memeorandum: Trump doesn't have a clue what America is about (Jennifer Rubin/Washington Post)

10:40 AM ET, July 6, 2020

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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump's Speech — Senator Tammy Duckworth says that, during his address at Mount Rushmore on Friday, President Trump “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.” — This is a flat-out lie. It is entirely untrue. It is invented from whole cloth.

Discussion: The Hill

Associated Press:

Trump at Mount Rushmore — Progressives deride his defense of America's founding principles. — By The Editorial Board — At Mt. Rushmore, Trump uses Fourth of July celebration to stoke a culture war —Los Angeles Times — Trump Uses Mount Rushmore Speech to Deliver Divisive Culture War Message

Discussion: Power Line

Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
‘Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil’

Discussion: The Federalist, The Nation, New York Sun and Townhall

Jonathan Swan / Axios:
How Tucker Carlson monologues predict what Trump will say next

Discussion: Samizdata, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Bulwark, The Unz Review, Raw Story and Vanity Fair

E.J. Dionne / Washington Post:
A vicious culture war is all Trump has left

Discussion: Raw Story, NPR, BBC, The White House and Fox News

WGCL-TV:

Reward for info on shooting death of 8-year-old during violent night in Atlanta — ATLANTA, Ga. (CBS46) — An 8-year-old girl died after she was shot during a night of violence across metro Atlanta. — The shooting occurred just before 10 p.m. on University Avenue near I-75/85.

Discussion: WSB-TV, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Redstate, Twitchy and Power Line

WSB-TV:
Police search for shooter who killed 8-year-old girl near burned Wendy's

Discussion: Townhall, National Review, Fox News, Louder With Crowder, IJR, The Gateway Pundit and The Sun

Jordan Lancaster / The Daily Caller:
'It's Over': Atlanta Mayor Says Protesters Should Clear Out After 8-Year-Old Girl Shot And Killed

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and WGCL-TV

Allan Smith / NBC News:

How Lincoln Project anti-Trump Republicans got into his head. Spoiler: It was easy. … Seeking to defend President Donald Trump from questions over whether he actually reads his daily intelligence briefing, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters last week …

Discussion: Raw Story

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Trump's Job Approval Rating Steady at Lower Level — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump's approval rating is holding steady at a lower level after a sharp drop in late May and early June, with 38% of Americans currently approving of the job he is doing.

Discussion: Raw Story

democratandchronicle:

Frederick Douglass statue vandalized on anniversary of his famous Fourth of July Rochester speech — On the same weekend in which famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass 168 years ago delivered one of his most historically resonant speeches, a statue of Douglass was toppled from its base and left near the Genesee River gorge.

Discussion: RochesterFirst, Associated Press, The Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Guardian, New York Post, The Hill and Law & Crime

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Trump doesn't have a clue what America is about — President Trump is single-minded in his devotion to fighting the culture wars. The “culture” he fights for is authoritarian, reactionary, anti-intellectual and un-American. If he would stop venerating marble and traitorous white nationalists …

New York Times:

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus — Coronavirus cases per 10,000 people — Teresa and Marvin Bradley can't say for sure how they got the coronavirus. Maybe Ms. Bradley, a Michigan nurse, brought it from her hospital. Maybe it came from a visiting relative.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Blue Virginia and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Bloomberg:

Trump's Support Is Withering in Areas Where Virus Cases Are Rising — Sunbelt and other Republican areas are now getting hit hard — Older voters most vulnerable are no longer supporting Trump — Coronavirus is skyrocketing in Republican-leaning Sunbelt and interior states …

Discussion: Raw Story

Osita Nwanevu / New Republic:

The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism — The critics of progressive identity politics have got it all wrong: They're the illiberal ones. — It was always a given that 2020 would be a year to remember. Even so, it continues to surprise. It seems likely that June …

Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:

Trump-connected lobbyists reap windfall in COVID-19 boom — WASHINGTON (AP) — Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work potentially violates Trump's own ethics policy, according to a report.

Discussion: Political Wire

Aris Folley / The Hill:

7 men arrested after allegedly harassing Black family on Oregon beach — © Lincoln City Police Department/ Facebook — Police in Lincoln City, Ore., said this weekend that they arrested 7 men on various charges after a group of white people they were a part of allegedly harassed …

Washington Post:

Trump and Biden campaigns shift focus to coronavirus as pandemic surges — The Trump and Biden presidential campaigns now see the coronavirus response as the preeminent force shaping the results of November's election, prompting both camps to try to refocus their campaigns more heavily on the pandemic …

Discussion: Raw Story

New York Times:

Iran Admits Serious Damage to Natanz Nuclear Site, Setting Back Program — A Middle Eastern intelligence official said Israel planted a bomb in a building where advanced centrifuges were being developed. — A fire at Iran's main nuclear fuel enrichment site caused significant damage …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and TASS

Sara Nathan / Page Six:

Alan Dershowitz hasn't been seen at his favorite nude beach in months — Residents of Martha's Vineyard will be seeing a lot less of Alan Dershowitz this summer — in more ways than one. — The lawyer famously enjoys letting it all hang out on one of the island's nude beaches, Lucy Vincent Beach.

Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios:

Trump demands apology from Bubba Wallace — President Trump demanded Monday an apology from Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's only Black driver, after the FBI determined last month that he was not a target of a hate crime when a noose was found in his garage stall before a race.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg, The Guardian and One America News Network

Sean Sullivan / Washington Post:

Duckworth emerging as a contender to be Biden's running mate — As Joe Biden pushes ahead with his search for a running mate, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) has quietly emerged as a serious contender, according to three people with knowledge of the selection process, one of several developing dynamics …

Discussion: The Federalist, National Review, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and Political Wire

Bloomberg Law:

Dakota Access Oil Line to Be Shut by Court in Blow for Trump — Listen — The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by Aug. 5, a district court ruled Monday in a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and the oil industry. — The decision is a momentous win for American Indian tribes …

Courier-Journal:

Breonna Taylor warrant connected to Louisville gentrification plan, lawyers say — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor's shooting was the result of a Louisville police department operation to clear out a block in western Louisville that was part of a major gentrification makeover …

Discussion: Raw Story

DeNeen L. Brown / Washington Post:

Depicted kneeling before Lincoln, this enslaved man broke his own chains in pursuit of freedom — Decades before he was depicted in bronze kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln, Archer Alexander longed for freedom. — “Go for your freedom ef you dies for it,” said Alexander …

Tami Luhby / CNN:

These charts show how economic progress has stalled for Black Americans since the Civil Rights era — (CNN)The typical Black American family is virtually no closer to equal footing with its White peers in terms of income and wealth than it was 50 years ago, when Civil Rights-era reforms …

Just Security:

Unpacking the National Intelligence Council's Memo on Russian Bounty Operation — Over the July 4 weekend, the New York Times reported that Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Ratcliffe has produced a memorandum that, on the one hand, acknowledges the assessment by the CIA …

USA Today:

Don't gorge on polls that show Biden ahead. COVID and voter suppression boost Trump's odds. — Soon many Americans will begin wearing out the refresh buttons on their browsers, hoping that an overdose of polls, voter data and the mystical models that interpret them will grant us some certainty …

Associated Press:

Trump's bluster doesn't beat a virus, calm a restive nation — WASHINGTON (AP) — Not long after noon on Feb. 6, President Donald Trump strode into the elegant East Room of the White House. The night before, his impeachment trial had ended with acquittal in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Discussion: Raw Story

Politico:

Democrats smell a rout — and the chance to control redistricting in 2021 — Donald Trump's collapsing poll numbers have Democrats thinking bigger than just winning the White House and seizing the Senate — they're imagining a rout that extends all the way down the ballot.

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

The hidden aftershocks of John Bolton's memoir as foreign government officials remain fixated — The news media has largely moved on, but foreign government officials remain fixated on John Bolton's memoir, “The Room Where It Happened.” — Why it matters: Bolton's detailed inside …

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: The last dash before the election — DRIVING THE DAY — IT'S ONLY JULY, so it seems silly to say that this is the last opportunity for a productive month in Washington before the election, but guess what: This is the last opportunity for a productive month in Washington before the election.

Discussion: New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:

Trump campaign operative's letter to RNC illuminates GOP's problem in Nevada — President Donald Trump speaks during a Hope For Prisoners special graduation ceremony at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Clark/Hope For Prisoners)

Discussion: Raw Story