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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: The Hill, Raw Story and CBS News
Samantha Chery / Washington Post:
Anderson Cooper scolds critics of CNN's town hall with Trump  —  “Do you think staying in your silo ... is going to make that person go away?”  Anderson Cooper asked his viewers the day after CNN's widely reviled town hall with Donald Trump.  —  CNN star Anderson Cooper defended …
Ian Haworth / Washington Examiner:
Trump destroyed CNN. But CNN still won
Washington Post:
CNN leadership under fire after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall
Megan Garber / The Atlantic:
The Worst Thing to Come Out of Trump's Town Hall Didn't Come From Trump
CNBC:
DeSantis allies could shift $86 million to help him run for president as watchdogs cry foul  — Allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are reportedly planning to move nearly $86 million of state campaign money to support his expected 2024 presidential campaign.
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Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New poll: Is DeSantis's war on ‘woke’ Disney falling flat?
Charlie Nash / Mediaite:
Republican at Trump Town Hall Says Many in Audience Were ‘Disgusted’ or ‘Bewildered’ By Ex-President  —  Many audience members at CNN's town hall with former President Donald Trump on Wednesday were “disgusted” and “bewildered” by the spectacle, but were told to be respectful and not to boo, according to a report.
Discussion: Raw Story
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Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Anderson Cooper, company man
Discussion: Deadline
Stephen Groves / Associated Press:
GOP lawmaker: Former Trump prosecutor declined to provide details on hush-money investigation  —  An ex-prosecutor who once oversaw Manhattan's yearslong investigation of former President Donald Trump repeatedly declined to substantively answer questions at a closed-door meeting Friday …
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Associated Press:
Trump to get schooled on judge's rules barring him from using evidence to slam witnesses
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Joshua Glanzer / Florida Atlantic University:
Poll: Florida Republicans Strongly Support Donald Trump for 2024 Run  —  2024 election cycle will be here very soon.  —  Amidst massive legal battles involving former U.S. President Donald Trump and jockeying for control of the GOP that puts Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the public light …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
DeSantis rolls out a major slate of Iowa endorsements  —  The Florida governor is flexing muscle ahead of his trip to the state.  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is set to unveil the endorsements of more than three-dozen Iowa state legislators ahead of his trip to the state on Saturday …
Sky Palma / Raw Story:
Russian lawyer claims Putin is building settlements for conservatives looking to leave the US for ‘ideological reasons’  —  A Moscow-based immigration lawyer claims that a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons” is being built in Russia, Vice News reported.
Discussion: VICE
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The Moscow Times:
Russia to Build ‘Migrant Village’ for Conservative American Expats
Discussion: The Daily Beast and New Republic
Matthew Loh / Insider:   Russia is floating a plan to build a village for conservative Americans who want to move to a ‘Christian country’ and are tired of liberal ideology in the US
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Cat and dog torture videos litter Twitter, adding to concerns about moderation  —  Twitter's search function suggested searches for animal abuse, leading some viewers to the video.  As of Friday afternoon, Twitter appeared to have turned off all suggestions.
Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money
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?
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Jim Geraghty / Washington Post:
The primaries haven't started, and Biden has a problem: New Hampshire
Discussion: Maryland Matters
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Ally Rebuffs Requests to Block Russian Military Flights  —  Egypt is giving Moscow crucial access to its airspace, allowing a path to transport weapons to Ukraine from Syria  —  Egypt has ignored U.S. requests to close its airspace to Russian military flights, American and Egyptian officials said …
Discussion: BizPac Review and Political Wire
New York Times:
Ex-ByteDance Executive Accuses Company of ‘Lawlessness’  —  The former executive sued ByteDance, which owns TikTok, for wrongful termination and accused the company of lifting content from rivals and “supreme access” by the Chinese Communist Party.  —  A former executive at ByteDance …
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
Christina Wilkie / CNBC:
U.S. can avoid default in July if Treasury can make it through June cash crunch, Congressional Budget Office says  —  WASHINGTON — The Congressional Budget Office on Friday said that tax revenues and emergency measures after June 15 “will probably allow the government to continue financing operations through at least the end of July.”
KARE-TV:
KARE 11 Investigates: Legislators failing to reform broken juvenile competency system  —  A teen accused of shooting a man in the head was found incompetent to stand trial, then let go.  He's now charged with shooting another man in the head.  —  FAILURE TO ACT  —  JUDGES' HANDS TIED
Discussion: HotAir
Eric Russell / Press Herald:
Group trying to gain official party status warned against misleading voters  —  Maine's secretary of state has sent a cease-and-desist letter to national organization No Labels, expressing concerns that it has confused voters who think they are signing a petition but instead are enrolling in a new party.
Discussion: Fox News and Political Wire
CNN:
Russia tried to destroy US-made Patriot system in Ukraine, officials say  —  Russia tried to destroy a US-made Patriot air defense system in Ukraine last week with a hypersonic missile, two US officials told CNN.  —  The attack failed, and the Ukrainian military instead intercepted …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Andrew Lapin / Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
Florida rejects Holocaust education textbooks in clampdown on ‘woke’ instruction  —  (JTA) — Florida's state education department rejected two new Holocaust-focused textbooks for classroom use, while forcing at least one other textbook to alter a passage about the Hebrew Bible in order to meet state approval.
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Clarence Thomas Can't Undermine the Legitimacy of the Supreme Court Fast Enough  —  For Republicans, the investigations into Clarence Thomas and his friendship with Harlan Crow, a Texas billionaire, are just pretexts for an attack on the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.
Brooke Singman / Fox News:
CIA had ‘no evidence’ Biden laptop was Russian disinformation, says top intel officer during 2020 election  —  Official says President Biden's allies lacked ‘clear and compelling evidence’ to claim Russian involvement  —  EXCLUSIVE: A former top intelligence officer with oversight …
Bloomberg:
Yellen Says ‘We Have to Default’ on Something If Congress Fails  —  Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the federal government will have to renege on some payments if Congress doesn't raise the debt limit, though no plan on how the department would proceed has yet been presented to President Joe Biden.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Herschel Walker mum on massive campaign cash request  —  During his ill-fated run for U.S. Senate last year, Herschel Walker repeatedly declined to answer even simple questions about his policy stances, his background and how he would vote if elected.He appears to be taking …
 
 
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