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10:25 AM ET, May 11, 2023

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Axios:
Key takeaways from Trump's CNN town hall … - He inserted himself into the delicate negotiations over the debt ceiling and said congressional Republicans should let the U.S. government default unless Democrats agree to “massive” budget cuts.  — He downplayed the potential fallout from a default …
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Rolling Stone:
‘F—king Disgrace’: CNN Gifts Trump Primetime Campaign Rally  —  Network insiders who spoke to Rolling Stone were distraught that the former president had free rein to “spew lies” during the ill-advised town hall  —  CNN INVITED DONALD Trump to lie on its airwaves for over an hour on Wednesday night.
CNN:
Trump and the Town Hall  —  It's hard to see how America was served by the spectacle of lies that aired on CNN Wednesday evening.  —  Kaitlan Collins is as tough and knowledgable of an interviewer as they come.  She fact-checked Trump throughout the 70-minute town hall.
Darren Tome / CNN:
The chilling reality of Trump  —  CNN Opinion asked expert contributors to weigh in with their reactions to former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall on Wednesday night.  The views expressed in this commentary are their own.  —  Paul Begala: Trump whined, griped and complained
John Hendrickson / The Atlantic:
Entirely Unrepentant  —  “Our country is being destroyed by stupid people,” former President Donald Trump declared during a CNN town hall tonight, shortly after he endorsed defaulting on the national debt.  —  Trump remains without shame.  Neither impeachment nor indictment nor arraignment nor …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
Hakeem Jeffries Torches Trump Republicans By Naming Their 3 Basic Pillars  —  The House minority leader told MSNBC what the MAGA wing really believes.  —  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) put former President Donald Trump and his supporters in the Republican Party on blast …
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight  —  It's 2016 all over again.  —  (SCREENSHOT VIA CNN)  —  CNN's public argument for holding a New Hampshire town hall with former President Donald Trump boils down to this: Voters needed to hear from Trump directly because he is the frontrunner for the 2024 GOP nomination.
Rex Huppke / USA Today:
CNN town hall audience laughs at sexual assault as Trump reminds us how awful he is  —  For anyone who grew weary of Trump's dishonesty and bullheaded cruelty while he was president, CNN's town hall brought back nauseating memories, as well as a preview of how little has changed.
Politico:
Playbook: How Trump dominated CNN  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  TITLE 42 GETS EIGHTY-SIXED — NYT: “U.S. Warns Migrants Before End of Pandemic Restrictions That ‘Border Is Not Open’” ... WaPo: “Texas uses aggressive tactics to arrest migrants …
Discussion: Punchbowl News and Washington Post
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies  —  Collins, one of the network's rising stars, attempted to meet the former president's stream of falsehoods during Wednesday's live town hall with composure and tough questions  —  During a roughly 70-minute-long forum …
Michael A. Cohen / MSNBC:
Trump just (essentially) won the 2024 GOP primary. Here's why.
Tom Jones / Poynter:
CNN's Trump town hall turns into a Trump rally
Discussion: RedState and Mediaite
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Trump's Falsehoods and Bluster Overtake CNN Town Hall
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Pure Trump re-injected into the main vein of American politics at CNN town hall
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Ocasio-Cortez on Trump town hall: ‘CNN should be ashamed of themselves’
Abigail Weinberg / Mother Jones:
Trump Mocked E. Jean Carroll Live on CNN. The Audience Laughed.
Discussion: Townhall and Progressive Eruptions
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
CNN's Trump Forum Was a Bracing Preview of Political Coverage to Come
Devan Markham / NewsNation:
Comer: Biden family received $10M from foreign nationals  — Committee: Biden family received millions from China and Romania  — Comer: Biden and family's shady business deals risks national security  — WH: Comer uses baseless claims, personal attacks to score political points
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Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Comer releases Biden family probe update without showing link to president
Joyce Vance / Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance:
The Tragicomedy of George Santos and the GOP  —  Also, understanding the crimes Santos is charged with  —  What is the worst fate that could befall a political party?  Leaving Donald Trump (sexual assaulter, twice-impeached, insurrectionist, former president who badly lost his effort …
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New York Times:
The George Santos Indictment, Annotated
Ben Terris / Politico:
The Drug-Fueled Protest in Dianne Feinstein's Office You Haven't Heard About  —  Tales of workplace woe from the underside of the nation's Capitol.  —  He wasn't supposed to be there, but he was wearing a suit and he still had his congressional employee badge.
Discussion: Insider
Paul Gattis / al.com:
Tuberville on white nationalists in the military: ‘I call them Americans’  —  U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said there should be no efforts to block different ideological groups, including white nationalists, from serving in the military and criticized President Joe Biden for taking steps …
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Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
GOP senator says of white nationalists in the military, ‘I call them Americans’
Discussion: The Hill and USA Today
James J. Carafano / Heritage Foundation:
Heritage VPs Support Tuberville's Principled Stand Against Pentagon Abortion Policies
Discussion: The Daily Signal
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin flirts with Iowa voters … But he's acting like it. … - Back in the Senate, he released a statement vowing to oppose all President Biden's EPA nominees over the administration's “radical climate agenda.”  — Manchin's recent no-mercy campaign against Biden could be related …
New York Times:
New Defamation Suit Against Fox Signals Continued Legal Threat  —  The suit, brought by a specialist in Russian disinformation, cites parallels with the recently settled Dominion Voting Systems case against Fox.  —  Fox News was hit on Wednesday with another defamation lawsuit …
Michael Martina / Reuters:
Why the US delayed China sanctions after shooting down a spy balloon  —  When an alleged Chinese spy balloon traversed the United States in February, some U.S. officials were confident the incursion would galvanize the U.S. bureaucracy to push forward a slate of actions to counter China.
Bloomberg:
Turkey Markets Rally as Candidate Withdraws Days Before Vote  —  Turkish presidential contender Muharrem Ince withdrew from Sunday's election, narrowing the field of rivals to incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan and injecting fresh uncertainty into the contest over how Ince's supporters will vote.
Juniour Khumalo / News24:
US ambassador says South Africa gave weapons, ammunition to Russia for Ukraine war  —  SUBSCRIBERS CAN LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE  — The US says it believes ammunition was loaded on a Russian ship that docked in Simon's Town in December.  — The US ambassador to SA said his government took the matter seriously.
Discussion: Associated Press
 
 
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