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12:40 PM ET, March 15, 2023

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New York Times:
DeSantis, Backing Away From Ukraine, Angers G.O.P. Hawks  —  The Florida governor, who joined Donald Trump in declaring that defending Ukraine from Russia was not a vital interest, drew swift condemnations from establishment Republicans.  —  Declaring this week that defending Ukraine …
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Washington Post:
A Republican ‘civil war’ on Ukraine erupts as Reagan's example fades  —  GOP leaders and voters are increasingly skeptical of an extended commitment, part of a broader shift away from conservative support for foreign interventions  —  When Ronald Reagan addressed a brand new organization …
Discussion: MSNBC, Washington Examiner and CBS News
Matthew Kassel / Jewish Insider:
DeSantis' Ukraine flip alarms pro-Israel Republicans … In declaring his belief that protecting Ukraine from Russian aggression is a “territorial dispute” and not a vital interest to the United States, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who is widely expected to run for president in 2024 …
Julia Ioffe / Puck:
Putin's Boy from Tallahassee  —  In the zero-sum world of rightward Republicanism, politicians are using a yearning to confront China as a veil to abandon Ukraine. … The Fox News host, who had solicited answers from anyone considering tossing their hat in the ring, was clearly impressed.
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Putin holds a trump card in the 2024 US election  —  The Russian leader's best hope of winning the war in Ukraine lies in American politics  —  This year's oddest moment was when Vladimir Putin attacked the Church of England.  Its sin was to consider the idea of a gender neutral God.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Former NATO Chief: Trump Could Sabotage the War  —  Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former secretary-general of NATO, packs his prognosis for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign into one loaded word.  —  “I think President Trump will be a loser,” he tells me.  —  It is a notoriously triggering term …
Discussion: The Hill, Washington Examiner and TASS
Nick Catoggio / The Dispatch:
The Schism Is Here … What would you get if you asked ChatGPT to craft a Ukraine policy optimized …
Discussion: Florida Politics
William Saletan / The Bulwark:
The Ukraine Untruths of Disingenuous DeSantis
Matt Dixon / NBC News:
Ron DeSantis hit with an ethics complaint from Trump super PAC  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Donald Trump's allies are stepping up their battle with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, formally accusing him of violating state ethics and election laws with his “shadow presidential campaign.”
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump prepares an extensive opposition file on ‘Ron DeSanctimonious’  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has not yet officially entered the 2024 presidential arena but former President Donald Trump's campaign is preparing a grenade to launch his way.  —  Trump's team and his allied PAC are preparing …
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Federal investigators examined Trump Media for possible money laundering, sources say  —  Exclusive: New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties  —  Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation …
Holman W. Jenkins, Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Silicon Valley Bank and Joe Biden's $19 Trillion Monday  —  His latest bailout is a solution for him now and a problem for us later.  —  WSJ Opinion: The President Drops a Totally Political Budget  —  Your bank deposits are safe from bank failures.  They aren't safe from inflation.
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Washington Post:
The 72-hour scramble to save the United States from a banking crisis
Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Exiled Chinese Billionaire Charged in New York With Financial Conspiracy  —  Guo Wengui, a fugitive financier and associate of Steve Bannon, is accused by federal prosecutors of engaging in a complex scheme to bilk thousands of online followers.  —  Guo Wengui, a fugitive Chinese billionaire …
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:   Chinese business tycoon and Bannon ally Ho Wan Kwok arrested in $1bn fraud conspiracy
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
DOJ charges Chinese businessman Guo Wengui, associate of Steve Bannon, in $1 billion fraud
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
How an Offer to Testify Before a New York Grand Jury Signals Trouble for Trump  —  The Manhattan District Attorney offered to let Donald Trump speak to a grand jury—but only if he waived the immunity that would come with his testimony.  That's bad news for Trump.
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Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes of the Trump grand jury  —  A bomb-sniffing dog, SWAT team escort and months of careful silence  —  The bomb-sniffing dog was new.  The special grand jurors investigating interference in Georgia's 2020 elections hadn't before seen that level of security …
Discussion: New York Times
New York Times:
George Santos's Role in Sale of $19 Million Yacht Attracts F.B.I. Interest  —  Just before his House election, Mr. Santos helped two of his largest donors reach a private deal on a $19 million boat, mixing his political and personal interests.  —  A $19 million luxury yacht deal brokered …
Politico:
Playbook: The GOP faces its ‘candidate quality’ issues  —  With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Senate Majority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER this morning is asking National Transportation Safety Board Chair JENNIFER HOMENDY to expand the agency's probe …
Discussion: CNN, DSCC and NBC News
The Economist:
Russia's allies are a motley—and shrinking—crew  —  “The West's plans to isolate Russia by surrounding us with a sanitary cordon have been a fiasco,” Sergei Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, gloated recently.  “We are strengthening good neighbourly relations...with the international majority.”
Discussion: Yahoo News
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Dmytro Kuleba / The Hill:   Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: Russia must be removed from the United Nations Security Council
Charlotte Alter / TIME:
Exclusive: Effective Altruist Leaders Were Repeatedly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Before FTX Collapsed  —  Leaders of the Effective Altruism movement were repeatedly warned beginning in 2018 that Sam Bankman-Fried was unethical, duplicitous, and negligent in his role as CEO of Alameda Research …
Russell Contreras / Axios:
First look: Young and unaffiliated Latino voters surge across U.S.  —  First-time Latino voters are outpacing first-time non-Latino voters in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, and Texas, according to a report first obtained by Axios. … - The 2022 election showed …
Thom Hartmann / The Hartmann Report:
Now that Hate has Become the GOP's Main Political Weapon, What Can Americans Do?  —  Now is the time for Republicans to show the courage of Mandy Connell and loudly and publicly leave their party.  As Germans learned by the late 1930s, if they don't act now it may soon be too late...
CNBC:
Apple, Amazon, Google will likely get a reprieve from GOP-controlled House on antitrust legislation  — The new Republican leadership in the U.S. House doesn't appear to have the appetite to impose tougher antitrust rules on the tech giants.  — An antitrust bill Buck introduced …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
As Biden mulls family detentions, warnings from inside grow louder  —  When news leaked last week that the Biden administration is considering detaining migrant families who cross the border illegally, the reaction was swift and harsh.  Democrats and immigration advocates denounced the idea as …
Discussion: BizPac Review
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
A viral moment reinforces the hollowness of ‘woke’ as an attack  —  One of conservative writer Bethany Mandel's least disputable comments during her appearance on The Hill's streaming show “Rising” was a prediction she made as she fumbled a reply to host Briahna Joy Gray: “This is going to be one of those moments that goes viral.”
Associated Press:
What's known and not about US drone-Russian jet encounter  —  When a Russian fighter jet collided with a large U.S. surveillance drone over the Black Sea, it was a rare but serious incident that triggered a U.S. diplomatic protest and raised concerns about the possibility Russia could recover sensitive technology.
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Steps from the Capitol, Trump allies buy up properties to build MAGA campus  —  At first glance, the flurry of real estate sales two blocks east of the U.S. Capitol appeared unremarkable in a city where such sales are common.  In the span of a year, a seemingly unrelated gaggle …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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