memeorandum: ‘The boss is not going to leave’: Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn 2020 election (ABC News)

12:15 AM ET, November 14, 2023

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Dan Froomkin / Press Watch:

Did ‘vermin’ mark a turning point in Trump coverage? — Saturday night was a low point in the elite media's coverage of Donald Trump. — The New York Times put a light-hearted headline on a news article about Trump's Veterans Day address in New Hampshire, in which he vowed to “root out” …

Discussion: The Mahablog, New York Times, Washington Post, Media Matters for America, The Hill, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, HuffPost, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos

Aaron Blake / Washington Post:

How Trump's rhetoric compares to Hitler's — Donald Trump has long toyed with the language of famous autocrats, authoritarians and fascists. Think: “enemy of the people,” “retribution” and the frequent, years-long allusions to political violence. — But even by his standards …

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Charlie Sykes / The Bulwark:

It's Not the Gaffes. It's the Plans. — Because it's Monday, let's start with the bottom story of the day: Tim Scott Suspends Campaign, as His Sunny Message Failed to Resonate - The New York Time s — Who knew that sunny optimism was not what GOP voters were looking for in the era of Trump?

Discussion: The Messenger

New York Times:

Trump Campaign Officials Try to Play Down Contentious 2025 Plans — But many aspects of those blueprints are based on Donald Trump's own words, his campaign website and an adviser whom the campaign asked to speak. — Two top officials on former President Donald J. Trump's 2024 campaign …

Discussion: The Hill, The Messenger and Political Wire

Azi Paybarah / Washington Post:
Trump calling opponents ‘vermin’ draws rebukes from White House, some in GOP

Discussion: Breitbart

Axios:
Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Truthout, Daily Kos, The Hill, Mock Paper Scissors, Media Matters for America, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, New Republic and So What

Eli Okun / Politico:
Playbook PM: The Johnson CR whip count begins

Discussion: USA Today, ABC News and Washington Post

Mike Allen / Axios:
Scoop: Trump hung up on Kim Kardashian, new Jonathan Karl book says

Discussion: Raw Story, Washington Examiner, HuffPost, Newsbusters, The Messenger, New York Post, USA Today, The Hill, Politico and UPROXX

John L. Dorman / Insider:
Trump hung up on Kim Kardashian in 2021 because he thought she voted for Biden, book says

Discussion: Raw Story, Deadline, HuffPost and The Messenger

Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Liz Cheney says RNC chair ‘collaborating’ with Trump's ‘Nazi propaganda’

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Miranda Nazzaro / The Hill:
Historian Meacham links Trump ‘vermin’ comments to ‘most ghastly kinds of crimes’

Discussion: Salon, Mother Jones, Digby's Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Axios and The Messenger

ABC News:

‘The boss is not going to leave’: Proffer videos show ex-Trump lawyers telling Georgia prosecutors about efforts to overturn 2020 election — ABC News obtained video from interviews held with Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell. — Jenna Ellis reads a statement after Ellis pleading guilty …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, HuffPost, New York Times, PoliticusUSA, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, The Daily Beast, CNN, The Messenger, UPROXX and The Hill

Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:

Mike Johnson's Shady Finances Are Already Coming Back to Bite Him — Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is facing a new ethics complaint over a litany of alleged violations with his financial disclosures. … When newly minted Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson was asked on Fox News …

Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Who Paid for Mike Johnson to Attend This Conservative Conference?

Discussion: New Republic

Meg Kinnard / Associated Press:

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott abruptly ends 2024 presidential bid, shocking even his campaign staff — Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott abruptly announced late Sunday that he was dropping out of the 2024 race, a development that surprised his donors and stunned his campaign staff …

Natalie Allison / Politico:

'I've seen better run city council campaigns': Tim Scott's allies fume after exit — The South Carolina senator told just two campaign staff members of his plan to drop out. — When Tim Scott announced the end of his presidential bid from the studio of his house in Hanahan, S.C. …

Discussion: Political Wire

Mark Sherman / Associated Press:

The Supreme Court says it is adopting a code of ethics for the first time — The Supreme Court is adopting its first code of ethics, in the face of sustained criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. The policy was issued by the court Monday.

Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court adopts code of conduct amid ethics scrutiny

Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:

Republican Pat Fallon to give up Congress seat and run for his old Texas Senate post — Fallon served in the Texas Senate for two years before running for Congress. He won't see reelection in the U.S. House. — U.S. Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Sherman, is quitting Congress and running for his old seat in the Texas Senate.

Discussion: Roll Call and Political Wire

Sarah Rankin / Associated Press:
Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger is running for governor instead of seeking reelection to the House

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Burgess won't seek reelection, leaving third Dallas-area seat open

Discussion: Roll Call

Olafimihan Oshin / The Hill:

Trump's Truth Social has lost $73 million in less than 2 years, new filing says — Former President Trump's social media platform, Truth Social, has lost $73 million in net sales since the platform's official launch in February 2022, according to a new financial disclosure filing from Digital World Acquisition Corp. (DWAC).

Discussion: Axios, The Hollywood Reporter, US Securities …, Deadline, FOX8 WGHP, WJXB, Rolling Stone, Breitbart, Raw Story and Political Wire, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:

Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump's Older Sister, Dies at 86 — A retired federal judge in New Jersey, she supported her brother but, as secret audio recordings revealed in 2019, she could also be scathingly critical of him. — Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal judge who was an older sister …

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ABC News:
Maryanne Trump Barry, older sister of Donald Trump, has died at 86: Sources

Discussion: CBS News, Digby's Hullabaloo, Washington Post, Twitchy, USA Today, The Guardian, NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, KSNG-TV, Metro.co.uk and Washington Examiner

Nikki Schwab / Daily Mail:

EXCLUSIVE - First photos reveal the COCAINE found in the White House: Images of the baggy in cubby hole that sparked White House investigation - and the culprit has still not been found — DailyMail.com uncovered photos through a Freedom of Information Act request

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Ian Millhiser / Vox:

Democrats get surprisingly good news from America's Trumpiest court — The Fifth Circuit decided to obey the law, for a change. — Last Friday, a federal appeals court nudged Louisiana toward redrawing its congressional maps to include a second Black-majority district.

Associated Press:

First nonbinary Mexican magistrate found dead at home — Jesús Ociel Baena made history last year after becoming the first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial position in the country. — MEXICO CITY — The first openly nonbinary person to assume a judicial position in Mexico …

Discussion: Reuters

Nate Silver / Silver Bulletin:

If Biden can't run a normal campaign, he should step aside — Democrats are taking a huge risk either way. But they shouldn't try to get away with a Rose Garden campaign. — It's inherently kind of crazy that American presidential campaigns take more than a year to run, but they do.

Discussion: Newsbusters and Politico

Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:

Sen. Coons badgered about Gaza strikes and cease-fire on Amtrak ride — Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) was badgered on an Amtrak ride Monday about his position on calling for a cease-fire in Gaza by a passenger who claimed to be a journalist and who repeatedly ignored the senator's requests to leave him alone.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, New York Post, Mediaite and The Gateway Pundit

Melissa Koenig / New York Post:

California middle-schooler banned from sports over ‘black face’ — but group says he was just wearing eye paint — A California middle-schooler was suspended for allegedly wearing “blackface” to a local football game — but a national civil rights group claims the boy was just wearing eye paint.

Discussion: Raw Story, The Post Millennial, Washington Examiner and Fox News

Brett Samuels / The Hill:

Biden: Hospitals ‘must be protected’ in Gaza as Israeli forces close in — President Biden on Monday called for Israel to take “less intrusive” action in Gaza in its war against Hamas, warning in particular against strikes that hit hospitals. — “Well, as we know, I have not been reluctant expressing …