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Trump Vows To End DACA Despite SCOTUS Ruling

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Friday that he will renew his administration’s effort to end legal protections for young immigrants after the Supreme Court blocked the first try. The high court on Thursday ruled that Trump improperly ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in 2017. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberal justices in …

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Trump Threatens Violence Against Protesters In Tulsa

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump is threatening “protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes” who attend his rally in Tulsa on Saturday, warning that they will be treated more harshly than they have been in liberal-run cities like New York, Seattle and Minneapolis. Protest is protected by the First Amendment of the United States constitution. Found in the same clause is …

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Tulsa Mayor Imposes Curfew Ahead Of Trump Rally

The Washington Post reports: The city of Tulsa announced a last-minute curfew that began Thursday night and will continue Friday and Saturday, restricting people from a large area surrounding the arena where President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months. An executive order signed by Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) says the curfew, which begins at 10 p.m. and …

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Senior State Official Quits Over Trump’s Racist Actions

The Washington Post reports: A senior State Department official who has served in the Trump administration since its first day is resigning over President Trump’s recent handling of racial tensions across the country — saying that the president’s actions “cut sharply against my core values and convictions.” Mary Elizabeth Taylor, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her …

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Trump Screeches: I Want “New” Supreme Court Justices

The Independent reports: Two conservative justices appointed by the president to the US Supreme Court have apparently have not yielded the kind of results Trump wanted, following the high court’s decision decision to uphold DACA and allow Dreamers who entered the US without legal permission as children to remain in the country. Now, he “will be releasing a new list …

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Facebook Removes Trump Ads For Using Nazi Symbols

The Washington Post reports: In its online salvo against antifa and “far-left mobs,” President Trump’s reelection campaign displayed a marking the Nazis once used to designate political prisoners in concentration camps. A red inverted triangle was first used in the 1930s to identify Communists, and was applied as well to Social Democrats, liberals, Freemasons and other members of opposition parties. …

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Trump Claims He Made Juneteenth “Very Famous”: It’s “An Important Event, But Nobody Had Ever Heard Of It”

USA Today reports: President Donald Trump took credit for widespread recognition of Juneteenth, which commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation, after drawing backlash for his Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally originally scheduled for the same date. In a wide-ranging interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, Trump claimed that “nobody had ever heard of” the June 19 holiday before the controversy surrounding his …

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Book: Trump Wanted To Give Kim Self-Autographed Copy Of Elton’s “Rocket Man” In Order To Curry Favor

The Daily Beast reports: In the summer of 2018, the president spent an immoderate amount of time fixating on delivering a Donald Trump-signed CD featuring Elton John’s 1972 hit “Rocket Man” to Kim Jong Un. But he wasn’t only trying to please the North Korean dictator with a disc that included a track with a song title of the nickname …

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Trump Rages At “Horrible” SCOTUS: These Rulings Are “Shotgun Blasts Into The Faces Of Proud Conservatives”

CBS News reports: The justices’ 5-4 decision delivered Thursday ruled that Trump’s administration unlawfully tried to dismantle the Obama-era program to protect young immigrants from deportation. The ruling is a boost for “Dreamers,” hundreds of thousands of whom have been in the United States since they were children. The justices rejected administration arguments that the eight-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood …

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GOP Sold Trump On Parks Bill With “Pretty Pictures”

Roll Call reports: Showing President Donald Trump beautiful pictures of national parks helped Sens. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., win the crucial backing they needed to get their public lands bill in motion. The senators, both considered vulnerable and in need of moderate voters in November, said on Wednesday that they needed Trump’s support to coax Majority Leader …

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Bolton: Putin Thinks He Can “Play Trump Like A Fiddle”

The Hill reports: Former national security adviser John Bolton said in a new interview to promote his new memoir that has rocked Washington that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks he “can play” President Trump like a “fiddle.” Asked by ABC’s Martha Raddatz about Trump’s relationship with Putin, Bolton said that he doesn’t think the Russian leader is “worried” about Trump. …

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Axios: Tulsa Rally To Be “Massive Pro-Trump Festival”

Axios reports: President Trump’s campaign plans to turn this weekend’s Tulsa rally into a massive pro-Trump festival complete with musical acts, and it’s flying in high-profile backers and camera crews to show the world the fervency of his supporters. Details: Organizers are leasing a jet to fly in surrogates the night before and multiple film crews are being brought in …

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Trump Files Restraining Order Against Bolton’s Book

Deadline reports: The Justice Department is now seeking an emergency court order to stop the release of John Bolton’s memoir, The Room Where It Happened. The details of the book have already surfaced in a variety of media outlets and an excerpt in The Wall Street Journal, but the DOJ filed a motion on Wednesday for a temporary restraining order …

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Bolton: Trump Said It’d Be “Cool” To Invade Venezuela

The Insider report: President Donald Trump claimed that it would be “cool” to invade Venezuela because the nation was “really part of the United States,” according to a new book by former national security adviser John Bolton. In 2019, Trump expressed he would consider an outright quarantine or blockade of Venezuela in an effort to dispose of President Nicolas Maduro’s …

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Lincoln Project: Trump Is A “Superspreader Of Hatred”

From the YouTube description: “Trump’s rally in Tulsa on the weekend of Juneteenth proves what we already knew: he’s the largest superspreader of division and hatred we’ve seen in generations.” In the video you’ll see Trump contrasted with JFK and compared to George Wallace amid scenes of Nazi rallies and Confederate flags. Watch it.

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GOP Oklahoma Senator Warns Against Trump’s Rally

Mediaite reports: Ahead of President Donald Trump’s rally in Oklahoma on Saturday, the state’s Republican senator has a message for his older constituents: Don’t come. Appearing on Morning Joe Wednesday, Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) warned older people and others who are at high risk to the coronavirus to stay away from the president’s rally in Tulsa this weekend. “We’re advising …

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Fauci: I Wouldn’t Go To A Trump Rally, It’s Too Risky

The Daily Beast reports: The longtime infectious disease specialist was clearly nervous about some of the rush to reopen that he’d seen, noting the images on TV of “people congregating in bars, with no masks.” And he didn’t sugarcoat his anxiety about his boss—President Donald Trump—moving forward with plans to hold large-scale events, including in cities with new or recurring …

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The Lincoln Project: “Trump Is Not Well” [VIDEO]

First, a refresher from Fox News: Members of the mainstream media sounded the alarm about President Trump’s health for what they believe were signs of declining health during his appearance at the West Point commencement ceremony. Following his prepared remarks to the military academy graduates, Trump was seen cautiously walking down a ramp from the stage. A clip was shared …

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Trump Celebrates Nonexistent “AIDS Vaccine” [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump got ripped apart on Twitter after praising the non-existent AIDS vaccine during his speech on police reform on Tuesday. “Before the end of the year, I predict we will have a very successful vaccine, therapeutic, and cure. We’re making tremendous progress. I deal with these incredible scientists, doctors very very closely. I have great respect …

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LIVE VIDEO: Trump Signs Exec Order On Police Reform

CBS News reports: President Trump is set to deliver remarks and sign an executive order Tuesday addressing policing amid a groundswell of civil unrest and calls for police reform following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and other African-Americans in law enforcement custody. Mr. Trump’s order, previewed by the White House on Monday, is shaped by three key components: …

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