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7:30 AM ET, May 15, 2020

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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
“Obamagate” Is Niche Programming for Trump Superfans  —  Donald Trump will not shut up about Barack Obama—not now, not ever.  On Thursday morning, amid the gravest economic crisis in a century and a deadly pandemic that will have killed more than a hundred thousand Americans by the end of this month …
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Washington Post:
How a Flynn theory became central to the Trump reelection campaign  —  On the day Attorney General William P. Barr moved to drop criminal charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, again winning the adulation of President Trump, he was paid a special visit.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:   Barr vs. the Beltway
NBC News:
Trump allies push ‘Obamagate,’ but record fails to back them up
Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump exults in his Mueller revenge play
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal:
An ‘Unmasking’ Q&A  —  U.S. intelligence gathering and the case of Michael Flynn
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Barack Obama Speaks Out After Mitch McConnell Tells Him To Keep His ‘Mouth Shut’  —  The former president calls for “better policy decisions” on dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.  —  Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged a better government response to the coronavirus pandemic …
Discussion: NBC News and IJR
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell says Obama administration ‘did leave behind’ pandemic plan  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday walked back comments made earlier this week, where he said the Obama administration didn't leave behind a “game plan” for a pandemic.
Discussion: Washington Post
Paul LeBlanc / CNN:
McConnell admits he was wrong to say Obama administration failed to leave a pandemic playbook  —  (CNN)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell conceded Thursday night that he was wrong to claim that the Obama administration had not left behind a plan to deal with a pandemic in the US.  —  “I was wrong.
Politico:
How Burr's stock scandal shocked the Senate  —  The Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday met as usual in a classified room in the Capitol.  During the meeting, Chairman Richard Burr discussed the next time the secretive panel would gather.  —  Less than 24 hours later …
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Jerry Lambe / Law & Crime:
Michael Flynn's Fired Lawyers Just Filed Court Papers to Reappear in His Case  —  The federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn's criminal prosecution has directed the law firm that Flynn fired to reappear as an interested party in the controversial proceeding.  On Thursday, that firm complied by filing a notice of appearance.
Discussion: Power Line and The Gateway Pundit
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Judge Sullivan To Consider Perjury Charge Against Flynn
New York Times:
De Blasio Relies on Aide Who Saw ‘No Proof’ Closures Curb Virus  —  The head of New York City's public hospitals pushed to keep the city open in early March.  Now Mayor de Blasio has put him in charge of contact tracing, deepening a rift with the Health Department.
Mara Gay / New York Times:
Coronavirus Is Making Young People Very Sick.  I Was One of Them.  —  Young, healthy people like me are getting very, very sick from the disease caused by the coronavirus.  —  Ms. Gay is a member of the editorial board.  —  The day before I got sick, I ran three miles, walked 10 more …
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
Brian Klaas / Washington Post:
We need to prepare for the possibility of Trump rejecting election results  —  Since 2017, so many events in U.S. politics that were previously unthinkable have come to pass.  Don't believe me?  A few days ago, the president of the United States baselessly accused a cable television host …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Coronavirus is now invading Trump counties in the swing states  —  The novel coronavirus continues to shift our political geography.  The latest development: It's now penetrating counties in the battleground states that were carried by President Trump, which raises the possibility …
Oliver Darcy / CNN:
Top health officials vanish from national TV interviews as White House refocuses messaging  —  New York (CNN Business)The nation's top physicians have stopped appearing on national television for interviews as the White House exerts increased control over communications during the coronavirus pandemic …
Discussion: VICE
Politico:
‘They are angry’: Pandemic and economic collapse slam Trump across Rust Belt  —  The Industrial Midwest was always going to be a battleground in November.  —  The region is now becoming a new front line for Americans' lives and livelihoods as coronavirus hot spots proliferate and jobless rates spiral.
Discussion: The Daily Beast and IJR
Politico:
Florida man beats Covid, for now  —  Presented by The Mortgage Bankers Association  —  FROM THE NON-FRONTLINES — Good evening, and greetings from Florida, where we feel the need to inform you that it's not a post-apocalyptic hellscape of coronavirus infection and cadavers stacked like cordwood.
Discussion: Breitbart
Washington Post:
CDC offers brief checklists to guide businesses, schools and others on reopening  —  With hundreds of millions of people still seeking advice on resuming their lives safely, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a scant six pages of recommendations Thursday to guide schools …
Erik Ortiz / Yahoo News:
ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules  —  revised federal guidelines on how sexual assault allegations should be handled on college and K-12 campuses is the target of a federal lawsuit filed Thursday, claiming the changes would “inflict significant harm” on victims and “dramatically undermine” their civil rights.
Discussion: Twitchy
Cathy Young / Quillette:
Tara Reade's Dubious Claims and Shifting Stories Show the Limits of #BelieveWomen  —  Last year, a then-56-year-old California woman named Tara Reade publicly accused Joe Biden of sexual assaulting her in 1993.  The issue caused an awkward rift among Democrats, one that has only widened since Biden became …
Discussion: The Atlantic
Washington Post:
Postal Services launches review of package delivery fees as Trump influence grows  —  Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman will leave before new agency head Louis DeJoy takes the helm  —  Weeks before a Republican donor and top White House ally becomes postmaster general …
Politico:
A metrics-obsessed White House struggles to define success on coronavirus  —  President Donald Trump stepped into the Rose Garden for a news conference Monday and stood between two enormous signs that graced the West Wing colonnade.  —  “AMERICA LEADS THE WORLD IN TESTING,” the signs read.
Discussion: Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A sweeping setback for Trump's foreign business dealings  —  President Trump's decision not to divest himself of his businesses, in particular his foreign holdings or holdings that derive income from foreign governments, was a fateful error that flew in the face of precedent, clean government and the Constitution.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jordan Libowitz / CREW:   CREW Statement on Emoluments Ruling
Joseph Wulfsohn / Fox News:
Biden says he doesn't remember Tara Reade, tells women they 'probably shouldn't vote for me' if they believe her claims  —  Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Thursday that he does not remember Tara Reade, the former Senate staffer who came forward in March with a 1993 sexual assault allegation …
Emily Smith / Page Six:
Law firm hackers double ransom demand, threaten Donald Trump  —  The ransom demand for the secret files of a cyber-attacked lawyer to A-list stars has doubled to $42 million — as the hackers now threaten to reveal “dirty laundry” on President Donald Trump in just a week if they are not paid in full.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Battered by upheaval, novelist Yu Lihua told raw stories from a speckled blue desk  —  Years before Yu Lihua was spurned by the English literature department at Taiwan's top university, before she was rejected by English professors at graduate school in Los Angeles, she overheard her mother longing for her to be dead.
CNN:
Nursing home workers warned government about safety violations before Covid-19 outbreaks and deaths  —  (CNN)A flu shot will protect you from coronavirus, a worker reported being told by supervisors at a Rhode Island nursing home, where at least 60 residents were diagnosed with Covid-19 and at least one died.
Discussion: American Prospect
New York Times:
U.S. Navy Releases Videos of Unexplained Flying Objects … The incidents in the videos were investigated by a little-known Pentagon program that for years looked into reports of unidentified flying objects, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.
Salena Zito / Washington Examiner:
Trump to Salena Zito: 'Joe has absolutely no idea what's happening'  —  ALLENTOWN, Pennsylvania — President Trump, speaking to the Washington Examiner ahead of an event at a medical supply facility in this key swing state, took aim at Joe Biden's mental faculties, at one point claiming …
CDC:
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) Associated with Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)  —  Distributed via the CDC Health Alert Network  —  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is providing 1) background information on several cases of a recently reported …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Colby Itkowitz / Washington Post:
Obama's former aides angry, hurt over Ronny Jackson's embrace of Trump's conspiracy theories  —  Former Obama officials expressed anger and a sense of betrayal after onetime White House doctor Ronny L. Jackson echoed President Trump's baseless conspiracy theories about their former boss, President Barack Obama.
Discussion: Raw Story, IJR and The Hill
David Welch / Bloomberg:
Michigan Cancels Legislative Session to Avoid Armed Protesters  —  Michigan closed down its capitol in Lansing on Thursday and canceled its legislative session rather than face the possibility of an armed protest and death threats against Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
CNBC:
White House preparing executive order requiring certain essential drugs be made in U.S., sources say  — The White House is preparing an executive order which will require certain essential drugs be made in the U.S., sources told CNBC on Thursday.  — One of the sources told CNBC's Kayla Tausche …
Discussion: NPR and The Hill
 
 
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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Who sent coronavirus-positive patients into nursing homes?
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Michael Damiano / Boston Magazine:
Joe Kennedy III Wants You to Know He's More Than Just a Name
Meera Jagannathan / New York Post:
Men less likely to wear face masks because they're ‘not cool’ and ‘a sign of weakness’
Discussion: Fox News and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Trump to Receive New Space Force Flag at White House on Friday
Discussion: Raw Story
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
Swing states hit as coronavirus rips small businesses
William Mersey / New York Daily News:
Congratulations, Paulie: An ex-cellmate wishes the best to Paul Manafort
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
Nonprofit run by Trump nominee to head U.S. media agency is under investigation, senator says
Discussion: New York Times, Deadline and The Hill
 Earlier Items: 
John Hudson / Washington Post:
Democrats scrutinize State Department plan to overhaul Social Security
The Hill:
Trump says testing may be ‘frankly overrated’
Discussion: Mediaite and Breitbart
Washington Post:
Trump encourages Pompeo to run for Senate but secretary of state rebuffs him
Discussion: Raw Story
Paul Sperry / RealClearInvestigations:
Transcripts: Clinton Aides Allied With Fusion GPS Pair After Election — to Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's rebuke of Fauci encapsulates rejection of science in virus fight
CBS News:
Company tied to Trump campaign manager gets PPP loan
Politico:
The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It.
 

 
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