Glenn Kessler: “Given numerous news reports about people dying because they stopped getting American aid, you would think Rubio’s staff would have prepared him with a better answer than ‘lie’ and ‘false.’ His cleanup response wasn’t much better. The issue is not that other nations are reducing funding — but how the United States suddenly pulled the plug, making it more likely that people would die.”

“There is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over whether tens of thousands — or hundreds of thousands — have died. But you can’t call it a lie. Rubio earns Four Pinocchios.”

“Russia has gathered 50,000 troops, including some of its most battle-hardened forces, on Ukraine’s northern border for an imminent offensive,” the Times of London reports.

Paul Krugman: “Presumably the Trumpists will try to undo this judgment, one way or another — exploiting other loopholes in the law, maybe trying to bully the Court into submission, maybe just defying the Court altogether. But this is a huge political defeat, and Trump has nobody to blame except his own overreach.”

“You can bet that trade negotiators around the world are snickering, and maybe celebrating with TACOs for lunch.”

President Trump said he envisions a nuclear deal with Iran that would allow the destruction of “whatever we want” in the country including labs, a version of an inspections regime that is likely to be rejected by Tehran, Bloomberg reports.

Trump briefly outlined his vision of a deal that is “very strong, where we can go in with inspectors. We can take whatever we want. We can blow up whatever we want. But nobody getting killed.”

“An obscure federal court blew up the cornerstone of President Trump’s economic agenda last night, unleashing more chaos on the global economy and all but wiping out his negotiating leverage with trading partners,” Axios reports.

“At least for now, it turns out the legal system — not the bond market, nor weak economic indicators — is the biggest restraint on Trump’s trade agenda.”