memeorandum: Security Alert:  U.S. Embassy Jerusalem (April 11, 2024) (U.S. Embassy in Israel)

7:40 AM ET, April 12, 2024

Top Items:

Kaitlan Collins / CNN:

Trump attorney who became a crucial witness against him has departed legal team — Evan Corcoran, an attorney for Donald Trump who became a critical witness in the classified documents case against the former president, no longer represents him, CNN has learned.

Discussion: Politico and Raw Story

James Romoser / Politico:

How Donald Trump Gets Special Treatment in the Legal System — The former president rails against a “two-tiered system of justice.” But he's the one benefiting from it. — A firebrand politician named Donald is about to stand trial. Just a few days before jury selection, he goes on TV to slam the charges as baseless and biased.

Discussion: Robert Reich, Digby's Hullabaloo, PolitiFact, New York Times, The Guardian and Washington Post

New York Times:
Georgia's Lieutenant Governor to Face Inquiry for Role as Fake Trump Elector

Discussion: Associated Press, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, UPI, Washington Examiner, New Republic, Axios, WAGA-TV, The Hill and Raw Story

Tobi Raji / Washington Post:

Leo rejects Senate subpoena from panel probing gifts to Supreme Court justices — The conservative judicial activist called the move ‘politically motivated,’ and the committee chair said Leo had left them ‘no other choice’ but to move forward with the compulsory process

Discussion: Reuters, CNN, Breitbart, The Hill and BizPac Review

Kaelan Deese / Washington Examiner:
Leonard Leo says he's ‘not capitulating’ after Durbin subpoena

Discussion: Rolling Stone and Fox News

Philip Bump / Washington Post:

A Trump raising money off election lies? Now we've seen everything. — A phone call on behalf of the overhauled Republican National Committee again turns false claims about 2020 into a sales pitch — Donald Trump managed to vacuum up hundreds of millions of dollars of donations as a lame-duck president.

Discussion: NBC News, PolitiFact, Raw Story and Strangely Blogged

Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
Lara Trump's RNC robocall falsely claims ‘massive fraud’ in 2020 election

Discussion: Civil Discourse …, The Hill, Raw Story, Rolling Stone, Crooks and Liars and CNN

USA Today:
Mike Johnson and Donald Trump will propose bill to prevent non-citizens from voting

Discussion: Washington Times, Letters from an American, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Raw Story, The Hill, The Guardian, New Republic, WGN-TV, Washington Examiner, One America News Network, CNN and PoliticusUSA

NBC News:

Republicans say a late convention could keep Biden off some ballots. It hasn't mattered before. — Technical conflicts between ballot deadlines and convention dates have been handled quietly in the past. Some GOP officials are taking a different tack this year.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, al.com, ABC News and Alabama Reflector

Patrick Svitek / Washington Post:
States warn Biden could miss ballot. Dems say exceptions have been made for GOP.

Discussion: al.com

President U-licious S Grant / The Big Picture:

Trump's Brain Is Not Okay — An expert's view of Trump's mental slide into dementia. — The Big Picture and Jay Kuo … When Duty to Warn began in 2017, our mission as mental health professionals was to warn the world that Trump was dangerously unfit and a malignant narcissist.

Jesse Paul / The Colorado Sun:

Republican state representative left a loaded handgun in Colorado Capitol bathroom — A Republican state representative left a loaded, semiautomatic handgun in a bathroom at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday night, an incident that comes as Democrats are trying to ban firearm possession in the building — and the GOP is fighting them.

Discussion: Denver Post, NBC News, Raw Story, The Hill, Colorado Newsline, New York Daily News, CO House Democrats and FOX31 Denver

U.S. Embassy in Israel:

Security Alert:  U.S. Embassy Jerusalem (April 11, 2024) — Location:  Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza — The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem reminds U.S. citizens of the continued need for caution and increased personal security awareness as security incidents often …

Discussion: CBS News, The Daily Beast, The Daily Caller, UPI and Reuters

Washington Post:

What Donald Trump wants in his next vice president — and who he's considering — Donald Trump's perfect vice president looks the part: attractive and telegenic. They are ideally Black or a woman, though that's not required. And they are most certainly not taller than Trump himself.

Discussion: New Republic

New York Times:

Harvard and Caltech Will Require Test Scores for Admission — The universities are the latest highly selective schools to end their policies that made submitting SAT or ACT scores optional. — Harvard will reinstate standardized testing as a requirement of admission, the university announced Thursday …

Discussion: The Harvard Crimson, Harvard Magazine, Washington Post, Harvard University Gazette, HotAir, Forbes, RedState, Fox News, Axios, UPI, ABC22 & FOX44, The Post Millennial, Fortune, Daily Caller News Foundation and Reason

New Republic:

An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue … Something remarkable happened among rural whites between the 2016 and 2020 elections: According to the Pew Research Center's validated voter study, as the rest of the country moved away from Donald Trump …

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money and Cardinal News

Shawna Mizelle / CBS News:

Colorado group says it has enough signatures for abortion rights ballot measure this fall — A Colorado campaign that's trying to enshrine abortion rights into the state's constitution has gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot this November, CBS News has learned.

Beth Mole / Ars Technica:

Measles could once again become endemic in the US, the CDC warns — This year's measles cases are over 17x higher than cases seen in the first quarters of 2000 to 2023. — In 2000, after a decadeslong public health battle and a Herculean vaccination program, the US won a coveted status: measles elimination.

Discussion: Centers for Disease Control …, UPI, The Daily Caller, The Hill, Fox News and American Greatness

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

Trump's Big Lie About Biden Implodes After MAGA Ally Admits Truth — Steve Bannon no doubt thought he was being deviously clever. Speaking with The New York Times this week, he elaborated on a sophisticated plan that Donald Trump's allies have developed for boosting third-party candidates, so they siphon votes from President Biden.

Discussion: Raw Story

Lauren Irwin / The Hill:

Third South Dakota tribal nation bans Noem from reservation — The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has become the third tribal nation to ban South Dakota Kristi Noem (R) from its reservation land. — On Wednesday, the Standing Rock Tribal Council voted to ban Noem from its land for “racially charged” …

Discussion: CNN, Vanity Fair, Standing Rock, HuffPost, New Republic, Washington Examiner and The Daily Beast

Filip Timotija / The Hill:

Former Obama adviser: Kushner engaged in 'level of corruption that we've just never seen' with foreign relations — Former Obama deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner engaged in a “level of corruption that we've just never seen” …

Discussion: Mediaite

Sherman Smith / Kansas Reflector:

Facebook's AI failure wiped out Kansas Reflector links. Even Facebook may not know what went wrong. — When Kansas Reflector tried to share Dave Kendall's opinion column about a climate change movie, Facebook responded with a cascade of failures. Facebook apologized for blocking Kansas Reflector …

Stephen Groves / Associated Press:

House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with White House to advance Ukraine aid — House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House, a top House Republican said Thursday.

NBC News:

Man on terror watchlist was released by Border Patrol — With border security funding blocked in Congress, the case illustrates the challenges U.S. officials face in identifying migrants who may pose national security threats. — SAN ANTONIO — An Afghan migrant on the terrorist watchlist spent nearly …

Discussion: New York Post, RedState, NBC 7 San Diego, Twitchy and Breitbart

Edith Olmsted / The Daily Beast:

Maine Reps Ruled Out of Order for Blaming Mass Shooting on Abortion Bill — ‘EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE’ — The House Democratic office called the comments “as asinine as they are reprehensible.” — A pair of Republican lawmakers in Maine were ruled out of order on Thursday after one of them tried …

Discussion: Bangor Daily News, NBC News, Raw Story, HuffPost, WTOP News, The Hill, Forbes and Maine Morning Star

Lindsay Ryan / New York Times:

Many Patients Don't Survive End-Stage Poverty — He has an easy smile, blue eyes and a life-threatening bone infection in one arm. Grateful for treatment, he jokes with the medical intern each morning. A friend, a fellow doctor, is supervising the man's care.

Chris Perez / Denver Westword:

Lauren Boebert's Son Says He Can't Find a Lawyer He Can Afford — “We are working to hire an attorney, but it's just been kind of hard with the prices.” … Donning an all-black suit and appearing by himself, Tyler Boebert showed up in Garfield County court today, April 11 …

Discussion: Raw Story and Business Insider

High Point University:

HPU Poll: N.C. Registered Voters Say Inflation and National Security Are Top Issues for D.C. — The latest High Point University Poll finds that a large majority of self-identified registered voters in North Carolina (76%) believe inflation is a very important issue for policymakers in Washington …

Discussion: Breitbart, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine and USA Today

Joseph Ditzler / Stars & Stripes:

3 stranded men were down to coconuts and a dead battery before Pacific rescue — Three men rescued this week from a remote atoll in the Pacific were subsisting on coconuts and well water when a U.S. Navy plane spotted their plea for help Sunday, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said.