David Frum: “Nothing like this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency. Throw away the history books; discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship.”
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Quote of the Day
“It’s shocking to me, when I think about when I joined the show, I had more rights as a woman than I have now.”
— Showrunner Yahlin Chang, quoted by The Wrap, on the Handmaid’s Tale.
Netanyahu Says Hamas Gaza Chief Has Been ‘Eliminated’
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Hamas Gaza chief, Mohammad Sinwar, one of its most wanted and the younger brother of the deceased group’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, had been eliminated,” Reuters reports.
GOP Rejects ‘Millionaire Tax’ Pitch
“House Republicans rejected a push by some allies of President Donald Trump to include tax hikes on the rich in sweeping legislation they passed last week — a decision that could carry repercussions into next year’s elections,” the Washington Post reports.
“The Senate could make further changes, but Republicans in the upper chamber are expected to prove even less likely to back higher taxes on the top income bracket.”
“The issue may help define the upcoming battle over the GOP’s key legislative achievement ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.”
Putin Retooled Russia’s Economy to Focus Only on War
“Russia’s successes on the front lines in Ukraine are a big reason why Vladimir Putin isn’t yet ready to sign up to President Trump’s peace efforts. Some of his neighbors fear the success of the war machine now driving its economy means he never will,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Trump Makes Questionable Oversight Picks
“President Donald Trump’s pick to investigate waste, fraud and abuse at the Labor Department, Anthony D’Esposito, is a former Republican congressman who lost his New York seat after he was accused of putting his mistress and fiancée’s daughter on his payroll,” the Washington Post reports.
“The inspector general nominee for Health and Human Services, Thomas March Bell, previously resigned from a government job over an allegation of mishandling taxpayers’ money and has pursued cases against abortion clinics as a GOP attorney.”
“And Trump’s choice for Veterans Affairs watchdog, Cheryl Mason, said in a Senate questionnaire that she had continued to be a senior adviser to Secretary Douglas Collins after she was nominated to become the inspector general monitoring his agency.”
Secret Service Officers Suspended After Fight
“Two Secret Service officers have been suspended after being filmed fighting outside former President Barack Obama’s home last week,” the Daily Beast reports.
“Video and audio files posted to X on Tuesday document the two female federal officers punching and shoving each other.”
U.S. Citizen Handcuffed and Held in ICE Raid
“A U.S.-born citizen who was wrestled into the dirt, handcuffed and detained in a vehicle as part of an immigration raid had a REAL ID on him that was dismissed as fake,” NBC News reports.
A White-Collar Bloodbath Is Coming
The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world’s most powerful creators of artificial intelligence, said that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs — and spike unemployment to 10-20% in the next one to five years, Axios reports.
Elon Musk Ditched Vivek Ramaswamy
Elon Musk called Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) and asked him to tap Vivek Ramaswamy for the open Senate seat that belonged to Vice President JD Vance as the billionaire was “growing tired” of Ramaswamy, Politico reports.
He said he found Ramaswamy “annoying.”
But DeWine “wasn’t about to solve Musk’s problem for him by handing Ramaswamy what could amount to a lifetime appointment to the Senate.”
North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Remote Jobs
Wall Street Journal: “With international sanctions freezing money flows, North Korea has grown creative in its quest for cash. North Korean hackers have stolen more than $6 billion in cryptocurrency.”
“With laptop farming, they have flipped the gig economy on its head and found ingenious ways to trick companies into handing over paychecks.”
RFK Jr. Lashes Out at Top Medical Journals
“Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of ‘in-house’ publications by his agency — the latest in the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Kennedy: “We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and those other journals, because they’re all corrupt.”
Trump’s Frustration with Putin Boils Over
“President Donald Trump lashed out at the Kremlin on Tuesday for its unwillingness to negotiate a ceasefire with Ukraine as he continued to consider increased sanctions against Russia, an escalation from his previously friendly tone toward Vladimir Putin that came as the president appeared to grow gloomier about his ability to broker peace in Ukraine,” the Washington Post reports.
Politico: Trump is losing patience with Putin but unsure of his next move.
Wall Street Bets Worst of Trump’s Trade War Is Over
Wall Street Journal: “While corporate earnings and bond-market jitters have prompted stock swings in recent weeks, trade policy remains the key driver of day-to-day market action. Investors have eagerly greeted any signs of easing tensions by driving markets higher, hopeful that the U.S. will eventually be able to strike deals with little lasting damage to the economy or corporate profits.”
“Few think the trade tensions have dissipated, or won’t spark near-term stock declines going forward. But many said the worst fears of U.S. restrictions permanently reordering global trade have moderated, and the economic blow is unlikely to be as damaging as it appeared when Trump announced sweeping tariffs on April 2.”
ICE Told to Step Up Immigrant Arrests
“In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day,“ Axios reports.
“The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump’s term — and suggests the president’s top immigration officials are full-steam ahead in pushing for mass deportations.”
Michigan Senate Race Is Tight
A new Glengariff Group poll in Michigan finds Rep. Haley Stevens (D) edging Mike Rogers (R) in a possible U.S. Senate race, 45% to 44%.
State Sen. Mallory McMorrow (D) trailed Rogers 46% to 42%, while doctor and former gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D) came in nearly 7 points behind Rogers at 47% to 40%.
Musk Says Bureaucracy Is Worse Than He Thought
“Elon Musk, returning to SpaceX on Tuesday for a test flight of his Starship spacecraft, said in an interview that slashing the size of federal government proved far tougher than he expected and lamented the intense criticism leveled at the U.S. DOGE Service, which he led,” the Washington Post reports.
Said Musk: “The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized. I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least.”
He also expressed dismay over the reputational hit his companies took: “People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool.”
The Most Accessible President in Modern Times
Playbook: “A quick trawl through the archives suggests Trump 2.0 has done media on 111 of his 138 days back in office — an 80 percent hit rate that includes weekends and must put him on course to being just about the most-accessible president in modern history. And aside from the lamentable attempt to ban AP, he’s basically taken questions from all-comers…”
“In case anyone still needs this hammering home for them, the Joe Biden experience shows just how important it is that leaders are held up to regular scrutiny. Trump’s answers may sometimes be rambling, erratic — or even downright unpleasant — but every American voter can see where he’s at.”
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