President Biden suggested that his uncle might have been eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, Bloomberg reports.
Judge Won’t Throw Out Hunter Biden Gun Charges
“The federal judge overseeing a case involving gun charges against Hunter Biden rejected efforts by the president’s son to have the case dismissed,” NBC News reports.
“Judge Maryellen Noreika denied all five of Biden’s motions, keeping the case on track for a June trial in Delaware. Biden was indicted in September on three counts tied to possession of a gun while using narcotics.”
DNC Covered Biden’s Legal Bills in Special Counsel Probe
“President Biden used campaign donations to help pay his legal bills last year during the special counsel’s probe into his handling of classified documents,” Axios reports.
“The payments, made through the Democratic National Committee, are at odds with the Biden campaign’s recent attacks on Donald Trump for spending his campaign funds on legal fees.”
Biden Dares the Courts
“President Biden has embraced the power of the pen, practically daring the courts to block new executive actions on gun control, student loan forgiveness and potentially the border,” Axios reports.
“Stymied by the least productive Congress in modern American history, Biden wants to hit the campaign trail with fresh policy wins tailored to the voting blocs he needs to defeat former President Trump.”
Biden Could Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
“Julian Assange’s supporters appeared energized Thursday by President Biden’s comment that the United States is ‘considering’ a request to drop its push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder,” the Washington Post reports.
“Assange faces prosecution in the United States related to the 2010 publication of a huge trove of leaked military records and diplomatic cables about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Ron Klain Thinks Biden Talks Too Much About Bridges
“Former White House chief of staff Ron Klain openly questioned President Joe Biden’s political strategy Tuesday night, arguing he was too focused on long-term infrastructure projects and not enough on immediate economic needs as he runs for reelection,” Politico reports.
Said Klain, on an audio recording: “I think the president is out there too much talking about bridges. He does two or three events a week where he’s cutting a ribbon on a bridge. And here’s a bridge. Like I tell you, if you go into the grocery store, you go to the grocery store and, you know, eggs and milk are expensive, the fact that there’s a fucking bridge is not [inaudible].”
Trump Is Just Days Away from His First Criminal Trial
“Donald Trump is close to running out of time in his last-ditch bid to stave off the historic stigma of being the first former president to go on criminal trial next week,” CNN reports.
“The presumptive Republican nominee suffered yet another courtroom defeat on Monday in an attempt to delay his hush money trial and move it out of Manhattan. His latest legal defeat moves him – and the nation – to the threshold of a divisive spectacle that will further strain the justice and political systems and that could have an unpredictable impact on November’s election.”
Axios: “The judge overseeing former President Trump’s hush money trial released on Monday a questionnaire that he plans to use in the New York case’s jury selection process.”
Who Got More Done?
The Washington Monthly compares Donald Trump and Joe Biden as president.
Comparing Cabinet Turnover Between Trump and Biden
Washington Post: “About three-quarters of Trump’s initial Cabinet picks were gone by the end of his four years in office, while only a handful have left Biden’s almost three and a half years in.”
“The contrast is stark. More of the core Cabinet department heads had left by Trump’s third year in office than in any recent presidents’ entire four-year term.”
Biden Moves to Defang Political Assaults on Civil Service
“The Biden administration put the finishing touches Thursday on a plan to restrict presidents from unilaterally nixing civil service protections from large swaths of the federal workforce, as former President Donald Trump renews his vow to uproot a perceived ‘deep state’ if he is returned to the White House,” Politico reports.
“While a future president could take steps to squelch the new directive, it reflects a larger effort by the Biden administration to put a protective wall around its policies.”
How Biden’s Gathering for Ramadan Unraveled
“When the White House invited Muslim community leaders for a dinner this week celebrating the holy month of Ramadan, the responses started coming in fast: Decline. Decline. Decline,” the New York Times reports.
“Many of the invitees, distressed over President Biden’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, said they would not attend an iftar meal with the president on Tuesday evening while so many Palestinians were under siege.”
GOP Shows Little Support for Trump’s Immunity Argument
“Congressional Republicans, including nearly the entire Senate GOP Conference, signed onto a Supreme Court brief in January backing former President Donald Trump when Colorado state officials tried to prevent him from being on the ballot over his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection,” Punchbowl News reports.
“But that same level of support from Hill Republicans for Trump hasn’t materialized on a separate and equally high-profile argument to the high court — that Trump has absolute immunity from criminal prosecution related to any official actions as president.”
“In fact, the deadline for submitting a brief in support of Trump’s position in the immunity case has already passed.”
Hunter Biden’s Effort to Dismiss Tax Charges Denied
U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi on Monday denied all eight of Hunter Biden’s motions to dismiss the nine federal tax charges he faces in California, CBS News reports.
The Presidential First Pitch Has Disappeared
“In 2010, then-president Barack Obama marked the 100th anniversary of a unique D.C. tradition, throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at the Washington baseball team’s home opener. From William Howard Taft to Richard M. Nixon, every president participated in this custom at least once during his presidency, and when baseball returned to Washington early this century, George W. Bush and Obama picked up where Nixon had left off,” the Washington Post reports.
“But Donald Trump, despite being a star baseball player in high school, skipped it. So has President Biden. With the two men set for a rematch this fall, the D.C. presidential first pitch — like complete games and pitchers taking their turn at-bat — could be headed to oblivion.”
Secret Service Won’t Comment on Trump Photo
After Donald Trump shared a photo of President Biden hog-tied in the back of a truck, the U.S. Secret Service released a statement saying it “does not confirm or comment on matters of protective intelligence,” the AP reports.
Hunter Biden’s Bid to Dismiss Tax Case Met with Skepticism
“Hunter Biden’s effort to dismiss the federal tax charges against him got a chilly reception in court on Wednesday, as a federal judge sounded skeptical that the president’s son was a victim of a politically motivated prosecution,” Politico reports.
White House Ramps Up Defense of Muslim Nominee
“Facing a potentially devastating Democratic defection in the Senate, the White House is ramping up its fight to confirm an embattled judicial nominee who would be the first Muslim American to serve as a U.S. federal appeals court judge,” NBC News reports.
“The White House is touting a wave of new law enforcement endorsements for Adeel Mangi to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, building on seven similar organizations that have already backed Mangi, in an attempt to counter what it describes as a Republican-led smear campaign predicated on his religion.”
Biden and Democrats Ditch ‘Bidenomics’
“For the first time in more than two months, President Biden on Tuesday publicly uttered a word that he and other Democrats have largely abandoned: ‘Bidenomics,’” Axios reports.
“Republicans are now using the term — mockingly — far more than Democrats heading into the meat of the presidential campaign, even as the economy has improved under Biden.”
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