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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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New York Times:
The President's Shock at the Rows of Empty Seats in Tulsa  —  Inside the campaign, advisers believe disappointing attendance at the rally shows genuine fear of the coronavirus and the reality of Mr. Trump's sliding poll numbers.  —  President Trump and several staff members stood backstage …
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
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.
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.
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's deflating Tulsa turnout reveals a deeper problem for him
Discussion: The Week
Jacob Gursky / MIT Technology Review:   Trump's data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Twin Trumpworld strategies following ‘bad night’ in Tulsa: Blame, and hope
Tulsa World:
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users …
Discussion: The Hill and courthousenews.com
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa
Orion Rummler / Axios:
John Bolton says he'll vote for Joe Biden in November  —  Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that he plans to vote for Joe Biden over his former boss President Trump in November.  —  Why it matters: While Bolton's scathing upcoming memoir …
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
John Bolton exclusive interview: Trump does not represent the Republican cause that I want to back  —  The veteran republican has served two presidents in various roles before becoming National Security Adviser for President Trump  —  As a lifelong Republican who has held high office …
Discussion: The Hill and Political Wire
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Trump's problem in Tulsa wasn't just empty seats. It was empty rhetoric.
Discussion: Rev
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:   Pirated editions of John Bolton memoir have appeared online
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 …
Preet Bharara / New York Times:
Bill Barr, Not Geoffrey Berman, Should Have Lost His Job This Weekend  —  The attorney general, Bill Barr, undermined the rule of law by forcing out Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan.  —  Mr. Bharara is a former United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
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Wall Street Journal:   Attorney General Barr, Known by Aides as ‘the Buffalo’, Scrutinized Over Firing of U.S. Attorney
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
Discussion: Washington Post
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg:   Barr Says Social Media ‘Starting to Censor’ Views Is Problematic
Sarah Westwood / CNN:   Nadler says Attorney General Barr deserves to be impeached but that it would be a ‘waste of time’
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor
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
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump held off on Xinjiang sanctions for China trade deal  —  In an Oval Office interview on Friday afternoon, President Trump told me that he held off on imposing sanctions against Chinese officials involved with the Xinjiang mass detention camps because doing so would have interfered with his trade deal with Beijing.
Discussion: Raw Story and The Hill
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.
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Gabby Orr / Politico:
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden's rising evangelical support
Discussion: Washington Post and Raw Story
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Exclusive: Trump cold on Guaidó, would consider meeting Maduro  —  In an Oval Office interview with Axios on Friday, President Trump suggested he's had second thoughts about his decision to recognize Juan Guaidó as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and said he is open to meeting with dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Discussion: The Hill
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
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump says niece “not allowed” to write book because of nondisclosure agreement  —  In his first public comments on the matter, President Trump told Axios that his niece, Mary Trump, is “not allowed” to write her forthcoming book about him because doing so would violate a nondisclosure agreement she signed.
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
 
 
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Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump used his rally to air his personal grievances. He could learn from another event.
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Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
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Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
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Discussion: The Week and Althouse
 

 
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Tim Marchman / Wired:
Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic

Michael Schneider / Variety:
Nielsen: the Biden-Trump debate drew an average audience of 51.3M viewers across 17 networks in the US, down from 2020's first debate, with nearly 73.1M

Hanaa' Tameez / Nieman Lab:
Spain's El País launched a digital edition to cover the US in Spanish in May with 11 bilingual correspondents; as of April, the outlet had ~366K subscribers

 
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