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5:35 PM ET, May 27, 2019

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New York Times:
Trump and Abe's ‘Unshakable Bond’ Shows Some Cracks in Tokyo  —  TOKYO — Standing at side-by-side lecterns inside the gilded Akasaka State Guest House in Tokyo, President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan sought to show the world the strength of what Mr. Abe called their “unshakable bond.”
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Peter Hasson / The Daily Caller:
Time Magazine Columnist's Trump Quote Went Viral — Then He Admitted He Made It Up
Anita Kumar / Politico:
Trump finds himself increasingly alone on North Korea
Discussion: Raw Story
Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Ian Bremmer defends and then deletes false Trump statement about North Korea
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
GOP Congressman Slams Trump For Bashing Biden, Praising ‘Dictator’ …
Brooke Seipel / The Hill:   Sarah Sanders: North Korean missile tests aren't ‘bothering’ Trump
New York Times:
Trump Administration Hardens Its Attack on Climate Science  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump has rolled back environmental regulations, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord, brushed aside dire predictions about the effects of climate change, and turned the term “global warming” …
Steven Rattner / New York Times:
Trump's Formidable 2020 Tailwind  —  The economy and incumbency drive presidential election outcomes.  —  Mr. Rattner served as counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration.  —  The economy invariably ranks among the top issues on the minds of voters in presidential elections.
Discussion: Slate
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Axios:
3 forecast modelers predict Trump will win in 2020  —  Steven Rattner, “car czar” and counselor to the Treasury secretary in the Obama administration, cites three different modelers in his N.Y. Times commentary, “Trump's Formidable 2020 Tailwind.”  —  The big picture: Trump wins all three modelers.
Discussion: Political Wire
Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Nigel Farage's Populist Brexit Party Wins Big in European Parliament Elections  —  Britain's new populist Brexit Party was on course to win the country's European Parliament elections, according to early results released on Sunday, further roiling the already turbulent politics of a country polarized …
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William James / Reuters:   UK ever more polarized as Brexit Party storms to EU vote win
Politico:
Martin Selmayr: Populist wave has been ‘contained’
New York Times:
The Old Scourge of Anti-Semitism Rises Anew in Europe
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Washington Post:
European Parliament elections: Voters deny traditional centrists a majority, boost euroskeptics and Greens
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The press must do better  —  The New York Times gives prominent placement on its home page to list all of President Trump's juvenile nicknames for the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including the racist Native American slur directed at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.).
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Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump ‘could well be treason’  —  Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that statements by FBI agents investigating President Trump sounded “an awful lot like a coup, and it could well be treason.”  —  Cheney told Martha Raddatz on ABC's …
Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Trump HUD Official: 'I Honestly Don't Care' If I'm Breaking Federal Law  —  Lynne Patton said she may have violated the Hatch Act, then called anyone mad about it a “liberal snowflake.”  —  Lynne Patton, a regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development …
Christina Zhao / Newsweek:
Fox News' Chris Wallace challenges Lindsey Graham on his 1998 claim that ignoring subpoenas is impeachable  —  Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday forced Senator Lindsey Graham to watch a 1998 clip of himself talking about the dangers of ignoring subpoenas from Congress during an era …
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:   Chris Wallace Nails Lindsey Graham With Clip of His Own Words from 1999 About Ignoring Subpoenas
Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
President Donald Trump set to commandeer July 4 festivities in nation's capital  —  Ever since he watched armored tanks and jets roll down the Champs-Elysees during France's Bastille Day celebrations in 2017, President Donald Trump has longed for a comparable display of American greatness and military might.
Discussion: Raw Story
David Rutz / Washington Free Beacon:
Bernie Sanders Advisor Tweets Gif of Jeremy Corbyn Dancing on Margaret Thatcher's Grave  —  A senior political advisor to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) tweeted a gif Sunday of United Kingdom Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn dancing on the grave of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Discussion: Mediaite
Phil McCausland / NBC News:
Trump's ban on Chinese telecom giant Huawei could cut off rural Americans' cell service  —  “These rural areas are going to not get served, and it puzzles me why these senators ... don't see the problem here,” a tech advocate said.  —  The Trump administration's ban on goods produced …
Richard Lardner / Associated Press:
A hefty donation to Trump's inaugural comes under scrutiny  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Real estate mogul Franklin Haney contributed $1 million to President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and all he's got to show for the money is the glare of a federal investigation.
Arthur Allen / Politico:
How the anti-vaccine movement crept into the GOP mainstream  —  The anti-vaccine movement, which swelled with discredited theories that blamed vaccines for autism and other ills, has morphed and grown into a libertarian political rebellion that is drawing in state Republican officials who distrust government medical mandates.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jamal Greene / Slate:
Trump's Judge Whisperer Promised to Take Our Laws Back to the 1930s  —  One week before the 1980 presidential election, toward the end of his lone debate against Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan stared into the camera and implored Americans to ask themselves, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Discussion: National Review
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Asians as Beneficiaries of White Privilege  —  The success of Asian-Americans is a severe embarrassment to the race industry.  Race hustlers focus on “gaps” between whites and blacks with regard to income and educational attainment, which they attribute to “systemic” racism.
Discussion: New York Post
 
 
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CNN:
Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
With His Job Gone, an Autoworker Wonders, ‘What Am I as a Man?’
Washington Post:
China wages relentless crackdowns on its Muslims.  But Saudi Arabia stays quiet as it bolsters ties with Beijing.
David Montanaro / Fox News:
Rep. Rashida Tlaib says House ‘moving towards’ consensus for Trump impeachment
Discussion: Breitbart
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Female Veterans, and a Memorial to Them, Struggle to Honor Women Who Served
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America
Discussion: Townhall and ImmigrationProf Blog
Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Flynn's case could prompt release of some redacted parts of Mueller report
Discussion: Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Victor Davis Hanson / American Greatness:
Colluders, Obstructionists, Leakers, and Other Projectionists
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
As Barr mulls declassification, a familiar tune from critics
Glenn Kirschner / NBC News:
Trump's proposed Memorial Day pardons dishonor veterans — and pervert justice
Discussion: The Conversation
Jay Cost / National Review:
The American Revolution's Starving, Barefoot, Heroic Troops
New York Times:
With the 2020 Democratic Field Set, Candidates Begin the Races Within the Race
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
How Liberalism Loses  —  An inflexible agenda and a global retreat.
 

 
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