The New Evidence Against Donald Trump In The MAL Case Is BRUTAL  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  Surprise!  —  With reporters clustered at the DC federal courthouse awaiting a possible Trump indictment …

‘Absurd’: DeSantis car crash reveals he's using state vehicles for presidential campaign  —  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was involved in a car crash in Tennessee this week as he traveled for his campaign.  He was unhurt in the incident.  —  However, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel …

More on McConnell and signs of a terrible September  —  With assists from POLITICO's Hill team  —  FROM MCCONNELL'S DESK: Burgess has a definitive look at how the Senate GOP is reacting to the minority leader's health scare — by cautiously planning an eventual leadership transition.

Abigail Spanberger tells Democrats she will run for governor  —  The centrist Democrat would leave a highly contested House seat should she follow through on those plans.  —  Rep. Abigail Spanberger , a centrist Democrat from Virginia who sits in a must-win seat for her party in 2024 …

A Four-Way Race?  The 2024 Presidential Contest is Anything But Settled.  —  Biden vs. Trump is the story today, but it's unlikely that voters will be satisfied choosing between a nearly 82-year-old incumbent and a 78-year-old challenger who may be a convicted felon.

“These people are admitting they lied to you”: Trump's own men undermine his “delusional” defense  —  Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows revelations show the Big Liars can't hide behind “delusional” defense  —  “For those that still believe there was widespread voter fraud, these people are admitting they lied to you.”

'It's Called Summer': GOP Brushes Off Record Heat Wave  —  Republicans say people concerned about unprecedented heat around the world should just chill out.  —  Unless you've been living underground or have a vested interest in turning a blind eye to reality, you know that climate change …

Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts  —  Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus  —  WASHINGTON—Facebook removed content related to Covid-19 in response to pressure …

Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court's Plain-Spoken Defender  —  He has emerged as an important justice with a distinctive interpretive method that is pragmatic yet rooted in originalism and textualism.  —  New York  —  The Supreme Court usually makes news by making decisions, and it's done plenty of that lately.

The Mystery of How Tim Scott's Campaign Is Spending Its Millions  —  Most of the money spent by the senator's presidential campaign has gone to newly formed companies whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls.  —  Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has more political money …

Sen. Tammy Duckworth's Barbie moment cut short  —  A broken elevator kept the Barbie-loving senator who uses a wheelchair from seeing the show.  —  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a former Army Black Hawk helicopter pilot who lost her legs in combat, issued a statement this week …

Hunter Biden contradicts dad's claim nobody in family ‘made money from China’  —  ‘My partner was associated with a Chinese energy company called CEFC,’ Hunter tells federal judge  —  Hunter Biden admitted to a federal judge Wednesday that he received over $600,000 from a Chinese Communist Party …