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12:20 PM 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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Just Security:
National Security Implications of Trump's Indictment: A Damage Assessment  —  The 38-count indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges of willfully retaining documents containing national defense information, refusing to return them, and obstructing related investigations, is a watershed moment.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Now on the 2024 ballot: Trump's freedom  —  For Donald Trump, the 2024 campaign is more than a race to return to the White House — it's a fight to stay out of prison.  —  Legal experts say it's unlikely that Trump's criminal trial in federal court will be resolved before the November 2024 election.
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.
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Reality Winner says she's ‘blown away’ by details in indictment against Trump  —  Winner, a former intelligence contractor who spent more than four years in prison, was the first person to be prosecuted under Trump for violating the Espionage Act.  —  Trump classified documents indictment unsealed
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Who Is Walt Nauta, the Other Person Indicted Along With Trump?  —  Mr. Nauta, as a valet while Mr. Trump was president, had unusual proximity to him, including at meals and on foreign trips.  —  Walt Nauta, the only other person indicted along with former President Donald J. Trump …
Rolling Stone:
The Special Counsel Is Using Trump's Own National Security Staff Against Him  —  Jack Smith's investigators used Team Trump's own words to demonstrate the former president he knew the rules for classified materials, sources tell Rolling Stone … In questioning these NSC veterans …
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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Faces 2024 Split Screen of Campaign and Criminal Trials
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
Discussion: Insider
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's baseless ‘1,850 boxes’ attacks on Biden's legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection
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
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives, aren't you sick of Trump's nonsense?
Associated Press:
Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
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
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
Andy Bruce / Reuters:
Boris Johnson's shock exit reverberates through British ruling party  —  Old rifts resurfaced in Britain's ruling Conservative Party on Saturday following former prime minister Boris Johnson's abrupt resignation from parliament, while the opposition Labour Party sensed opportunity ahead of a general election next year.
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament
Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report
Kari Paul / The Guardian:
‘Fundamentally dangerous’: reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections  —  Scaling back of moderation and rise of AI are creating the perfect storm to weaken elections and democracy  —  ncreasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling …
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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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Biden Energy Secretary Granholm admits false testimony about owning stocks  —  ‘The Secretary takes the commitment to uphold the highest ethical standards very seriously,’ Energy Department spokesperson tells Fox News Digital  —  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted in a letter Friday …
Discussion: RedState and Just The News
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Adrienne Cuffley / Stimson Center:
Why the Iranian government neglects the nation's cultural heritage  —  The neglect in Iran's heritage has deepened a schism between a public that values those traditions and a government that finds this lineage to be at best an annoyance and at worst a threat
Discussion: TASS
Rebecca Burns / The Lever:
Oil Lobby Pushed Pollution Loophole for Wildfire Smoke  —  Seventy-five million people nationwide have been under air quality alerts, as days of smoke-filled skies sent soot levels soaring more than 10 times beyond what federal regulators consider safe for breathing.
Discussion: Jacobin and Vox
 
 
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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
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
Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Man who crashed U-Haul near White House planned other attacks, prosecutor says
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Althouse
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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 …
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