by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 11. Oh, and don’t forget to vote TOMORROW, Tuesday, from 6 am through 7 pm at your regular polling location.
- Trump And Kim Eager To Declare Success In Singapore ‘No Matter What Happens’
- Trump to Find Out If Bet on Kim Will Pay Off in Historic Summit
- Trump Tries to Destroy the West (“There’s only one explanation that fits his behavior: He wants to break up the alliance that has dominated the past century.”)
- Trump’s ‘Bully’ Attack on Trudeau Outrages Canadians
- Escalating Clash With Canada, Trump Is Isolated Before North Korea Meeting
- Trump’s attacks on Trudeau, tensions at G-7 deepen rift with closest U.S. allies
- Navarro: ‘Special place in hell’ for Trudeau (Wow, this Navarro dude is crazy, although by Trump standards I guess he fits right in.)
- Charles Blow: A Present-Day Bull Connor (“That’s Trump. He sees demands for black equality as an attack on white privilege; he sees any disdain for white supremacy as a disdain for white people. For Trump, American greatness has a hue.”)
- For All His Deals, Trump Has Never Faced an Adversary Like Kim Jong-un
- The Rule of Law Is Crumbling Further Each Day Under Trump (“Trump’s authoritarian doctrine has not been tested by the courts, and seems unlikely to prevail. Still, the fact that it has gotten as far as it has, without producing any serious blowback from his own party, is a measure of how far the peril has advanced. The rule of law in the United States is like a suspension bridge — still upright, but with cables snapping, one by one.”)
- Trump Won’t Stop Tearing Up Papers, So Staffers Tape Them Back Together (Beyond parody.)
- Feuding with Allies, Trump May Need Success in Singapore More than Kim
- Five things to watch for at the US-North Korea summit (“Does Trump stay on script?…What exactly is on the table?”)
- After Tuesday’s Summit, Trump And North Korea Will Be Playing A Whole New Game (“At the summit, Trump’s capriciousness will meet North Korea’s steady endurance. The mere occurrence of the Singapore meeting can be seen as a long-sought victory for North Korea.”)
- Inside Obama’s secret meetings with 2020 contenders (“Still the reluctant leader of the Democratic Party, Obama has been providing counsel to Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other presidential hopefuls.”
- Trump turns the G-7 into the G-6 vs. G-1 (“The president has called into question the fundamental unity of the West.” Putin’s happy, at least.)
- If Trump ignores North Korea’s monstrous crimes, they’ll come back to haunt him (“Nukes matter. So do human rights.”)
- Here’s how Republicans’ advantage in Congress was carefully engineered
- Scott Pruitt’s Anti-Choice, Anti-Environment Protégé Is About to Become a Federal Judge (“And he’s on Trump’s Supreme Court shortlist.” Ee gads.)
- Fox News Calls Trump a “Dictator” Ahead of North Korea Summit (“Whoops.”)
- EDITORIAL: Republicans face a Henry V moment
- Editorial: What to look for in Tuesday’s primaries
- Unpaid staff for Va. Beach progressive hoping for upset over party-backed opponent (“They’re out of money. Even the campaign managers aren’t being paid. But the staff for Virginia Beach Democrat Karen Mallard is relying on a technique that’s free and helped some Democrats win seats last year in state races — the old-fashioned door knock.”)
- New VA governor calls review of DEQ the first step in rebuilding it
- New money for program to help Va. veterans become teachers
- Alexandrians battle over who knew what when in Potomac Yard Metro cuts (“Newly released emails reveal that city officials knew last summer that the planned station could lose its south entrance, closest to hundreds of residences, but the public only learned of the change last month.”)
- Why Nabra? (“One year after a Muslim teen’s brutal rape and murder, her community is still in mourning—and torn over whether her killing was a hate crime.”)
- Tomorrow, Have Your Say at the Polls
- A soggy Monday, but then slowly trending drier and pretty nice
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