Trump issued an executive order on policing, seen by most reformers as weak.
The White House threatened to sue Bolton to stop the release of his book.
Excerpts of Bolton’s book were published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday: Mr. Bolton describes several episodes where the president expressed a willingness to halt criminal investigations “to, in effect, give personal favors to dictators he liked,” citing cases involving major firms in China and Turkey. “The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,” Mr. Bolton writes, saying that he reported his concerns to Attorney General William P. Barr.
The Supreme Court overturned Trump’s attempt to end DACA, meaning that the Dreamers are protected for now. Roberts wrote: “We do not decide whether DACA or its rescission are sound policies,” the chief justice wrote. “We address only whether the agency complied with the procedural requirement that it provide a reasoned explanation for its action.”
Here are Peter Bakers 5 takeaways for the New York Times.
Trump fired Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney for SDNY. First Barr fired him on Friday, but Berman refused to step down becasue Barr is not authorized. Then on Saturday Barr said Trump fired him, and Berman agreed to step down because his trusted deputy will take over in his place and continue current cases free of political interference.
Trump’s rally in Tulsa was his first since early March. It was widely under-attended, with only about 6,000 supporters showing up.
According to the New York Times: President Trump and several staff members stood backstage and gazed at the empty Bank of Oklahoma Center in horror…. The campaign had hoped to use the Tulsa event as a reset after the president’s slide in the polls in the wake of his administration’s failures responding to the coronavirus
Facebook on Thursday removed advertisements posted on its platform by the Trump campaign that prominently featured a symbol used by Nazis to classify political prisoners during World War II, saying the imagery violated company policy.
Personal Log: Our daycare opened this week, with strict social distancing measured including only 10 people in a class; we are opting not to attend until maybe the fall. New Jersey allowed other businesses to open this week, including outdoor dining. I saw chain restaurants in north and south Jersey setting up tents and tables in parking lots with diners being seated by masked waiters.
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Trump’s Job Approval: 41.1%
COVID Cases / Deaths: 2,215,618 / 119,055