“As the saying goes, if you find yourself in a hole, stop murdering your puppy — and stop digging.” –Tommy Vietor

My latest on Kristi Noem’s canine crisis: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Kristi Noem just won't stop talking about killing her dog. My latest—> washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Another incredible lede (and scoop) from Caroline Kitchener.

If you want to know what’s happening with abortion in America, you need to be following her.

“I hope we don’t ruin Hope,” Trump’s oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., said shortly after his father won the presidency, according to someone who heard his comments and spoke on the condition of anonymity to share candid details of private remarks. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

🚨🚨Such a good story if you want to understand Hope Hicks's arc through Donald Trump's life . The former teenage model proved and savvy operator and witnessed nearly every Trump scandal. By ⁦Ashley Parker⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

“I think that perhaps because she’s glamorous, people underestimated her. But she clearly is very savvy, and she certainly had Trump’s confidence.” via Ashley Parker washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Hope Hicks and Trump have not spoken since late 2022, when she was compelled to testify before Congress about Jan. 6.

Now, she’s set to appear in court talking about Trump again: washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

“I hope we don’t ruin Hope.”

With Hope Hicks set to testify in Trump’s New York trial, my latest on the Zelig of Trumpworld, who can’t seem to escape his chaotic force field.

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On witness 'compared Michael Cohen to the excitable dog character in the animated movie 'Up,' constantly distracted by random things, particularly squirrels.'

Great Devlin Barrett dispatch on one Trump Trial certainty: no one liked Cohen. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Biden is getting feisty when it comes to Trump, a departure from his decency and civility posture… that just may be working. And Matt Viser is ON IT! washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

I have so much empathy for kids in the smart phone era, and am so grateful every single one of my dumb mistakes was not amplified/did not ruin my life. (I saved that for Twitter).

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk—and read this Freya India piece: afterbabel.com/p/a-time-we-ne…

V cool graphic/video from the NYT, posing the same eight questions to a dozen departing lawmakers: nytimes.com/interactive/20…

NEWS: Trump and DeSantis privately met in Florida this morning. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

5,000 miles away, a Michigan mayor at the center of the Gaza storm. Classic Yasmeen Abutaleb dispatch—>
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Today’s must read: Trump on trial - Personal anguish, political defiance and a loss of control. A retrospective on the first two weeks of the former president’s criminal trial in NY via Hannah Knowles Josh Dawsey Ashley Parker: washingtonpost.com/elections/2024…

First grade soccer is actually so exciting, like one player just grabbed a couple of sticks and started rubbing them together at midfield to try and start a fire

Paging Gail Collins… 🐶

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'If all people were always good, courts probably wouldn’t need to exist, but jury selection is a reminder that most people are good.'

Don't sleep on Perry Stein + Devlin Barrett's The Trump Trials newsletter. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…