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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 …
Brad Parscale / Donald J. Trump for President:
Trump campaign statement on bogus claims of ticket hacking  —  “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don't know what they're talking about or how our rallies work.  Reporters who wrote gleefully about TikTok and K-Pop fans …
Discussion: New York Post and Mediaite
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 …
Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Chris Wallace grills Trump campaign adviser on Tulsa rally: “The arena was empty”  —  “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace grilled Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp on why the president's Saturday rally in Tulsa saw lower-than-expected attendance, despite claims by Trump last week that 1 million people had requested tickets.
Discussion: Tulsa World
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 campaign, Democrats joust over Tulsa rally turnout
Discussion: Raw Story
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Anti-Trump protesters ‘interfere’ with president's rally, force cancellation of outdoor speeches
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
Trump stokes culture wars, but low turnout mars Tulsa campaign rally
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 …
Discussion: The Week
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Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Twin Trumpworld strategies following ‘bad night’ in Tulsa: Blame, and hope  —  Tulsa “was a bad night for our effort,” said one senior Trump adviser.  “Hardly a deal-breaker, lots of time to go, many miles ahead.  But everything was awful.”  —  WASHINGTON — It was supposed …
NBC News:
Trump ‘furious’ about ‘underwhelming’ crowd at Tulsa rally  —  President Donald Trump is “furious” at the “underwhelming” crowd at his rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday evening, a major disappointment for what was expected to be a raucous return to the campaign trail after a three-month hiatus due …
Robin Givhan / Washington Post:   Trump's rally looked like his vision of America. Limited and pitiless.
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Make Arenas Empty Again
Discussion: Daily Mail and Breitbart
Wall Street Journal:
Attorney General Barr, Known by Aides as ‘the Buffalo’, Scrutinized Over Firing of U.S. Attorney  —  Mr. Barr's critics accuse him of undermining the Justice Department's tradition of independence  —  WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr has earned a reputation for being so hard-charging within …
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Sarah Westwood / CNN:   Nadler says Attorney General Barr deserves to be impeached but that it would be a ‘waste of time’
Corporate Crime Reporter:
Former Manhattan Federal Prosecutors Condemn Trump Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman
Discussion: The Hill
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and New York Times
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor
Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden's rising evangelical support  —  It was June 10, 2008.  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama had gathered with dozens of evangelical leaders — many of them fixtures of the religious right — at the urging of campaign aides.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Kristin Kobes Du Mez / The Daily Beast:   If You Want to Understand White Evangelicals, Tour a Hobby Lobby Store
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Pirated editions of John Bolton memoir have appeared online  —  NEW YORK (AP) — John Bolton's memoir officially comes out Tuesday after surviving a security review and a legal challenge from the Justice Department.  But over the weekend, it was available in ways even his publisher is hoping to prevent.
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Everything you need to know about John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing.  It's Off to a Slow Start.  —  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 …
Discussion: The Week and Althouse
Hannah Allam / NPR:
Vehicle Attacks Rise As Extremists Target Protesters  —  Right-wing extremists are turning cars into weapons, with reports of 50 vehicle-ramming incidents since protests against police violence erupted nationwide in late May.  —  At least 18 are categorized as deliberate attacks …
Politico:
What we learned about Biden and Trump from their latest fundraising numbers  —  Joe Biden still trails President Donald Trump in cash, but he's catching up.  —  Biden and the Democratic National Committee hit an all-time monthly fundraising record in May, bringing in $80.8 million.
Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
Hail of late-night gunfire in Uptown kills 1, wounds 11  —  Dozens of shots fired in one of the city's most violent shootings in recent history.  —  TEXT SIZE  —  Gunmen unleashed a torrent of gunfire in a crowded Uptown block early Sunday in Minneapolis, killing one person and wounding 11 others …
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
Andy Ngo / New York Post:
My terrifying five-day stay inside Seattle's cop-free CHAZ  —  SEATTLE — On June 8, Seattle police frantically loaded what they could from the east precinct onto trucks and cars.  Within hours, they boarded up and abandoned the station.  That night, left-wing protesters from Black Lives Matter …
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