Wall Street Journal: “The Trump administration is expected to propose a change to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that would require half of the components and materials in an automobile to come from U.S. sources in order to qualify for lower tariffs under the pact, according to people familiar with the plans.”
Becerra Leads California Jungle Primary
A new Los Angeles Times/UC Berkeley Poll in California finds Xavier Becerra (D) leading the gubernatorial race with 25%, followed by Steve Hilton (R) at 21% and Tom Steyer (D) at 19%.
The survey provided the clearest indication yet that the three have separated themselves from the rest of the field.
Bondi Defends Handling of Epstein Files
CNBC: “Former Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday defended the Department of Justice’s handling of the release of files about notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in her opening statement to a House panel.”
Exchange of the Day
Paulina Mangubat, creative director for the DNC, was interviewed on the MeidasTouch Network:
MEIDAS TOUCH: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her?
MANGUBAT: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
Donald Trump Has Turned Into Jimmy Carter
Matt Bai: “No president really wants to be compared to Jimmy Carter (rest his soul), but in Donald Trump’s case, the parallels now are hard to ignore. Carter’s presidency was overtaken by a hostage crisis in Iran, where in 1979 followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini seized 66 Americans and held them (or most of them, anyway) for more than a year. The impasse played out as a televised drama… and became entwined in the public mind with uncontrolled inflation, interest rates, and gas prices, while Carter pleaded with Americans to turn down their thermostats and put on sweaters instead. All of it signaled that the country was spiraling and the president overmatched.”
“Almost a half century later, Trump stumbled into his own implacable hostage crisis in Iran, this one entirely of his own making. For several weeks, Iran has held the Straight or Hormuz — and, by extension, the global economy — at gunpoint.”
“Chances for permanently ending the standoff seem to fluctuate by the day, as Trump desperately seeks a way out of the conundrum. As I write this, the most likely outcome seems to be a humiliating capitulation on Trump’s part, in which Iran will loosen its grip on the oil in exchange for a bunch of vague talking points about future accomplishments.”
Extra Bonus Quote of the Day
“I ran in ‘20, I ran in ‘22 and I ran in ’24. This feels different.”
— Iowa State Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott (D). quoted by Punchbowl News on the House race in Iowa’s 3rd district.
‘Swatting’ Attempt at Amy Coney Barrett’s Home
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Virginia home was apparently swatted this week, National Review reports.
Democrats Are Furious the Bidens Won’t Go Away
“Democrats want to move on from 2024. The Bidens won’t let them,” Politico reports.
“Former first lady Jill Biden put a glaring spotlight back on the debate that ended her husband’s political career while promoting her new memoir. Former President Joe Biden is drawing attention again to his audio interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur as he sues the Justice Department to prevent their release.”
“And his scandal-ridden son Hunter Biden, whose past Republicans repeatedly weaponized on the campaign trail, is making headlines again — this time for appearing on a podcast with flame-throwing conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.”
FBI Interviews Election Workers in Wisconsin
Washington Post: “The FBI in recent weeks has interviewed current and former election officials about the 2020 election in Milwaukee, ramping up wide-ranging reviews of voting in the swing states that President Donald Trump lost that year.”
“Election officials are cautiously watching the developments in Milwaukee to see if agents try to seize ballots, as they did in January in Fulton County, Georgia. The confiscation of tens of thousands of absentee ballots from Wisconsin’s largest city would set off alarms because Milwaukee maintains its absentee ballots in a way that could allow agents to determine who voters selected — undermining the secrecy of their ballots.”
Judge Blocks Payouts from ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Fund
A federal judge has temporarily blocked any payouts from the Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” settlement fund, the Associated Press reports.
Trump Spends $5 Million to Coat Horse Statues in Gold
NOTUS: “Four massive bronze horses positioned along the roads surrounding the Lincoln Memorial still shine in the sun from their first restoration in the 1970s. But their gold-toned coating is faded and patchy, and their heavy stone bases are cracked and dirty.”
“The Trump administration wants them glittering with a fresh coat of gold in time for America’s 250th anniversary on July 4. So in mid-April, the National Park Service handed a $5 million contract to a gilding studio in Maryland to repair the statues and cover them with a thick layer of 23.75-karat gold leaf.”
Musicians Keep Bailing from Trump’s Concert
Mediaite: “The musical lineup for President Donald Trump’s ‘Freedom 250’ concert series, marketed as the ‘Great American State Fair,’ has been remarkably hard to keep up-to-date.”
“Just one day after it was announced, two-thirds of the musical acts have dropped out — some even saying they had no idea they were performing at this event or were misled about it being ‘political’ — and the whole mess seems to have reignited a decades-old feud within one group.”
How Spencer Pratt Happens
Andrew Sharp: “Pratt’s political talent is a big and still-underappreciated story here, but the story of his rise is obviously indivisible from that of the Democratic establishment’s decline. Watching this election unfold over the past several weeks, for all Pratt’s success, I’ve been equally struck by the thought that everything that makes Pratt politically viable used to be specialties of the Democratic Party. Boundless energy, good humor, good-looking and telegenic, occasionally stupid but generally likable, embracing technology, targeting opponents as corrupt and out of touch—that is where Dems lived! And that is becoming less true by the day.”
“Next to the 42 year-old Pratt in L.A., there is the 72 year-old Bass, an incumbent mayor endorsed by Kamala Harris who barely made a dent in the crime and homelessness crisis during her first term, infamously boarded a plane to Ghana during the early stages of the worst wildfires in L.A. history, and worked after the fact to obscure the city’s failures.”
China Is Fortifying Its Nuclear Arsenal
Reuters: “In a remote Chinese desert, a vast military complex is taking shape that some security scholars say appears built to ensure no American first strike on China’s nuclear arsenal could reliably knock out Beijing’s ability to hit back.”
“China’s nuclear missiles can already reach any city in the United States. Now, satellite images reviewed by Reuters show Beijing is building a sprawling web of launch pads, bunkers and communications nodes near the isolated nuclear silos that hold the Chinese military’s longest-range missiles.”
Congress Barrels Toward Summer Scrambling for Big Win
Bloomberg: “Republican lawmakers preparing to return to Washington next week hope to leave their epic meltdown over a key funding bill in the rearview mirror.”
“It doesn’t bode well for their ability to turn things around.”
“As lawmakers head toward summer and approach the meat of campaign season, Republicans know they need to put points on the board.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“Does the outcome of this race tell you who’s going to win the nomination? No. But it does tell you there’s a lot of support around a populist economic platform.”
— David Axelrod, quoted by Politico, on how the Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic primary is a good proxy for the 2028 presidential race.
The Rise and Fall of the House Freedom Caucus Leaders
NOTUS: “The group of roughly three dozen far-right lawmakers rose to prominence by derailing legislation and helping to force out GOP speakers. Their relationship with Trump has been complicated over the years, but their power has waned significantly as Trump’s power has grown.”
Trump’s Boat Strikes Have Failed to Curb Cocaine Flow
New York Times: “With deadly precision, the Trump administration has launched dozens of attacks on small boats in the waters off South America, killing nearly 200 people in a campaign U.S. officials say is meant to curb the flow of illicit drugs to the United States.”
“But almost nine months into the operation, epidemiologists, addiction scientists and public health experts say cocaine, by far the top drug smuggled out of South America, is as easy to get in much of the United States as it was before the strikes began.”
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