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9:55 PM ET, June 21, 2020

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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 …
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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 …
Tom Lutz / The Guardian:
Brad Parscale faces Trump ‘fury’ after Tulsa comeback rally flops  —  Donald Trump's campaign manager, Brad Parscale, was under pressure on Sunday after claiming hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to the president's return to the campaign trail in Tulsa, only for the rally to attract a sparse crowd.
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 …
Jacob Gursky / MIT Technology Review:
Trump's data-hungry, invasive app is a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power  —  Both presidential campaigns use apps to capture data—but Trump's scoops up your identity, your location, and even your phone's Bluetooth functions.  —  Ahead of President Trump's rally in Tulsa …
Discussion: CNBC and Politico
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
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa
Jacob Knutson / Axios:   Chris Wallace grills Trump campaign adviser on Tulsa rally: “The arena was empty”
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:   Trump used his rally to air his personal grievances. He could learn from another event.
Tulsa World:
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users …
Discussion: The Hill and courthousenews.com
Shannon Pettypiece / NBC News:
Twin Trumpworld strategies following ‘bad night’ in Tulsa: Blame, and hope
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's deflating Tulsa turnout reveals a deeper problem for him
Discussion: The Week
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Tulsa Fire Department says Trump rally attendance was about 6,200
Discussion: CNN, Politico, Mashable and IJR
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 …
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
John Bolton says he didn't tell Telegraph he'll vote for Biden  —  A spokesperson for John Bolton issued a statement Sunday night denying that the former national security adviser told The Daily Telegraph in an interview that he plans to vote for Joe Biden over his former boss President Trump in November.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and Mediaite
Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Bolton says he hopes Trump is 1-term president, warns country imperiled by his reelection  —  Here are the many headlines from ABC's interview with Trump's former top aide.  —  President Donald Trump's longest-serving national security adviser John Bolton condemned his presidency …
Discussion: Bloomberg
Associated Press:   Trump rally highlights vulnerabilities heading into election
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 …
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.
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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.
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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Justine Coleman / The Hill:   Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
Wall Street Journal:   Attorney General Barr, Known by Aides as ‘the Buffalo’, Scrutinized Over Firing of U.S. Attorney
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
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.
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
Chris Riotta / The Independent:
'It's going to be an angry mob': Kentucky cuts number of polling stations by 95 percent ahead of primary voting  —  Lawmakers and voting rights experts say Election Day this week will likely mirror what happening during Georgia's primaries  —  Kentucky lawmakers have warned the state …
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 and New Republic
 
 
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Victor Luckerson / New Yorker:
In Tulsa, an Energized Juneteenth Celebration Focusses on Change, Not Trump
Discussion: The Oklahoma Eagle
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
John Oliver mocked Trump in 2017 for predicting removal of Washington, Jefferson statues
Discussion: The Post Millennial and Breitbart
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What's Facebook's Deal With Donald Trump?
Ashley Cowburn / The Independent:
Nigel Farage exempt from US travel ban under ‘national interest’ clause ahead of Trump rally
Discussion: Breitbart and Axios
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
Trump Wants Your Vote so Long as His Racist Vote Doesn't Notice
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Ben Kesslen / NBC News:
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Politico:
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 Earlier Items: 
Mike Stobbe / Associated Press:
A ‘second wave’ of coronavirus cases? Not yet, experts say
Discussion: Washington Post
Associated Press:
George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep US
Hannah Allam / NPR:
Vehicle Attacks Rise As Extremists Target Protesters
Discussion: Twitchy
Libor Jany / Star Tribune:
Hail of late-night gunfire in Uptown kills 1, wounds 11
Discussion: New York Times and Power Line
Stephanie McCurry / The Atlantic:
The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State
New York Times:
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Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
N.Y.C. Hired 3,000 Workers for Contact Tracing. It's Off to a Slow Start.
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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