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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 …
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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 …
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.
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
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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
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 …
Washington Post:
Trump campaign, Democrats joust over Tulsa rally turnout
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and Raw Story
Tulsa World:
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users …
Discussion: The Hill and courthousenews.com
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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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
Discussion: Washington Post
Sarah Westwood / CNN:   Nadler says Attorney General Barr deserves to be impeached but that it would be a ‘waste of time’
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
Discussion: Daily Kos, Axios and New York Times
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg:   Barr Says Social Media ‘Starting to Censor’ Views Is Problematic
Corporate Crime Reporter:
Former Manhattan Federal Prosecutors Condemn Trump Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman
Discussion: The Hill
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History  —  The equestrian memorial to Theodore Roosevelt has long prompted objections as a symbol of colonialism and racism.  —  The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man …
Discussion: New York Post
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: Washington Post and 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  —  COWBOY CHRISTIANS  —  The merch illustrates a cultural identity that is clearly Christian but less about loving thy neighbor and more about loving thy guns and a militant white masculine ideal.
Harry Enten / CNN:
There's no sign of ‘hidden’ Trump voters  —  (CNN)Poll of the week: A new national Ipsos/Reuters poll finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump 48% to 35%.  —  While Biden has led Trump in almost every Ipsos poll this year, his advantage this week is the largest in 2020.
Discussion: Washington Post
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
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's problem in Tulsa wasn't just empty seats.  It was empty rhetoric.  —  In his first campaign rally since the pandemic lockdowns began and Joe Biden clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, President Trump made clear — as clear as a stream-of-consciousness Trump speech can …
Discussion: Rev
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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:   Trump's rally looked like his vision of America: Limited and pitiless
Andrew Freedman / Washington Post:
Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100-degree reading in Siberia  —  Record-shattering reading continues Siberia's hot streak, foreshadows more heat elsewhere  —  A northeastern Siberian town is likely to have set a record for the highest temperature documented in the Arctic Circle …
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 …
Discussion: Twitchy
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
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
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.
 
 
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