memeorandum: January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril (Hugo Lowell/The Guardian)

12:05 PM ET, June 29, 2022

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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:

Cassidy Hutchinson's Testimony against Trump Is Devastating — Things will not be the same after this. — Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to Trump's White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, provided compelling testimony Tuesday that former president Donald Trump is singularly culpable for the Capitol riot.

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David Frum / The Atlantic:

Kevin McCarthy, Have You No Sense of Decency? — In the last few minutes of today's January 6 committee hearing, Representative Liz Cheney presented evidence of possible witness intimidation. Several witnesses, she reported, had received messages from shadowy persons purportedly close …

ABC News:

Trump White House attorney disputes Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony about handwritten note — Hutchinson testified before the House Jan. 6 committee Tuesday. — Former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann is claiming that a handwritten note regarding a potential statement …

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Bret Stephens / New York Times:

Will the Jan. 6 Committee Finally Bring Down the Cult of Trump? — There's a saying among cult experts: Nobody ever joins a cult. — Of course, people join what, to outsiders, certainly appear to be cults — the Branch Davidians, the Moonies, the Peoples Temple and so on.

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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

A lawyer for Virginia Thomas said she would not testify to the House panel. — A lawyer for Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and a supporter of President Donald J. Trump's efforts to stay in power after the 2020 election, told the House select committee investigating …

Discussion: Forbes

CBS News:

Secret Service plans to respond to Jan. 6 committee regarding Trump's actions, after Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony — The U.S. Secret Service will have more to say to the Jan. 6 House select committee after former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony Tuesday regarding former …

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:

Pro-Trump web raced to debunk Jan. 6 testimony. Then they got confused. — The former president's supporters quickly spun an online conspiracy theory that he couldn't have possibly lunged for his driver's steering wheel on Jan. 6, 2021. When evidence suggested otherwise, they tried other routes to distract from the truth.

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Robin Givhan / Washington Post:

The optimistic melancholy of Bennie G. Thompson — The witness called him “sir.” When Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide, testified before the Jan. 6 committee on Tuesday afternoon, she addressed Chairman Bennie G. Thompson with a word that afforded him respect as a man, not merely as an official.

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Politico:

POLITICO Playbook: Jan. 6 panel may have found its ‘smoking gun’ — With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — It's hard to imagine how Tuesday's surprise hearing of the House Jan. 6 committee could've been more damning for President DONALD TRUMP.

Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:

January 6 testimony puts Donald Trump in even greater legal peril — Former president and senior aides face exposure over knowledge that supporters were armed and intended to march on Capitol — Donald Trump and his two closest advisers could face widening criminal exposure over the Capitol attack …

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New York Times:

Trump Aides Watch Testimony and Brace for Damage — A “stunning two hours” raises fears of political and legal consequences for the former president. — Give this article- - - Read in app — WASHINGTON — Devastating new testimony by a former White House aide describing …

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Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas balks at invitation to talk to Jan. 6 committee

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David French / The Dispatch:
The Case for Prosecuting Donald Trump Just Got Much Stronger

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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jan. 6 hearings deliver new template for digital-era dramatics

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Wall Street Journal:
More Testimony on Trump's Jan. 6 Tirade

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Washington Post:
Cassidy Hutchinson's path from trusted insider to explosive witness

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James Poniewozik / New York Times:
The Jan. 6 Committee Produces a Very Special Episode

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Jamie McIntyre / Washington Examiner:

NATO poised to take historic action on strategy, enlargement, and Ukraine — ‘A HISTORIC AND TRANSFORMATIVE SUMMIT’: Leaders of the 30 NATO nations gathered in Madrid, Spain, are transforming the alliance to focus on the threat from Russia, preparing to add two new members on Russia's periphery …

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Aaron Zitner / Wall Street Journal:
In New Poll, 89% of Ukrainians Reject Ceding Land to Reach Peace With Russia

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Charlie Duxbury / Politico:
Swedish and Finnish NATO deal with Turkey triggers fears over Kurdish deportations

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Associated Press:
US to boost military presence in Europe for Russia threat

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court Narrows Ruling for Tribes in Oklahoma — The decision followed a landmark 2020 ruling that said much of eastern Oklahoma falls within Indian reservation lands, limiting the authority of state prosecutors. — Give this article- - - Read in app

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Washington Examiner:
High court allows Oklahoma to prosecute non-Indian criminal offenders on tribal lands

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Travis Waldron / HuffPost:

GOP Election Denier Tina Peters Loses Colorado Secretary Of State Primary — The Mesa County clerk who was under indictment for tampering with voting machines lost to a Republican who acknowledged the 2020 vote was legitimate. — Pam Anderson, a Republican who acknowledged that Joe Biden …

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Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Illinois Governor's Race Shows G.O.P.'s Lurch to Right (With Nudge From Left)

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NBC News:
Trump-backed Rep. Mary Miller defeats Rep. Rodney Davis in new Illinois district

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Myah Ward / Politico:
Casten beats Newman in matchup of Dem incumbents in Illinois

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New York Times:

The Vanishing Moderate Democrat — Their positions are popular. So why are they going extinct? — Early last year, as Democrats were preparing to control the White House and Congress for the first time in a decade, Josh Gottheimer met with Nancy Pelosi to discuss their party's message.

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Shelby Talcott / The Daily Caller:

EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas Responds To Jan. 6 Committee's Official Request For Testimony — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas's lawyer sent a response Tuesday to the January 6 Select House Committee, just over one week after they formally requested her testimony. — Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice …

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Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Eastman drops bid to block phone records from Jan. 6 committee

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Brad Dress / The Hill:

Boebert says she is ‘tired’ of separation between church and state: ‘The church is supposed to direct the government’ — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) says she is “tired” of the long-standing separation between church and state in the U.S., adding that she believes “the church is supposed to direct the government.”

Discussion: RedState

Peter Canellos / Politico:

When the Supreme Court Makes a Mistake — What happens when the Supreme Court gets it wrong? — Misguided court decisions have altered the path of the nation in sadly demonstrable ways. And the question arises again from the series of sharply divisive rulings by the current court.

KSAT-TV:

Police arrest San Antonio man who threatened to commit a mass shooting — Rodolfo Valdivia Aceves, 19, is charged with terroristic threat — Julie Moreno, Executive Producer/Digital Content — SAN ANTONIO - Police arrested a man who told a coworker at an Amazon delivery facility that he planned to commit a mass shooting.

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