- MSNBC
Biden use of f-word ('felon') suggests gloves coming off against Trump
President Joe Biden's description of Donald Trump as a "convicted felon" as a fundraiser in Connecticut may mark the beginning of a new chapter of the 2024 campaign as Democrats figure out how best to amplify Trump's shortcomings. Former Senator Claire McCaskill and Jonathan Martin, senior political columnist for Politico, discuss with Alex Wagner.
- MSNBC
Trump hopes America forgets him weaponizing DOJ against political opponents
Alex Wagner highlights the brazen hypocrisy of Donald Trump and his Republican acolytes working themselves up over the lie that President Joe Biden is secretly controlling the Justice Department to attack Trump, when Trump not only made a campaign mantra out of criminally prosecuting his political opponent ("lock her up"), but burned through attorneys general while shopping for one that would warp the DOJ to his will.
- Associated Press
Hard right is set to surge in this week's European Union elections. Center set to tilt to right, too
It seemed like a throwaway line by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, yet it encapsulated what is at stake for many in this week's European Union parliamentary elections — What to do with the hard right? The top EU leader basically had said that far-right Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, whose party is steeped in post-fascism, could be ready for prime time as a potential coalition partner once the four-day elections across the 27-nation EU end Sunday. During an election debate, von der Leyen declared that Meloni checked all the necessary boxes, the last of which was “pro-rule of law.”
