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Miles Klee / Rolling Stone:
Trump All But Confesses to Mishandling Classified Docs on Fox News — The former president, facing charges of mishandling classified information, nearly confessed to the crime — while blaming his “golf shirts” … But he ended up essentially confessing to the crime of which he's accused …
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
The charlatan who has Trump's ear — Tom Fitton is no lawyer, but Trump listens to him. Why? Because he's saying what Trump wants to hear. — ∙ Paid … During his sordid, lengthy legal history, Donald Trump has had some terrible lawyers — Roy Cohn, Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis.
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney / Mediaite:
Trump Claims He Has ‘Zero’ Worry About Federal Indictment — Donald Trump told Fox News' Bret Baier on Monday that the law was on his side and he had no worries about the 37 federal charges against him. — Baier grilled Trump about why he allegedly kept classified documents when he left …
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Trump rips Quinnipiac, Fox News over poll — Former President Trump tore into Quinnipiac and Fox News over a poll showing him trailing President Biden in a head-to-head matchup. — “The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on “TRUMP” vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Fox's Brit Hume Torches Trump's Explanations for Why He Took Documents: They ‘Verge on Incoherent’ — Fox News Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume is not buying Donald Trump's excuses for why he took government documents to his Mar-a-Lago estate when he left the White House in January 2021.
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The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, PoliticusUSA and Political Wire
William P. Barr / The Free Press:
Bill Barr: The Truth About the Trump Indictment — He's the victim. Since President Trump was indicted in Florida last week, those of us who read and listen to conservative media have heard that singular message. The longer version goes like this: he's the victim of a political witch hunt …
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NBC News:
Evangelicals supported Trump because he ‘gave voice’ to their frustrations, Pence says
Evangelicals supported Trump because he ‘gave voice’ to their frustrations, Pence says
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Call is Coming from Inside the House
The Call is Coming from Inside the House
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Washington Post:
FBI resisted opening probe into Trump's role in Jan. 6 for more than a year — In the DOJ's investigation of Jan. 6, key Justice officials also quashed an early plan for a task force focused on people in Trump's orbit — Hours after he was sworn in as attorney general …
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emptywheel:
The WaPo Shows There Should Be More Scrutiny of Steve D'Antuono — The WaPo has a story that many Merrick Garland attackers claim confirms their fears about the DOJ investigation. Except the story has really important gaps, most importantly in its portrayal of the fake electors investigation …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:
North Carolina GOP House speaker ‘engaged in group sex with people seeking political favor’: lawsuit — The Republican speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is being accused to using his position to secure sexual favors. — As WSOC-TV reports, a new lawsuit filed …
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Andrew McMillan / WSOC-TV:
Lawsuit alleges NC House Speaker had affair, sex with people seeking political favor
Lawsuit alleges NC House Speaker had affair, sex with people seeking political favor
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Lucille Sherman / Axios:
NC House Speaker accused of sexual relationship with state employee
NC House Speaker accused of sexual relationship with state employee
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Occupy Democrats
Gareth Evans / BBC:
Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way — A submersible used to take people to view the wreck of the Titanic has gone missing in the Atlantic Ocean. — The Boston Coastguard told BBC News that a search and rescue operation was under way off the coast of Newfoundland.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
How Classified Evidence Could Complicate the Trump Documents Case — Prosecutors and defense lawyers appear to be preparing for a pretrial fight over showing sensitive evidence to the jury and the public. — Reporting from Washington — Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump …
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Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case
Judge issues order that Trump keep quiet about disclosure of discovery material issued in classified documents case
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Judge orders Trump not to disclose evidence in classified documents case
Judge orders Trump not to disclose evidence in classified documents case
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Brandy Zadrozny / NBC News:
The conspiracy candidate: What RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine crusade could look like in the White House — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a conspiracy theorist running for president as a Democrat. Experts fear his anti-vaccine activism threatens public health in America.
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Christopher Kane / Washington Blade:
RFK Jr. claims chemicals in the water are turning boys transgender — Democratic presidential candidate known for pushing conspiracy theories — In a recently unearthed video interview, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and a Democratic challenger …
New York Times:
G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of 2024 Election — A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics. — On Capitol Hill and in the courts …
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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Biden calls Tuberville hold on military nominations ‘bizarre’ — LOS GATOS, Calif. — President Biden on Monday called Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-Ala.) hold on military nominees over the Department of Defense's abortion policy “bizarre.” — Biden, during a fundraiser in Los Gatos, Calif. …
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Adam Gabbatt / The Guardian:
Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights — Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’ — With the US besieged by a rightwing culture war campaign that aims to strip away rights from LGBTQ+ people and others …
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Raw Story
Tim Nudd / Ad Age:
Bud Light's struggles have been a ‘wake-up call,’ says AB InBev CMO at Cannes — Marcel Marcondes says the brewer's goal is to ‘celebrate and appreciate every consumer that loves our brands’ — Anheuser-Busch InBev's top global marketer on Monday addressed the backlash to Bud Light's use …
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William D. Cohan / Puck:
Will Elon Lose Control of Twitter? — As a former restructuring and bankruptcy advisor at Lazard, I can recognize the signs of a company in distress. And it's a pretty obvious tell that there's financial trouble brewing when a company stops paying its bills. — Oh dear, what is going on these days with Elon Musk at Twitter?
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Tomiwa Owolade / The Free Press:
What Americans Get Wrong When They Talk about Race — On Juneteenth, we celebrate black progress. But if we want to achieve more of it, writes Tomiwa Owolade, we need ideas that aren't born in the U.S.A. — On this day in 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect …
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Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Blinken and Xi pledge to stabilize the deteriorating ties between the US and China — The United States and China have pledged to stabilize their badly deteriorated ties during a critical visit to Beijing by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who met Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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Courtney Kube / NBC News:
House GOP moves to ban public access to service members' military records — The proposal comes after the Pentagon erroneously released the personal information of several Republican politicians who were current or former members of the armed forces. — House Republicans are attempting …
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Michael Lind / New Statesman:
The 15-minute city is a working-class nightmare — A car-free lifestyle is only possible for those whose profession and income permit it. — Is there a global conspiracy to confine people to “15-minute cities”? At the recent UK local elections, MPs and councillors heard this message from voters.
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Gideon Rachman / Financial Times:
Europe has fallen behind America and the gap is growing — From technology to energy to capital markets and universities, the EU cannot compete with the US — The Ukraine war has revived the transatlantic alliance. But the relationship between the US and its European allies is increasingly lopsided.
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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Democrat Donor Arrested for Starting Massive Fire Democrats Blamed on Climate Change — Several firefighters injured in ‘ginormous’ blaze; suspect also donated to the Lincoln Project … Democratic politicians had insisted climate change was to blame for the blaze, which destroyed …
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