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1:35 PM ET, June 18, 2023

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Chip Muir / The Hill:
Nine reasons Biden should pardon Trump  —  Conventional thinking suggests that under no circumstances would President Joe Biden consider, let alone offer, former President Trump a pardon for the charges in his June 9 indictment.  No one has made the suggestion.
Discussion: Breitbart and Power Line
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Alex Thompson / Axios:
Biden's weird words  —  President Biden often uses old-timey expressions that confound even his own staff.  That happened again Friday when he ended a speech on gun violence with “God save the queen, man.”  — Even Olivia Dalton, the White House's principal deputy press secretary, didn't know what her boss meant.
Discussion: RedState
Zolan Kanno-Youngs / New York Times:
As Trump Battles Charges, Biden Focuses on the Business of Governing  —  The past week appears to provide a blueprint for the way the White House wants to handle the politically touchy subject of former President Donald J. Trump's legal troubles.  —  Reporting from Philadelphia
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Biden kicks off reelection bid with union rally in Philadelphia
Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
Trump lacked power to declassify secret nuclear arms document, experts say  —  Even when he was president, Donald Trump lacked the legal authority to declassify a U.S. nuclear weapons-related document that he is charged with illegally possessing, security experts said, contrary to the former U.S. president's claim.
Discussion: Political Wire
Neil Vigdor / New York Times:
DeSantis Takes Clear Aim at Trump in Nevada, an Important Early State  —  Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida avoided mentioning Donald Trump at a G.O.P. fund-raiser in Nevada, but he took clear aim at the former president.  —  Reporting from Gardnerville, Nev.  —  In black boots …
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New York Times:
Ron DeSantis Is Young, Has Little Kids and Wants America to Know It  —  At 44, he is more than three decades younger than Donald Trump and Joe Biden.  He is subtly playing up that age gap, even if his right-wing views leave him out of step with many younger voters.
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
Morality Is for Trump What Colors Are to the Color-Blind  —  The majority of his enablers, though, still know right from wrong.  —  Earlier this week, Donald Trump was arraigned in Miami on charges that he willfully retained documents containing some of the nation's most sensitive secrets …
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Washington Post:
How government rules for classified papers could help Trump delay his trial  —  Graymail, ‘Goldilocks rule’ and silent witnesses could help the former president put off case until after 2024 election  —  As former president Donald Trump prepares for trial on charges that he repeatedly …
Discussion: Political Wire
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Trump's legal defenses draw derision — even from some conservatives
The Guardian:
‘They enjoyed this’: Ukrainian woman recounts five-month nightmare of torture and imprisonment  —  Russian occupiers have unleashed a reign of terror in the city of Enerhodar, detailed here by one survivor of the secret police  —  Dan Sabbagh and Artem Mazhulin in Zaporizhzhia
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Deadnaming Children Would Be Allowed Under School Policy  —  The leader of New Brunswick, Canada, is pushing his province to roll back a rule that required teachers to use a child's preferred name and pronouns.  —  For almost two years, the province of New Brunswick has had a policy …
CNN:
Christie calls GOP presidential debate pledge a ‘useless idea’  —  Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie said Sunday it was a “useless idea” to force 2024 GOP contenders to sign a pledge to back the party's ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates.
Ruby Cramer / Washington Post:
Tracing the power of Casey DeSantis  —  As Ron DeSantis pursues the presidency, his wife's role is limitless.  Casey, 42, isn't a typical political spouse.  Why does that inspire so much fear?  Her rise in TV and insular marriage tell the story.  —  Where's Casey?  —  Ron was asking.
Discussion: Insider and Daily Mail
Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Joni Ernst says she knows what Iowans want in a 2024 GOP nominee  —  Voters want someone who can ‘pull together’ a divided country, Ernst said  —  Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa says voters want a presidential candidate who can “pull together” a divided country as GOP 2024 hopefuls …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
USA Today:
Exclusive: Support for legal abortion rises a year after Roe v. Wade overturned-Poll  —  Susan Page Rachel Looker Miles J. HerszenhornUSA TODAY  —  In what was surely a case of unintended consequences, the landmark Supreme Court decision one year ago overturning Roe v. Wade …
Discussion: Breitbart and Political Wire
 
 
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