Tipsheet: The Memo: Trump ratchets up Twitter turmoil

View in your browser     The Memo: Trump ratchets up Twitter turmoil BY NIALL STANAGE   President Trump’s battle with Twitter intensified on Friday, sparking new debates around the combustible themes of race, policing and protest. Trump has been accused of inciting violence. The president has suggested that he would like to shut Twitter down if he could. The question is where the row might go next, given the conflicting dynamics at play. Read the full story here     Minneapolis officer charged with murder BY MARTY JOHNSON   A former Minneapolis police officer involved in the death of George Floyd has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, the Hennepin County attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday afternoon. Read the full story here     Trump seeks to explain 'looting leads to shooting' tweet that sparked outrage BY MORGAN CHALFANT   President Trump on Friday sought to explain his tweets criticizing Minneapolis protesters, doubling down on his assertion that “looting leads to shooting” but pushing back on characterizations that he was inciting violence. Read the full story here     White House goes on brief lockdown after protest erupts nearby BY BROOKE SEIPEL   The White House went into a brief lockdown on Friday evening as protests over the death of George Floyd raged nearby, according to reporters who said they were in the building at the time. Read the full story here       Protests, vandalism reported outside CNN headquarters in Atlanta BY TAL AXELROD   A large protest formed outside of CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta on Friday evening, resulting in clashes with police and vandalism to the building. Read the full story here     Klobuchar on defense as Floyd death puts spotlight on record BY AMY KLOBUCHAR   Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) defended her record as a county prosecutor on Friday after George Floyd’s death in police custody, which has shocked the country and sparked days of protests in Minneapolis, the largest city in her home state. Read the full story here     Trump: US 'terminating' relationship with WHO BY MORGAN CHALFANT   President Trump said Friday that the United States is "terminating" its relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO) over its response to the novel coronavirus, following through on a threat issued earlier this month. Read the full story here     Senate GOP chairman criticizes Trump withdrawal from WHO BY PETER SULLIVAN   Senate Health Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Friday that he disagrees with President Trump’s decision to end U.S. membership in the World Health Organization (WHO), adding a prominent Republican voice to criticism of the move from health experts and Democrats. Read the full story here     Pelosi calls Trump's decision to withdraw US from WHO 'an act of extraordinary senselessness' BY TAL AXELROD   Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) panned President Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO), calling the move “senseless.” Read the full story here     Trump to end special treatment for Hong Kong BY LAURA KELLY   President Trump on Friday announced his administration is preparing a slew of changes to the full range of U.S. agreements between the U.S. and Hong Kong, saying the territory no longer appeared autonomous from Beijing. Read the full story here     The United States needs the World Trade Organization BY KENNETH A. REINERT   OPINION | The policy failures of the Trump Administration are legion. The more than 100,000 deaths of United States citizens from COVID-19 are the most spectacular and tragic example of this. But many more such failures can be found below the surface of public attention. One of these is the U.S. government’s relationship with the World Trade Organization (WTO). Read the full story here     China is taking advantage of the world's preoccupation with COVID-19 BY LINDSAY LLOYD   OPINION| In recent days, China has moved to assert new and dangerous controls over the semi-autonomous territories of Hong Kong and Macau. China announced sweeping new measures that violate its international commitments and pose a grave threat to human rights and political freedoms, after more than two decades of limited self-governance in the territories. Why should it matter to Americans? Read the full story here     The New York Times: Demonstrations over George Floyd's death spread across US By THE NEW YORK TIMES STAFF   Minnesota’s governor said the police and National Guard had been overwhelmed by protests, which raged even after a former police officer was charged with murdering George Floyd. Read the full story here     The Washington Post: Gripped by disease, unemployment, outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis By MATT ZAPOTOSKY AND ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER   A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake. Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans. Read the full story here     The Wall Street Journal: Criminal charges in George Floyd's death set up legal battle By JACOB GERSCHMAN AND DEANNA PAUL   Prosecutors will face a challenging legal battle in pursuing criminal charges against at least one of the Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of an unarmed black man, George Floyd. Read the full story here     The Associated Press: Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis By JAMES LAPORTA   As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis, where the police killing of George Floyd sparked the widespread protests. Read the full story here     Reuters: SpaceX, NASA to try again for landmark launch of two astronauts from Florida By JOEY ROULETTE   Elon Musk’s private rocket company SpaceX was set for a repeat attempt at launching two Americans into orbit on Saturday from Florida for a mission that would mark the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. Read the full story here         Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up for The Hill Tipsheet       Forward this Tipsheet   You Might Like       Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  |  Email to a friend  |  Sign Up for Other Newsletters   The Hill 1625 K Street, NW 9th Floor, Washington DC 20006 ©2020 Capitol Hill Publishing Corp., a subsidiary of News Communications, Inc.

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