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June Update
June 1
Top Stories
- Washington Post, Trump rebukes governors, urges them to use force against unruly protests
- Washington Post, Analysis: Trump’s inability to speak convincingly to anyone but his base is a unique liability in the moment
Washington Post, As Trump attacks voting by mail, GOP builds 2020 strategy around limiting its expansion- Washington Post, Opinion: We saw it with our own eyes: Trump wants to go to war against America, Jennifer Rubin
- Washington Post, Opinion: Trump warns that he will dispatch troops if local officials do not crack down, George F. Will
- New York Times, Live Updates on George Floyd Protests: Overnight Mayhem Follows Peaceful Rallies
- Washington Post, Live Updates: Minnesota governor extends curfew
- New York Times, Protests Could Set Off a Second Coronavirus Wave, Experts Warn
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, Virus Global updates: Infections Spike and Wane Unevenly Across the U.S.
- New York Times, States Warn That Virus May Doom Climate Projects
U.S. Anti-Brutality Protests, Looting
- Washington Post, Live DC/VA/MD Updates: Police, National Guard sweep protesters from Lafayette Square ahead of curfew
- New York Times, Opinion: Trump Takes Us to the Brink, Paul Krugman
- New York Times, How Looters Ransacked Lower Manhattan on Sunday,
- New York Times, Live Updates: Military helicopter uses ‘show of force’ on protesters,
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Anderson Cooper blurts out “Oh my God” after learning the real reason for Donald Trump’s deranged military stunt, Bill Palmer
World News
New York Times, Poor Countries Face a Debt Crisis ‘Unlike Anything We Have Seen- Politico via Yahoo News, Trudeau: Russia's return to the G-7 not acceptable
U.S. Courts, Injustice
- Washington Post, Judge Sullivan says he is not required to ‘rubber stamp’ DOJ’s bid to dismiss Flynn case
- New York Times Magazine, William Barr’s State of Emergency
- New York Times, Campaign Funds for Judges Warp Criminal Justice, Study Finds
- Washington Post, Supreme Court upholds Puerto Rico oversight board from constitutional challenge
U.S. 2020 Elections
- Washington Post, Opinion: Republican senators, it’s not too late to help save your country
New York Times, Tara Reade’s Tumultuous Journey to the 2020 Campaign- New York Times, In Seeking to Hold Michigan, Trump Can Be His Own Worst Enemy
Media News
- New York Times, Fall Is Now Jam-Packed for Book Publishers. That Could Be a Problem
- New York Times, Commentary: Record Ratings and Record Chaos on Cable News
- Washington Post, Ryan Grim helped push the Tara Reade story into the mainstream. What does he think of it now?
- Washington Post, Misinformation about extent of D.C. unrest surges across Twitter
- Washington Post, Facebook employees blast Zuckerberg’s response to Trump posts
- Washington Post, Police injure, arrest reporters covering unrest
Top Stories
Washington Post, Trump rebukes governors, urges them to use force against unruly protests, Robert Costa, Seung Min Kim and Josh Dawsey, June 1, 2020. Some governors say president is inflaming tensions. The remarks by President Trump came during a conference call with the state leaders.
President Trump on Monday berated the nation’s governors on a conference call, describing them as “weak” in the face of growing racial unrest and urging them to try to “dominate” unruly protests.Trump also called on the governors to take back the streets and use force to confront protesters. He said if they did not, they would look like “fools,” alarming several governors on the call as they communicated privately.
“If you don’t dominate you’re wasting your time,” Trump said.
The Washington Post obtained a recording of the call.
Trump told the governors that “you have to use the military” and “we have a wonderful military,” and he mused about the Occupy Wall Street movement and said it was a “disgrace” that was ended by governors and mayors being tough.
The president said that people arrested at the protests should serve 10-year prison sentences.“The president repeatedly and viciously attacked governors, who are doing everything they can to keep the peace while fighting a once-in-a-generation global pandemic,” Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), shown at left in a file photo, said in a statement. “The president’s dangerous comments should be gravely concerning to all Americans, because they send a clear signal that this administration is determined to sow the seeds of hatred and division, which I fear will only lead to more violence and destruction. We must reject this way of thinking.”
Trump and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D), right, had a testy exchange. Pritzker called out the president’s rhetoric. The president replied that he does not like Pritzker’s rhetoric, either, and that Pritzker mishandled his state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.Washington Post, Analysis: Trump’s inability to speak convincingly to anyone but his base is a unique liability in the moment, Philip Bump, June 1, 2020. The president’s demonstrated disinclination to do so is a problem of its own.
These are the moments that define presidencies. Overlapping crises in which the foundation of the country seems to quiver. Americans in fear. Americans enraged.It's in these moments that we've so often seen elected leaders speak to the public, assuring them specifically that tensions would fade and offering a path to do so. Presidents, speaking in front of the familiar Oval Office windows, assuring the country that the turbulence would smooth and the country would endure.
President Trump has not done so. The Washington Post reported late Sunday that this was in part because he wasn’t ready to.
“Some of his advisers calculated that he should not speak to the nation because he had nothing new to say and had no tangible policy or action to announce yet,” our Philip Rucker reported.
There’s almost nothing that Trump could say. He has no experience in attempting to appeal to audiences other than his core base of political support. He has never demonstrated any interest in doing so.
Washington Post, As Trump attacks voting by mail, GOP builds 2020 strategy around limiting its expansion, Amy Gardner, Shawn Boburg and Josh Dawsey, June 1, 2020. President Trump’s persistent attacks on mail-in voting have fueled an unprecedented effort by conservatives to limit expansion of the practice before the November election, with tens of millions of dollars planned for lawsuits and advertising aimed at restricting who receives ballots and who remains on the voter rolls.The strategy, embraced by Trump’s reelection campaign, the Republican National Committee and an array of independent conservative groups, reflects the recognition by both parties that voting rules could decide the outcome
of the 2020 White House race amid the electoral challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.Helping drive the effort is William Consovoy, a veteran Supreme Court litigator who also serves as one of Trump’s personal lawyers. Consovoy’s Virginia-based law firm is handling a battery of legal actions on behalf of the RNC, several state GOPs and an independent group called the Honest Elections Project, which is connected to a Trump adviser.
Washington Post, Opinion: We saw it with our own eyes: Trump wants to go to war against America, Jennifer Rubin, right, June 1, 2020. President Trump somehow imagined it was a good idea to unleash law enforcement on peaceful demonstrators before the 7 p.m. curfew Monday night as he stepped into the Rose Garden to give a knockoff version of Richard M. Nixon’s “law and order” message.The president who called NFL protesters peacefully taking a knee “sons of bitches,” lied when he declared that he is a friend of peaceful demonstrators. The police firing rubber bullets and launching tear gas at protesters in Lafayette Square in front of the White House said otherwise. Then, as if the scene was not evidence enough of his desire to raise the level of violence, he pledged to deploy the U.S. military on U.S. soil, against U.S. civilians, if governors did not heed his incendiary advice to fill the streets with National Guard troops. It was later revealed that Trump instigated the assault on protesters specifically to make a gesture of walking to St. John’s church.
Nothing could be more representative of the dangerous narcissism of a president in over his head, resorting to threats of violence against a country he ostensibly is supposed to lead. The deliberate instigation of violence for his own photo op tells Americans how deeply twisted and deformed his character is.
Those who think our unhinged president’s recent mania about a murder two decades ago that never happened represents his moral nadir have missed the lesson of his life: There is no such thing as rock bottom. So, assume that the worst is yet to come. Which implicates national security: Abroad, anti-Americanism sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all, and it is wide-awake as decent people judge our nation’s health by the character of those to whom power is entrusted. Watching, too, are indecent people in Beijing and Moscow.
Washington Post, Opinion: Trump warns that he will dispatch troops if local officials do not crack down, George F. Will, right, June 1, 2020. Those who think our unhinged ...
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