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mccain.senate.gov:
SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON TRUMP-PUTIN MEETING  —  Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on President Trump's meeting and press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki:
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Axios:
Trump's Helsinki humiliation  —  President Trump's press conference with Vladimir Putin was a disaster.  And that was the assessment of many of his GOP allies.  —  Why it matters: Trump had a chance to assert himself — and stand up for his countrymen — against foreign interference in our elections.
The Daily Beast:
Trump's Own Team: He ‘Looked Incredibly Weak’ Next to Putin … Donald Trump's much-anticipated meeting with Vladimir Putin on Monday offered him yet another opportunity to defy those who've criticized his coziness with the Russian leader.  —  But on a global stage, Trump didn't just cower …
Discussion: Splinter, POLITICUSUSA, Vox and WEEK-TV
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
This Is the Moment of Truth for Republicans  —  There are exactly two possible explanations for the shameful performance the world witnessed on Monday, from a serving American president.  —  Either Donald Trump is flat-out an agent of Russian interests—maybe witting, maybe unwitting …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Associated Press
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Trump Sheds All Notions of How a President Should Conduct Himself Abroad  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump made one thing clear after his meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin on Monday: He is willing to take Mr. Putin's word over those of his own intelligence agencies about whether the Russians tried to fix the 2016 election.
LoveBreedsAccountability:
After Trump-Putin Summit, The Pearl-Clutching Media Is A Laughingstock  —  The US media, perhaps the most threatened of all the swamp parasites, are melting down because President Trump didn't start a war with Russia.  —  I'm not sure why the media thinks the rest of us don't know these things, but just to be clear...
Discussion: National Review
John Harwood / CNBC:
Trump pushed his personal agenda, not the national interest, at Putin summit  — Trump faces political and legal jeopardy from the Justice Department investigation of his 2016 campaign and Russia.  — Against that backdrop, comments that Republican Sen. Ben Sasse called “bizarre” …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump and Putin vs. America  —  From the beginning of his administration, President Trump has responded to every new bit of evidence from the C.I.A., F.B.I. and N.S.A. that Russia intervened in our last election on his behalf by either attacking Barack Obama or the Democrats for being too lax …
New York Times:
Republicans Rebuke Trump for Siding With Putin as Democrats Demand Action  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans across the ideological spectrum rebuked President Trump after Monday's extraordinary news conference with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with Speaker Paul D. Ryan admonishing Mr. Trump …
Discussion: National Review and Althouse
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump is now repaying Putin for helping him win the presidency  —  THE MORNING PLUM:  —  The events of the past few days — culminating in President Trump's meeting today with Russian President Vladimir Putin — have rendered this interpretation inescapable: Trump is currently in the process …
Associated Press:
Wave of condemnation hits Trump after summit with Putin  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — “Bizarre.”  “Shameful.”  “Disgraceful.”  —  That's the swift and sweeping condemnation directed at President Donald Trump on Monday after he sided with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a stunning appearance …
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The Crisis Facing America
Washington Post:
Trump just colluded with Russia. Openly.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Breitbart and Defense One
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
If you work for Trump, quit now
Discussion: Hot Air, BostonGlobe.com and IJR
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
The moment called for Trump to stand up for America. He chose to bow.
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:   After a stunning news conference, there's a newly crucial job for the American press
Jay Nordlinger / National Review:
Trump and Putin: Some Thoughts
Discussion: Power Line, Mashable and twitchy.com
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Host Calls Trump's Presser Performance ‘Disgusting,’ ‘Wrong’
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
John Ziegler / Mediaite:
About the Only Evidence Left that Trump Isn't Beholden to Putin is That It's Just Too Obvious
Discussion: New York Times, HuffPost and CBS News
New York Times:
Trump-Putin Summit Is Over. The Head-Scratching? Not So Much: Live Updates
Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Blames U.S. for Poor Relations With Moscow
Ezra Klein / Vox:
Trump and Putin: what we know is damning
Discussion: HuffPost, Washington Post and USA Today
U.S. Department of Justice:
Russian National Charged in Conspiracy to Act as an Agent of the Russian Federation Within the United States  —  A criminal complaint was unsealed today in the District of Columbia charging a Russian national with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation within …
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Washington Post:
Maria Butina, Russian gun rights advocate, charged in U.S. with acting as Russian Federation agent  —  A Russian national with alleged ties to a top Russian official was charged in federal court in Washington Monday with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation, and was ordered held without bond.
Andrew J. Tobias / Plain Dealer:
Southeast Ohio Republican Party leader resigns over Trump-Putin meeting  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — A county Republican Party chairman from Southeast Ohio resigned on Monday, citing President Donald Trump's meeting earlier in the day with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:
Ground Zero in the War on Voting Rights
Discussion: Splinter
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Yes, Normal Republican Elites Are a Threat to Democracy
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
James Pethokoukis / American Enterprise Institute:
The uninformed economic views of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in 2 charts  —  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new Democratic darling and self-described democratic socialist, said some odd things in a PBS interview.  First, she tried to explain away the current low unemployment rate this way …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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MySanAntonio.com:
Plutonium went missing in San Antonio, but the government says nothing  —  Losses of civilian nuclear material are usually disclosed but when the government loses nuclear bomb ingredients it stays mum  —  Two security experts from the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio …
Emily Crane / Daily Mail:
Bombshell Bourdain interview is published one month after his suicide: Celebrity chef unloads on 'rapey, gropey and disgusting Bill Clinton and hopes Weinstein is ‘beaten to death in jail’  — Anthony Bourdain gave a lengthy, wide ranging interview to journalist Maria Bustillos for her recently launched magazine Popula
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Maria Bustillos / Popula:
Bourdain Confidential  —  Anthony Bourdain had started smoking again …
CBS News:
Trump: “I don't know if I agree” with DNI Coats' warning about Russian cyberattacks  —  President Trump says he doesn't know if he agrees with a warning from Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats about the “critical” threat of potentially devastating cyberattacks targeting U.S. systems.
Garrett M. Graff / Wired:
What Robert Mueller Knows—and 9 Areas He'll Pursue Next  —  The special counsel has collected a mountain of evidence in the Trump-Russia investigation, but so far only a tiny amount of it has been revealed in official indictments.  Here are nine areas where we should expect answers as the inquiry unfolds.
Discussion: JONATHAN TURLEY
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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:
Trump's Stupid ‘Where Is the DNC Server?’  Conspiracy Theory, Explained  —  Trump refuses to believe all the evidence that Russia hacked the DNC, because he understands nothing about how digital forensics works.  —  Monday, in a press conference with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump refused …
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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