Border / Auto Tariffs / ICE
- Trump’s threat to close US-Mexico border is to please voters, experts say by Sabrina Siddiqui (The Guardian)
- Trump says Mexico auto tariff threat supersedes new NAFTA pact by Doug Palmer (Politico)
- Trump withdraws ICE director pick to take agency in ‘tougher direction’ by Katie Galioto (Politico)
- President Trump Just Abandoned His Threat to Shut Down the U.S.-Mexico Border by Jill Colvin (TIME)
- House Democrats are suing the Trump administration over the border wall by Li Zhou (Vox)
- AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s Mexico mirage by Calvin Woodward and Mark Stevenson (AP)
- Twenty states file motion to block Trump border wall funding (Al Jazeera)
- -by Matthew Choi (Politico)
Mueller Report / Cohen
- New hints of the Mueller report: Did Trump simply get rolled by the Russians? by Heather Digby Parton (Salon)
- Barr is “in open warfare” with Mueller’s team as his own credibility crumble: former DOJ official by Cody Fenwick (Salon)
- Michael Cohen offers Democrats 14 million files on Donald Trump in bid to delay prison sentence by Shira Tarlo (Salon)
- Trump investigation: Michael Cohen tells congress he has access to 14 million files of ‘significant value’ by Adam Forrest (Independent)
- Opinion: We already knew Barr’s summary was too easy on Trump. Public records prove it. by Marcy Wheeler (Washington Post)
- Michael Cohen Claims He Has Evidence of Possible Illegal GOP Contributions From China by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Are Republicans Lying About the Mueller Report? by William Saletan (Slate)
- How Congress Can Get Around a New Ruling That Threatens the Release of the Mueller Report by Brianne Gorod, Ashwin Phatak (Slate)
- What a Decades-Old Grand Jury Probe Just Revealed About the Mueller Report by Deana K. El-Mallawany (Politico)
Trump Investigations / Tax Returns
- The Mueller Investigation Is Over, But Trump’s Legal Problems Are Not by Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux (FiveThirtyEight)
- Has Trump Been Grooming the I.R.S.’s Top Lawyer to Hide His Tax Returns? by Eric Lutz (Vanity Fair)
- Trump lawyer pushes back on House panel’s tax return request (Al Jazeera)
- President Trump’s Attorney Says the IRS Cannot Legally Release His Tax Returns by Kevin Freking (TIME)
Other News
- Donald Trump urges US Fed to cut interest rates (BBC)
- Trump urges Fed to lower U.S. interest rates by Steve Holland, Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters)
- Trump Killed a Science Panel. It Got Back Together To Send an “Extremely Urgent” Warning. by Oliver Milman (Mother Jones)
- Trump Is About to Make the Pork Industry Responsible for Inspecting Itself by Tom Philpott (Mother Jones)
- Mystery Man in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago/China Scandal Prompts Counterintelligence Concerns by David Corn, Daniel Schulman, Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Trump Wants U.S. Treasurer Jovita Carranza To Lead Small Business Administration by Sasha Ingber (NPR)
- Trump hits back at Barbara Bush: ‘She was nasty to me, but she should be’ by Caitlin Oprysko (Politico)
- Trump to skip WHCA dinner, will host rally instead by Rebecca Morin (Politico)
- Controversial Trump pick gets World Bank top job (BBC)
- Trump to skip White House correspondents’ dinner again by Brett Samuels, Judy Kurtz (The Hill)
- Trump Administration’s Census Citizenship Question Plans Halted By Third Judge by Hansi Lo Wang (NPR)
- Federal judge in Maryland blocks Trump administration’s plan to add citizenship question to 2020 Census by Tara Bahrampour (Washington Post)
- Donald Trump Did Not Coin the Phrase “Make America Great Again” by Abigail Weinberg (Mother Jones)
- Donald Trump Is Having a Full-Blown Meltdown Over Joe Biden by Tina Nguyen (Vanity Fair)
Analysis
- The increasingly suspicious pattern behind Trump’s nominees by Aaron Blake (Washington Post)
Opinion
- Trump: You Wanna Talk About Inappropriate Touching, I’m Your Guy by Bess Levin (Vanity Fair)
- Trump and Pompeo are failing the American hostages in Iran by Jason Rezaian (Washington Post)