🚨 🦊 NEW ... Source tells me Trump plans to use vote-count rallies to "wreck Fox" so he can start his own paid MAGA channel, built from his campaign text-message database: "He's going to spend a lot of time slamming Fox"
🦊 NEW in
@axios
AM:
@FoxNews
sends cease-and-desist to
@TuckerCarlson
, who ramps up plans for "Tucker on Twittter"
>>Ep. 3, on Trump indictment, drops tomorrow
>>Tucker adds staff, books big-name guests
>>Lawyer tells me: "Tucker will not be silenced"
🥊 Former AG Bill Barr brings down the house today at a Forum Club of Southwest Florida lunch in Naples —
and suggests he'd vote Trump if there's no Biden alternative:
"Voting for Trump is playing Russian roulette with the country. Voting for Biden is outright national suicide"
🚨 SCOOP in
@Axios
AM: Former SecDef Mark Esper, fired by Trump, writes in "A Sacred Oath," out 5/10, that a red-faced Trump said as demonstrators filled DC after George Floyd's death:
"Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something?"
🚨NEW in
@axios
AM:
@SpeakerMcCarthy
has given
@TuckerCarlson
exclusive access to 41,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage from 1/6
Carlson producers were on Capitol Hill last week to begin digging through the trove
📺 Excerpts begin in coming weeks
🚨 "THE RED MIRAGE" ... Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns
@margarettalev
on
@Axios
on
@HBO
@HBODocs
that Trump could win electoral college and popular vote on election night -- potentially in landslide -- then lose when mail votes counted
💰NEW: Trump campaign hauls in $5 million+ since indictment news broke
•Over $4m in first 24 hrs, as campaign announced
•Over $1m in second 24 hrs, campaign tells
@axios
@JasonMillerinDC
: "a whole new group of Trump supporters who are angered by" news
⚡️
@realDonaldTrump
,
@IvankaTrump
announcement @ 3 p.m.: A key goal is retraining workers so they can fill data-economy jobs that are created in their current workplaces, rather than being laid off
⚡️On
@NBCNews
@TODAYshow
,
@SavannahGuthrie
to
@NancyPelosi
: “Do you believe the special counsel should honor...the Department of Justice guidance that...a sitting president cannot be indicted?" Pelosi: “I do not think that that is conclusive. No, I do not”
🍦 by
@jonathanvswan
: Axios obtains a spreadsheet, circulating in Republican circles, that meticulously previews probes Dems will likely launch if they flip the House
🧨 it’s official ... Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Democrats on Sunday evening that the House will be called back from August recess — likely on Saturday, Axios is told — to act to "save the Postal Service."
🧐NEW: Biden's cheat sheets, from
@axios
@HansNichols
Biden's reliance on notecards to explain his own positions, on questions he knows are coming (sometimes at closed-door fundraisers), is raising some donors' worries about his age
Behind the scenes👇
🚨 Scoop ... Top sources tell me Trump has no plan to call for national unity. "No chance," says a person who talks often to the president. A senior Republican who talks often to Trump said the president is "angry ... volatile ... disconsolate"
🚨 Source close to Trump tells
@jonathanvswan
that an emergency declaration remains the most likely ultimate option ... Conservatives, including sources in the conservative legal orbit around Trump, don’t like what they view as an abuse of this authority
🚨
@alaynatreene
in
@axios
Sneak Peek: Pence former chief of staff Marc Short, former press sec Alyssa Fara and former nat-sec adviser Keith Kellogg cooperate with 1/6 committee. Source tells us Short, Kellogg wouldn't have cooperated without Pence approval
🚨💥
@axios
@JimVandeHei
: It's as if God or the galaxy, or whatever you believe in, are screaming for politicians and the public to pop our bubbles and pay attention — believe our eyes. ... Think about the no. of educated people in your life who believe BS
🚽FIRST on
@axios
: Trump’s telltale toilet …
@maggieNYT
obtained these photos ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book “Confidence Man”
Source tells her pic on the left shows a White House commode
Pic on the right is from a Trump overseas trip
🚨 Spoiler alert: Arizona "recount" finds Biden won (bigger): After all that, the new tally widens “Biden’s margin by 360 more votes than certified results,”
@washingtonpost
reports
Scoop: sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling. Staff dejected, defeated....
🚨 JUST DROPPED ... Ep 1 of "Off the Rails,"
@axios
@jonathanvswan
,
@zacharybasu
fly-on-the-wall reporting from Trump final days: POTUS acted out premature victory speech in OCTOBER ... Most infamous line of election night speech wasn't in prompter
🚨 SCOOP
@sarafischer
@axios
:
CNN's Chris Licht scrutinizes talent for partisan tone ... monitoring anchors including Jim
@Acosta
,
@brianstelter
to see if they can comport w new style — no interviews that look like stunts
Those who can't may get canned
📚NEW from
@axios
AM: Trump obsession w
@maggieNYT
included threats to expose sources — per her "Confidence Man," out Tue.:
Trump "would bellow that he wanted administration officials to obtain my phone records and identify my sources." No sign anyone did
🚨 🎧 Exclusive audio sneak from
@jonkarl
@ThisWeekABC
Mar-a-Lago interview for "Betrayal," coming Tue. ... Trump defends chants of "hang Mike Pence": "The people were very angry ... How can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?"
🚨🚨
@NikkiHaley
will suspend her campaign with 10 a.m. remarks, top source tells
@axios
, confirming
@WSJ
WON'T ENDORSE TRUMP: Instead, she'll encourage Trump "to earn the support of Republicans and independent voters who backed her," The Journal reports
🚨The midterm results were actually a terrible leading indicator for Trump 2020: Turns out that without Hillary atop the ticket, Midwest states like Wisconsin are tough for him — Southern states with rising Hispanic populations are getting more Democratic
🍿 7,500-word reporting tour de force
@jonathanvswan
Preparations for Trump II are far more advanced/ambitious than previously reported. What's happening behind the scenes is the REVERSE of the slapdash start to '17
REVENGE TOURS are on the drawing board
"A detailed look at how Trump and his allies used clandestine hotel-room meetings, payoffs, and complex legal agreements to keep affairs — sometimes multiple affairs he carried out simultaneously — out of the press."
😢Sobering stat from
@caitlinnowens
leads
@axios
AM:
Guns have passed cars as the leading cause of death for America's kids, per CDC data
2/3 were homicides
Guns kill more young men; cars kill more young women
📨 Sign up for AM
hot in
@Axios
AM ... James
@Comey
compares Trump to mob boss during taping with
@ABC
@GStephanopoulos
(airs Sun. @ 10pm; "A Higher Loyalty" book out Tue.) ... source tells me interview is "going to shock the president and his team" See the promo:
🚨 NEW ...
@axios
@SophiaCai99
aboard Trump Force One, leaving Waco after rally
Trump, w/o evidence, suggests Bragg has dropped Stormy case:
"I think they've already dropped the case ... It's a fake case. Some fake cases, they have absolutely nothing"
🚨 NEW
@axios
:
@JohnKerry
to leave
@POTUS
administration in coming months to help
@JoeBiden
campaign
>>Says Biden's reelection is "single biggest" difference that can be made on climate in '24
Deets ⬇️
🚨 NEW in
@Axios
AM:
@maggieNYT
&
@jonathanvswan
sign deal for definitive book on Donald Trump's final act in public life
• More enduring than a campaign book: Lots of juicy inside-the-room detail but also deeply reported, longer arc
👇 Full details:
NEW: Trump’s lawyers tell
@Axios
they want SECOND special prosecutor ASAP; they are more upset w/ FBI than Mueller. They want an investigator to investigate the investigation
🤬Old yeller …
@axios
@AlexThomp
: Behind closed doors, Biden has such a temper that some aides try to avoid meeting him alone. POTUS classics:
•"God dammit, how the f**k don't you know this?!”
•"Don't f**king bullsh*t me!"
•"Get the f**k out of here!"
📚 NEW:
@MarkLeibovich
vivisects Trumptown in "This Town" sequel ... "Thank You for Your Servitude," out 7/12
Leibo tells me the book's stars are the "Republican collaborators who enabled him despite profound misgivings"
Preorder
⚡ crashing through Trump's red line ... Rep. Eric Swalwell, a senior Democrat on House Intel, tells
@jonathanvswan
: "We are going to take an MRI to any Russian financing that the Trump Organization and the president may have had"
🐊 Some candidates struggle to nail their message.
@RonDeSantis
struggles to nail his NAME
In videos and interviews in the past week, the governor has gone back and forth between Dee-Santis and Deh-Santis, per reporting by
@axios
@AlexThomp
,
@SophiaCai99
🚨 NEW in
@axios
AM w/
@sarafischer
:
"Succession"-worthy media power play, starring 3 moguls!
Michael Bloomberg is interested in acquiring either Wall Street Journal parent company Dow Jones or The Washington Post, per a source familiar with his thinking
Why China is winning, from
@jonathanvswan
and me: Trump desperately wants the upcoming summit in Singapore to work. Going hard against China now could derail an already fraught journey
🍦 Scoop w
@JimVandeHei
: As a sign of the mood inside, officials at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue tell us that Trump is complaining about his incoming chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, in conversations inside the West Wing and with Capitol Hill
🚨
@HolmesJosh
tells
@jonathanvswan
: “Private polling shows the enthusiasm shift is ... unmistakable in the red states that will determine control of the Senate”
Long Hogg summer:
@davidhogg111
, who graduated yesterday and plans to work on voter registration during his gap year ahead, told me: "I’m glad I’m getting my diploma and not my death certificate"
Data from
@jonathanvswan
: The signals look every bit as bad for Republicans as they did for House Democrats when they got wiped out in the 2010 Tea Party wave
🚨 NEW
@axios
: Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman tells us he's defecting from Trump for '24:
"It is time for the Republican Party to turn to a new generation of leaders and I intend to support one of them in the presidential primaries"
🚨 leading
@axios
AM: In a foreshadowing of how much uglier U.S. politics could get, top Democratic operatives are already talking about impeachment of Brett Kavanaugh as a 2020 campaign issue if he gets confirmed to the Supreme Court