Kyle GriffinBreaking NYT:
Donald Trump's lawyers have told the Justice Department that they're unable to find that sensitive document on Iran Trump was recorded discussing two years ago.
The material might be at large.
Ryan GoodmanDifficult to exaggerate amount of work we put into this.
United States v. Donald J. Trump - Model Prosecution Memo
Thanks to astounding colleagues @AWeissmann_ @JoyceWhiteVance @NormEisen @FredWertheimer @SivenWatt @Edanyaperry @StantonLaw Joshua Kolb
Dan MunroStunning stats:
Before "2007, people in the US never purchased more than 7M guns in a single year. By the time Barack Obama left office, the US was purchasing almost 17M guns a year."
In 2020 US consumers "bought almost 23M guns in a single year."
Amanda LitmanThis is what subverting democracy looks like: death by a thousand paper cuts. boltsmag.org/texas-republic…
Benjy SarlinI find this such an interesting conflict because it gets to key DeSantis/Trump distinction. He’s running on MAGA where “again” is Feb 2020 — jobs, low inflation, conservative judges, mission accomplished. DeSantis sees mission as a brutal generational war semafor.com/article/06/02/…
David WeigelFour GOP governors deployed the National Guard to the border this week, while the surge in illegal crossings that Abbott et al warned about didn't happen. Crossings are down. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…
Kaitlan CollinsNEWS -- Trump's attorneys turned over material in mid-March in response to a federal subpoena related to the document he described on tape but were unable to find the document itself. W/ @PaulaReidCNN and @kpolantz
Mike BalsamoNEW: @AP has obtained 4K pages on Jeffrey Epstein’s time in federal custody. They include a detailed psychological reconstruction leading to his suicide & provide the most complete account yet of his detention, death & its chaotic aftermath (w/ @mikesisak) apnews.com/article/jeffre…
Matthew ZeitlinNotice how BP doesn't call itself Beyond Petroleum anymore and Exxon doesn't talk about algae-based fuels? Oil companies have largely abandoned greenwashing bs and are now trying to make money from decarbonization — all while still drilling heatmap.news/economy/oil-co…
DemetriCIA #ChinaScoop - CIA Director Bill Burns made a clandestine trip to China in May to meet Chinese intelligence officials. Visit was before Biden said he expected a “thaw” in US-China relations. #sld23
Seung Min KimThe WH’s secret weapon in debt limit talks? Shalanda Young, deeply experienced in budget fights.
She and McHenry checked in daily during daycare drop-off. She and Graves ribbed each other about gumbo recipes and talked deal during LSU 🏀 celebration apnews.com/article/presid…
Alex ThompsonNEW: DeSantis’ team doesn’t want NBC or CNN to co-host a debate
Trump is wary of Fox and Murdoch’s perceived turn to DeSantis
CNN, NBC salivating to host a GOP debate this fall but deadlock is creating uncertainty over them even happening w/ @sarafischer
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Amy WalterAlso, for 1st time, R’s will require voters to register pre-caucus. Can’t register at caucus location. IOW, non-affiliated voters need to plan ahead if they want to vote for GOP candidate. desmoinesregister.com/story/news/ele…
Cameron JosephRepublicans have a near-stranglehold on Ohio. Now they're trying to limit the best tool voters have left to challenge them, attacking direct democracy itself to go after abortion rights.
Eric LevitzBiden is presiding over one of the largest reductions in wage inequality, and increases in real wages for low-income workers, in modern U.S. history. (And the public writ large doesn't seem particularly enthused) politico.com/news/2023/05/2…
bryan metzger
Jonathan MartinWhat If, via @steveschale
What if Jeff Greene hadn’t dumped $40 million in negative ads on Phil Levine and Gwen Graham (mostly Gwen) in August of 2018? plus.thebulwark.com/p/anatomy-of-a…
