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A Bounty on American Troops
- NYT: Spies and Commandos Warned Months Ago of Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops
- NYT: Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says
- CNN: Russian intelligence officers offered cash rewards to Taliban fighters to kill US, UK troops in Afghanistan, source says
- WaPo: Russian operation targeted coalition troops in Afghanistan, intelligence finds
- Associated Press: Trump denies briefing on reported bounties against US troops NBC News: Joe Biden Responds To Report Of Russian Bounties On U.S. Troops
- LA Times: Biden slams Trump over reported Russian bounties placed on U.S. troops
- NBC News: ‘As bad as it gets’: Pelosi, Democrats take aim at Trump over Russian bounty intelligence
- Politico: Pelosi on Trump: ‘With him, all roads lead to Putin’
- The Guardian: Outrage mounts over report Russia offered bounties to Afghanistan militants for killing US soldiers (6/27)
Trump’s Racism
- CBS News: Mississippi to remove state flag, the last to display the Confederate battle emblem
- AP: Trump tweets video with ‘white power’ chant, then deletes it
- CNN: Trump thanked ‘great people’ shown in Twitter video in which a man chants ‘white power’
- NPR: Trump Retweets Video Of Apparent Supporter Saying ‘White Power’
- Vox: Trump signs an executive order on prosecuting those who destroy monuments
- Politico: Trump issues executive order warning cities, protesters over destruction of monuments
- Bloomberg News: Trump Tweets Wanted Posters of People in Statue-Teardown Attempt
- CNBC: Trump cranks up attacks on the Black Lives Matter movement for racial justice
- NYT: Twitter Labels Trump Tweet About ‘Racist Baby’ as Manipulated Media
- Politico Playbook: POLITICO Playbook: Trump’s latest zigzag
- Politico: ‘There’s no discipline to his strategy’: Trump is undermining his own campaign
- AP: Trump zeroes in on base to overcome reelection obstacles
- NBC News: Top GOP senator fears Trump is ‘soft’ with independents, urges shift in strategy
- NYT: With Tweets, Videos and Rhetoric, Trump Pushes Anew to Divide Americans
- WaPo: With ‘kung flu,’ ‘thugs,’ and ‘our heritage,’ Trump leans on racial grievance as he reaches for a campaign reset
- NYT: Trump Faces Mounting Defections From a Once-Loyal Group: Older White Voters
- NYT: How Trump and the Black Lives Matter Movement Changed White Voters’ Minds
- CNN: GOP aghast as Trump’s polls sink amid divisive racial rhetoric: ‘It’s been a bad couple weeks’
- WaPo: Black Americans say racism, policing top issues for November, favor Biden by huge margin, Post-Ipsos poll finds
- WaPo: Trump pushes fights over racist legacy while much of America moves in a different direction
Trump asks SCOTUS to repeal ACA
- NYT: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Strike Down Affordable Care Act
- WaPo: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare
- CNN: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to invalidate Obamacare
- NBC News: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare amid pandemic, recession
- The Guardian: Covid-19 survivors could lose health insurance if Trump wins bid to repeal Obamacare
- LA Times: Working-class white women are turning on Trump
- NYT: G.O.P. Faces Risk From Push to Repeal Health Law During Pandemic
- WaPo: Trump’s GOP ‘party of health care’ has no coverage plan for millions amid pandemic
- WaPo: Trump vows complete end of Obamacare law despite pandemic
- Politico: Trump will urge Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare
- The Hill: Trump renews vow on preexisting conditions after urging court to overturn ObamaCare
- CSPAN: Joe Biden Remarks on Health Care
- CNN: Biden says Trump’s ‘senseless crusade’ to end Obamacare would harm those with coronavirus
- NBC News: Biden ties COVID-19 to Trump’s ‘callous’ Obamacare assault: ‘A new pre-existing condition’
- WaPo: Biden attacks Trump on health care, warns his administration’s attack on the ACA could hurt millions
- CNN: Joe Biden expected to make new healthcare push after Trump’s ‘slow down the testing’ comment
Trump does nothing about reports that Russia put a bounty on American troops, shares a video of his supporters chanting “white power,” and asks the Supreme Court to end the Affordable Care Act. Then Biden adviser Ron Klain talks to Jon Favreau about the state of the pandemic, and the state of the 2020 campaign.