memeorandum: DeSantis Accuses Libs of TikTok of Spreading Lies For ‘Clicks’ (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

7:00 PM ET, March 13, 2024

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Putin Recalls Trump Acting Like Jealous GF in Private — According to him, Trump made no attempt to hide his own insecurities about Joe Biden. — Russia's Vladimir Putin has revealed an apparently previously unreported conversation with Donald Trump in which he claims the then-American president …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Daily Caller, ABC News, Reuters and Washington Examiner

Max Burns / The Hill:

Trump's GOP is already dying — For Donald Trump, last week must have seemed like a final, crowning victory over his lingering Republican critics. On Friday the Republican National Committee made official what Trump had already decreed weeks ago, electing Trump's daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, as party co-chair.

Discussion: Mediaite, The Dispatch, CLAYTOONZ, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Axios, DNyuz, Democrats, HuffPost, Forbes, LGBTQ Nation, MeidasTouch and Raw Story

Lee Moran / HuffPost:

Donald Trump Flips Out At Democrats' Mocking Montages With Massive Self-Own … Video

Discussion: Daily Mail, Gizmodo, Decider, Salon, Mediaite, New Republic, Crooks and Liars, IJR, MeidasTouch and Political Wire

Caroline Vakil / The Hill:

Cheney fuels speculation about her next move — Speculation is growing about the role former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) will play in the 2024 election as President Biden and former President Trump barrel toward a rematch. — Cheney has vowed that she'll do whatever it takes to keep Trump from returning to the White House.

Discussion: NaturalNews.com, USA Today, RedState, WFLA-TV, BizPac Review, Washington Examiner, Wall Street Journal, The Federalist and New Jersey Online

Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast:

Haley Shaved 77K Votes Off Trump's Georgia Win Despite Dropping Out — The haul is substantially more than the number of votes by which Trump lost the state in 2020. — Donald Trump's overwhelming victory in the Georgia Republican primary Tuesday locked up the 2024 GOP nomination for him …

Discussion: MeidasTouch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Semafor, Newsweek, The American Conservative, The Hill, Fox News, Georgia Recorder, The Gateway Pundit, The Guardian, Political Wire and RedState

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

Trump demonstrates why ‘Artificial Intelligence’ will be so useful to him — It is perfectly fitting that Donald Trump used his social media platform Truth Social to allege that he'd been the target of artificial-intelligence nefariousness. — “The Hur Report was revealed today!

Discussion: Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and IJR

Yuliya Talmazan / NBC News:
Russia is ready for nuclear war, Putin warns the West

Discussion: Politico, Al Jazeera, Semafor, The Western Journal, New York Times, CNN, Mercury News, Reuters, Breitbart, IJR, Sputnik News, The Gateway Pundit, DNyuz, The Times of Israel, Fox News, The Guardian and Metro.co.uk

ABC News:
Criminal referrals emerge as possible ‘exit strategy’ of struggling Biden impeachment inquiry, sources say

Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story, Fox News, Punchbowl News, The Maine Wire and Washington Examiner

Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Trailing Trump in Polls, Biden Can Be More Bullish in One Battleground

Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post, BizPac Review and Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Associated Press:

Judge dismisses some charges against Trump in the Georgia 2020 election interference case — The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 election interference case has dismissed some of the charges against ex-President Donald Trump, but others remain — The judge overseeing the Georgia 2020 …

Sarah Fielding / Engadget:

Tesla paid no federal income taxes while paying executives $2.5 billion over five years — Spoiler: The company actually received $1 million in refunds. — In case you need another reason to shout “tax the rich” from the rooftops, it's here, and it's going to make you angry.

Discussion: The Guardian and Institute for Policy Studies

Averyr / Institute for Policy Studies:
More for Them, Less for Us — Corporations That Pay Their Executives More Than Uncle Sam

Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story, HuffPost, DNyuz and Washington Times

US Department of Justice:

Montana Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Wildlife Trafficking Charges as Part of Yearslong Effort to Create Giant Hybrid Sheep for Captive Hunting — For Immediate Release — Defendant Worked to Traffic Marco Polo Sheep Parts from Kyrgyzstan, Clone Sheep, Illegally Inseminate Ewes to Create Hybrids …

Discussion: CBS News, RedState, The Daily Beast, Interesting Engineering, The Daily Caller and Gizmodo

Lauren Sforza / The Hill: Man pleads guilty to scheme to create giant sheep hybrids for captive hunting

Nathaniel Meyersohn / CNN:

Family Dollar and Dollar Tree will close 1,000 stores — New York CNN — Family Dollar, the struggling discount chain that caters to low-income customers predominantly in cities, said Wednesday it will close nearly 1,000 stores. — Years of mismanagement and poor conditions in stores have hurt Family Dollar's brand.

Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:

Hunter Biden declines House committee invitation to testify publicly — Hunter Biden has declined an invitation to testify next week in a public hearing before the House Oversight Committee, according to a letter from Hunter Biden's attorney, Abbe Lowell, sent to Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the panel's chairman.

Discussion: Breitbart

Farnoush Amiri / Associated Press:
Hunter Biden rebuffs Republicans' invitation to appear for a public hearing

Dasha Burns / NBC News:

Abortion is a top concern for Trump as he considers his VP pick — Former President Donald Trump has been laser-focused on the abortion views of his potential running mates, viewing the issue as a potential vulnerability for Republicans. — PALM BEACH, Fla. — Last month at Mar-a-Lago …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Daily Caller News Foundation, Fox News and Iowa Starting Line

Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:

DeSantis Accuses Libs of TikTok of Spreading Lies For ‘Clicks’ — Libs of TikTok claimed Florida provides drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants, despite the state having some of the country's harshest anti-immigrant laws. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis skewered the right-wing social media account Libs …

Discussion: MeidasTouch, DNyuz, Mediaite, New Republic and Florida Politics

Beege Welborn / HotAir:

Everything's Fine: West Point Drops ‘Duty, Honor, and Country’ From Its Mission Statement — I have been pretty hard on clueless Army Secretary Christine Wormuth during the year and a half I've been scribbling here. When you see her as the ballerina atop the melting, gooey …

Discussion: Newsmax, American Military News, RedState, The Western Journal and Breitbart

HotAir:

Fani's Case Flops, Ben Shapiro Under Fire — On this full episode of LARRY, we discuss the BREAKING NEWS for Donald Trump out of Fulton County, the internet's RAGE at Ben Shapiro, Democrat INSANITY about voter ID, the RARE sanity coming out of the UK, and MUCH, much more!

Dan Mangan / CNBC:

Chubb CEO defends backing Trump appeal bond in E. Jean Carroll case — The CEO of the Chubb insurance company defended a subsidiary providing former President Donald Trump with a $91.6 million appeals bond in the case where he was found liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape.

Discussion: PolitiFact, The Hill, Forbes, ABC News, Raw Story, NBC News and The Moderate Voice

Shannon Vavra / The Daily Beast:

Russians Warned to Flee Border Cities While They Still Can — Anti-Putin militants urged citizens to evacuate on Wednesday after launching a military offensive aimed at ending the war in Ukraine. — Anti-Kremlin Russian fighters have begun urging their fellow citizens to abandon their homes …

Discussion: The Moscow Times and Metro.co.uk

Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:

Lauren Boebert won't pursue special election nomination to replace Ken Buck after his abrupt resignation — U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert said Wednesday that she will not pursue the Republican special election nomination to replace U.S. Rep. Ken Buck in Colorado's 4th Congressional District after he departs Congress at the end of next week.

NBC News:

Speaker Mike Johnson is still dealing with Kevin McCarthy's baggage — Johnson is grappling with issues inherited from his predecessor: an unfunded government, a Rules panel stacked with conservatives and an impeachment inquiry that's losing steam. — WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, West Virginia …

Discussion: Axios

Kati Perry / Washington Post:

Republicans' House majority is their smallest in decades, and shrinking — Republicans are entering a months-long stretch of legislating with their smallest House majority in decades. And the margin is about to tighten even more. — Jan. 200120032005200720092011201320152017201 9202120230170190230250Number …

Discussion: New Republic, NBC News, Reuters, The Daily Caller, KXAN-TV, Raw Story, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA, WSYR and IJR

Bloomberg:

TikTok Will Use Every Legal Tool to Fight a Forced Sale … A sale of the viral video app is considered to be the last resort for ByteDance, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private matters. A divestiture would also require approval by the Chinese government …

Discussion: CBS News, New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, DNyuz, Foreign Policy, USA Today, Fortune, The Daily Caller, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Washington Examiner, Punchbowl News and New York Post

Katherine Gypson / Voice of America:
US House Passes Bill Forcing Chinese Company to Give Up TikTok

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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:

Don't Be Lulled Into Thinking Trump II Will Just Be A Repeat Of Trump I — INSIDE: Robert Hur ... Ron Klain ... Kristi Noem … We Have More Than An Inkling Of What's To Come — After many months of very explicit promises from Donald Trump about what a second term as president would look like …

Lauren White / CREW:

DHS officials' texts show unfiltered reaction to January 6 — Internal text messages from the Federal Protective Service obtained by CREW give a never before seen look at how senior government law enforcement officials prepared for and responded to the insurrection on January 6th.

Discussion: Raw Story

Kate Santaliz / NBC News:

Sen. Katie Britt has told her misleading anecdote about sex trafficking multiple times — An NBC News analysis shows Britt has brought up the same victim, who was trafficked under the Bush administration, at least five times this year to criticize Biden's border policies.

Discussion: Axios, HuffPost and Political Wire

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:

Brett Kavanaugh knows truth of alleged sexual assault, Christine Blasey Ford says in book — In memoir, professor whose accusation rocked 2018 supreme court hearings says rightwing justice not ‘consummately honest person’ — The US supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh is not a …

Discussion: Forbes and Raw Story

Filip Timotija / The Hill:

Democrats plead with Johnson to put Ukraine bill on floor: ‘Lead, follow or get out of the way’ — A bicameral group of Democrats pleaded to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put the Senate's foreign aid bill, which includes Ukraine aid, to a floor vote, emphasizing that the war-torn …

Discussion: Raw Story, The Guardian, Democrats, MeidasTouch, New York Post, Fox News, Axios, Talking Points Memo, Business Insider, Washington Times, Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal

Ward Clark / RedState:

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Sends State Assets South to Block Illegal Immigrants From Haiti — In a press release issued on Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated that the state of Florida will be sending assets to southern Florida and the Florida Keys to stop any possible influx …