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The Gettysburg Address was 272 words -- while Trump's ramp talk topped at 1798

Writing in CNN, Chris Cillizza says that although President Trump planned for his Tulsa rally to be a reinvigorating kickstart to his campaign, it turned out to be something very different -- "a window into a deeply insecure President fixated on an episode of perceived weakness following the commencement address he delivered to West Point cadets a week earlier."

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Fired US Attorney handed over a slate of Trump cases to tackle to his deputy

Audrey Strauss has just taken over a slate of cases involving President Donald Trump, now that Attorney General Bill Barr has removed U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman.

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Columbus police accused of pepper-spraying double amputee and 'stealing' his prosthetic legs

Police in Columbus, Ohio were accused on Sunday of stealing two prosthetic legs from a double amputee after he was pepper sprayed at a protest.

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'A mid-level 80s band is what he got': The View's Meghan McCain mocks Trump's Tulsa 'very small' crowd size

All of the co-hosts of "The View" piled on President Donald Trump's epic failure in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday.

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Trump campaign inundated with calls from ‘nervous donors and Republican lawmakers’ following Tulsa rally 'disaster': report

President Donald Trump’s June 20 MAGA rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma was expected to draw more than 19,000 people. But according to the Tulsa Fire Department, fewer than 6200 people attended. Trump’s campaign has disputed that number, yet the fact is that the rally wasn’t nearly as well-attended as the president hoped it would be. Reporters Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni examine the possible reasons for the poor attendance in an article for the New York Times.

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Legal expert warns: Barr’s firing of SDNY prosecutor illustrates the frightening ‘Orbánification of the American system of governance’

Attorney General William Barr is being inundated with criticism over the firing of federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman from the Southern District of New York, which has been conducting investigations of President Donald Trump and his allies. One of those critics is attorney Paul Rosenzweig, who served as a senior counsel during the investigation of President Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. And in an article for The Atlantic, Rosenzweig warns that the firing of Berman is the type of thing one would expect from far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

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Trump rallygoers mystified by BLM protests: ‘We don’t see color'

President Donald Trump's supporters encountered Black Lives Matter protesters outside his Tulsa campaign rally -- and they were confused by what they saw.

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There are three possibilities why Barr fired SDNY's Geoffrey Berman -- and none of them are good: legal analysts

Writing in The Atlantic this Monday, Quinta Jurecic and Benjamin Wittes ask why Attorney General Bill Barr would fire a federal prosecutor just 5 months before the 2020 election. The reason behind abrupt dismissal of the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, is still a mystery, but Jurecic and Wittes have a few ideas why it may have happened.

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RNC chair slams 'fake TikTok' but insists 'million sign-ups' for Trump rally were 'very real'

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Monday claimed that up to a million "very real" people signed up for President Donald Trump's rally in Tulsa -- even though only 6,200 were said to have attended the event.

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Bill Barr's excuses for why he fired SDNY's Berman don't add up: Texas law professor

Stephen Vladeck, the A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, walked through the strange case of U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman and why he was removed by Attorney General Bill Barr out of the blue.

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NASCAR fans snapping up Confederate merchandise as Bubba Wallace noose incident investigated

On CNN Monday, following the incident where a noose was found in the garage of Black NASCAR racer Bubba Wallace, sports reporter Andy Scholes said that NASCAR's decision to prohibit the Confederate battle banner at their events and properties has only led to a surge of support for the symbol among many NASCAR fans.

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Top Trump advisor who called workers 'human capital stock' is exiting the White House

A top Trump advisor who helped the administration with its efforts to downplay the scope and toll of the coronavirus pandemic is quitting – again. Kevin Hassett, Senior Advisor to the President for Economic Issues, will be leaving the White House this summer after re-joining the administration in March.

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