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12:40 PM ET, June 10, 2023

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Wall Street Journal:
A Destructive Trump Indictment  —  Do prosecutors understand the forces they are unleashing?  —  By The Editorial Board  —  Tap For Sound  —  Whether you love or hate Donald Trump, his indictment by President Biden's Justice Department is a fraught moment for American democracy.
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Just Security:
National Security Implications of Trump's Indictment: A Damage Assessment  —  The 38-count indictment of former President Donald Trump on federal charges of willfully retaining documents containing national defense information, refusing to return them, and obstructing related investigations, is a watershed moment.
Lawfare:
United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta  —  The indictment of former President Donald J. Trump that was unsealed today by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida represents a beginning in several distinct senses.  —  It is, at one level …
National Review:
The Trump Indictment Is Damning  —  Just as paranoiacs sometimes have enemies, people obsessively pursued for alleged violations of the law by their political opponents sometimes commit criminal offenses.  —  At many junctures, most recently with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's flimsy charges …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump's Case Puts the Justice System on Trial, in a Test of Public Credibility  —  The former president's efforts to defend against multiple felony counts by discrediting law enforcement pose a grave challenge to democracy.  —  Peter Baker has covered the White House under the past five presidents …
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Now on the 2024 ballot: Trump's freedom  —  For Donald Trump, the 2024 campaign is more than a race to return to the White House — it's a fight to stay out of prison.  —  Legal experts say it's unlikely that Trump's criminal trial in federal court will be resolved before the November 2024 election.
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Here are the 37 charges against Trump and what they mean  —  A court on Friday unsealed the federal indictment against Donald Trump and an aide over classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago home and the men's alleged efforts to keep the government from finding the materials.
Erik Ortiz / NBC News:
Reality Winner says she's ‘blown away’ by details in indictment against Trump  —  Winner, a former intelligence contractor who spent more than four years in prison, was the first person to be prosecuted under Trump for violating the Espionage Act.  —  Trump classified documents indictment unsealed
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Who Is Walt Nauta, the Other Person Indicted Along With Trump?  —  Mr. Nauta, as a valet while Mr. Trump was president, had unusual proximity to him, including at meals and on foreign trips.  —  Walt Nauta, the only other person indicted along with former President Donald J. Trump …
Rolling Stone:
The Special Counsel Is Using Trump's Own National Security Staff Against Him  —  Jack Smith's investigators used Team Trump's own words to demonstrate the former president he knew the rules for classified materials, sources tell Rolling Stone … In questioning these NSC veterans …
David Roth / Defector:
So It's A Crime Now To Have Boxes Full Of Cool Folders With Various Words Printed On Them?
Discussion: NPR, Slate, The Daily Beast and The Nation
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Faces 2024 Split Screen of Campaign and Criminal Trials
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
Discussion: Insider
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's baseless ‘1,850 boxes’ attacks on Biden's legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection
New York Times:
Carefully, Backhandedly, DeSantis Comes to Trump's Defense
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump indictment not politically motivated, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says in Utah
Discussion: Raw Story
Associated Press:
Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives, aren't you sick of Trump's nonsense?
Politico:
Trump haphazardly stashed military secrets throughout his home, indictment says
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The startling, damning details in the Trump indictment
Washington Post:
17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla's Autopilot  —  Tesla's driver-assistance system, known as Autopilot, has been involved in far more crashes than previously reported  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge required Pence to answer most of special counsel's questions, newly unsealed court docs show  —  “The bottom line is that conversations exhorting Pence to reject electors on January 6th are not protected,” D.C.'s federal district court's chief judge wrote in April.
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Jared Gans / The Hill:
Judge's decision that compelled Pence to testify in Jan. 6 probe unsealed
Discussion: Bloomberg and Washington Post
Andy Bruce / Reuters:
Boris Johnson's shock exit reverberates through British ruling party  —  Old rifts resurfaced in Britain's ruling Conservative Party on Saturday following former prime minister Boris Johnson's abrupt resignation from parliament, while the opposition Labour Party sensed opportunity ahead of a general election next year.
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Jill Lawless / Associated Press:
Boris Johnson quits as UK lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament
Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report
Kari Paul / The Guardian:
‘Fundamentally dangerous’: reversal of social media guardrails could prove disastrous for 2024 elections  —  Scaling back of moderation and rise of AI are creating the perfect storm to weaken elections and democracy  —  ncreasing misinformation on social media, platforms scaling …
Mike Elk / Payday Report:
Despite DeSantis' Anti-Union Law, Florida's Teachers' Union Gains 5,000 Members  —  While Ron DeSantis runs for President, he has attempted to excite conservatives nationwide by pushing legislation that makes it more difficult for undocumented students to study in Florida public schools.
Adrienne Cuffley / Stimson Center:
Why the Iranian government neglects the nation's cultural heritage  —  The neglect in Iran's heritage has deepened a schism between a public that values those traditions and a government that finds this lineage to be at best an annoyance and at worst a threat
Discussion: TASS
National Archives:
Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Presidential Records and the Presidential Records Act  —  Media Alert  —  Recent media reports have generated a large number of queries about Presidential records and the Presidential Records Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 2201-2209.
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Thomas Catenacci / Fox News:
Biden Energy Secretary Granholm admits false testimony about owning stocks  —  ‘The Secretary takes the commitment to uphold the highest ethical standards very seriously,’ Energy Department spokesperson tells Fox News Digital  —  Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm admitted in a letter Friday …
Discussion: RedState and Just The News
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Rebecca Burns / The Lever:
Oil Lobby Pushed Pollution Loophole for Wildfire Smoke  —  Seventy-five million people nationwide have been under air quality alerts, as days of smoke-filled skies sent soot levels soaring more than 10 times beyond what federal regulators consider safe for breathing.
Discussion: Jacobin and Vox
 
 
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Again: Aren't You All Tired of This Crap?
Oliver Willis / The American Independent:
White House touts historic investments in industry and infrastructure with new website
Discussion: Politico
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Companies that publicly condemned legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community send political contributions to state lawmakers who advanced anti-LGBTQ+ bills
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Justin Jouvenal / Washington Post:
Man who crashed U-Haul near White House planned other attacks, prosecutor says
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Althouse
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Viral Pentagon explosion hoax took off from pro-Russian accounts
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
They Just Don't Care … So, Trump's been indicted, again.  There's already been …
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