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10:40 AM ET, June 28, 2023

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Politico:
Inside Trump world's fury at McCarthy  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  MY, KEVIN — Former President DONALD TRUMP has catapulted the career of many a Republican over the past eight years, elevating backbenchers into stars and breathing new relevance into more than a few GOP has-beens.
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CNN:
Exclusive: Rudy Giuliani interviewed in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe  —  Former Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has been interviewed by federal investigators as part of the special counsel's investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, multiple sources familiar with the meeting told CNN.
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Trump world fumes over McCarthy's 2024 slight  —  The speaker tried to make amends, but it just made things worse.  —  Former President Donald Trump has catapulted the careers of many Republican over the past eight years.  None have benefited more than Kevin McCarthy.
NBC News:
Trump explores messing with the first GOP debate  —  People familiar with Trump's deliberations say he's still inclined to skip the August debate —and is exploring options for a competing event.  —  CONCORD, N.H. — No one can force Donald Trump to debate — except, maybe, Donald Trump.
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
House Republicans embark on a mission: Avenge Trump  —  They've punished his Democratic critics, probed prosecutors who charged him and set up a weaponization panel boosting his narrative.  Now they want to “expunge” his impeachments.  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans are using the powers …
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Examiner
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Trump open to returning to Twitter — at some point
Discussion: Mediaite and Shockya.com
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Expands His Attack On Special Counsel To Include His Family And Friends
Discussion: Raw Story and Associated Press
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Speaker McCarthy: ‘Trump Is Stronger Today Than He Was in 2016’
Shelby Talcott / Semafor:
‘It was bravado’: Trump says he wasn't holding up classified documents in 2021 meeting  —  The News  —  Former President Donald Trump insisted on Tuesday that he was not showing off classified documents in an audio clip first published by CNN in which he referred to “highly confidential” …
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Washington Post:
It's not just Mar-a-Lago: Trump charges highlight his New Jersey life  —  Two of the most vivid scenes in the former president's indictment take place at his Bedminster golf club, which has not been searched by the FBI  —  The 49-page indictment against Donald Trump for mishandling classified documents …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and USA Today
CBS News:
Iran memo not among the 31 records underlying charges in Trump federal indictment  —  Washington — The Defense Department memo on Iran — at the heart of the now-public audio recording that captured a July 2021 meeting with former President Donald Trump — is not part of the 31 counts …
New York Times:
Investigators in Trump Documents Case Also Focused on His Bedminster Club
New York Times:
Russian General Knew About Mercenary Chief's Rebellion Plans, U.S. Officials Say  —  Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of Wagner, may have believed he had support in Russia's military.  —  Reporting from Washington  —  A senior Russian general had advance knowledge of Yevgeny Prigozhin's plans …
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Bojan Pancevski / Wall Street Journal:
Wagner's Prigozhin Planned to Capture Russian Military Leaders  —  Western intelligence officials say Russian domestic intelligence agency learned of plot in advance  —  Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to capture Russia's military leadership as part of last weekend's mutiny …
Discussion: The Messenger
Jeremy Bowen / BBC:
Ukraine war: Countdown has begun to end of Putin, say Kyiv officials  —  Attention in the Ukrainian capital has been fixed squarely on the mutiny of the Wagner Group, its leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, and its consequences for Vladimir Putin and the conduct of the war in Ukraine.
Discussion: Jacobin
Adam Nichols / Raw Story:
Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka  —  Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book.  —  The comments are used by Taylor …
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Khaleda Rahman / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Trump Made Shocking Comments About Ivanka, Says Ex-Staffer  —  Donald Trump's “naked sexism,” including toward his own daughter, is described in a new book by Miles Taylor, the former Trump administration official who famously wrote a scathing op-ed about the former president under the pen name “Anonymous.”
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — Rising Conservative Influencer Pedro Gonzalez Regularly Espoused Racist and Anti-Semitic Sentiments in Private Messages  —  Pedro Gonzalez, a rising conservative influencer and politics editor of Chronicles magazine, regularly in 2019 and 2020 sent racist and antisemitic messages …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Raw Story
Richard H. Pildes / New York Times:
The Supreme Court Rejected a Dangerous Elections Theory.  But It's Not All Good News.  —  Mr. Pildes is a legal scholar who analyzes the intersection of politics and law and how they affect our democracy.  —  On Tuesday, the Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Harper rejected the most extreme version …
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Richard L. Hasen / Slate:
There's a Time Bomb in Progressives' Big Supreme Court Voting Case Win
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll for defamation  —  Donald Trump has sued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after a jury found he sexually abused the former magazine columnist and defamed her.  —  In a counter claim filed Tuesday night, Trump alleges that Carroll defamed him when she appeared …
Discussion: NBC News and Political Wire
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Aaron Katersky / ABC News:
Donald Trump sues E. Jean Carroll with his own claims of defamation
New York Times:
Competing Accounts of Justice Dept.'s Handling of Hunter Biden Case  —  An I.R.S. investigator's testimony describing strains over the inquiry into President Biden's son is at odds with the version laid out by Attorney General Merrick Garland.  —  At a Senate hearing in March …
Anna Bower / Lawfare:
The Arraignment That Wasn't  —  It is a Tuesday morning in Miami, and once again, I find myself arriving at the federal courthouse at an ungodly hour.  I should acknowledge an improvement; this time, I have at least arrived on the right day, rather than a full rotation of the Earth before the hearing is scheduled to begin.
Discussion: Washington Post and Insider
Nathaniel Rakich / FiveThirtyEight:
Introducing Our Brand-New Polling Averages  —  As you may have heard, there have been some changes at FiveThirtyEight recently.  While it will be strange around here without our founder Nate Silver, his models and his oddly strong opinions about states, there are also some things that aren't going away …
CNN:
Ron DeSantis voted for the First Step Act and hailed its ‘successes.’ He now calls it ‘the jailbreak bill’  —  On the campaign trail, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has attacked Donald Trump's signature prison reform bill, calling it a “jailbreak bill” and claiming it “allowed dangerous people …
NBC News:
Have you heard the one about the old president?  Well, Biden has a joke for you  —  In the past two weeks, Biden has increasingly made his age the punchline, an NBC News analysis of his remarks found.  —  'I know I'm 198 years old': Biden cracks jokes about his age in speeches  —  WASHINGTON — He's been 198.
Discussion: Insider and Just The News
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
N.J. AG investigating ‘shakedown’ claims tied to power broker George Norcross' Camden waterfront developments, sources say  —  South Jersey Democratic power broker George E. Norcross III has found himself under scrutiny from state and federal authorities repeatedly over the last two decades.They've tapped …
Tyler Kingkade / NBC News:
'We're Coming For Your Children' chant at NYC Drag March elicits outrage, but activists say it's taken out of context  —  Organizers say the NYC Drag March is meant to be lighthearted and to poke fun at anti-LGBTQ sentiment.  —  Over the weekend, a short video circulated widely on social media …
Rolling Stone:
RFK Jr. Claims ‘Vaccine Research’ Likely Responsible for HIV and the Spanish Flu  —  The 2024 presidential hopeful hosted a panel with some of the loudest vaccine skeptics in the nation … During the unfiltered conversation, he falsely suggested that millions of deaths in the Great Influenza …
Discussion: nltimes.nl and Raw Story
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Miami Mayor Suarez: “What's a Uyghur?”  “A weeble?”  —  I guarantee you that the next time Miami Mayor Francis Suarez does an interview, he will know all about the plight of the Uyghurs.  He experienced on of those moments during an interview with Salem Radio Network's Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday that every presidential candidate dreads.
NBC News:
After 27 tries, Chinese millionaire considers giving up on college entrance exam  —  “Universities are sacred in my heart,” said Liang Shi, 56, who has been trying for 40 years to get a satisfactory score on the grueling test, known as the gaokao.  —  HONG KONG — The 27th time was not the charm …
Jonathan Landay / Reuters:
Most Americans support US arming Ukraine -Reuters/Ipsos  —  Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey.
Rebecca Beitsch / The Hill:
Judge signals he'll let Trump hush money case stay in state court  —  A federal judge did not appear inclined to move a New York state case against Donald Trump to federal court, suggesting on Tuesday that the prosecution stemming from hush money payments had little to do with his conduct while president.
Washington Post:
Bidenomics is in the eye of the beholder  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Two more days of free access to The Post.  Consume as much as you can (and think about becoming a subscriber if you're not already).  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  Reading this online?
 
 
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
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Lisa Rathke / ABC News:
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Michael Goldberg / Associated Press:
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Mychael Schnell / The Hill:
White House picks fight with Greene over funding
Reuters:
US puts sanctions on gold firms it suspects fund Russia's Wagner mercenaries
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Trump valet arraignment delayed after losing Florida lawyer over fees dispute
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