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11:55 AM ET, May 8, 2020

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The Daily Beast:
Team Trump Wants Flynn Back for 2020, Sees Him as Its ‘Nelson Mandela’  —  Can a disgraced former national security adviser become a campaign MAGA hero?  We may soon find out.  —  With the Justice Department announcing Thursday that it would drop the case against Michael Flynn …
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Washington Post:
After Flynn reversal, Trump signals his FBI director is on thin ice  —  President Trump voiced uncertainty Friday over the future of his FBI director, Christopher A. Wray, a day after the Justice Department moved to throw out the guilty plea of the president's former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.
Discussion: Vox, The Mahablog and Sean Hannity
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
If Michael Flynn did nothing wrong, why didn't he tell the truth?  —  With the Justice Department's move Thursday to drop its case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn, it's useful to go back to a basic question: If Flynn did nothing wrong when he called the Russian ambassador on Dec. 29 …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Jan Wolfe / Reuters:
Skeptical judge could hold up Trump administration's bid to clear Flynn, legal experts say  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The notoriously independent-minded federal judge who once said he was disgusted by the conduct of Michael Flynn could block the administration's bid to drop criminal charges …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:   Kushner Details His Wild Idea to Use Russia's Secret Comms
Asha Rangappa / Washington Post:   Pardoning Flynn would have looked bad. Dropping the charges is far worse.
Lawfare:
An Ugly Day for the Justice Department
Discussion: Politico and Twitchy
Rashaan Ayesh / Axios:
Trump says “the jury's still out” on FBI Director Chris Wray
Discussion: Breitbart and The Week
Eli Lake / Bloomberg:   Justice Finally Arrives for Michael Flynn
Catherine Herridge / CBS News:
Attorney General William Barr on Michael Flynn, Obamacare and coronavirus restrictions - Transcript
Associated Press:
AP Exclusive: Justice Dept dropping Flynn's criminal case
Matt Fountain / San Luis Obispo Tribune:
Exclusive: 1996 court document confirms Tara Reade told of harassment in Biden's office  —  A court document from 1996 shows former Senate staffer Tara Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working for Joe Biden in 1993.  —  The declaration — exclusively obtained …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Associated Press:
Prominent lawyer, Trump donor representing Biden accuser  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Tara Reade, a former Senate staffer who alleged Joe Biden sexually assaulted her 27 years ago, is being represented by a prominent lawyer and political donor to President Donald Trump's 2016 Republican campaign.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
A record 20.5 million jobs were lost in April as unemployment rate jumps to 14.7%  — Nonfarm payrolls fell by 20.5 million in April and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7%, both post-World War II records.  — Economists had been expecting a loss of 21.5 million jobs and the unemployment rate to surge to 16%.
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Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
A devastating jobs report for April will show virus's impact
Discussion: Politico and Observer
Will Sommer / The Daily Beast:
Discredited Doctor and Sham ‘Science’ Are the Stars of Viral Coronavirus Documentary ‘Plandemic’  —  Dr. Judy Mikovits is portrayed as a science genius in a conspiracy film about the coronavirus—but her own research history is dubious and the video is full of bizarre claims.
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NBC News:   As ‘#Plandemic’ goes viral, those targeted by discredited scientist's crusade warn of ‘dangerous’ claims
Anna Merlan / VICE:
‘Plandemic’ Is Dangerous, Viral Nonsense
Discussion: Poynter
Nelly Miles / Georgia Bureau of Investigation:
Ahmaud Arbery Death Investigation  —  Glynn County, GA (May 7, 2020) - On May 7th, 2020, the GBI arrested Gregory McMichael, age 64, and Travis McMichael, age 34, for the death of Ahmaud Arbery.  They were both charged with murder and aggravated assault.  The McMichaels were taken into custody …
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Elizabeth Spiers / Washington Post:
I worked for Jared Kushner.  Of course he says his covid-19 failure is a success.  —  President Trump's son-in-law always casts himself as the genius cleaning up someone else's problems.  —  Jared Kushner's coronavirus response team, we learned this week, is fumbling because it's largely staffed with inexperienced volunteers.
Andrew Romano / Yahoo News:
New Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll: Almost one in five say they won't get vaccinated  —  As a number of states begin to reopen their economies, a clear majority of Americans believe they are moving too fast, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov coronavirus poll.  Even residents of the reopened states agree.
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Rebecca Morin / USA Today:
Americans more worried about reopening too quickly than not opening quickly enough, survey shows
Discussion: The Hill
Kendall Karson / ABC News:
Reopening the country seen as greater risk among most Americans: POLL
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and The Week
Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Trump officials' dysfunction harms delivery of coronavirus drug  —  A complete breakdown in communication and coordination within the Trump administration has undermined the distribution of a promising treatment, according to senior officials with direct knowledge of the discussions.
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
Burgess Everett / Politico:
'We're going to fill it': Republicans ready for any Supreme Court vacancy  —  Senate Republicans are quietly beginning to contemplate the possibility of an election-year confirmation battle for the Supreme Court.  —  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's hospitalization this week and the looming end …
Catherine Rampell / Washington Post:
The White House's coronavirus cure is even more magical than we could have imagined  —  We've all hoped and prayed for something to save us from this pandemic.  Will it be a vaccine?  A therapeutic drug?  Large-scale testing and tracing?  An antibodies-rich llama or pack of virus-sniffing dogs?
Discussion: The Hill
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Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion  —  Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to have evidence of alleged collusion …
CyberDust ID / blog maverick:
I Hired a Team of Secret Shoppers to Find Out How Businesses Were Opening in Dallas.  It's Not Good.  —  I wanted to get an understanding of what opening meant to businesses around Dallas.  Were they opening?  What precautions were they taking?  Were employees in safe environments?
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Armed black citizens escort Michigan lawmaker to capitol after volatile rightwing protest  —  State representative Sarah Anthony says she wanted to highlight failure of policing after armed white protesters demonstrated  —  A black lawmaker came to Michigan's capitol with an escort …
Rebecca Jacobs / CREW:
Trump said the Secret Service told him to stay at his hotel.  There's no record that's true.  —  Yet again, the president used the Secret Service as an excuse for his profiteering, and yet again Secret Service records suggest he's not telling the truth.  —  In February, President Trump traveled …
Washington Post:
White House pandemic supply project swathed in secrecy and exaggerations  —  On May 1, as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, an illustration of an airplane flying to the moon appeared on the monitors beside her.
Rod Dreher:
Anti-Mask Snowflakes Of The Right  —  Look, I understand people are mad about social distancing and wearing masks, but a lot of people on the Right are losing their minds.  Here's something from a column by Dan Fagan in my local paper, the Baton Rouge Advocate: … I'd say you've boiled your brain, Cap.
Stef W. Kight / Axios:
States face economic death spiral from coronavirus  —  Early numbers show how significantly the coronavirus is devastating states' revenue streams — and could force choices between raising taxes or gutting services and laying off public employees.  —  Why it matters: Even as some states …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Democratic senators propose $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans  —  A trio of Democratic senators are pitching a big idea: pay most American families thousands of dollars each month until the coronavirus's economic crisis subsides.  —  On Friday, Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) …
Discussion: CNN and Axios
Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
Trump says he'd help Biden get access to rapid COVID tests  —  President Trump said Friday that he would help presumptive Democratic nominee former Vice President Joe Biden gain access to rapid tests for the novel coronavirus if his campaign asked for it.  —  “Yes, 100 percent,” Trump said during a phone interview on “Fox & Friends.”
 
 
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
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Discussion: National Review
Yvonne Wingett Sanchez / Arizona Republic:
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Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Has Trump Reached the Lying-to-Himself-and-Believing- It Stage of the Coronavirus Pandemic?
Deb Erdley / Greensburg Tribune-Review:
Elected officials, businesses in 4 Pa. counties sue to end coronavirus shutdown
Discussion: The Daily Caller and The Hill
Phil Helsel / NBC News:
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The 2024 election test arrives early for Mike Pence
Discussion: Raw Story
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Minnesota must recover from its pandemic of fear
Discussion: Power Line
New York Times:
De Blasio Strips Control of Virus Tracing From Health Department
Discussion: Gothamist
William Feuer / CNBC:
California identifies nail salons as source of coronavirus community spread, Gov. Newsom says
Discussion: The Week
Robert A. George / New York Daily News:
Grudging a nurse: A petulant president snaps at an innocent-but-accurate description of hospital equipment availability
Discussion: HuffPost