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From The Reporter’s Notebook
Politico reported Wednesday that Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump’s ousted campaign manager, lost a $1.2 million book deal after he reportedly refused to provide a publisher with the nondisclosure agreement he signed while working for the campaign. But Lewandowski tweeted later in the day that Politico had “their facts wrong,” TPM’s Sara Jerde reported. “Guess journalistic integrity doesn’t rank as a priority there,” Lewandowski tweeted.
Agree or Disagree?
Josh Marshall: “Now a few people suggested that maybe someone was just pranking Trump — going to the website and signing up various foreign parliamentarians and dignitaries. But this seems far too systematic for that. It does appear to be every member of each parliament. You’d need to collect each email and then manually add them in on the Trump website, somehow get them to confirm the opt-in confirmation email. It’s too complicated. These are lists that were almost certainly added from within the campaign. The only plausible answer seems to be that the Trump campaign either dealt with a sloppy or disreputable list broker or was so desperate after its horrible May FEC report was released that it went to a broker and just said they wanted every list and they’d sort it all out later.”
Say What?!
“She probably would have taken a gun and gone out and shot some of the dishonest reporters.”
– Ben Carson guessed at his mother’s opinion of the 2016 race.
BUZZING: Today in the Hive
From a TPM Prime member: “Sanders absolutely squandered his ability to make his political issues more important to American politics, since about March 15th or so. Once Sanders made the turn from fighting about issues to negative attacks on Clinton’s character & the Democratic party, he started losing. His whole reason for staying in the race has become rigging the primary process so that a candidate like him would win more easily in the future and voters of color would matter less. Not ending caucuses, keeping NH & IA first, opening primaries, and getting rid of superdelegates are all ways to make Independent voters more important, Black & Latino voters less important, and move the party away from its winning coalition.”
Related: A new poll shows Clinton beating Trump in seven battleground states.
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What We’re Reading
Donald Trump’s pro-gay Islamophobia. (Vox)
Friendship in the face of cancer. (The New Yorker)
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