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6:00 PM ET, May 12, 2023

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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 …
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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
Adam Nichols / Raw Story:
CNN told ‘disgusted’ audience members to stay silent during Trump's town hall: report  —  The audience at CNN's town hall Wednesday appeared to be lapping up Donald Trump's every word, but there were many dissenters in the crowd - and they were told to stay quiet, a new report claims.
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
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
Jamison Foser / Finding Gravity:
Anderson Cooper, company man
Discussion: Deadline and Twitchy
Washington Post:
CNN leadership under fire after ‘disastrous’ Trump town hall
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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Philip Klein / National Review:
DeSantis Enjoys Huge Haul of Iowa Endorsements Ahead of Visit  —  Ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's trip to Iowa this weekend, 37 state legislatures have come out to endorse him — representing over a third of the combined number of Republican lawmakers in the state's house and senate.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New poll: Is DeSantis's war on ‘woke’ Disney falling flat?
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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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
Former Trump prosecutor slams GOP ‘political theater,’ takes the Fifth at deposition  —  Former Trump prosecutor Mark Pomerantz invoked his Fifth Amendment rights during his deposition before the House Judiciary Committee on Friday, slamming the GOP-led panel's investigation as “political theater” in his opening statement.
Associated Press:
Trump to get schooled on judge's rules barring him from using evidence to slam witnesses
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
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
Frances Vinall / Washington Post:
Serbians hand in thousands of guns after two mass killings  —  Serbians handed in thousands of guns in the first three days of an amnesty aimed at disarming the country following two mass killings last week, including one targeting schoolchildren.  —  Almost 6,000 unregistered weapons …
Discussion: Associated Press and Reuters
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New York Times:   Serbia Offers Amnesty for Illegal Firearms, and Thousands Are Collected
CBS News:
Dan Snyder finalizes $6 billion deal to sell Washington Commanders  —  Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder has entered into an agreement to sell his franchise to a group led by Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris, it was announced Friday.  —  The framework of the deal was first reported last month.
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Seth Wickersham / ESPN:   Sources: Dan Snyder seeks to limit release of inquiry report
Jim Geraghty / Washington Post:
The primaries haven't started, and Biden has a problem: New Hampshire  —  There were fireworks in New Hampshire on Wednesday night at CNN's town hall with former president Donald Trump.  But there's a slow-burning fuse in the Granite State that has the potential to blow up Democratic Party primary politics next year.
Discussion: Maryland Matters
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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 …
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 …
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.”
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
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
Peter Sterne / City & State New York:
Emma Stone-backed child harassment bill sparks First Amendment, youth incarceration concerns  —  Legislation backed by the Oscar winner would make recording children in public without parents' consent a misdemeanor in New York punishable by up to a year in prison.
Washington Post:
How Ukrainian forces denied Russia victory in Bakhmut by Victory Day  —  KYIV, Ukraine — They started shelling at sunrise.  —  In the dawn haze, under the cover of their own artillery, small groups of Ukrainian soldiers advanced toward a Russian position on the outskirts of the embattled city of Bakhmut.
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
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
 
 
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