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2:35 PM ET, June 22, 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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Brian Flood / Fox News:
Trump rally gives Fox News largest Saturday night audience in its history  —  President Trump's rally on Saturday attracted a record-setting audience on TV despite the smaller-than-expected crowd in attendance at the Tulsa, Okla., event.  —  A whopping 7.7 million total viewers tuned …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Trump aides debate future size and look of signature rallies after Tulsa debacle  —  Why Trump was upset before Tulsa rally started  —  (CNN)Swaths of empty blue seats and a vacant overflow venue in Oklahoma have led President Donald Trump's aides to begin debating what his signature campaign rallies …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Inside Trump's Oklahoma debacle  —  Donald Trump's campaign advisers had it all mapped out: A blowout rally in Oklahoma — coupled with a withering ad launched days earlier questioning Joe Biden's mental acuity — would finally shift the focus to the elusive Democrat amid the worst stretch of Trump's presidency.
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:   Lewandowski takes swipe at Trump campaign over Tulsa rally crowd size
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Biden campaign confirms he will attend three debates with Trump, criticizes the president …
Discussion: The Hill and Deadline
Ken Meyer / Mediaite:   Fox & Friends Host Questions Wisdom of Trump Rally: 'I Don't Know Who Thought It Was a Good Idea'
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite:
McEnany Says Trump Isn't ‘Angry’ About Rally Crowd, Steve Doocy Doesn't Buy it: The Trump I Know is ‘Furious’
Discussion: Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Attorney General Barr, Berman at Odds Over Letter Criticizing New York City Mayor  —  Geoffrey Berman, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, refused to sign letter criticizing Mayor de Blasio for enforcing social-distancing rules to block religious gatherings but not protests
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Asha Rangappa / The Daily Beast:
Bill Barr's Above the Law.  The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.  —  The special counsel regulations don't contemplate investigating a potentially corrupt AG—because a corrupt AG would never invoke the regulations to investigate himself.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  The latest casualty …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:   'Trump's legal goon' Bill Barr needs to be impeached before he corrupts the election: ex-FBI agent
Craig McCarthy / New York Post:
How conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack ‘poisoning’ blew up  —  The three cops at the center of the NYPD milkshake “poisoning” scandal never even got sick, and there wasn't the slightest whiff of criminality from the get-go — but that didn't stop gung-ho brass from rolling …
Discussion: Mediaite and The Wrap
Mike Allen / Axios:
Sarah Sanders says John Bolton was “drunk on power”  —  One former top West Wing official tells Axios that national security adviser John Bolton was unpopular even before the leaks from his tell-all, “The Room Where It Happened,” which is out Tuesday.  —  Axios has a first look …
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Conor Finnegan / ABC News:
Bolton says he hopes Trump is 1-term president, warns country imperiled by his reelection
Politico:
What Donald Trump really thinks of European leaders
Franco Ordoñez / NPR:
Bolton: Trump And China's Xi Talked ‘Frequently’ About Trump's Reelection
Discussion: ABC News and The Hill
Adam Entous / New Yorker:
What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House  —  The senior fellow at Brookings and expert on modern Russia had hoped to guide the U.S.-Russia relationship.  President Trump had other ideas.  —  The Brookings Institution is one of many think tanks in Washington, D.C., where scholars …
Discussion: The Week
RI.gov:
Statement from Treasurer Magaziner about the State's Name  —  PROVIDENCE, RI —Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magazine today made the following announcement about his office's use of the state's name:  —  “Today, I am announcing that the Office of the General Treasurer will remove the words …
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
News Analysis: Joe Biden is no Hillary Clinton, and that's a problem for President Trump  —  Joe Biden is old.  He has a paper trail reaching back half a century.  He is, by his own admission, a “gaffe machine” who regularly trips over his own tongue.  —  He is not, however …
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NBC News:
Tuesday's primaries give progressives opportunities to make inroads
Discussion: Politico and Mother Jones
Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
Mike Pence and his wife Karen voted by mail in April from a mansion they haven't lived in for four years  — Vice President Mike Pence and his wife mailed in their ballots for Indiana's June GOP primary, according to a copy of the state's voter files obtained by Insider.
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Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:   Are We Headed for a Voter-Suppression Catastrophe in November? …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Kevin Hassett, senior Trump economic adviser, to leave White House  —  He had emerged as a leading voice on the economic impact of the coronavirus.  It will be the second time he has left the Trump White House.  —  One of President Trump's most trusted economic advisers will leave …
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Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
TikTok Teens Are Obsessed With Pizzagate  —  The Comet Ping Pong conspiracy theory has been widely discredited, but it lives on with Gen Z.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  NEWSLETTERS  —  Right Richter  —  See what's happening with the extreme right wing from the safety of your inbox.
Discussion: Gothamist
The NM Political Report:
Election changes pass House after revote  —  A scaled-back election overhaul lacking a key provision that would have allowed clerks to mail every registered voter a ballot for the November general election is on its way to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's desk following a dramatic revote after first failing to pass the House.
Shilpa Jindia / The Guardian:
‘This is a war’: Republicans ramp up bid to control election maps for next decade  —  ‘He who controls redistricting can control Congress,’ Karl Rove famously said - and the Republican State Leadership Committee is set to do just that  —  A little-known Republican group is ramping up millions …
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A Schlapp in the face  —  Since the murder of George Floyd, Verizon has been an outspoken advocate of the Black Lives Matter movement.  In dozens of tweets and statements, Verizon has said that, as a company, it is not enough to express support for racial justice.
Dan Sabbagh / The Guardian:
Johnson and May ignored claims Russia had ‘likely hold’ over Trump, ex-spy alleges  —  Exclusive: Christopher Steele claims May government turned blind eye to Trump allegations  —  Boris Johnson and Theresa May ignored claims the Kremlin had a “likely hold” over Donald Trump …
Bryan Pietsch / New York Times:
Tennessee Newspaper Apologizes for ‘Utterly Indefensible’ Anti-Muslim Ad  —  The full-page ad, which appeared in Sunday's editions of The Tennessean and claimed “Islam” would detonate a nuclear device in Nashville, “should have never been published,” the editor said.
 
 
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Graham Vyse / Washington Post:
The Stars and Stripes newspaper has long supported the troops. Now it needs Congress's support.
Robert Klemko / Washington Post:
How Trump rallygoers explain Black Lives Matter protests to their children
Discussion: Townhall and Raw Story
Washington Post:
Who caused the violence at protests? It wasn't antifa.
Discussion: Althouse
Alicia A. Caldwell / Wall Street Journal:
As Coronavirus Cases Rise in Arizona, New Mask Rules Spark a Fight
Robert C. O'Brien / Wall Street Journal:
Why the U.S. Is Moving Troops Out of Germany
Kate Riga / Talking Points Memo:
Nigel Farage Scores Entry To US For Trump's Rally Under ‘National Interest’ Allowance
Ronn Blitzer / Fox News:
Trump's steel tariffs stand after Supreme Court declines challenge
Discussion: Politico
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The Daily Caller:
ANALYSIS: DOJ Investigators Involved In Antitrust Probe Don't Appear To Be Scrutinizing Claims …
Discussion: The Federalist
David Freedlander / New York Magazine:
Everybody Hates Bill Weeks into the George Floyd protests, Mayor de Blasio has alienated …
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
DC is closer to becoming a state now than it has ever been
Scott Detrow / NPR:
Kamala Harris Is Seen As The Clear Front-Runner To Be Joe Biden's Running Mate
Pam Key / Breitbart:
Barr: Mail-in Ballots ‘Absolutely Opens the Floodgates to Fraud’
Discussion: Mediaite and Raw Story
Ben Smith / New York Times:
What's Facebook's Deal With Donald Trump?
Robin Pogrebin / New York Times:
Roosevelt Statue to Be Removed From Museum of Natural History
 

 
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: the NFL's two Christmas Day games that streamed on Netflix averaged 24.2M US viewers, peaking at 27M for Beyoncé's Ravens-Texans halftime show

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Richard Parsons, who had a long career as chairman, CEO, and as a board member of media companies including CBS and Time Warner, died at 76 of bone cancer

New York Times:
Sources: after Trump's election win, NPR is preparing for a variety of funding possibilities, including that government money will be clawed back immediately

 
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