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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Here are the 37 charges against Trump and what they mean
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
A Trump-Appointed Judge Who Showed Him Favor Gets the Documents Case
Tim Dickinson / Rolling Stone:
Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment
Discussion: Insider
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Faces 2024 Split Screen of Campaign and Criminal Trials
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Trump's baseless ‘1,850 boxes’ attacks on Biden's legal and normal University of Delaware documents collection
Matt Viser / Washington Post:
Trump indictment thrusts Biden into unprecedented territory
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
Trump indictment not politically motivated, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper says in Utah
Discussion: Raw Story
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated
National Archives:   Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Presidential Records and the Presidential Records Act
New York Times:
Carefully, Backhandedly, DeSantis Comes to Trump's Defense
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Conservatives, aren't you sick of Trump's nonsense?
Associated Press:
Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, 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 …
ABC News:
Unabomber Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison cell  —  He was arrested in 1996 after a nearly 20-year bombing spree.  —  Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber, was found dead in his prison cell Saturday morning, according to a Federal Bureau of Prisons spokesperson.  He was 81.
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Alex Traub / New York Times:
Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81  —  Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.  —  Theodore J. Kaczynski, the so-called Unabomber, who attacked academics …
Discussion: Associated Press
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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Rowena Mason / The Guardian:
Boris Johnson resigns as MP with immediate effect over Partygate report
Alexander Ward / Politico:
China using secret base in Cuba to spy on U.S., Biden admin official confirms  —  After initially calling reports “inaccurate,” an official says that the administration “inherited” the problem.  —  China has been spying on the United States from a base in Cuba, a Biden administration official …
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 …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Again: Aren't You All Tired of This Crap?  —  In the wake of the federal indictment against Trump — which, unlike the Bragg nonsense, is absolutely devastating — I'll ask again: Aren't you all tired of this crap?  Don't you want to get past it?  Don't you want to do some politics for a change?
 
 
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Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
They Just Don't Care … So, Trump's been indicted, again.  There's already been …
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