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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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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump ‘pissed’ at Trump campaign manager over his rally crowd size predictions, source says — Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “pissed” at campaign manager Brad Parscale over his predictions of a much larger crowd than the one that turned …
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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.
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Trump campaign statement on bogus claims of ticket hacking
Trump campaign statement on bogus claims of ticket hacking
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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 …
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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 …
USA Today:
Exclusive: John Bolton says Trump's White House was ‘like living inside a pinball machine’ — WASHINGTON - If he had been a senator during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial earlier this year, John Bolton says he probably would have voted for a conviction.
Ursula Perano / Axios:
John Bolton tells ABC he hopes Trump is a one-term president — Former national security advisor John Bolton told ABC News he hopes history will remember President Trump “as a one-term president who didn't plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can't recall from.”
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ABC News:
TRANSCRIPT: John Bolton interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz — The president's former national security adviser discussed his new book. — MARTHA RADDATZ: Ambassador, I want talk to you about specific foreign policies, and go country by country. But what I want ask you first is a very simple question.
Rebecca Falconer / Axios:
NASCAR probes noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage in Talladega
NASCAR probes noose found in Bubba Wallace's garage in Talladega
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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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Bronson Stocking / Townhall:
Teddy Roosevelt Statue to be Removed From Natural History Museum in New York
Teddy Roosevelt Statue to be Removed From Natural History Museum in New York
New York Times:
For Barr, Standoff With Prosecutor Adds to String of Miscues — The attorney general has found himself at odds with the White House on high-profile issues in recent weeks. — WASHINGTON — From the onset of his tenure, William P. Barr has been billed as the attorney general that President Trump was looking for.
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Preet Bharara / New York Times:
Bill Barr, Not Geoffrey Berman, Should Have Lost His Job This Weekend
Bill Barr, Not Geoffrey Berman, Should Have Lost His Job This Weekend
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Justine Coleman / The Hill:
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
Barr: ‘Developments’ likely in Durham investigation this summer
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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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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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Jose A. Del Real / Washington Post:
With ‘kung flu,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘our heritage,’ Trump leans on racial grievance as he reaches for a campaign reset
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Donald Trump's Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa
Donald Trump's Empty Campaign Rally in Tulsa
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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
Exclusive: Trump cold on Guaidó, would consider meeting Maduro
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
What's Facebook's Deal With Donald Trump? — Mark Zuckerberg has forged an uneasy alliance with the Trump administration. He may have gotten too close. — Last Nov. 20, NBC News broke the news that Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump and a Facebook board member, Peter Thiel, had dined together at the White House the previous month.
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.
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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 …
Los Angeles Times:
Mysterious deaths of infants, children raise questions about how early coronavirus hit California — A cluster of mysterious deaths, some involving infants and children, is under scrutiny amid questions of whether the novel coronavirus lurked in California months before it was first detected.
Christina Maxouris / CNN:
More young people across the South are testing positive for coronavirus, officials warn — (CNN)Officials in states across the South are warning that more young people are testing positive for coronavirus. — The shifts in demographics have been recorded in parts of Florida, South Carolina …
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Tulsa World:
Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users and K-Pop fans inflate ticket numbers? — Updated 11:57 p.m.: Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump's rally in Tulsa? The New York Times is out with a story reporting …
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Jacob Knutson / Axios:
Chris Wallace grills Trump campaign adviser on Tulsa rally: “The arena was empty”
Victor Luckerson / New Yorker:
In Tulsa, an Energized Juneteenth Celebration Focusses on Change, Not Trump
In Tulsa, an Energized Juneteenth Celebration Focusses on Change, Not Trump
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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 …
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
Trump allies see a mounting threat: Biden's rising evangelical support
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