memeorandum: Trump tells Dem congresswomen: Go back where you came from (David Cohen/Politico)

12:30 PM ET, July 14, 2019

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David Cohen / Politico:

Trump tells Dem congresswomen: Go back where you came from — President Donald Trump on Sunday called out progressive Democratic congresswomen in xenophobic terms, saying: “Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”

Discussion: NBC News and Slate

New York Times:

Trump Tells Freshman Congresswomen to ‘Go Back’ to the Countries They Came From — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Sunday weighed in on the friction between a group of four freshman Democratic congresswomen and Speaker Nancy Pelosi: He suggested that the congresswomen — none of whom are white …

Discussion: CNN, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo and Bloomberg

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Scaling Wokeback Mountain — WASHINGTON — I was feeling on edge. Writing a column that sparks an internecine fight among the highest-profile women in the Democratic Party is nerve wracking. — So I went to the gym. Alex Toussaint, the digital Peloton instructor inside the little screen …

Discussion: Power Line, Politico, Common Dreams, Washington Post, The Week, New York Post, Axios, The Daily Caller, PJ Media Home, Mediaite, Mother Jones, New York Daily News and HuffPost, more at Mediagazer »

Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:

Trump targets four liberal congresswomen with tweets that Pelosi denounces as ‘xenophobic’ — President Trump said Sunday that four liberal congresswomen who have been critical of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places …

Discussion: Media Matters for America and The Daily Beast

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Trump trails Biden, Warren and Sanders in new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll — Joe Biden holds largest lead against Trump due to better performance among Independents and suburban voters. — WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump trails the top Democratic contenders in hypothetical matchups …

Discussion: BostonGlobe.com and The Atlantic

BBC:

New leak claims Trump scrapped Iran nuclear deal ‘to spite Obama’ — Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador to the US. — Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of “diplomatic vandalism”, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Daily Mail:

Britain's Ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch claimed that Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal as an act of ‘diplomatic vandalism’ to spite his predecessor Barack Obama — Responding to Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu's incendiary claim that publishing the contents of the documents …

Discussion: Mother Jones, CNN, Breitbart, The Times & The Sunday Times, Al Jazeera, The Week and Axios

James Ludden / Bloomberg:
Trump Nixed Iran Deal for ‘Personality Reasons,’ Mail Says

Discussion: Hullabaloo

New York Times:

Power Restored to Manhattan's West Side After Major Blackout — A power failure plunged a stretch of the West Side of Manhattan into darkness on Saturday night, trapping people in subway cars and elevators for a time, leaving drivers to fend for themselves at intersections with no traffic signals …

Discussion: twitchy.com, Outside the Beltway and Slate

NBC New York:
Midtown Blackout Knocks Out Power to More Than 45K: ConEd

Discussion: New York Daily News, CBS New York, Washington Post, Politico, Variety, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Gizmodo

Wall Street Journal:

Immigration-Enforcement Raids Begin in New York — ICE agents attempt raids in at least two city neighborhoods; President Trump says roundups will focus on criminals — Federal immigration authorities attempted raids in at least two neighborhoods in New York City on Saturday …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Vox, Daily Kos, The Guardian, Breitbart and ImmigrationProf Blog

Los Angeles Times:
Trump's threatened ICE raids could hearten his base, and terrify immigrants

Discussion: Washington Monthly, The Week, INDIVISIBLE VENTURA and ThinkProgress

Trevor Hughes / USA Today:
Cities prepare for showdown with Trump over ICE raids: You ‘have to come through us’

Discussion: TalkLeft, ABC7 and Denver Post

Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:

Netroots Nation was the day Elizabeth Warren became president of the American left — She had them at “hello.” — No, seriously. After applauding performatively for anti-Trump red meat tossed out by New York Sen. Kirsten Gillbrand ("We all have a responsibility to fight as hard …

Discussion: The Guardian

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Republicans ready to dive off a cliff on Obamacare — Republicans have no real plan to establish a new health care system if the courts strike down the Affordable Care Act before the 2020 election. But plenty of them are rooting for its demise anyway — even if it means plunging the GOP …

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Attacker on Tacoma ICE Detention Center identified as “anarchist and antifascist” — Willem Van Spronsen attacked the center with incendiary devices before being shot dead. In an earlier 2018 protest outside the facility, Van Spronsen “was accused of lunging at a police officer's neck …

Discussion: The Week, Front Page Magazine, New York Times and The Gateway Pundit

Mariel Padilla / New York Times: Man Attacking ICE Detention Center Is Fatally Shot by the Police

Brian Contreras / The Seattle Times:
Armed man attacking Tacoma's ICE detention center killed in officer-involved shooting

Discussion: ThinkProgress, RedState, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, Q13 FOX News, The Gateway Pundit, Geller Report News, Slate, UPI and Breitbart

Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Armed man shot, killed after throwing incendiary devices at Washington ICE detention center

Discussion: Front Page Magazine, Associated Press and PJ Media Home

Jackie Wattles / CNN:

Fallout over offensive Buttigieg article: Magazine's owner apologizes but a sponsor cuts ties — New York (CNN Business)The League of Conservation Voters is cutting ties with an upcoming forum on climate change after its co-host for the event, The New Republic, published an “offensive” …

Discussion: Front Page Magazine and Gizmodo, more at Mediagazer »

Rachel Frazin / The Hill:

Inslee says he'll ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be secretary of state — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) said Saturday that if he is elected president, he will ask soccer player Megan Rapinoe to be his secretary of state. — He said at the progressive Netroots Nation conference …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications and The Daily Caller

Marianna Brady / BBC:
Megan Rapinoe: Can a pink-haired lesbian be an American hero?

Discussion: The Guardian

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:

Pete Buttigieg's Life in the Closet — And why it took him until he was 33 to come out. — The closet that Pete Buttigieg built for himself in the late 1990s and 2000s was a lot like the ones that other gay men of his age and ambition hid inside. He dated women, deepened his voice …

Discussion: Breitbart and New Republic

Maria Sacchetti / Washington Post:

Former Southwest Key leader who ran migrant child shelters for U.S. government earned $3.6 million in 2017 — The former leader of a nonprofit organization that shelters migrant children for the U.S. government resigned this year after it was publicly disclosed that he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016.