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9:55 AM ET, June 10, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
A Destructive Trump Indictment  —  Do prosecutors understand the forces they are unleashing?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Tap For Sound  —  Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, his indictment by President Biden's Justice Department is a fraught moment for American democracy.
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Lawfare:
United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta  —  The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump that was unsealed today by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida represents a beginning in several distinct senses.  —  It is, at one level …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated  —  The Justice Department on Friday unveiled an indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with 37 criminal counts.  They relate to Mr. Trump's hoarding of sensitive government documents after he left office and his refusal to return them …
National Review:
The Trump Indictment Is Damning  —  Just as paranoiacs sometimes have enemies, people obsessively pursued for alleged violations of the law by their political opponents sometimes commit criminal offenses.  —  At many junctures, most recently with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's flimsy charges …
Discussion: Washington Post and Truthout
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case  —  The surprise assignment of Judge Aileen Cannon could be a setback for prosecutors as they unveiled a sweeping classified files indictment.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  Even as prosecutors publicly unveiled a deep …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Case Puts the Justice System on Trial, in a Test of Public Credibility  —  The former president's efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.  —  Peter Baker has covered the White House under the past five presidents …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Here are the 37 charges against Trump and what they mean  —  A court on Friday unsealed the federal indictment against Donald Trump and an aide over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home and the men's alleged efforts to keep the government from finding the materials.
David Roth / Defector:
So It's A Crime Now To Have Boxes Full Of Cool Folders With Various Words Printed On Them?  —  About the most that can be said for Donald Trump, as a politician and as a person, is that he didn't let being President of the United States change him.  This is not really a compliment, to be clear.
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump indictment thrusts Biden into unprecedented territory  —  Biden's leading adversary is being prosecuted by Biden's Justice Department — a highly sensitive dynamic that is already fodder for Republicans  —  The month before he was sworn into office, President Biden vowed to keep …
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives, aren't you sick of Trump's nonsense?  —  Maybe the federal charges against Donald Trump will be as weak as Alvin Bragg's charges were.  Certainly, President Joe Biden's Justice Department is politicized and weaponized.  And maybe Trump didn't harm the country at all by taking …
New York Times:
Carefully, Backhandedly, DeSantis Comes to Trump's Defense
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump indictment not politically motivated, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says in Utah
Discussion: Raw Story
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
Associated Press:
Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says
Gabrielle Canon / The Guardian:
Donald Trump kept boxes with US nuclear program documents and foreign weapons details, indictment says - as it happened
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:   Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
NBC News:
Here are 11 key takeaways from the Trump classified documents indictment
Politico:
Trump haphazardly stashed military secrets throughout his home, indictment says
Fox News:
Kevin McCarthy blasts Biden DOJ over Trump indictment: ‘A dark day in America’
Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament  —  Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament.
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Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report
Washington Post:
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge required Pence to answer most of special counsel's questions, newly unsealed court docs show  —  “The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” D.C.'s federal district court's chief judge wrote in April.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge's decision that compelled Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe unsealed  —  A federal judge has partially unsealed his decision that required former Vice President Mike Pence to testify in special counsel Jack Smith's probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
National Archives:
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Presidential Records and the Presidential Records Act  —  Media Alert  —  Recent media reports have generated a large number of queries about Presidential records and the Presidential Records Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 2201-2209.
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Nico Portuondo / E&E:
Granholm contradicts testimony, reveals she did own stocks  —  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm revealed Friday that she has held financial stocks as recently as May, contradicting testimony she gave to a Senate committee earlier this year.  —  In a letter shared with E&E News and sent to the committee …
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Biden Energy Secretary Granholm admits false testimony about owning stocks
Discussion: RedState and Just The News
Eileen Sullivan / New York Times:
Biden Names New Border Patrol Chief as Immigration Policies Come Under Scrutiny  —  Jason Owens has been the leader of the Del Rio division in Texas, one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings in the past few years.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  President Biden named …
 
 
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Again: Aren't You All Tired of This Crap?
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
Despite DeSantis' Anti-Union Law, Florida's Teachers' Union Gains 5,000 Members
Rebecca Burns / The Lever:
Oil Lobby Pushed Pollution Loophole for Wildfire Smoke
Discussion: Vox
Oliver Willis / The American Independent:
White House touts historic investments in industry and infrastructure with new website
Discussion: Politico
OpenSecrets.org:
Companies that publicly condemned legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community send political contributions to state lawmakers who advanced anti-LGBTQ+ bills
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Man who crashed U-Haul near White House planned other attacks, prosecutor says
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Viral Pentagon explosion hoax took off from pro-Russian accounts
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
They Just Don't Care … So, Trump's been indicted, again.  There's already been …
Brian Faler / Politico:
On heels of debt fight, House GOP rolls out tax-cut package
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