White House adviser Peter Navarro asked the Pentagon to loan $620 million to a company linked to Donald Trump Jr., ProPublica reports.
White House Whipsaws Once Again on Iran
Wall Street Journal: “The White House is offering two, seemingly contradictory messages when it comes to Iran. Some officials, including Trump at times, are acting with urgency to suggest a deal is within reach that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz.”
“But then Trump has said that he’s in no rush and isn’t concerned if high energy prices persist through the rest of the year.”
Why Democrats Can’t Learn Much from the 2024 Election
G. Elliot Morris: “Donald Trump won the ‘tipping-point’ state (the one whose electoral votes push the winner past 270, if you order the states by Democratic/Republican vote margin) by just 1.7 percentage points in 2024. Trump defeated Kamala Harris by just 120,000 votes in Pennsylvania. The excess electoral votes he won in Michigan and Wisconsin were decided by 110,000 votes — a fifth of the size of the smallest state.”
“The problem this presents for election analysts is that every campaign decision becomes potentially decisive for the outcome. There were 152 million votes cast in 2024, but the contest was decided by just 230,000 in those three states above — or 0.15 percent of all voters. When a race is that close, almost anything plausibly mattered.”
Trump Responds to Jill Biden
President Trump commented on former first lady Jill Biden’s remarks that she feared her husband was having a stroke or was drugged during his 2024 debate with Trump.
Said Trump: “Jill Biden is now out there finally admitting that she did NOT know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe during our spectacular, and highly rated, 2024 Presidential Debate, where Joe was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards.”
He added: “She said that she thought he was having a ‘stroke,’ and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do… The only thing she failed to mention was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse.”
Tom Kean Jr.’s Absence Could Cost GOP a House Seat
Washington Post: “For almost three months, Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s whereabouts and condition have been a mystery in his New Jersey congressional district. Now they are becoming a source of growing alarm for his party in Washington, where Republicans fear his prolonged absence could cost them his swing seat — and possibly their House majority.”
“Kean has not voted in the House since March 5. His district, one of the most affluent in the nation, is also one of the country’s most competitive, a seat Republicans need to hold for a chance to keep a House that they currently control by only a handful of votes. The cost of his absence has already shown up on the House floor.”
Quote of the Day
“When Talarico goes in for a blood test when he gets a physical, blood doesn’t come out. Soy milk comes out. This man has less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett. They would choose a person who looks like he doesn’t belong in the senate but in a cabaret show.”
— White House adviser Stephen Miller, on Fox News.
If It Quacks Like a Lame Duck….
Jonathan Lemire and Michael Scherer: “Even though Trump’s power over his party appears at its pinnacle, many Republicans believe that the president has actually accelerated his own political decline.”
“Many of those primary winners may struggle in November, darkening the GOP’s prospects for keeping control of Congress. And at least some of the defeated incumbents, who will serve on Capitol Hill until next January, now feel liberated to push back on what they dislike in Trump’s agenda.”
“Others in the Senate who are not up for reelection are bitter about the president’s role in their colleagues’ defeat and have shown little interest in helping him pursue his personal-grievance campaign.”
Republicans Still Stuck on Party-Line Immigration Bill
Semafor: “Senate Republicans are still seeking reassurances from the White House on guardrails for President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion fund to compensate people allegedly victimized by the government — and they can’t advance their immigration enforcement bill without an answer.”
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Iowa Could Be Big for Democrats in 2026
Punchbowl News: “Iowa Democrats are dreaming big in 2026, aiming to flip the governor’s mansion, a Senate seat and three House districts.”
“It’s a very tall task given that President Donald Trump carried the Hawkeye State by 13 points in 2024, while Republicans swept all four House seats. Iowa has been getting consistently redder for a generation now.”
“But Democrats insist their ambitious plans this year are possible thanks to a massive voter backlash against Trump’s policies. A cost-of-living crisis is wreaking havoc on Iowa’s rural counties and agricultural economy. Democrats believe that gives them a huge opening.”
43% of Voters Dissatisfied With Both Parties
“Forty-three percent of voters are dissatisfied with both major political parties, according to a recent New York Times/Siena poll — the latest sign that the frustration that has built over the last decade will continue to roil American politics for the foreseeable future.”
AI Billionaires Brace for Pitchforks
“America’s billionaires are developing their own prescriptions for AI-fueled inequality, anxious to defuse a populist revolt aimed at their ballooning fortunes,” Axios reports.
“The AI boom has dramatically raised the stakes of the wealth-tax debate, unleashing a technology that could wipe out millions of jobs while minting the world’s first trillionaires.”
“Populist politicians, particularly on the left, have cast this as capitalism’s next great reckoning: an even deeper concentration of wealth and power in an economy already rigged for the elite.”
Trump’s Iran Approach Sows Confusion
“Three months after President Trump launched war on Iran, his seemingly haphazard approach to the conflict is bewildering allies at home and abroad as he veers between diplomatic dealing, military strikes and increasingly far-fetched ideas,” the New York Times reports.
Inside Putin’s $26 Billion Quest for Longevity
“When Vladimir Putin was captured by a hot mic telling Xi Jinping that humans could achieve immortality by replacing their organs, some dismissed the exchange as eccentric small talk between aging autocrats,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“In fact, during the conversation at a Beijing military parade last September, Putin appeared to be describing a Kremlin-backed longevity initiative that has become one of Russia’s flagship scientific projects.”
“Like Silicon Valley billionaires including Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, Putin has long been fascinated with antiaging research. But in Russia, Putin’s quest to stave off decline is now a state priority relying on methods as wide-ranging as organ printing, harvesting mini-pigs and exposure to ultralow temperatures.”
How Japan Lost 3 Million People in Five Years
“Japan’s population fell by more than 3 million over the past five years, according to official statistics released on Friday, a drop that underscores the depths of the country’s accelerating demographic crisis,” the New York Times reports.
Mamdani Endorses Challenger to Democratic Incumbent
“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is endorsing the democratic socialist primary challenger to Rep. Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus,” Politico reports.
Scrutiny Turns Toward Citizens Who Antagonized Trump
New York Times: “The Justice Department’s examination of E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits against President Trump could prove to be a significant shift in the administration’s campaign of retribution, moving from targeting of public officials to scrutinizing a case brought by an 82-year-old private citizen who has accused him of sexual assault.”
“What sets Ms. Carroll apart is the profoundly personal nature of her assertions about the president. And unlike other prominent figures facing investigative scrutiny — James B. Comey, Letitia James, Adam B. Schiff, John O. Brennan — Ms. Carroll, an author and columnist, never sought a public role, political power or governmental authority.”
Trump Professes Indifference Over Fallout
New York Times: “It is unlikely that the president does not actually ‘care’ about the midterms, the results of which will determine much of the success of the back half of his final term.”
“But Mr. Trump has increasingly adopted a posture of nonchalance in the face of mounting fallout on multiple fronts: an unpopular war that has dragged on longer than he said it would, the creation of a government fund that could benefit his allies, and his fixation on remaking Washington into his vision of a gilded city.”
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