memeorandum: Denial about Donald Trump has reached a new low (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/MSNBC)

3:05 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.

Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:

Tim Scott on Trump Getting Booed by Libertarians: He's So Popular! — THEY WERE SAYING ‘BOO-URNS’ — Trump was met with a wall of boos on Saturday night. For one of his veepstakes frontrunners, that shows the ex-president is only getting more popular. — Donald Trump was met …

Discussion: New York Times, Rolling Stone, Raw Story, Washington Times, Sun-Sentinel, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA, Mediaite and Politico

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

Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:

Denial about Donald Trump has reached a new low — Authoritarians have often told us what they are going to do, but people have rarely believed them. — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who incited a violent insurrection in January 2021 to try and remain in office illegally …

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.”

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

Naomi Lim / Washington Examiner:

Who is Ross Ulbricht, the prison inmate who could be key to Trump's libertarian support — Former President Donald Trump received a frosty reception at this weekend's Libertarian Party's national convention, but one of his few applause lines was for promising to commute a sentence for a man named Ross Ulbricht.

Discussion: RedState, Politico, Mediaite, The Spectator World, Semafor, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Big League Politics

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 Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice, WSVN-TV, Washington Examiner, Twitchy, Newsbusters, Digby's Hullabaloo, The Hill, Forbes, Mediaite and Raw Story, more at Mediagazer »

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

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

Politico:

Hill GOP urges Trump to consider a running mate with center-right appeal — maybe even Haley — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) advised Trump to look at a VP pick who “really reflects areas where he needs to be more competitive to win.” — Donald Trump is getting clear advice from a sizable number …

Discussion: PoliticusUSA, Business Insider, Washington Times, New York Magazine, Washington Examiner and Letters from an American

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

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 Times of Israel:

Rafah rocket volley targets Tel Aviv area, in first such attack in 4 months — One person lightly hurt when shrapnel hits a house in Herzliya; Hamas takes responsibility for attack, which IDF predicted would be likely as troops push into southern Gaza city — The Hamas terror group fired …

Discussion: Interesting Engineering, Semafor, The Guardian, Associated Press, UPI, Algemeiner.com, Fox News, Breitbart, israelhayom.com, New York Times, Geller Report, Haaretz, Reuters, Washington Post and The New Arab

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 …