- Justin Elliott, Brett Murphy, Joshua Kaplan and Alex Mierjeski @ ProPublica: Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large group of other Russian guests.
- Michelle Boorstein @ The Washington Post: Why a lawyer who launched the Christian legal movement believes it’s gone astray
John Whitehead says the Christian legal movement is not what he envisioned when he launched the Rutherford Institute in 1982.
- Laura Esposito @ The Daily Beast: White House Credits Trump With Remarkable Weather Feat
The president’s powers have apparently extended to the miraculous.
- Alexander Willis @ Raw Story: ‘Very thoughtful guy’: Mike Johnson runs cover for ‘Nazi imagery’ MAGA candidate
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doubled down Sunday on his support for a GOP candidate who has called children "c-- trophies" and embraced "Nazi imagery" online, claiming Brandon Herrara is the "common sense" choice.
- Sean James @ Mediaite: Texas GOP Candidate Condemned By Fellow Republicans for ‘Racist’ Post About Non-White Students: ‘Makes Me Sick’
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and several other Republicans denounced GOP candidate Bo French for posting a “racist” picture where he complained about a bunch of non-white students celebrating the University of Texas football team’s wild comeback victory against Ohio State.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: GOP candidate Michael Whatley’s “integrity” prayer was led by a registered sex offender
Pastor Daimon L. King, twice imprisoned for offenses involving minors, opened a North Carolina GOP campaign rally.
- Christopher Matthias @ Talking Points Memo: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature
Marshall Rawson — who won an upset victory in Florida’s District 10 Republican primary last month — attended the infamous Charlottesville rally, considered the largest white supremacist gathering in a generation, marching with the League of the South, a racist and antisemitic neo-Confederate group that advocates for the secession of southern states from the U.S.
- Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer @ The Atlantic: Trump’s Secret Points System for Cabinet Members
The White House held a summer contest to see who could appear in the most congressional districts and states with competitive midterm elections.
- Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling @ The New Republic: Trump “Doesn’t Give a Sh*t Anymore” About the Republican Party
With just weeks until the midterm election, top Republicans are apparently finally waking up from the delusion that Trump ever cared about the future of the conservative party, and are stunned and dismayed to find that Trump is just as selfish as ever.
