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7:55 AM ET, May 30, 2019

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Wall Street Journal:
White House Wanted USS John McCain ‘Out of Sight’ During Trump Japan Visit  —  The White House wanted the Navy to move a warship named for the late Sen. John McCain, a war hero who became a frequent target of President Trump's ire, ahead of the president's visit to Japan last week.
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New York Times:
White House Asked Navy to Hide McCain Warship  —  The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said Wednesday.
Washington Post:
White House wanted USS John S. McCain obscured during Trump's Japan visit  —  The White House asked Navy officials to obscure the USS John S. McCain while President Trump was visiting Japan, Pentagon and White House officials said Wednesday night.  —  A senior Navy official confirmed …
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: What Biden is planning for June
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Mediaite
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Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Wayward Special Counsel  —  In the end, the by-the-book Robert Mueller wildly departed from the book.  —  He invented an extraconstitutional legal standard for his obstruction investigation and acted, at the very least, in violation of the spirit of the special counsel regulations.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
What the Mueller Report Actually Said  —  Robert Mueller has advised Americans to go back and actually read his report if we want to understand what happened in 2016.  “We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself,” he said on Wednesday morning, speaking publicly for the first time since his appointment.
William S. Cohen / Washington Post:
When will the Republican silence on Trump end?  —  William S. Cohen is a former Republican congressman, senator and defense secretary who served on the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 during the Watergate impeachment inquiry.  —  Now that Robert S. Mueller III has broken months of silence …
Discussion: Raw Story and Politico
Axios:
Pelosi swats away impeachment — again
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast:
Sean Hannity: Mueller 'Doesn't Know the Law' and 'He's Full of Crap'
Discussion: Law & Crime and Contemptor
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Mueller Just Proved His Entire Operation Was A Political Hit Job That Trampled The Rule Of Law
Robert De Niro / New York Times:
Robert Mueller, We Need to Hear More
Washington Post:
Mueller should have said this weeks ago
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:   Mueller's Press Conference Makes the Impeachment Tightrope Tougher to Walk for Democrats
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:   Mueller's Message: The Obstruction That Nearly Halted Criminal Case Against Russians
Kurt Bardella / NBC News:
Robert Mueller's statement made the Democrats look like cowards
Andy Borowitz / New Yorker:   Mueller Stirs Controversy by Urging Americans to Read
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Mueller: Trump Is Not Not a Criminal
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
Miami Herald:
Federal prosecutors demand Cindy Yang records from Mar-a-Lago, Trump campaign  —  Federal prosecutors in Washington D.C. this week sent subpoenas to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, and Trump Victory, a political fundraising committee, demanding they turn …
John Solomon / The Hill:
Did Brits warn about Steele's credibility, before Mueller's probe?  Congress has evidence  —  One of the deepest, darkest secrets of Russiagate soon may be unmasked.  Even President Trump may be surprised.  —  Multiple witnesses have told Congress that, a week before Trump's inauguration in January 2017 …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Retrospective: Mueller and the fatal flaw of the Trump-Russia affair  —  It's not unusual to hear House Democrats vow to “get to the bottom” of the Trump-Russia matter — as if the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, with 500 witnesses, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search-and-seizure warrants …
David Corn / Mother Jones:   Mueller Reminds the Nation That Trump Betrayed the USA
Washington Post:
Israel will hold unprecedented second election after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fails to form a governing coalition  —  JERUSALEM — In an unprecedented move, Israel will head to elections for a second time in less than six months after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government before a midnight deadline.
Discussion: Haaretz and Informed Comment
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Jacob Kornbluh / Jewish Insider:   Here's why Israel is heading back to elections
Luke O'Neil / The Guardian:
US energy department rebrands fossil fuels as ‘molecules of freedom’  —  Press release from department said increasing export capacity is ‘critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world’  —  America is the land of freedom, as any politician will be happy to tell you.
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Elliot Hannon / Slate:
Louisiana's GOP-Controlled State Legislature Passes Restrictive Abortion Ban.  Its Democratic Governor Says He'll Sign It.  —  The Louisiana state legislature, on Wednesday, joined the procession of conservative state legislatures challenging abortion rights, voting to pass …
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Louisiana governor, a Democrat, poised to sign ‘heartbeat’ abortion ban into law
Discussion: NBC News, FOX59 and Washington Post
Thomas B. Edsall / New York Times:   Why the Fight Over Abortion Is Unrelenting
Lisa Richwine / Reuters:
Exclusive: Disney CEO says it will be ‘difficult’ to film in Georgia if abortion law takes effect  —  ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be “very difficult” for the media company to keep filming in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect …
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Worry About Facebook.  Rip Your Hair Out in Screaming Terror About Fox News.  —  Novel forms of digital misinformation still pale in comparison with Fox News' full-time hall of mirrors.  —  At the risk of losing street cred as a tough-as-nails tech pundit, I'll confess that I couldn't muster …
James Arkin / Politico:
Roy Moore hits back at Trump in defiant interview  —  A defiant Roy Moore brushed aside Donald Trump's warning not to run for Senate again, telling POLITICO on Wednesday that Alabama voters are capable of deciding for themselves whether he's fit for office.  —  “The president doesn't control …
Lizzie Dearden / The Independent:
Boris Johnson could go on trial for ‘lying and misleading’ in Brexit campaign, judge orders  —  Judge summonses MP to court after throwing out arguments that allegations are ‘vexatious’ attempt to undermine Brexit  —  Boris Johnson faces trial for allegedly “lying and misleading the British public” about the consequences of Brexit.
Sohrab Ahmari / Web Exclusives:
Against David French-ism  —  In March, First Things published a manifesto of sorts signed by several mostly youngish, mostly Roman Catholic writers, who argued that “there is no returning to the pre-Trump conservative consensus that collapsed in 2016,” that “any attempt to revive …
Discussion: The Bulwark
 
 
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Politico:
First debate sparks Democratic scramble
Joseph Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Socialists Don't Know History  —  Young people don't remember the Soviet nightmare.
Brie Stimson / Fox News:
Sanders supporters fearful DNC now backing Biden like it backed Clinton: report
Discussion: Politico and Washington Times
Tom Scocca / Hmm Daily:
Nobody Knows What's Going to Happen
Kim Phillips-Fein / New Republic:
Fear and Loathing of the Green New Deal
New York Times:
Pelosi Slow-Walks Trump's New Nafta Deal
Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and Bloomberg
Susie Cagle / OneZero:
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Madeline Osburn / The Federalist:
CNN Anchor Mocks Rape Survivor For 2nd Amendment Views
Ryan Lizza / Washington Post:
Michael Wolff's trip inside Trumpworld, and inside the president's head, with Steve Bannon as guide
Discussion: Mediaite
JONATHAN TURLEY:
Biographer: MLK Watched And Laughed During Rape Of Follower
Discussion: Coffee House, The New Neo and Townhall
Amanda Mull / The Atlantic:
There Are Two Types of Airport People
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Pelosi says altered videos show Facebook leaders were ‘willing enablers’ of Russian election interference
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Kellyanne Conway dismisses Hatch Act violation: ‘Let me know when the jail sentence starts’