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1:55 PM ET, May 11, 2023

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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.
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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 …
Charlotte Klein / Vanity Fair:
CNN's Donald Trump Town Hall Was Essentially a Campaign Rally  —  The network gave Trump a platform to spout lies and insults—and a cheering section!  Network boss Chris Licht is defending the debacle, but inside, says one CNN journalist, “the mood is absolutely the lowest.”
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 …
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Moment That You Knew  —  Critics had worried that giving the indicted, twice-impeached, coup-plotting, chronically lying sexual predator an unedited, live television forum might turn out badly.  —  The reality, however, was far ghastlier: a sh*tshow for the ages, and a moment that captured …
Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
Shame on CNN for That Naked, Cynical Play for Fox Viewers  —  Here's what Chris Licht said the day he took over at CNN: “Sadly, too many people have lost trust in the news media.  I think we can be a beacon in regaining that trust by being an organization that exemplifies the best characteristics …
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.
New York Times:
Five Takeaways From Trump's Unruly CNN Town Hall  —  Behaving as the Republicans' de facto nominee, Donald Trump dug in on his 2020 lies and dodged on abortion.  The G.O.P. audience cheered, but so did Democrats seeking 2024 fodder.  —  Donald Trump is still Donald Trump.
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 …
Alex Sherman / CNBC:
CNN town hall shows the network still doesn't know how to handle Donald Trump  — CNN is trying to rebrand itself as a down-the-middle, facts-only network.  — Trump's Wednesday town hall performance felt more like a rally than an attempt to keep him tethered to the truth.
Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
CNN's Trump Town Hall: All Spectacle, No Sunlight
Jason Easley / PoliticusUSA:
The Lincoln Project Unloads On CNN For Malpractice In Normalizing Trump
Discussion: RedState
Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
CNN's Kaitlan Collins tries, and tries, to rebut Trump's election lies
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.
ProPublica:
The Origins of Our Investigation Into Clarence Thomas' Relationship With Harlan Crow  —  The lavish travel, real estate deal and tuition arrangements have set off a frenzy.  Here's where our reporting started and how we got the story.  —  Our reporting on the relationship between Supreme …
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Joshua Zitser / Insider:
Justice Elena Kagan was worried about the ethics of accepting bagels from friends, while Clarence Thomas was enjoying expensive vacations paid for by a GOP megadonor: report
Discussion: The Forward
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden  —  After months of investigation and many public accusations of corruption against Mr. Biden and his family, the first report of the premier House G.O.P. inquiry showed no proof of such misconduct.  —  Reporting from Washington
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Throws Out Fraud Convictions in Albany Scandals  —  In a pair of unanimous rulings, the court sided with Joseph Percoco, a former aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, and Louis Ciminelli, a contractor in Buffalo.  —  Reporting from Washington
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:   Supreme Court throws out ex-Cuomo aide's bribery conviction
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Is the debt ceiling constitutional?  —  What will the courts do if House Republicans push the United States into a default?  —  The United States has a time bomb written into federal law, and no one knows whether it is constitutional or not.  —  As anyone who has paid attention …
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Connie Wang / New York Times:
Connie  —  IT WAS ON MY FIRST DAY OF COLLEGE at the University of California, Berkeley, when I started to realize there were more of us out there.  —  Suddenly, I was among a student body that was almost 50 percent Asian.  While I was standing in line to order a sandwich at the campus cafe …
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
Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
New York City Weakens Right-To-Shelter Rules Ahead Of Expected Migrant Surge  —  The mayor's executive order suspends longstanding shelter guarantees for families with children as the city braces for an influx of migrants.  —  New York City has suspended portions of its longstanding right …
ProPublica:
Video Showed an Officer Trying to Stop His Partner From Killing a Man.  Now We Know Police Investigators Never Even Asked About the Footage.  —  We obtained the NYPD's full investigation into the killing of Kawaski Trawick, including documents and audio of interviews with the officers.
Discussion: Gothamist and www.wnyc.org
Elahe Izadi / Washington Post:
Washington Post names Matea Gold as new managing editor  —  Matea Gold will become a managing editor of The Washington Post, executive editor Sally Buzbee announced Thursday.  —  She replaces Steven Ginsberg, who left The Post last year to take a position as top editor of the Athletic, a sports site owned by the New York Times.
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah's drawings expose the US's depraved torture policy  —  Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release  —  Warning: the images and descriptions of torture in this article are extremely graphic
Al Weaver / The Hill:
Feinstein return allows Judiciary Committee to advance three stalled nominees  —  Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) returned to her post on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and greenlit the passage of three judicial nominees who had been stalled during her lengthy health-related absence.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Trump gave prosecutors new evidence for all three ongoing criminal cases: experts  —  Legal experts believe that former President Donald Trump's CNN town hall at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire gave fresh evidence to every one of the three ongoing criminal cases against him, reported Salon on Thursday.
Discussion: The Nation and Mediaite
Erika Edwards / NBC News:
At least two cases of drug-resistant ringworm infections found in the U.S., CDC says  —  Cases of the infection had surged in South Asia over the past decade.  —  Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infections have been detected in New York City — the first such cases ever reported …
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 …
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Regulators on the Verge of Bungling Drug Price Reform, Advocates Say  —  The starting point for negotiations with drug companies on prescription prices could end up being the too-high prices patients already live with.  —  People rally outside the Department of Health and Human Services building …
 
 
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Julia Jones / CNN:
George Santos' deal with Brazilian authorities to avoid fraud prosecution expected to be finalized Thursday
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Connor O'Brien / Politico:
Pentagon chiefs: Debt default is bad for troops, good for China
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Report documents ‘sharp increase’ in violence at abortion clinics
Discussion: Axios, Jezebel, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
Associated Press:
Suspect in Natalee Holloway disappearance faces extradition to US on fraud charges
Jasmine Cui / NBC News:
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Michael Martina / Reuters:
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Katherine Long / Insider:
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