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Washington Post:
CNN leadership under fire after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall  —  A furious backlash raised questions about the future of chief executive Chris Licht and the larger challenges facing the news media going into the 2024 election  —  CNN's prime-time broadcast of a raucous town hall …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Trump's team revels in town hall victory as CNN staff rages at ‘spectacle of lies’  —  Questions also linger over what the network offered the ex-president in exchange for what some called a Trump infomercial  —  Donald Trump and his circle believe he got everything that he wanted …
Noah Berlatsky / Public Notice:
CNN's Trump town hall was a fascist ritual  —  Trump calls his supporters to their worst selves. … On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump was found liable for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll and defaming her.  The $5 million dollar fine didn't deter Trump for even a day, though.
Discussion: Raw Story and CBS News
Ian Haworth / Washington Examiner:
Trump destroyed CNN.  But CNN still won  —  Donald Trump destroyed CNN.  At least, that's what his campaign team will take away from last night's town hall event, hosted by Trump-certified “nasty person” Kaitlan Collins.  —  Now, it must be said that the former president had several fantastic moments.
New York Times:
Trump Suggests He Knowingly Took Documents From White House  —  The former president, in his appearance on CNN, misstated the law governing presidential records, saying he was allowed to take the material now at the heart of a Justice Department investigation.
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump supporters are neither underrecognized nor half the country  —  The morning after the channel's widely pilloried “town hall” with former president Donald Trump, CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht defended the program in a call with staffers.  —  “While we all may have been uncomfortable …
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Anderson Cooper, company man  —  CNN's response to critics of its Trump rally makes one thing clear: The cable channel hates its viewers  —  After CNN produced and aired a Republican-voters-only Trump rally,1 drawing criticism for giving live airtime to a congenital liar, inciter-of-armed-insurrection …
Washington Post:
Sununu on Trump: 'He's like a shell of himself'  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  To all the moms, may you get to sleep in on Sunday.  Happy Mother's Day.  Moms are the best, especially ours.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  Reading this online?
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Politico
Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:
Lessons for Chris Licht's successor at CNN  —  There is no evidence that CNN President Chris Licht is capable of learning anything.  Nevertheless, his own journalists gave him a hell of a lesson during and after the totally predictable disaster that was the “town hall” with Donald Trump Wednesday night.
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
The Worst Thing to Come Out of Trump's Town Hall Didn't Come From Trump
Rolling Stone:
They Helped Trump Plan a Coup. He Wants Them Back for a Second Term.
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Brings Donald Trump Back
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:   Republican at Trump Town Hall Says Many in Audience Were ‘Disgusted’ or ‘Bewildered’ By Ex-President
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Don't Say You Haven't Been Warned About Trump and 2024  —  CNN's awful town hall …
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
CNN Went Full Jerry Springer
Discussion: Washington Examiner
New York Times:
E. Jean Carroll May Sue Trump a Third Time After ‘Vile’ Comments on CNN
Washington Post:
George Santos confesses to theft in Brazil to avoid prosecution  —  A day earlier, the New York congressman pleaded not guilty to wide-ranging charges brought by federal prosecutors in his state  —  RIO DE JANEIRO — Rep. George Santos signed a deal with Brazilian prosecutors Thursday …
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Politico:
Where to cap a caps deal
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Reuters:
Biden, McCarthy debt ceiling meeting postponed, spending cuts on table
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New poll: Is DeSantis's war on ‘woke’ Disney falling flat?  —  Disney is suing the Florida governor, saying it was subjected to “a targeted campaign of government retaliation.”  —  A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows that most Americans care far less about the so-called war on woke than Florida …
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Why the DeSantis Braintrust Thinks It Can Actually Beat Trump
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
The GOP Is the Party of ‘Fuck You’  —  It was once a political party, now it's a nihilistic, corrupt, fake populist scam. … There is an apocryphal belief that among the Indigenous people of the north there are more than 30 words for snow.  Well, I'm from New Jersey and I can tell …
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Trump to get schooled on judge's rules barring him from using evidence to slam witnesses  —  The judge overseeing the Manhattan criminal case against Trump set the hearing for later this month to make clear that if the former president violates a prohibition on using evidence to attack witnesses, he risks being held in contempt.
Discussion: Raw Story
Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Why on Earth Would Joe Manchin Run for President?  —  In the course of just a week, West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has managed to make news twice in connection with a possible 2024 independent bid for the presidency.  First, Puck published some leaked communications from the bowels …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:   Joe Manchin weighs challenging today's stagnant party duopoly
Bill Lueders / The Bulwark:
The GOP's Failing Politics of Retribution  —  Heavy-handed attempts to punish dissent are producing unexpected and unwelcome outcomes for Republicans in power across the country.  —  As is so often the case, Donald Trump set the template.  He told the MAGA faithful gathered on March 4 …
Wall Street Journal:
NBCUniversal's Linda Yaccarino Is in Talks to Become Twitter CEO  —  Twitter owner Elon Musk said earlier he had picked a new chief executive, without naming the person  —  NBCUniversal's head of advertising Linda Yaccarino is in talks to become the new CEO of Twitter, according to people familiar with the situation.
Politico:
As the border heats up, Dems fracture over a migration solution  —  There's a deep ideological split in the party as Title 42 expires, with some demanding a quick border solution and others glad to be rid of the Trump-era policy.  —  Sherrod Brown is a stalwart progressive who doesn't often partner …
Kathy Gilsinan / Politico:
She Stole $54 Million From Her Town.  Then Something Unexpected Happened.  —  The search for accountability didn't stop when Rita Crundwell went to prison.  —  DIXON, Illinois —  “You have not been doing your job,” said a gray-ponytailed man in flannel once he got to the microphone.
Kit O'Connell / The Texas Observer:
Documents Reveal ‘How to Defund Trans Pediatrics’ in Texas  —  A recently released trove of documents from the American College of Pediatricians (ACPEDs) reveals how a Republican donor used veiled threats implying legal action against a Dallas-area children's hospital as part …
Paul Rosenzweig / The Bulwark:
How Is George Santos Different from Donald Trump?  —  Some of the behavior that got Santos indicted looks a lot like Trump's.  —  How does George Santos lie?  Let us count the ways.  —  It is far too easy to mock Santos.  His serial fantasies seem, in some ways, more amusing and frivolous than serious and dangerous.
Discussion: Raw Story
Rebecca Davis O'Brien / New York Times:
Group Tied to Influential Conservative Activist Spent $183 Million in a Year  —  The activist, Leonard Leo, has been instrumental in pushing the federal judiciary to the right.  A new tax filing offers a glimpse of the deep pool of money flowing into conservative causes.
NBC News:
Criminal investigation into Sen. Bob Menendez expands with new subpoenas  —  The New Jersey senator has been under investigation as to whether he and his wife improperly took cash and gifts from the owners of a halal meat business in the state.  —  Another round of federal grand jury subpoenas went …
Discussion: The Hill, Politico and NBC New York
 
 
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