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11:05 AM ET, June 14, 2023

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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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Wall Street Journal:
Mike Pence Reads the Trump Indictment  —  He 'can't defend' the conduct but thinks the case is also political.  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Tap For Sound  —  As Mike Pence walked into the Journal's New York conference room Tuesday afternoon, the cable-TV chyron was carrying news from South Florida …
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.
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.
New York Times:
A Deflated, Low-Energy Trump, Now Twice-Indicted at 77: ‘Some Birthday’  —  He grumbled about his arraignment.  He ate McDonald's.  Then he went back to his New Jersey club for an event that was a blend of a summer garden wedding and a political victory party.  —  Reporting from Bedminster, N.J.
Discussion: New York Post, The Hill and Insider
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 …
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 …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Trump would burn America before facing justice  —  The question is whether US voters will be vigilant enough to stop him  —  Politics does not get simpler than this.  American voters are likely to face a choice next year between a criminal defendant vowing retribution against his pursuers and another man.
Eric Lach / New Yorker:
Is Donald Trump Scared?  —  At the former President's indictment in Miami on Tuesday, it was impossible to say whether his fate was more likely to be a return to the White House—or prison.  —  For long stretches during former President Donald Trump's arraignment in Miami on Tuesday afternoon …
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
Jess Bidgood / MSN:   As GOP candidates evoke Reagan, Michigan Republicans say the future is Trump, indictments and all
Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Mike Pence Makes Apparent U-Turn on Trump Indictment
Discussion: CNBC, Raw Story and NBC News
New York Times:
Trump has legal options in the case, but they might face challenges.
Politico:
Playbook: Scenes from a presidential arraignment
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What Will Come From This Indictment  —  In the two places we call America …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Most Republicans in Biden-won districts don't want to talk about Trump indictment
Miami Herald:
‘Food for everyone.’ Trump detours to Versailles to court Hispanic voters after arraignment
Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Stove wars: Republican-controlled House takes up bills to protect gas stoves  —  Venturing back into the nation's culture wars, the Republican-controlled House is taking up legislation that GOP lawmakers say would protect gas stoves from overzealous government regulators.
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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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Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:
Jack Smith's indictment unmasks Trump as a complete and utter buffoon  —  The emperor has no clothes, but he does have boxes in his bathroom.  —  Aaron Rupar and davidrlurie  —  ∙ Paid … The greatest political gift for Donald Trump's Republican rivals this primary cycle …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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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David Corn / Mother Jones:
No Labels Is Helping a Firm that Raises Money for Right-Wing Extremists  —  The self-proclaimed centrist group is using a vendor that assists election deniers, MAGA Republicans, and the radical Trump right.  —  No Labels is a political outfit that hails political centrism, calls for bipartisanship …
Peter Smith / Associated Press:
Southern Baptists refuse to let Saddleback Church back into the denomination for women pastors  —  The Southern Baptist Convention has refused to welcome Saddleback Church back into its fold, rejecting an appeal by the California megachurch over its February ouster for having women pastors.
Washington Post:
Congress just cut IRS funding.  It costs even more than we thought.  —  The White House and Congress recently agreed to claw back more than $20 billion earmarked for the Internal Revenue Service.  This deal was, ostensibly, part of a grand bargain to reduce budget deficits.
Discussion: Fox News
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Larry Summers Was Wrong About Inflation  —  There aren't many Americans who've benefited from the past two years of inflation.  But Larry Summers is probably one of them.  —  In February 2021, the celebrated economist warned that Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was excessively large …
The Hill:
Strawberry products sold in 32 states recalled over Hepatitis A risks  —  TOPEKA (KSNT) - Multiple packages of frozen fruit, specifically strawberries, are being recalled due to possible Hepatitis A contamination.  —  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Willamette Valley Fruit Co. of Salem …
Discussion: KSNT-TV, US Food and Drug … and ABC7
Thomas Kika / Newsweek:
MSNBC Dethrones Fox News After Years-Long Ratings Dominance  —  Fox News's years-long streak of weekly rating dominance has reportedly ended, with new data showing it ceding the top spot to its rival network, MSNBC.  —  Nielsen data regarding the week ending this past Sunday was shared …
Discussion: RedState, Mediaite, Deadline, Adweek and The Wrap
Julia Rock / The Lever:
J.D. Vance Helped Lobbyists Weaken His Rail Safety Bill  —  The Ohio senator quietly delayed the timeline for safer tank cars that regulators say could help prevent train spills like the one in East Palestine.  —  For nearly a decade, lawmakers and railroad regulators have been trying …
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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Financial Times:
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