memeorandum: ‘No wannabe dictators!’: Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention (David Smith/The Guardian)

12:05 PM ET, May 26, 2024

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Tim Reid / Reuters:

Trump booed and heckled by raucous crowd at Libertarian convention — Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he receives at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters.

David Smith / The Guardian:

‘No wannabe dictators!’: Donald Trump booed at Libertarian convention — Jeers suggest Republican presidential candidate faces a challenge in broadening his appeal — Donald Trump, the former US president, has suffered the rare humiliation of getting booed and heckled during a raucous speech to the Libertarian National Convention.

Discussion: Forbes, TMZ.com, Business Insider, Raw Story, RedState, NewsNation, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA, Daily Kos, Althouse and The Daily Beast

NBC News:

Trump to announce plans to commute ‘Silk Road’ website operator Ross Ulbricht's prison sentence — The former president has previously called for the death penalty for some drug traffickers, depending on the severity of the crime. — WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump plans …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Breitbart, Politico, Semafor, Digby's Hullabaloo, CoinDesk, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Bloomberg, Big League Politics and Fox News

Chris Geidner / Law Dork:

Washington Post bombshell: Washington Post buried Alito flag story for three years — Last week, many of us learned from The New York Times that an upside-down American flag had been temporarily raised over the Alito household in the days after January 6, 2021.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, WSVN-TV, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Newsbusters, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Hill, Forbes, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

Julian E. Barnes / New York Times:

Russia Steps Up a Covert Sabotage Campaign Aimed at Europe — Russian military intelligence, the G.R.U., is behind arson attacks aimed at undermining support for Ukraine's war effort, security officials say. — U.S. and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase …

Discussion: Washington Post and Washington Examiner

Sophia Cai / Axios:

Trump's new policy wonks are proteges of Stephen Miller and Newt Gingrich … - Haley and Worthington write the first drafts of scripts Trump uses to record policy videos as well as the text on how a second Trump administration would handle issues from education to energy and immigration.

Discussion: Raw Story

Washington Post:

Netanyahu's split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the making — The Israeli leader's longtime strategy of aligning with the GOP has helped shatter the American consensus behind Israel. — When President Barack Obama hosted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office in 2014 …

The Texas Tribune:

Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office — The platform was voted on Saturday, with tallies expected next week. Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.”

Jason Zengerle / New York Times:

The Hard Problem of Bringing Trump Into Focus — For all the news that the former president makes, the Biden team is struggling to make the campaign about him. — The video shows Donald Trump standing at a gilded lectern in Mar-a-Lago. It's December, a week or so before Christmas …

New York Times:

Putin Shakes Up Things at Home as His Optimism About Ukraine War Rises — Despite years of criticism, President Vladimir V. Putin has only now changed his defense minister and allowed high-level corruption arrests. — Periodic outcries over incompetence and corruption at the top …

Discussion: HotAir and RedState

Jeremy B. White / Politico:

Criminal justice backlash heads to the California ballot — Those who pushed past reforms, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have to decide which parts of that legacy are worth defending. — This fall, California voters will have multiple chances to decide whether their state has gone too far …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Graig Graziosi / The Independent:

Democrats demand Alito recuse himself from Trump, Jan 6 cases, citing impartiality concerns over flag scandal — Mr Alito is one of the justices who offered an opinion favouring Donald Trump's immunity claims — and now his impartiality is being questioned after he flew flags used on Jan 6 at his own home

Discussion: Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Fox News, NBC News, Raw Story and Axios, more at Mediagazer »

Margery A. Beck / Associated Press:

Pronouns and tribal affiliations are now forbidden in South Dakota public university employee emails — A new South Dakota policy to stop the use of gender pronouns by public university faculty and staff in official correspondence is also keeping Native American employees from listing …

Glenn Thrush / New York Times:

Even as Violent Crime Drops, Lawlessness Rises as an Election Issue — In most cities, rates of homicide and violent assault are down significantly from pandemic-era highs. But property crimes have risen, fueling voter anxiety. — In mid-2020, the country was reeling from a surge …

Discussion: The Atlantic