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‘We Have A Rigged Country’: Trump Speaks Out For First Time After Arraignment . . . Former President Donald Trump spoke out during an impromptu visit to a Miami-area café after his arraignment on Tuesday. “We have a rigged country. We have a country that’s corrupt,” Trump said at the Versailles Restaurant, where a number of ministers prayed with the former president after his court appearance. “We have a county that’s got no borders. We have a country that’s got nothing but problems. We’re a nation in decline and then they do this stuff — and you see where the people are.” Daily Caller

WSJ: Trump is obviously innocent under the Presidential Records Act . . . Although the indictment against Donald Trump doesn’t cite the Presidential Records Act, the charges are predicated on the law. The indictment came about only because the government thought Mr. Trump took records that didn’t belong to him, and the government raided his house to find any such records. This should never have happened. The Presidential Records Act allows the president to decide what records to return and what records to keep at the end of his presidency. And the National Archives and Records Administration can’t do anything about it. I know because I’m the lawyer who lost the “Clinton sock drawer” case. Wall Street Journal

Spy Tool Helped FBI Solve Pipeline Hack, Other Major Crimes, U.S. Officials Say . . .  Biden administration pushes to renew spying law that privacy advocates say inappropriately collects data without a warrantIntelligence gleaned through a surveillance program due to lapse at the end of the year helped U.S. investigators solve a 2021 cyberattack that prompted the shutdown of the largest conduit of fuel on the East Coast, and claw back millions of dollars in ransom the pipeline’s operator paid to the perpetrators, senior U.S. officials said. The program, authorized under what is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, enabled the administration to confirm the identity of the hacker responsible for the attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which caused a dayslong gasoline shortage, the officials said. Wall Street Journal

Tucker Carlson: Trump Is The One Guy Who Could Be President Who Dissents From Washington's War Agenda . . . Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue on former President Donald Trump and the war agenda in Washington in his monologue on the third episode of 'Tucker on Twitter.' RealClear Politics

See Tucker's Ep. 3 HERE

Key Evidence Donald Trump's Lawyers Want for His Defense . . . Lawyers for former President Donald Trump will likely be searching for two categories of evidence following the federal indictment related to classified documents that were previously found at his Mar-a-Lago residence, according to a legal expert.

"Trump's lawyers are looking for two broad categories of evidence in discovery: evidence that is exculpatory and evidence that impeaches government witnesses," Neama Rahmani, the president of West Coast Trial Lawyers and a former federal prosecutor, told Newsweek on Tuesday. Newsweek

Video | The media’s ‘defiant’ Donald Trump

The media always reveal themselves. Good people are not “defiant,” they “refuse to back down,” etc.

Movement to decide presidency by popular vote gains states, momentum but also faces challenges . . . A compact to change the Electoral College to electing a president by the national popular vote is only 65 electoral votes away from taking effect. The effort to change how the United States elects its presidents – from the existing Electoral College process to a national popular vote – is gaining momentum, but critics are questioning its legality and whether it improves the country's election system. Sixteen states and Washington, D.C., have joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, with Minnesota being the latest and Michigan and Nevada considering it. Just the News

America is a republic. By design. And by people wiser than those leading this movement.

Biden’s land grab hurts working people . . . The most unequal county in the United States isn’t in New York or California . It’s actually in the heart of flyover country, Teton County in Wyoming , to be exact. Drawn by Grand Teton National Park and the Jackson Hole ski area, wealthy people have flocked there, buying land and building huge luxury houses. But they have not been content simply to enjoy their own property. The allure of Teton County is its pristine natural environment, and the new residents have done everything in their power to limit residential development near them, driving up housing costs and forcing middle-class residents to move away. The only people left are the wealthy in their big homes and a poor class of renters, many of them servants and foreign. Hence the highest levels of income inequality in the nation. Washington Examiner

Allies Pressure Biden to Hasten NATO Membership for Ukraine . . . President Biden, who has been cautious about getting NATO into a direct fight with Moscow, has sought to maintain the status quo of more than a decade: a vague promise that Ukraine, now arguably the most powerful military force in Europe, will eventually join the alliance, but with no set timetable.

Now a debate has broken out among the allies that is putting pressure on Mr. Biden to support a significantly faster and more certain path to membership for Ukraine. For Mr. Biden, all the options carry considerable risks, pitting his desire not to allow any fractures to appear in NATO against his standing instruction to his staff to “avoid World War III.” New York Times

Poland Says ‘Nie’ to Another Nordic NATO Chief, Splitting Alliance . . . Warsaw said to oppose front-runner Danish prime minister and to favor Estonian leader. The front-runner to be the next chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will face opposition from Poland, European officials said, underscoring a rift among the alliance’s member states over its future 18 months into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Resistance from Warsaw could ultimately cost Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen a shot at the job, since the NATO secretary-general must be selected by consensus of all 31 member states, European officials said. Wall Street Journal

Why China appears ready to go to war with the US over Taiwan . . . As the only nation standing between China and Taiwan, US battle readiness has never been more vital. But the US remains woefully unprepared even as every sign from Xi suggests he’s readying himself to rumble. First, the war drums – loud ones. In October, Xi installed a “War Cabinet” comprised of seven men, all Xi loyalists, after removing advisors favoring reforms from the all-powerful Politburo.  Analysis by Rebekah Koffler | NY Post

Ukraine loses 16 US-made armored vehicles, group says, but Kyiv’s forces still gain territory . . . Ukraine has lost 16 US-supplied armored vehicles in the past several days, according to open-source intelligence analysis, as the country’s military announced its forces had captured three villages from Russia in an offensive in the eastern Donetsk region. The 16 US Bradley infantry fighting vehicles either destroyed or damaged and abandoned in recent days represent almost 15% of the 109 that Washington has given Kyiv. CNN

Belarus starts taking delivery of Russian nuclear weapons . . . Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said his country has started taking delivery of Russian tactical nuclear weapons, some of which he said were three times more powerful than the atomic bombs the US dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. The deployment is Moscow's first move of such warheads - shorter-range less powerful nuclear weapons that could potentially be used on the battlefield - outside Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Reuters

Kremlin unveils windfall tax to raise Rbs300bn from oligarchs . . . Russia has unveiled a windfall tax on big companies to raise an estimated Rbs300bn ($3.6bn) from its oligarchs, as the war in Ukraine continues to stretch the Kremlin’s finances. The proposed levy, outlined in a draft bill introduced on Tuesday, will require Russian groups making profits of more than Rbs1bn a year since 2021 to pay a one-off tax worth up to 10 per cent of the gains. One senior cabinet official claimed the idea for the levy had come from the companies themselves, who realised they had made “gigantic” profits during the period that needed to be properly taxed. Financial Times

Money

Bud Light sales slump continues amid Dylan Mulvaney controversy . . . The backlash against the Bud Light brand over the Dylan Mulvaney controversy is lingering and sales of the beer continue to slide. For the week ending June 3, Bud Light sales were down 24.4% compared to a year ago. Over the last four weeks ending June 3, the data showed Bud Light sales were down 24.6% relative to the same period last year. The sales slump began after Anheuser-Busch InBev – the parent company of Budweiser and Bud Light – sent personalized Bud Light cans to a number of social media influencers including transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, who identifies as female. Fox Business

The worst marketing decision since "New Coke."

Hunter Biden Ghosted Baby Mama During Pregnancy, Texts Show . . . President’s crackhead son yanked health insurance from mistress shortly after birth of daughter. For months in 2018, a very pregnant Lunden Alexis Roberts was unable to reach Hunter Biden, the father of her soon-to-be-born daughter. He screened her calls. He ignored her messages. Six weeks after their daughter’s birth, she tried one more time. Free Beacon

Body positivity yet another woke flight of fancy — and we’ll all pay a heavy price . . . This is supersized entitlement. Back in April plus-sized travel influencer Jaelynn Chaney made a bizarre demand. Not a request, but a “Demand for the FAA to Protect Plus-Size Travelers” in the form of a Change.org petition. She believes larger air travelers who need a second seat should not be charged for the extra real estate. Who absorbs the cost? We do. In a new interview with CNN Travel, Chaney doubled down on her call for the Federal Aviation Administration to mandate all airlines to adopt this policy. NY Post

Much Of America’s Political Divide Is An Illusion . . . If you’ve read or listened to the news in recent years, you’ve likely heard a refrain that goes something like this: America is stuck in an ongoing political and cultural cold war between two entrenched sides that don’t see eye to eye on anything. This familiar, sweeping narrative would have casual news consumers believe that just about everyone in America has picked a side in an existential battle for the future of the country. Pursuasion

Not sure I agree.

Bored Journalist Sick And Tired Of Flawless U.S. President . . . At a recent support group to help journalists deal with having little to write about concerning the Commander-in-chief, one member of the White House press expressed frustration at having such a flawless U.S. president. "I'm just sick and tired of having a President so free of fault or blemish that I have nothing to write about," said Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for The New York Times. "One can write only so many repetitive articles announcing popular, non-controversial executive orders before wishing the President would trip, or maybe muddle his words. Ugh, anything." Babylon Bee

VIDEO | Biden teaches Trump the smart way to hide classified documents . . . White House Dossier

You won’t get prosecuted for this!