memeorandum: President Biden promoted top staffers involved in classified docs bungling within 24 hours of special counsel's damning report (Jon Levine/New York Post)

7:05 PM ET, March 16, 2024

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Lauren Irwin / The Hill:

Johnson: Second Trump term would be like first ‘on turbo’ — In a recent interview with New Yorker Magazine, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) argued that if former President Trump were reelected, his second term would be much like his first, except it'd be “on turbo.”

Discussion: Washington Times, Axios, Fox News and New Yorker

April Rubin / Axios:

Trump and Biden's key campaign stances in sequel election … Abortion and reproductive rights — Trump has repeatedly boasted about appointing the conservative Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, making abortion a state-level policy. — But since the Dobbs decision …

Discussion: CNN and HuffPost

New York Times:
How Trump Is Scrambling to Raise Cash

Discussion: Raw Story, UPROXX and Jacobin

Associated Press:

Police: Suspect is barricaded in New Jersey home after killing 3 people in Philadelphia suburb — A suspect has barricaded himself in a home in New Jersey after allegedly killing three people in a shooting in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday, authorities said.

NBC News:

Residents in suburban Philadelphia township told to shelter in place after ‘confirmed shootings’ — The suspected shooter, Andre Gordon, knew the three people killed, police said. — Three people were killed in multiple shootings Saturday morning outside of Philadelphia, police said, and a search for the suspect continues.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Metro.co.uk, New York Times, KFTC-TV, Breitbart, One America News Network, DNyuz, IJR, abc7NY, Daily Caller News Foundation, Mediaite and Raw Story

Kate Plummer / Newsweek:

GOP Base Has Shriveled Compared to Last Presidential Election — The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election. — The polling firm Gallup, which tracks party affiliation monthly, says that those identifying as Republicans …

Discussion: Raw Story, Bloomberg, DNyuz and Reuters

Reuters:

Exclusive: Musk's SpaceX is building spy satellite network for US intelligence agency, sources say — SpaceX is building a network of hundreds of spy satellites under a classified contract with a U.S. intelligence agency, five sources familiar with the program said, demonstrating deepening …

Discussion: Forbes, Interesting Engineering, New York Post, Washington Examiner, RedState, The Verge, Bloomberg, NEWS.am and Space, more at Techmeme »

Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:

‘Democracy is teetering’: at ground zero for Trump's big lie in Arizona — The state Republican party is undaunted by electoral defeats for those claiming voting is rigged - and election officials are bearing the brunt of their fury — On a glorious spring day in Phoenix …

Discussion: Associated Press and Digby's Hullabaloo

Rebecca Picciotto / CNBC:

Creditors demand Rudy Giuliani sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to pay debts — Creditors want to force Rudy Giuliani to sell his $3.5 million Florida condo to help pay off his nearly $152 million in debt. — Giuliani has argued that he does not have the funds to pay his debts …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, DNyuz, Raw Story, Forbes and Political Wire

Michael Luciano / Mediaite:

‘A Very Good Day for Donald Trump’: Toobin Says Fani Willis' Case ‘Is Going Nowhere’ — Jeffrey Toobin offered a bleak assessment for those hoping to see former President Donald Trump face trial in Georgia sooner rather than later. — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis charged Trump …

Discussion: Fox News, BizPac Review, The Hill, DNyuz, Breitbart, WGN Radio 720, WSB-TV and Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Michael Tomasky / New Republic:
We Have to Beat Donald Trump. Clearly, the Broken Legal System Won't.

William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Laura Ingraham Apologizes for Graphic of Wrong Black Lawyer

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Raw Story and DNyuz

Reuters:

Niger revokes military accord with US, junta spokesperson says — Niger's ruling military junta has revoked with immediate effect a military accord that allows military personnel and civilian staff from the U.S. Department of Defense on its soil, junta spokesperson Colonel Amadou Abdramane said on Saturday.

Discussion: Bloomberg

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Share of Democratic Registrations Is Declining, but What Does It Mean? — Virtually every group of voters under 70 has become less likely to register as Democrats compared with Republicans since 2019. — Newly registered voters, who are disproportionately young and nonwhite, have tended to lean Democratic.

Discussion: The Daily Caller and Power Line

Karen Dolan / The Hill:

Biden's populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics — A president's budget proposal is seldom passed into law. Instead, it's an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address.

Discussion: DNyuz

Jon Levine / New York Post:

President Biden promoted top staffers involved in classified docs bungling within 24 hours of special counsel's damning report — Top aides to President Biden involved in his mishandling of classified documents were given plum promotions within 24 hours of the release of special counsel …

Discussion: RedState and Twitchy

Associated Press:

New Welsh leader ‘honored’ to be Europe's first Black national leader — Vaughan Gething, son of a Welsh father and Zambian mother, said he is honored to be “the first black leader in any European country.” — Vaughan Gething won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest on Saturday …

Discussion: Forbes, BBC, DNyuz and Politico

Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:

For the country's sake, Vice President Harris should step aside — The Democratic Party's indulgence of identity politics has proved successful in building a diverse organization, but its strategy of courting (and pandering to) minority voters is the road to ruin.