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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.
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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.
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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
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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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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.
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Political Wire
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 …
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Political Wire
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Memo: Trump's legal defenses draw derision — even from some conservatives
The Memo: Trump's legal defenses draw derision — even from some conservatives
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Politico:
House GOP flirts with Jan. 6 extremism — Far-right conservatives have entertained false conspiracy theories about the Capitol attack — but so have some House GOP leaders and key committee chiefs, without outright embracing them. — House Republicans don't want to talk about Jan. 6.
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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
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Why NYC Suburbs Increasingly Resent the City — Tension between the city and its surrounding areas over issues like crime, immigration and congestion pricing has grown since the pandemic. — Ed Day says he proudly remembers his days as a New York City police commander, fighting crime and helping to restore the city's luster.
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.
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NBC News:
Pence: 'I'm still waiting for the rash of prosecutions of people involved in the BLM riots' of 2020 — Former Vice President Mike Pence says “the vast majority of Republicans have lost confidence” in the DOJ in an exclusive interview with Meet the Press.
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 …