SCOOP: For years, Bernie Sanders has traveled the country advocating for a $15 per hour minimum wage. His campaign organizers say they aren’t making that much, and they're using his words to protest for higher wages. Via @WaPoSean
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- “Truthfully, it is tough to ignore some of the gross immoral behavior by the president,” said one senior House Republican who requested anonymity to speak frankly. “The reason there was no defense is because there is no defense.”Republican focus on discrediting Cohen leaves little time to defend Trump Via @rachaelmbade washingtonpost.com/politics/repub…
- Trump yesterday: Mail-in voting leads to “forgeries” and “thousands and thousands of fake ballots.” Trump campaign email yesterday to PA supporters: “Request your ballot and cast your vote from your own home.”
- BREAKING: U.S. envoy says he was told release of Ukraine aid was contingent on public declaration to investigate Bidens, 2016 election
- NEW: More than 130 Secret Service officers are said to be infected with coronavirus or quarantining in wake of Trump’s campaign travel by @CarolLeonnig @jdawsey1
- D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on Lafayette Square clearing: "I think we need a thorough investigation about what occurred there. Why was the crowd cleared? Who did it? Was it legal?”
- NEW: Secret Service plans to ramp up protection of Biden in anticipation of his possible win by @CarolLeonnig
- BREAKING via @PostRoz @hsu_spencer: Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina poised to plead guilty in case involving Kremlin attempts to influence NRA
- Said one former World Patent Marketing customer who lost $77,000 of Whitaker: “It’s really upsetting to know that guy will be attorney general. It’s so offensive. It’s like a stab in the back.” wapo.st/2qzax96?tid=ss…
- NEW DEETS: DeJoy is in frequent contact with top Republican Party officials and met with the president in the Oval Office last week in advance of a tense meeting that DeJoy had with Pelosi and Schumer.
- This letter from the GOP-majority Maricopa County board to the GOP state Senate president is scorching. washingtonpost.com/politics/maric…
- The title of Mary Trump's book, due out in July: "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man"
- BREAKING: Mueller told the attorney general that the depiction of his findings failed to capture ‘context, nature, and substance’ of probe wapo.st/2J6s7vF
