memeorandum: EU top job horse race goes green (Kalina Oroschakoff/Politico)

6:05 AM ET, May 28, 2019

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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” …

Discussion: The Week, Raw Story and Vanity Fair

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate GOP vows to quickly quash any impeachment charges — GOP senators say that if the House passes articles of impeachment against President Trump they will quickly quash them in the Senate, where Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has broad authority to set the parameters of a trial.

Discussion: Fox News

Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:

Trump Embraces Right-Wing One America News Network to Make Fox News Jealous — The network praises the president, courts him in public, and has even tried to hire his former aides. It's finally getting his attention. — One evening last week, Neil McCabe, a Breitbart veteran who now works …

Discussion: Mediaite

Katie Mettler / Washington Post:

A Nazi sympathizer pleaded guilty to defacing a synagogue. His lawyer says conservatives helped radicalize him. — After Nolan Brewer pleaded guilty to charges in connection with painting swastikas on an Indiana synagogue's property and setting the yard ablaze, his attorney argued …

Discussion: Mediaite, The Daily Caller and BuzzFeed News

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.

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

Daniel Moritz-Rabson / Newsweek:

Trump HUD official Lynne Patton says she doesn't care if she broke the law — A Regional Housing and Urban Development official wrote on Wednesday that she did not care if she had broken a federal law intended to stop government officials from acting in a partisan manner.

Discussion: New York Magazine

Nick Visser / HuffPost:
Trump HUD Official: 'I Honestly Don't Care' If I'm Breaking Federal Law

Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Root, Raw Story and Mediaite

Kalina Oroschakoff / Politico:

EU top job horse race goes green — Young voters in the EU's west went green — although that wasn't mirrored in the east. — Aggressive policies on tackling climate change turned out to be a vote-winner in the European election — at least in the west of the Continent.

Discussion: One America News Network, Watts Up With That?, 2019 European election results and The Atlantic

William James / Reuters: UK ever more polarized as Brexit Party storms to EU vote win

Stephen Castle / New York Times:
Nigel Farage's Populist Brexit Party Wins Big in European Parliament Elections

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, Outside the Beltway, Common Dreams, Quartz, Politico and The Guardian

CNN:

Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote — New York (CNN Business)Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will not attend a hearing in Ottawa later this week, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament, Facebook confirmed on Monday.

Discussion: UPI

Chuck Lindell / Austin American-Statesman:

David Whitley resigns as end-of-session deadline nears — Shortly before the Senate's closing gavel ended his term as Texas secretary of state, David Whitley delivered his letter of resignation, “effective immediately,” to Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday afternoon.

Discussion: Dallas Morning News, The Week, Bipartisan Report and Raw Story

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.).

Discussion: twitchy.com, Raw Story and NBC News

Regina Zilbermints / The Hill:
Liz Cheney: Statements by agents investigating Trump ‘could well be treason’

Discussion: Washington Press, twitchy.com, Diamond & Silk, Bipartisan Report, Patterico's Pontifications, Raw Story and Splinter

Anita Kumar / Politico:

Trump finds himself increasingly alone on North Korea — President Donald Trump is isolating himself from allies and even his own advisers on North Korea, eager to insist that his denuclearization efforts will be successful going into a 2020 re-election bid.

Discussion: One America News Network and Raw Story

David Marcus / The Federalist:
IAN BREMMER PUSHES FAKE NEWS ON TWITTER. WILL LIBERALS CARE?

Discussion: The Lid, Townhall, twitchy.com, Washington Times, Law & Crime and Outside the Beltway

New York Times:

‘They Came to Kill.’ Almost 5 Die Daily at Hands of Rio Police. — RIO DE JANEIRO — Shooting from helicopters, armored personnel carriers or at close range, police officers in Rio de Janeiro have gunned down 558 people during the first four months of the year — the highest number …

CNN:

A private group says it's started building its own border wall using millions donated in GoFundMe campaign — Sunland Park, New Mexico (CNN)A group that raised millions of dollars in a GoFundMe campaign says it has broken ground on a project to build its own stretch of border wall on private property.

Discussion: El Paso Times and Talking Points Memo

CNN:

Artist takes $20 bill design into his own hands with Harriet Tubman decorative stamp — (CNN)Supporters of an Obama-era plan to put abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill were disappointed last week by news that the Treasury Department has delayed the bill's redesign.