memeorandum: Trump greets arraignment with showmanship in bid to upstage charges (Washington Post)

9:50 AM ET, June 14, 2023

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Anna Bower / Lawfare:

What Actually Happened at Trump's Arraignment? — Monday afternoon around 12:00 p.m. finds me outside the entrance to the Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. federal courthouse in Miami-where Donald J. Trump is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday at 3:00 pm. Like a lot of journalists …

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New York Times:

After Trump's 2nd Indictment, His 2024 Presidential Campaign Trudges On — On the calendar for the Republicans' 2024 front-runner: rallies and primaries mixed with court dates. — Reporting from Bedminster, N.J. — Donald J. Trump went to bed Tuesday night, on the eve of his 77th birthday …

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Washington Post:

Trump greets arraignment with showmanship in bid to upstage charges — The former president, in growing legal peril, faced down the most serious threat to his personal liberty and political future like just another day on the campaign trail — BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Former president Donald Trump faced …

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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

A Grim Donald Trump, President No Longer, Is Humbled in the Courtroom — He and Jack Smith, the special counsel, were 20 feet from each other. But they exchanged not a word during their first, nearly hourlong encounter. — A grim Donald J. Trump leaned back from the defendant's table inside …

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Wall Street Journal:

The Self-Destructive Donald Trump — The document indictment is misguided, but he made it easier for his enemies, as he always does. — By The Editorial Board — Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to federal charges on Tuesday, with the typical array of supporters and opponents.

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Miami Herald:

‘Food for everyone.’ Trump detours to Versailles to court Hispanic voters after arraignment — Trump supporters gathered at Versailles late Tuesday afternoon to get a glimpse of the former president as he pulled up to the famed Cuban restaurant and bakery, walked in and shook hands …

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Jess Bidgood / MSN:

As GOP candidates evoke Reagan, Michigan Republicans say the future is Trump, indictments and all — SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The federal criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump has set up an extraordinary confrontation between President Biden's administration and the front-runner …

Kara Scannell / CNN:

Judge allows E. Jean Carroll to amend her defamation lawsuit to seek more damages against Trump — A federal judge will allow E. Jean Carroll to amend her original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to include comments he made at a CNN town hall.

Michael Scherer / Washington Post:

Democrats meet with anti-Trump conservatives to fight No Labels 2024 bid — Biden allies seek to undermine an effort they see as a threat to the president's reelection — Top Democratic strategists, including current advisers to President Biden and former U.S. senators …

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Politico:

Playbook: Scenes from a presidential arraignment — Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross — DRIVING THE DAY — JUST POSTED — “Democrats meet with anti-Trump conservatives to fight No Labels 2024 bid,” by WaPo's Michael Scherer: “Their mission: to figure out how to best subvert …

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Jonathan Lemire / Politico:

Biden orders DNC and reelect to remain silent about Trump's indictment — Some allies see a missed opportunity by going quiet. — President Joe Biden and his top aides have taken a vow of silence on the federal indictment of his predecessor, Donald Trump — and have explicitly ordered …

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Shelby Talcott / Semafor:

Trump's legal defense and 2024 campaign are one and the same — The Scene — There were no cameras in the Miami courthouse where Donald Trump turned himself in on Tuesday, leaving cable news stuck cycling through legal analysts as not much happened outside.

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NBC News:

Republicans privately acknowledge Trump's legal woes are serious this time — Many GOP operatives who spoke with NBC News said the federal indictment is serious — and could cause problems for the party. — It's long been Republican orthodoxy that no matter what Donald Trump does, the GOP base will stick with him.

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New York Times:
Trump has legal options in the case, but they might face challenges.

Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Fox News chryon text called Biden a ‘wannabe dictator’ who got ‘his political rival arrested’ during broadcast of Trump's post-courtroom speech

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The Daily Beast:
Trump Wanted Courthouse Protests but Instead Got MAGA Misfits

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Joseph Moreno / Washington Examiner:
Just as Trump has forsaken the law, Republicans should forsake him

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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Jack Smith's indictment unmasks Trump as a complete and utter buffoon

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Eric Lach / New Yorker:
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence Makes Apparent U-Turn on Trump Indictment

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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What Will Come From This Indictment — In the two places we call America …

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New York Times:
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NBC News: After more legal trouble, Trump follows a familiar playbook: Play the victim

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Nick Mourtoupalas / Washington Post:
The next steps after Trump's classified documents indictment, explained

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Michael Bekesha / Wall Street Journal:

Trump's Boxes and Clinton's Sock Drawer — A president chooses what records to return or keep and the National Archives can't do anything about it. — Although the indictment against Donald Trump doesn't cite the Presidential Records Act, the charges are predicated on the law.

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Julia Shapero / The Hill:

Leader says Belarus now has Russian nuclear weapons, wouldn't hesitate to use them — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Tuesday that his country has received Russian nuclear weapons and would not hesitate to use them if provoked. — “We have got the missiles and bombs from Russia …

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Ethan Strauss / The Free Press:

The NCAA Has a ‘Hot Girl’ Problem — We're in the Cavinder Twins' apartment eight floors above the sun-dappled sprawl of South Florida. A blender whirrs, mixing kiwi-yogurt-almond butter smoothies. A photographer takes pictures. A representative from the Twins' sports-marketing agency …

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Los Angeles Times:

L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price charged with embezzlement and perjury — Los Angeles City Councilmember Curren Price was charged with 10 counts of embezzlement, perjury and conflict of interest on Tuesday, becoming the latest in a years-long parade of elected city officials …

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Dwight Garner / New York Times:

Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89 — “All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders. — Cormac McCarthy, the formidable and reclusive writer of Appalachia …

Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:

Hunter Biden Ghosted Baby Mama During Pregnancy, Texts Show — President's crackhead son yanked health insurance from mistress shortly after birth of daughter — For months in 2018, a very pregnant Lunden Alexis Roberts was unable to reach Hunter Biden, the father of her soon-to-be-born daughter.

NBC News:

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Wall Street Journal:

U.S. Launches Quiet Diplomatic Push With Iran to Cool Tensions — Talks in Oman seek release of American prisoners as Iran wants billions of dollars trapped overseas — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration has quietly restarted talks with Iran in a bid to win the release of American prisoners held …

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Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:

Insider's top editor caught tearing down union posters in NYC as strike drags on — The top editor of the Insider news site was caught on video bicycling around Brooklyn and tearing down pro-union posters as a labor strike dragged into its second week. — In the video obtained by The Post …

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