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10:50 AM ET, June 21, 2020

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New York Times:
TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally  —  Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Okla.?  —  President Trump's campaign promised huge crowds at his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver.
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Andrew Solender / Forbes:
Turnout At Trump's Tulsa Rally Was Just Under 6,200-A Fraction Of The Venue's 19,200 Capacity  —  While President Trump's rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday was pitched as an over-subscribed event, with Trump campaign staffers touting ticket registrations over a million …
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Anti-Trump protesters ‘interfere’ with president's rally, force cancellation of outdoor speeches  —  The Trump campaign canceled planned outdoor speeches by President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at their comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night after protesters “interfered” …
CNN:
Sick staff and empty seats: How Trump's triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse  —  (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump was gliding in his helicopter toward Joint Base Andrews on Saturday, destined for what he'd once hoped would be a triumphant packed-to-the-rafters return …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Make Arenas Empty Again  —  In Tulsa, the Trump campaign transitions to farce.  —  On Saturday afternoon there was a palpable sense of dread in the news, as President Trump was building up to a rally that was poised to be a campaign event that was unique in its depravity.
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump stokes culture wars, but low turnout mars Tulsa campaign rally  — President Donald Trump's first campaign rally in three months drew far fewer attendees than had been anticipated, an embarrassing blunder for a candidate who places an unusually high value on crowd sizes.
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Tulsa fire department says just under 6,200 people attended Trump rally  —  Just under 6,200 people attended President Trump's rally in Tulsa Saturday, well below the BOK Center's total capacity of 19,200, a public information officer for the Tulsa Fire Department told Forbes Sunday.
Washington Post:
Trump rallies in red-state America — and faces a sea of empty blue seats  —  He threatened violence against protesters, endangered his supporters by flouting health recommendations and endured a 110-day, coronavirus-induced dry spell, but when President Trump finally stepped back onto …
Discussion: Fox News
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:   Trump's rally looked like his vision of America. Limited and pitiless.
Fox News:
President Trump speaks with John Roberts prior to his appearance at Tulsa rally
Discussion: Bloomberg and Axios
Jenny Stanton / Daily Mail:   Teens and K-pop fans sabotaged Trump's Tulsa rally by reserving tickets by the hundreds …
Washington Post:
After campaign boasting, a smaller-than-expected crowd shows up for Trump's Tulsa rally
Discussion: Power Line, Breitbart and NBC News
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump returns to 2020 campaign trail with Tulsa rally
Discussion: The Hill and JustOneMinute
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing.  It's Not Going Well.  —  The program is crucial to the next phase of reopening, which begins on Monday.  But workers have not had much success in getting information from people who test positive.  —  New York City's ambitious contact-tracing program …
Discussion: Althouse
New York Times:
Trump Fires Berman at S.D.N.Y. After Tensions Over Inquiries  —  The president's move heightened criticism that he was purging his administration of officials whose independence could be a threat to his re-election.  —  President Trump on Saturday fired the federal prosecutor whose office put …
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CNN:
Geoffrey Berman is leaving office immediately after standoff with Trump administration
Discussion: National Review and New York Post
Washington Post:
Police enter Seattle cop-free zone after shooting kills a 19-year-old, critically injures a man  —  SEATTLE — Derrek Jones rolled out of his tent Friday morning at the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest — or CHOP — to find a yoga class for people of color underway in the park.
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Andy Ngo / New York Post:
My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ
Discussion: Breitbart
Public Affairs / SPD Blotter:
Homicide Investigation Inside Protest Area
New York Times:
How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time?  —  A review of publicly available data in three areas reveals that much of an officer's job revolves around handling routine calls rather than violent crime.  —  What share of policing is devoted to handling violent crime?  Perhaps not as much as you might think.
Matt Wilstein / The Daily Beast:
Eric Trump Calls Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Animals’ at Tulsa Rally  —  'THIS ISN'T AMERICA'  —  Before his father took the stage for his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma the night after the Juneteenth holiday, Eric Trump used his speech in front of the half-filled arena to call Black Lives Matter protesters “animals.”
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Chris White / New York Post:
Muhammad Ali's son says dad would have hated ‘racist’ Black Lives Matter
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's deflating Tulsa turnout reveals a deeper problem for him  —  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was supposed to get a boost Saturday from his first campaign rally since late February.  Instead, he got a bust.  —  After bragging earlier in the week that more than 1 million people …
Sam Dorman / Fox News:
Conservative publisher claims Amazon blocked paid ads for book on ‘Transgender Craze’  —  A prominent conservative publisher is alleging that Amazon has suspended a paid ad campaign for one of its books, claiming that it contains objectionable content about sexual orientation.
Discussion: Breitbart
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Good Cops, Bad Cops  —  On Father's Day, I want to tell my dad something I neglected to mention.  —  I never told my father I was proud of him.  —  I grew up in the '60s, another era filled with tears and tear gas and violent clashes about race and class.
Paul Sims / The US Sun:
LAYING LOW Jeffrey Epstein's ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell hiding out in luxury Paris flat minutes from pedophile's $8.6m pad  —  FUGITIVE socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been hiding out in a sprawling Paris apartment close to Jeffrey Epstein's $8.6million pedo pad, we can reveal.
Discussion: New York Post
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
Navarro says Trump's call for less coronavirus testing was “tongue in cheek”  —  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on CNN's “State of the Union” Sunday that President Trump's claim at his rally that he asked officials to slow down coronavirus testing was “tongue in cheek,” calling it a “light moment.”
 
 
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