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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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 — 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 …
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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 …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Tulsa fire department says just under 6,200 people attended Trump rally
Tulsa fire department says just under 6,200 people attended Trump rally
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Tulsa World:
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users …
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users …
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Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Trump's campaign was trolled by TikTok users in Tulsa
Trump's campaign was trolled by TikTok users in Tulsa
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Politico, POLITICUSUSA, The National Pulse and The Root
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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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
Barr's botched effort to remove a prosecutor who probed Trump allies
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Daily Kos, Axios and New York Times
Sarah Westwood / CNN:
Nadler says Attorney General Barr deserves to be impeached but that it would be a ‘waste of time’
Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
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Washington Post
Corporate Crime Reporter:
Former Manhattan Federal Prosecutors Condemn Trump Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman
Former Manhattan Federal Prosecutors Condemn Trump Firing of U.S. Attorney Berman
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The Hill
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor
Trump and Barr Discard Law, Morality and Honor
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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.
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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.
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 …
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New York Post
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.
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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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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 …
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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 …
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Twitchy
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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.