have been spats in the past — over the Suez crisis in 1956, Vietnam in the 1960s and '70s …
Discussion:
Daily Kos, Defense One, TheBlaze, 71 Republic, Roll Call, TheStreet, Politifact.com Truth …, Spectator USA, CNN and Daily Wire
RELATED:
NBC News:
Pentagon goes into ‘damage control’ mode to reassure NATO allies — “One thing you need in this alliance is predictability,” one diplomatic official said. — Between NATO and Putin meetings, what is Trump's strategy? — WASHINGTON — Hours after President Donald Trump departed NATO …
Discussion:
Raw Story, Political Wire, MSNBC and NBC News
Foreign Policy:
Trump Fumed, but NATO Members Got What They Wanted — Think the NATO summit was a complete dumpster fire? Think again. — He ranted, he threatened, he rebuked. — U.S. President Donald Trump did just about everything he could to spoil the NATO summit in Brussels this week.
Discussion:
Just Security and Associated Press
Fareed Zakaria / Washington Post:
Ronald's out. Donald's in. — President Trump's trip to Europe is being portrayed by both him and his critics as revolutionary. He tells us that he single-handedly and miraculously got members of NATO to increase their defense spending sharply. His critics claim that he single-handedly wrecked …
Discussion:
CNN, IJR and Front Page Magazine
Politico:
‘Very stable’ Trump? European leaders beg to differ
‘Very stable’ Trump? European leaders beg to differ
Discussion:
Althouse, The Week, Washington Post, Raw Story and Axios
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
White House Orders Broader Access to Files About F.B.I. Informant — WASHINGTON — The White House has rebuffed concerns among American intelligence and law enforcement officials and ordered that more lawmakers be given access to classified information about an informant the F.B.I. used …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Jared Kushner lacks security clearance level to review some of the nation's most sensitive intelligence in White House role — Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law, lacks the security clearance level required to review some of the government's most sensitive secrets …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo, Politico, POLITICUSUSA, Political Wire, Reuters, The Week and Vox
Amy Chua / Wall Street Journal:
Kavanaugh Is a Mentor To Women — I can't think of a better judge for my own daughter's clerkship. — Judge Brett Kavanaugh's jurisprudence will appropriately be dissected in the months ahead. I'd like to speak to a less well-known side of the Supreme Court nominee: his role as a mentor for young lawyers, particularly women.
RELATED:
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
What the Yale Law School Freakout Says About the Opposition to Kavanaugh
Alex Pappas / Fox News:
Liberals attack Brett Kavanaugh for ‘frat boy’ name
Liberals attack Brett Kavanaugh for ‘frat boy’ name
Discussion:
National Review, LifeZette, The Daily Beast, Townhall and Chicks On The Right
Dana Hedgpeth / Washington Post:
Don't drink the water if you live in parts of Northeast and Northwest Washington — D.C. residents who live in parts of Northwest and Northeast should not drink the water until further notice, officials said, after a problem arose at a pumping station. — The warning came from D.C. Water …
RELATED:
Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed:
A Man Has Been Charged With A Hate Crime After Going On A Racist Tirade Against A Woman For Her Puerto Rico Shirt — “You should not be wearing that in the United States of America. Are you a citizen? Are you a United States citizen?” the man said. — A man who was filmed yelling …
RELATED:
Tim Kaine / The Atlantic:
Don't Let Trump Go to War With Iran — The decision of the United States to wage war against Iraq in 2003 was one of the worst mistakes our country has ever made. Was Saddam Hussein a brutal dictator? Yes, but he didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and toppling his regime had profound consequences …
RELATED:
Gary Varvel / USA Today:
Donald Trump is the president I didn't want, but now I know we need … Over the years, my caricatures of Donald Trump have evolved but not as much as my opinion of him. — When Trump announced he was running for president, I admit that I didn't take this millionaire, hotel magnate, reality TV show celebrity as a serious candidate.
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“An Amateur Boxer Up Against Muhammad Ali”: Washington Fears Trump Will Be No Match for Putin in Helsinki — All American Presidents adore the pageantry of summits, none more so than Donald Trump, who is addicted to the idea of himself as one of the great men making history with a capital “H.”
Politico:
‘Kiss my you know what’: Schumer hamstrung in SCOTUS fight — The Democratic leader has little sway over the Democrats he needs the most. — Chuck Schumer says he's going to fight Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court with “everything I've got.” To do so, he'll need to get centrist Democrats to hold the line.
Discussion:
Political Wire
Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
Senate Democrats blast former Trump attorney for ‘selling access’ to White House — Michael Cohen's relationship with the Swiss drug company Novartis was more extensive than the company previously disclosed, as shown in newly uncovered emails exchanged by President Donald Trump's former lawyer and the company's former top executive.
Discussion:
Raw Story
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Quiet Death of Racial Progress — How can we stop backsliding toward inequality? — Over the past few months, I've been trying to write a comforting column. The thesis was going to be that even though Donald Trump is doing his best to inflame racial division, we are still making gradual progress …
Sally Quinn / Politico:
What Ben Bradlee Would Think of Donald Trump — My late husband would not have been impressed. Nor intimidated. He believed the truth mattered. — There is a big, white, two-story wall in the center of the newsroom at the Washington Post directly across from the glass-walled Ben Bradlee conference room.
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Democrats ahead in election enthusiasm, interest — and the vote — Democrats are more interested in the upcoming midterm elections and more enthused to vote than usual, and that helps them to an 8-point edge in the generic congressional ballot test.
New York Times:
As Trade War Persists, Mnuchin Says China Talks Have ‘Broken Down’ — WASHINGTON — The trade war between the United States and China showed no signs of yielding on Thursday, as Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, told lawmakers there was no clear path to resolution and Beijing blasted the administration over its approach.
Discussion:
theconversation.com
Caitlin Owens / Axios:
GOP braces for Trump tariff pain — Congressional Republicans think President Trump's tariffs are going to hurt the economy, undoing some of their economic wins — but they're not ready to cross the president until their voters feel the pain. — Between the lines: While some Republicans …
Alexandra King / CNN:
The moment they were separated — In heartbreaking letters to CNN, mothers recount exactly how their kids were taken — Last month, CNN sent writing paper along with a stamped and addressed return envelope to immigrant mothers who had been separated from their children and who were detained …
Minky Worden / Politico:
Russia's bloody World Cup — The 2018 World Cup is winding down with memorable play, but for FIFA itself, this was a preventable own goal. — FIFA's flagship tournament could have done something to relieve the worst human rights crisis in Russia since the Soviet era …
Discussion:
One America News Network