A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. A Curious Wrinkle In The MAL Case The NYT and WaPo separately reported last night on what appears to be the same subpoena from…
First. Follow the money is always a sound strategy when investigating DJT.
Yep! Especially since Watergate.
Nazi swastika flag found after truck crashes near White House | Washington DC | The Guardian
Oh and the right wing already know it is a false flag
People are already calling this alleged U-Haul attack near the White House a false flag – twitchy.com
Because of course he did
Trump hurls more lurid claims at E. Jean Carroll after she asks court to punish him again (msn.com)
Back in the olden days of the late 1960s, there was a SUGGESTED admission price to the Met of ONE DOLLAR. On our last NYC trip (in Spring 2019), it was TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS. I know locals get in for a lot less, but considering the size of their endowment, it’s ridiculous.
This looks like excellent advice!
The juiciest bit of news in the MM is the subpoena on Trump’s business deals with foreign nationals as part of the classified docs investigation.
I’m trying not to get too excited about this. It may just be to rule out trading classified info in a business deal. But if it isn’t, and he did it after leaving office… this is huge.
Maybe he really can destroy Fox…Here’s hoping
Trump Tears Into Laura Ingraham Over ‘Hit Piece’—‘There Go Her Ratings!’ (msn.com)
FOX news is so woke
In the story, reporter Mary Margaret Olohan writes that Fox’s employee handbook allows employees to use “bathrooms that align with their gender identity, rather than their biological sex,” permits them to “dress in alignment with their preferred gender,” and requires that their coworkers use “their preferred name and pronouns in the workplace.”
She’ll end up with all his money at this rate.
Harlan Crow is not a law guy. He’s an outcomes guy.
O/T: Gangs of Los Angeles.
Unpaywalled archive link: https://archive.is/ljZbQ
Trump cannot shut up … for him it’s like not breathing
The debt ceiling pseudo-negotiations grind on, meaning that Biden had to cut short his G-7 visit and ditch the Quad meeting in Australia, as well as cancel the trip to New Guinea (the largest island in the Second Island Chain barrier against Chinese expansion into the Southwest Pacific).
Note the situation on which the press is silent: the Republicans perpetually squawk about the Chinese threat, to the point of saying we shouldn’t support Ukraine because it somehow weakens the US position against China. Likewise they make baseless accusations that Biden and his family are Chinese puppets. DeSantis is even banning Chinese cits from owning Florida property.
Yet they have no compunction about manufacturing an artificial and needless crisis that prevents Biden from meeting with allied nations to discuss countering China:
Nice police force you have got Flordia and just think you paid EXTRA money for this
DeSantis’s $13.5m police program lures officers with violent records to Florida | Florida | The Guardian
Numerous police officers lured to new jobs in Florida with cash from Governor Ron DeSantis’s flagship law enforcement relocation program have histories of excessive violence or have been arrested for crimes including kidnapping and murder since signing up, a study of state documents has found.
Florida’s Republican attorney general, Ashley Moody, said in April last year as DeSantis announced one-time $5,000 bonuses for new recruits.
– are a sizable number who either arrived with a range of complaints against them, or have since accrued criminal charges, the online media outlet Daily Dot has discovered.
They include a former trainee deputy with the Escambia county sheriff’s office charged with murdering her husband; an officer with the Miramar police department fired for domestic battery and kidnapping; and a former member of the New York police department (NYPD) who was hired by the Palm Beach police department having once been accused of an improper sexual proposition.
That officer, named by the Daily Dot as Daniel Meblin, was also part of a $160,000 settlement by the NYPD for violence at a 2020 protest against the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in which officers were accused of beating Black males without provocation.
A Palm Beach police spokesperson told the Daily Dot that Meblin – who had complaints against him including abuse of authority and sexually propositioning a teenager – had disclosed his background during the hiring process, according to the NYPD watchdog 50-a.org.
He is determined to make things worse for himself.
He just can’t help himself. Trump now claims E. Jean Carroll made a racist comment about her husband. pic.twitter.com/7uNYnUD2yG
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) May 23, 2023
E. Jean Carroll’s next court win over Sexual Predator should include an automatic $10 Million for each future defamation, just to save the court’s time. Another possibility is the court rachets up the award by a few magnitudes in response to his continuing egregious behavior. It’s only fair to make the penalty as much as tfg needs to get his alleged attention.
