Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.
7:30 PM ET, October 3, 2019

memeorandum

 Top Items: 
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Ordered Ukraine Ambassador Removed After Complaints From Giuliani, Others  —  Marie Yovanovitch dismissed after Trump allies said she was blocking Biden probe and bad-mouthing president, people familiar with the matter say  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump ordered the removal of the ambassador …
RELATED:
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
‘Crazy to withhold security assistance’ to Ukraine for political purposes: Top US diplomat  —  In newly disclosed text messages shared with Congress, the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine at the time writes to a group of other American diplomats that “I think it's crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign.”
Washington Post:
Giuliani was warned that Ukrainian claims of Bidens' misconduct were not credible, Trump's ex-envoy tells lawmakers  —  The former U.S. special envoy for Ukraine told House investigators on Thursday that he warned President Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani …
New York Times:
Trump Envoys Pushed Ukraine to Commit to Investigations  —  WASHINGTON — Two of President Trump's top envoys to Ukraine drafted a statement for the country's new president in August that would have committed Ukraine to pursuing investigations sought by Mr. Trump into his political rivals, three people briefed on the effort said.
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
In May, Ukrainian oligarch said Giuliani was orchestrating a ‘clear conspiracy against Biden’  —  Months before an intelligence community whistleblower accused President Trump's lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani of digging for dirt on former vice president Joe Biden in Ukraine …
CNN:
Trump raised Biden with Xi in June call housed in highly-secure server  —  Washington (CNN)When President Donald Trump suggested — without prompting — that China should investigate Joe Biden and his son, he thrust another political grudge into what was already the world's most complicated and consequential relationship.
Discussion: Political Wire and The Guardian
RELATED:
New York Times:
Trump Publicly Urges China to Investigate the Bidens  —  President Trump made a similar, but private, request of the president of Ukraine, an episode that has sparked an impeachment inquiry.  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump, already facing impeachment for pressuring Ukraine to investigate …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Trump keeps making it harder for supporters to defend him
Discussion: Raw Story
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Irony is dead: The Trump sons are doing everything possible to make corruption a major 2020 issue
Discussion: Politico and Forbes
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   Trump's request that China investigate the Bidens is his most brazen yet.  It might also be the most problematic.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Read Trump's Lips, He Wants Foreign Help in 2020
Discussion: Associated Press, Vox and HuffPost
Washington Post:
IRS whistleblower said to report Treasury political appointee might have tried to interfere in audit of Trump or Pence  —  An Internal Revenue Service official has filed a whistleblower complaint reporting that he was told at least one Treasury Department political appointee attempted …
CNN:
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office  —  (CNN)A newly unearthed letter from 2016 shows that Republican senators pushed for reforms to Ukraine's prosecutor general's office and judiciary, echoing calls then-Vice President Joe Biden made at the time.
RELATED:
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
CNN Refuses to Air Trump Ad Pushing Biden-Ukraine Claims and Bashing Network Anchors  —  The 30-second spot paints the president as a victim of Democrats and alleged “media lapdogs” like CNN.  —  In a move that is sure to ratchet up tension with the White House, cable news channel CNN …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump campaign to drop bomb on Biden in early voting states  —  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign is preparing an avalanche of TV ads targeting Joe Biden in early primary states — its most aggressive step yet to meddle in the Democratic nomination contest.
New York Times:
CNN Rejects Two Trump Campaign Ads, Citing Inaccuracies
Discussion: Vanity Fair
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Trump Just Committed More High Crimes on the White House Lawn
Michael Calderone / Politico:   Biden warns Fox News against running Trump ad
Oma Seddiq / Politico:   Trump floats idea of his own news network to counter CNN
Andrew Napolitano / Fox News:
Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's call with Ukraine president manifests criminal and impeachable behavior  —  The House of Representatives has begun to gather evidence in an effort to determine if President Trump has committed impeachable offenses.  The Constitution defines an impeachable offense as …
RELATED:
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Mad King's Enablers
Discussion: HuffPost, Breitbart, CBS News and CNN
Fox News:
Ex-Ukraine envoy Volker meets with lawmakers amid impeachment probe, as texts reveal ‘quid pro quo’ dispute
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Pelosi Sends Letter to Leader McCarthy Reiterating the Critical Importance of the Ongoing Impeachment Inquiry  —  Washington D.C. - Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent the below letter to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy in response to his correspondence earlier today.
RELATED:
Alex Moe / NBC News:
McCarthy calls for Pelosi to suspend impeachment inquiry
Discussion: HuffPost and Daily Kos
Axios:   Scoop: Trump letter dares Pelosi to hold vote on impeachment inquiry
Susan Page / USA Today:
Perilous times for President Trump: By 45%-38%, Americans support impeaching him over allegations related to Ukraine, poll finds  —  From the moment Donald Trump became a national political figure, he has been cloaked in controversy and shadowed by investigations.
RELATED:
David Byler / Washington Post:
Why Elizabeth Warren is getting such good press  —  It seems like every day a new story breaks about how Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is climbing in the polls, releasing a new policy proposal, “winning” a primary debate or taking some other step toward becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
RELATED:
Makini Brice / Reuters:
Biden raises $15.2 million in the third quarter for U.S. presidential bid
Discussion: Political Wire
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Pence: I Participated in the Ukraine Plot But Only As a Patsy  —  Vice-President Mike Pence is knee-deep in the Ukraine scandal.  He is floating the absurd defense that, while he did participate in Trump's plan to extort Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden, he was completely ignorant of what he was doing.
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Bob Woodward interviewed the ‘She Said’ authors at a book event.  Things got tense.  Then there was heckling.  —  It seemed like the perfect combination of three Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists: The Washington Post's Bob Woodward interviewing the New York Times's Jodi Kantor …
Alex Rogers / CNN:
Mitch McConnell raises money vowing to stop impeachment  —  McConnell calls out Dems' ‘embarrassing’ reenactment  —  (CNN)In a new campaign video on Facebook, Senate Majority Mitch McConnell pitches himself as the man who can end the House's impeachment inquiry, a sign of how the chief Republican …
RELATED:
Tyler Whetstone / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Former Senator Bob Corker shows restraint, says ‘nothing’ about Trump, impeachment
Discussion: Politico
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
White House Floats Potential DOJ Investigation Into ‘Joe Biden and His Family’  —  A tiny, largely unnoticed edit to a daily White House newsletter this week suggests the Trump administration is leaving open the possibility of siccing the Justice Department on Joe Biden.
Discussion: The White House
BuzzFeed News:
The New Way To Hack Democracy: The Political Operatives Who Fake Voter Outrage With Millions Of Made-Up Comments  —  Sarah Reeves sat on her couch in Eugene, Oregon, staring at her laptop screen in furious disbelief.  She was reading the website of a government agency, where her mother appeared …
Discussion: Politico
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Trump seized on a conspiracy theory called the ‘insurance policy.’ Now, it's at the center of an impeachment investigation.  —  Just months after Trump's inauguration, conspiracy theorists pushed a fanciful and unsubstantiated narrative in which the DNC framed Russia for election interference.
George T. Conway III / The Atlantic:
Unfit for Office  —  On a third-down play last season, the Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith stood in shotgun formation, five yards behind the line of scrimmage.  As he called his signals, a Houston Texans cornerback, Kareem Jackson, suddenly sprinted forward from a position four yards behind the defensive line.
Discussion: Law & Crime, Mediaite, Axios and Raw Story
Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:
For the last time, Trump's every move is brilliant and calculated  —  “There are different ways to bake the cake, depending on what sort of cake you want.  Different flavoring, different temperatures, different ingredients yield different types of cake, and the president as the master baker …
 
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of memeorandum at 7:30 PM ET, October 3, 2019.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 See Also: 
memeorandum: site main
memeorandum River: reverse chronological memeorandum
memeorandum Mobile: for phones
memeorandum Leaderboard: memeorandum's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
memeorandum RSS feed
memeorandum on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Alex Boutilier / Toronto Star:
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer acknowledges holding U.S. citizenship
Discussion: Raw Story
Zoe Tillman / BuzzFeed News:
The Justice Department Has Argued Sex, Information, And Worthless Stock Were “Things Of Value.”
Fox News:
Rep. McCarthy: Remove Schiff from Intel Committee due to ‘lies and deceit’
Zoie Matthew / Los Angeles Magazine:
Gavin McInnes Bares His Soul
Linnaea Honl-Stuenkel / CREW:
Rick Perry Created AI Office Within Energy Dept. Despite Wife's Investments
Andrew C. McCarthy / The Hill:
Ignore the hype — this is not an impeachment inquiry
Discussion: New York Times, Fortune and Vanity Fair
Alex Roarty / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
As Warren rises, debate over her ability to beat Trump intensifies
Will Bunch / Inquirer.com:
There is no justice in AG Barr and Trump's insane, paranoid world of political vendettas
 Earlier Items: 
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
Trump's removal would require Republican dissidents.  But those who speak out become targets of viral disinformation.
Steven Lemongello / Orlando Sentinel:
Watch: Trump arrives to The Villages today amid impeachment probe
Discussion: Raw Story
Lee Drutman / FiveThirtyEight:
If Republicans Ever Turn On Trump, It'll Happen All At Once
Discussion: Raw Story
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump Is Going to Burn Down Everything and Everyone, and Republicans, That Means You
Molly Ball / TIME:
Why Kamala Harris Is Struggling to Find Her Footing
Discussion: Fox News, Axios and Los Angeles Times
Alex Hern / The Guardian:
Trump's video taken off Twitter after band Nickelback complains
Lachlan Markay / The Daily Beast:
Book Alleging Biden Corruption in Ukraine Lifted Passages From Wikipedia
 

 
From Techmeme:

Shakeel Hashim / Transformer:
Musk v. Altman: email shows Brockman and Sutskever had concerns about Altman in 2017, Musk claims Altman proposed OpenAI sell its own cryptocurrency, and more

Jay Peters / The Verge:
Bluesky says it has “no intention” of taking user content to train AI tools, ahead of X implementing new terms of service that let it train AI on user content

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Report: Samsung plans to release its smart glasses in Q3 2025; the glasses will be powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chipset and use Google's Gemini to handle AI tasks

 
Sister Sites:

Techmeme
 Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web
Mediagazer
 Top news and commentary for media professionals from all around the web
WeSmirch
 The top celebrity news from all around the web on a single page