memeorandum: Ex-Trump Staffer Alleges Campaign Settled Seedy Suits in Bombshell Filing (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)

11:40 AM ET, July 5, 2024

Top Items:

Varying Treatment of Biden and Trump Puts Their Parties in Stark Relief — Republicans and Democrats live in radically different universes, interpreting the same set of facts through radically different lenses. — One of America's political parties has a presidential candidate who is really old and showing it.

Discussion: Washington Post and RedState

Axios:

Behind the Curtain: Trump's Kamala Harris plan … President Biden insisted again Thursday in an unscripted remark, after a supporter at a Fourth of July event on the White House South Lawn yelled that they needed him, and to keep up the fight: “You got me, man! I'm not going anywhere.”

Discussion: CNN, Talking Points Memo, Digby's Hullabaloo, Blaze Media and The Gateway Pundit

Brian Schwartz / CNBC:

Disney heiress, wealthy Democratic donors say they won't finance the party until Joe Biden drops out … President Joe Biden is facing an uprising from some his own party's wealthy donors, including an heiress to the Disney family fortune, who say they will no longer fund …

Discussion: HotAir, The Guardian, Quartz, RedState, Fox Business, Breitbart, The Hill, Variety, IJR, The i Paper, Semafor, Twitchy, American Greatness, Sputnik News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, HuffPost, KSNG-TV, New York Post, Business Insider, Axios and The Hollywood Reporter

Politico:

Playbook: The biggest interview of Joe Biden's life — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — DRIVING THE DAY — DEMOCRACY IN THE U.K. — The Labour Party is back in power after 14 years in the political wilderness following a landslide election victory …

Discussion: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:

Major Democratic Donors Devise Plans to Pressure Biden to Step Aside — The president appears intent on remaining on the ballot, while wealthy donors are discussing plans to put their money elsewhere. — After several days of quiet griping and hoping that President Biden would abandon …

Discussion: New Republic, Punchbowl News, Sputnik News, Washington Examiner, Blaze Media, New York Magazine and Breitbart

John McCormick / Wall Street Journal: Battleground Map Shows Signs of Expansion for Trump as Biden Struggles

New York Times:
Biden Tells Governors He Needs to Sleep More and Work Less at Night

Ashanti Martin / WURD Radio:
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Discussion: Business Insider, Vanity Fair, RedState, Blaze Media, Alternet.org, New York Post, The Times of Israel, Bloomberg, New York Times, Metro.co.uk, Politico, Forbes, The Daily Beast and Mediaite

WBUR:
Moulton: Biden should exit election ‘and let new leaders rise up’

Discussion: Boston Herald, ABC News, Washington Times and Blaze Media

The Daily Beast:
Trump Turns Kamala F-Word Rant into Ad: ‘No Tax on Tips’

Discussion: Raw Story, Breitbart and Blaze Media

Edward-Isaac Dovere / CNN:
Biden tells Democratic governors he needs more sleep and plans to stop scheduling events after 8 p.m.

Discussion: Telegraph, New Republic, The Times of Israel, UPI, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, Cointelegraph, The Daily Caller, Patterico's Pontifications, Washington Times, Business Insider and Forbes

Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
How Biden's Struggles Are Factoring Into Trump's V.P. Selection

Discussion: Florida Politics and Forbes

Gil Duran / FrameLab:
Criminal Trump is clearly unfit for office

Discussion: Chicago Sun Times, Sun-Sentinel, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and Washington Examiner

Alex Thompson / Axios:

Biden staff “miserable,” alarmed as pressure builds … “Even if you're trying to focus on work, nothing is going to break through or get any acknowledgment” from bosses. — A high-ranking Democratic National Committee official told Axios: “The only thing that can really allay concerns …

Discussion: Fox News, Breitbart, The Guardian, Raw Story, Twitchy, Alternet.org and Washington Post

Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:

The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden — The president's mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters. — President Joe Biden walked before a row of flags and took his place at a lectern stamped with the presidential seal.

Discussion: Townhall, HotAir, Reuters, Rolling Stone, Fox News, RedState, National Review, Business Insider, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Read Max, The Free Press, Althouse, Twitchy and Alternet.org

NBC News:
Some Democrats say Biden's debate performance wasn't an anomaly

Discussion: The Bulwark, Washington Examiner, PBS NewsHour, Wall Street Journal and Politico

Amanda Marcotte / Salon:

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead — Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through the post-debate noise and it's starting to scare people — When Project 2025 was released, a number of progressives expressed surprise …

Discussion: Raw Story, Snopes and Los Angeles Times

Aaron Rupar / Public Notice:

Charlie Sykes on the GOP's Trump cult — “In the minds of MAGA world, he has never lost. There have been no defeats.” — ∙ Paid … President Biden is obviously in a quite precarious position right now, but that doesn't change the fact that a majority of voters are anti-Trump.

Washington Post:

Tempers flare as Trump team revises abortion plank for Republican platform — The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade's demise. — Top advisers to Donald Trump have begun to discuss draft language …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Raw Story and Alternet.org

Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:

Ex-Trump Staffer Alleges Campaign Settled Seedy Suits in Bombshell Filing — ‘TELL ME THE TRUTH’ — The texts, allegedly between A.J. Delgado and Jenna Ellis, claimed Donald Trump's campaign paid off a number of lawsuits for what could be a high-profile adviser.

Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story

emptywheel:

Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise — Brazilian authorities will charge Jair Bolsonaro with money laundering for keeping $3.2 million in diamonds given to him and his spouse by the Saudi government.

Discussion: New York Times and Reuters

Associated Press:
Brazilian police indict ex-President Bolsonaro in undeclared diamonds case, sources say

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, Semafor, Washington Examiner, Fox News and Press Herald

Greg Sargent / New Republic:

MAGA Gov Candidate's Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!” … Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he delivered on June 30 in a small-town church. — “Some folks need killing!”

Patrick Reevell / ABC News:

Keir Starmer becomes UK PM as conservatives suffer record defeat in huge Labour landslide — It is being described as an “electoral apocalypse.” — Britain's King Charles III welcomes Britain's incoming Prime Minister Keir Starmer during an audience at Buckingham Palace in London, July 5, 2024.

Discussion: Mediaite, Jacobin, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, IJR, abc7NY and Washington Post

William Baude / New York Times:

When the Supreme Court Gets Mixed Up With Trump Derangement Syndrome — At the end of another momentous term, the Supreme Court has issued major rulings that will reshape the law. Like much that the court does today, these decisions, in areas like administrative law, have been widely criticized as corrupt or illegitimate.

Discussion: Balkinization and Reason