Biden in Normandy, WaPo in deeper turmoil

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DRIVING THE DAY

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, greet a World War II veteran during ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Thursday, June 6, 2024, in Normandy. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, greet a World War II veteran during ceremonies to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy. | AP

BIDEN SEEKS HIS ‘GIPPER’ MOMENT — Commemorations of the 80th anniversary of D-Day are underway in France, where President JOE BIDEN will speak today at Normandy American Cemetery and deliver a separate address tomorrow inspired heavily by RONALD REAGAN’s legendary “boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech in June 1984.

“Biden aides are open about their desire for a rerun and inviting comparisons to ‘The Gipper,’” Eli Stokols reports from France, “with aides conceding that they have studied the Reagan trip closely and are looking to similarly capture the attention of a distracted, disillusioned public and remind them of how much is still at stake. Not only is Biden expected to echo Reagan in paying homage to these climactic battles for freedom and democracy, he will deliver his remarks from where Reagan stood, on those iconic cliffs where the war turned.”

Watch: Biden is scheduled to address the anniversary commemoration ceremony in the coming moments … and he has taped a rare televised sitdown interview with ABC’s David Muir that will air later on “World News Tonight.”

Read: Make some time today for Garrett Graff’s epic oral history of Operation Overlord as told by the paratroopers who leaped from planes into the world’s greatest battle.

Top-ed: “We Cannot Repeat the Mistakes of the 1930s,” by Senate Minority Leader MITCH McCONNELL in the NYT: “It should not take another catastrophic attack like Pearl Harbor to wake today’s isolationists from the delusion that regional conflicts have no consequences for the world’s most powerful and prosperous nation. With global power comes global interests and global responsibilities.”

The headquarters for The Washington Post newspaper is seen in Washington, DC, December 24, 2015. The newspaper recently moved several blocks from their 1972-era headquarters to a state-of-the-art newsroom designed for the digital era. AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo by Saul LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

WaPo's Will Lewis tried to dissuade Sally Buzbee from running a story about a court ruling related to the British phone hacking scandal. | AFP via Getty Images

WILL LEWIS LOSES THE NARRATIVE — It’s basically rule No. 1 in newsroom management at America's top media companies: The business side doesn't try to interfere with or influence coverage.

Yet that’s exactly what allegedly preceded the sudden resignation of WaPo’s SALLY BUZBEE, according to NYT’s Benjamin Mullin and Katie Robertson — a revelation that threatens to turn internal grumblings about new CEO WILL LEWIS into a more serious revolt.

Per Mullin and Robinson, Lewis tried to dissuade Buzbee from running a story about a court ruling related to the British phone hacking scandal that was sweeping him in. Buzbee told Lewis that her newsroom would indeed be covering the case brought by PRINCE HARRY against RUPERT MURDOCH's publications — including a campaign by the plaintiffs to name Lewis as one of several executives involved in an alleged cover-up.

“When Ms. Buzbee said The Post would publish an article anyway," the Times reported, Lewis "said her decision represented a lapse in judgment and abruptly ended the conversation.”

The story about the judges’ decision ran a few days later (though, curiously, it was ordered omitted from WaPo newsletters, as Semafor's Max Tani reported at the time). Still, “the interaction rattled Ms. Buzbee,” the pair write, and “continued to weigh on Ms. Buzbee as she was considering her future at the paper.”

Puck's Dylan Byers, meanwhile, spins a competing narrative — one where the breach between Lewis and Buzbee was rooted solidly in clashes of vision, not ethical qualms (though many in the newsroom might question the report's credibility after reading that Buzbee was “the paper’s well-liked executive editor”).

But the mere fact that a Washington Post publisher saw fit to influence coverage of any particular matter, let alone his own prior ethical entanglements, threatens to pour gasoline onto the fire already raging inside the newsroom over Lewis’ decision to jettison Buzbee in the thick of an election year and replace her with old pals from his Murdoch days: MATT MURRAY (a former WSJ editor in chief) and ROBERT WINNETT (deputy editor of The Telegraph, already known around some corners of the Post newsroom as "My Buddy Rob").

As one Postie mentioned to us last night, if anyone has come out of this mess the best, it's Buzbee, who has managed to make for herself what is probably her best possible exit. Seen a week ago as a smart but not particularly visionary leader who had a short shelf life leading the newsroom, the circumstances of her exit — including this latest story — have turned her into a bit of a you-go-girl icon.

Related read: “For The Post, a Supreme black eye,” by WaPo’s Erik Wemple: “Deference to JUSTICE ALITO hands a scoop to the New York Times.”

Good Thursday morning. Thanks for reading Playbook. How are you remembering D-Day? Drop us a line: Rachael Bade, Eugene Daniels, Ryan Lizza.

 

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TRUMP’S VEEP SEARCH HEATS UP — With the GOP convention less than six weeks away, the search for Trump’s running mate is buzzing behind the scenes, with the vetting process in full swing, as NBC first reported.

Trump’s team has officially requested documents from North Dakota Gov. DOUG BURGUM and Sens. J.D. VANCE (R-Ohio) and MARCO RUBIO (R-Fla.), as ABC News scooped. Sens. TIM SCOTT (R-S.C.) and TOM COTTON (R-Ark.), Reps. ELISE STEFANIK (R-N.Y.) and BYRON DONALDS (R-Fla.) and former HUD Secretary BEN CARSON have also received inquiries.

While no one knows for sure who the lucky Republican will be, the speculation from some on the outside seems to be that Burgum leads the pack. The former presidential candidate and wealthy businessman has helped with fundraising and donor outreach — something that hasn’t gone unnoticed by Trump.

“Trump likes people who are rich and have hot wives,” one person not associated with the campaign but closely following the vetting process, told Playbook.

But other candidates aren’t giving up the fight.

— Former venture capitalist Vance helped organize the Silicon Valley-based fundraiser Trump will attend this evening, our colleagues Alex Isenstadt and Meridith McGraw report.

— Scott is also stepping up his game. In addition to hosting a donor confab in Washington on June 19, a Scott-aligned PAC today is launching a new $14 million initiative to court voters of color, as our colleague Brakkton Booker reports this morning. Great Opportunity PAC will zero in on Black voters in swing states, who — polls have shown — have grown wary of JOE BIDEN and could be open to MAGA.

There’s plenty of skepticism, of course, about whether this will work.

For one, as a presidential candidate, Scott himself “was unable to make significant inroads with the voting blocs,” Brakkton writes

What’s more, that total sum the PAC is spending is the equivalent of what Biden’s campaign spent on an ad blitz in the month of May — and Scott won’t be building an apparatus that includes field offices, instead focusing exclusively on paid media, surveys and data analytics.

All that having been said, the strategy doesn’t need to win over a majority of Black voters to be successful. Rather, it’s an attempt to whittle away at the margins just enough to keep Biden from re-election — a strategy buoyed by a recent NYT/Siena College/Philadelphia Inquirer poll showing more than 1 in 5 Black voters in swing states open to voting for Trump.Scott isn’t alone in seeking to ramp up MAGA outreach to voters of color — and beef up his standing in Trump’s eyes along the way. On Tuesday, Donalds — another VP contender — led a group of Trump surrogates courting Black voters in Philly. Only, the evening went a, um, a bit awry when he suggested Black Americans were better off in the Jim Crow era than they are under Biden. (He doubled down last night on CNN.)

 

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WHAT'S HAPPENING TODAY

On the Hill

The Senate is out.

The House is out.

What we’re watching … The conventional wisdom around Capitol Hill is that there’s no must-pass legislation moving this summer. Not so for the band of lawmakers and activists pressing for renewal and expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, a 24-year-old law that provides recognition and benefits to Americans who have gotten sick due to certain federal nuclear activities. It will expire on June 10, and Congress appears stuck: The Senate passed a $50 billion expansion in March, but the price tag has been a hangup in the House, with no action on tap before the deadline. Sen. JOSH HAWLEY (R-Mo.), who has been the effort’s most outspoken champion, faulted a “failure of leadership” in the House in comments to Inside Congress yesterday.

At the White House

Biden is set to deliver his speech commemorating D-Day this morning, followed by a wreath laying with first lady JILL BIDEN. Later, they will attend the D-Day Anniversary International Ceremony at Omaha Beach before traveling to Paris.

VP KAMALA HARRIS will receive briefings and conduct internal meetings with staff. In the afternoon, Harris will participate in a conversation at the White House about gun violence prevention ahead of National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

 

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PLAYBOOK READS

Former President Donald Trump speaks at Trump Tower in New York, May 31, 2024, the day after he was convicted on 34 felony charges.

New data from the NYT is showing some indication of how Donald Trump's conviction may be impacting the polls. | Alex Kent for POLITICO

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SURVEY SAYS — One of the primary questions following the conviction against Trump was how significantly it would impact the 2024 polling. And while there hasn’t been a rash of new polls to inform those answers, new data from the NYT is showing some indication — and it’s not a boost for Trump.

The topline: “In interviews with nearly 2,000 voters who previously took New York Times/Siena College surveys, President Biden appeared to gain slightly in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s conviction last week for falsifying business records,” NYT’s Nate Cohn and Ruth Igielnik write. “The group favored Mr. Trump by three points when originally interviewed in April and May, but this week they backed him by only one point.”

While the dip for Trump isn’t quite a cliff, “losing 7 percent of your supporters can be decisive. In recent polls, Mr. Biden either leads or is within two points of Mr. Trump in states and districts worth the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. A potentially crucial sliver of Mr. Trump’s former supporters — 3 percent — now told us they’ll back Mr. Biden, while another 4 percent say they’re now undecided.”

New this morning: The Times interviewed several of the respondents who changed their minds about Trump; some said they are now entertaining third-party votes. And KRISTEN SOLTIS ANDERSON writes in an NYT op-ed that the real impact could come from a jail sentence: “Voters who lean toward Mr. Trump may well conclude that having to check in with a probation officer periodically won’t impede his performance as commander in chief. Prison is different.”

Meanwhile, a significant portion of the Democratic Party is still wrestling with how to message the conviction, AP’s Steve Peoples reports. Though there is a split among the Biden campaign on the best strategy, a senior adviser “said Trump’s felony conviction would become a regular part of the campaign’s message, with plans to incorporate the term ‘convicted felon’ freely in statements and in press releases — and potentially its paid advertising. But it will be part of a broader context in which the campaign will argue Trump doesn’t respect the U.S. election process or the judicial system.”

More top reads:

  • Thanks to a Republican effort to curb mail-in voting, “Florida could see a dramatic drop-off in the number of mail-in ballots used in this year’s presidential election, a decline that could hurt an already weakened Democratic Party,” Gary Fineout reports from Orlando. “More than 2 million voters have asked for mail-in ballots for this year’s elections, compared to 4.3 million two years ago.”
  • Speaking of Florida, The Bulwark’s Marc Caputo details a bitter feud between ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR.’s campaign and third-party activist JOSEPH WENDT, who attempted to get RFK on the ballot through the long-defunct Natural Law Party, only to see the independent’s campaign hijack the maneuver.

CONGRESS

PULLING THE PIN — A handful of House Republicans are “accusing Rep. TROY NEHLS of ‘stolen valor’ for continuing to wear a lapel pin for infantrymen or Special Forces who fought in active combat,” NOTUS’ John Seward reports this morning. The controversy stems from a CBS investigation into Nehls’ record that indicated his Combat Infantryman Badge, which he wears under his congressional pin, “had been revoked from his service record in March 2023 because he served as a civil affairs officer and it was mistakenly awarded.”

“His Republican colleagues in the House have noticed that he hasn’t removed the badge — one he’s worn since joining Congress in 2021. NOTUS spoke with a dozen military veteran Republican lawmakers about Nehls’ pin. … Eight expressed deep frustration with Nehls for wearing the pin.” Rep. RYAN ZINKE, a retired Navy SEAL, went on the record: “It matters. As a former commander, it matters what you wear on your uniform,” he said. “And if you didn’t earn it, you shouldn’t wear it.”

GOP BLOCKS CONTRACEPTION BILL — Senate Republicans yesterday successfully blocked passage of a bill to protect Americans’ access to birth control, “one of several legislative actions Democrats have pledged on reproductive rights in the leadup to the November election,” Alice Miranda Ollstein writes. “Only Sens. LISA MURKOWSKI (R-Alaska) and SUSAN COLLINS (R-Maine) broke with the GOP to vote in favor of the legislation, which failed 51 to 39 — short of the 60 votes needed to advance.”

FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK — “House GOP recommends criminal charges for Hunter and Jim Biden,” by Jordain Carney

 

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JUDICIARY SQUARE

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, leaves the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 26, 2023. Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty to minor tax offenses on July 26, as a deal with federal prosecutors fell apart in a Delaware court. The surprise reversal of Biden's agreement last month to settle the charges came after Judge Maryellen Noreika raised questions about the complicated   deal that would also settle a separate gun charge against the president's son, US media reported. (Photo by RYAN COLLERD / AFP) (Photo by RYAN COLLERD/AFP via Getty Images)

In Wilmington, Delaware, much of the tight-knit town is tuning Hunter Biden's trial out. | AFP via Getty Images

HUNTER GATHERING — In Manhattan, the trial that resulted in the first criminal conviction against a former president was the talk of the town — and the world. But in Wilmington, Delaware, where the first criminal trial against a sitting president’s son is unfolding, much of the tight-knit town is tuning the local trial out, Ben Schreckinger reports in a sceney piece on the HUNTER BIDEN drama descending on the town.

“Wilmington is a city of 70,000 long dominated by a graying, tight-knit and overwhelmingly Democratic establishment, where President Joe Biden still runs errands and attends funerals on weekends. Even locals who chafe at the Bidens’ long reign as the First State’s foremost family tend to observe certain delicacies. … In a place where most residents of a certain age have had some personal contact with the first family, many would rather watch the trees grow than talk about the most attention-grabbing local trial in recent memory.”

Yesterday’s action: The trial took a personal turn as two of Hunter Biden’s former romantic partners, including his ex-wife, KATHLEEN BUHLE, took the witness stand and described his years of abusing crack cocaine, Betsy Woodruff Swan and Josh Gerstein report. HALLIE BIDEN, his brother BEAU’s widow, is expected to testify today.

All in the family: “Hunter Biden’s trial provides stark window into family drama,” by WaPo’s Matt Viser, Perry Stein and Devlin Barrett

Related read: “Hunter Biden's addiction memoir climbs the charts as prosecutors use it as a weapon in court,” by USA Today’s Dan Morrison

More top reads:

  • The Biden administration’s efforts to preserve abortion access in emergency situations has had only limited impact in states that ban the procedure. And the Supreme Court this month could weaken it even further, Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly report. “Physicians and legal experts told POLITICO that the fear of state and local prosecution will keep many medical providers from listening to the Biden administration — even with the blessing of the Supreme Court.”

TRUMP CARDS

MAJOR TIMELINE UPDATE — An appeals court in Georgia has halted all pretrial proceedings in the criminal racketeering case against Trump while a three-judge panel considers whether to disqualify Fulton County DA FANI WILLIS, the lead prosecutor in the case, Kyle Cheney reports. The order issued yesterday effectively confirms that the sprawling case against Trump and more than a dozen codefendants will not come before a jury before the election.

AMERICA AND THE WORLD 

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets U.S. President Joe Biden at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport.

President Biden’s bear hug for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has morphed into something more like a vise-like squeeze. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

PRESIDENTIAL PRESSURE CAMPAIGN — Biden’s bear hug for Israeli PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU has morphed into something more like a vise-like squeeze amid the ongoing cease-fire talks, Nahal Toosi reports this morning.

“The president and his aides are working to make sure Netanyahu is feeling the squeeze from all sides to quickly bring the war to an end. Biden is getting more combative himself, pushing rhetorically and behind the scenes to increase pressure from regional powers, the United Nations, aid groups, Israeli citizens and Netanyahu’s political allies and foes alike.

“There’s a fear among many U.S. officials and others caught in the crisis that this could be the last best shot to bring home hostages held by Hamas and wind down the war without significantly more casualties.”

Meanwhile: Netanyahu yesterday “threatened ‘very intense’ military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon,” NYT’s Adam Rasgon, Euan Ward and Michael Levenson report. “Two days after the militant group launched a barrage of rockets and exploding drones from Lebanon into northern Israel, igniting several wildfires, Mr. Netanyahu visited soldiers and firefighters in the area and said the Israeli military was ready to strike.”

On the ground: “Israeli Nationalists, Marching in Jerusalem, Balk at U.S. Cease-Fire Push,” by WSJ’s Dov Lieber and Marcus Walker

BEYOND THE BELTWAY

A FAMILIAR PHASE — “Biden’s New Order Leaves Migrants at Border in Limbo Over Asylum Fate,” by NYT’s Rocío Gallegos, Simon Romero and Emiliano Rodríguez Mega

 

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PLAYBOOKERS

Donald Trump’s license to carry a gun in New York is getting revoked.

Joe Manchin may be having second thoughts about his dress code stance.

Chad Pergram helped wrangle a loose pooch.

Jim Banks is upset about the hard fouls targeting Caitlin Clark.

Isabelle Brourman shares what it was like to wiggle into the courtroom sketch artist row at the Trump trial.

50 Cent got his white buildings mixed up.

SPOTTED: Ben Shapiro meeting separately with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) yesterday.

OUT AND ABOUT — SPOTTED at a fundraiser on Tuesday night headlined by Speaker Mike Johnson that raised more than $180,000 for Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah): House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, Reps. John Curtis (R-Utah), Burgess Owens (R-Utah), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.), Max Miller (R-Ohio) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa), Chris Stewart, Cole Rojewski, Shirley Hoogstra, Lindley Kratovil Sherer, Devan Patel, Kaitlynn Glover, Gene Schaerr, Marcus Faust, Raley Wright, Bill Simmons, Kristina Dunklin, Tania Hanna, Kathleen Sgamma, Brian Somers and Jim Barker.

— SPOTTED at the National Academy of Social Insurance’s event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Supplemental Security Income’s Implementation at the Academy’s rooftop yesterday evening: Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley, Dustin Brown, Henry Aaron, James Roosevelt, Deborah Whitman, Nancy Altman, Jason Fichtner, Tracey Gronniger, John Slatery, Nan Gibson, Lori Konish, David Camp, Claire Green, Kate Lang, Larry Atkins, Wendell Primus, Tom Nichols, Kathleen Romig, Max Ghenis, Sarah Holden, Stacy Cloyd, Jody Shimmel Hyde, Emerson Sprick, Darcy Milburn, Jude Soundar, Jim Palmieri, Elisa Walker, Laura Haltzel, Cortney Sanders, David Wittenburg, Will Raderman, Gaten Carey, Ashley Burnside, Conway Reinders, Jason Seligman, Jen Burdick, Fay Cook, Tyler Bond, Jeanne Morin, Rayna Stoycheva, Sabrina Davis, Rebecca Vallas and Bill Arnone.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States kicked off its 2024 Annual Conference with a reception last night at the Washington Hilton, where they are also celebrating their 90th anniversary. SPOTTED: Reta Jo Lewis, Anastasia Dellaccio, Lizzie Lewis, Kimberly Reed, John Bohn, Judith Pryor, Spencer Bachus, Ray McGuire, Michael Greenwald, Kerlyn Mariot Pena, Hooman Shahidi, Nancy Flake Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Candace Bond and U.S. Ambassador to Angola and Sao Tome and Principe Tulinabo Mushingi.

— SPOTTED at an Atlantic Council reception for US Chiefs of Mission in the Western Hemisphere: Adrienne Arsht, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Jason Marczak, Chris Dodd, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), Carlos Gutierrez, Hugo Beteta, Alfredo Ferrero, Frank Mora, Soledad Peña, Sonia Guzmán, Todd Robinson, Michael Camilleri, Marcela Escobari, Paloma Gonzalez, JC Jain, Bill Maloney and Marcela Meléndez.

SPOTTED at opening night of Picnic Theatre Company's parody of “The Candidate” at the Embassy of France last night: Steve Rochlin, Christina Sevilla, Sara Cook, Silvia Foster-Frau, Adam Green, David White, Hugo Verges, Marie-Hélène Zavala, Adam Ruben, Alexa Newlin, Antonio Olivo, Nova Daly, Sarah and Fin Gomez, Brian Rogers, Jennifer Grinspoon, Tim Burger, Kimball Stroud, Bruce Kieloch, Erica Payne, Gene Haigh, Ilyse Hogue, John Neffinger,  Michael Isikoff, Mary Ann Akers,  Mark Paustenbach, Amirah Sequeira and Derek Luyten 

MEDIA MOVE — Clare Fieseler is now the clean tech/renewables reporter at E&E News. She most recently was an investigative and energy/climate reporter at the Post and Courier in South Carolina.

TRANSITIONS — Christine Lamitina is joining West End Strategy Team as VP. She previously was EVP at 617 Media Group. … Kelly Scully has been promoted to White House spokesperson and adviser to the press secretary. She previously was an assistant press secretary and is an ONDCP and Biden campaign alum.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Mark Meredith, a D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News, and Lauren Meredith, an elementary special education school teacher in D.C., welcomed Georgia LaPointe Meredith yesterday. PicAnother pic

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) ... Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) … ABC’s Katherine Faulders … Bloomberg’s Justin Sink … CNN’s Kevin Liptak and Ariel Edwards-Levy … CBS’ Weijia Jiang and Natalie MoralesAlexander and Yevgeny Vindman … WaPo’s Christopher Rowland and Sarah Frostenson … NBC’s Allison Hageman Ward BakerMichael GoldfarbMargaret White of No Labels ... Max Docksey … former Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), David Bonior (D-Mich.) and Allen Boyd (D-Fla.) … Regina LaBelle ... POLITICO’s Kam Rahman ... CQ’s Caroline Simon CoudrietAllie FreedmanFelicia Sonmez Sarah GadsdenKeith Perine … Florida Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nuñez  Fabiana Corsi Mendez of Rep. Kathy Manning’s (D-N.C.) office … Tiffany Rose

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