Special master to Trump team: "You can't have your cake and eat it."
PUTIN CALLS UP RESERVISTS AMID UKRAINE INVASION SETBACKS Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization of reserve troops as the war in Ukraine reaches nearly seven months and Moscow loses ground on the battlefield. Putin also warned the West that "it's not a bluff" that he would use all means necessary to protect his territory. President Joe Biden is set to address the U.N. General Assembly this morning, where he is expected to condemn Putin's brutal invasion. [AP] SPECIAL MASTER IN MAR-A-LAGO DOCS PROBE SIGNALS INTENT TO MOVE QUICKLY Raymond Dearie, the independent arbiter tasked with inspecting documents seized in an FBI search of former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, said he intends to push briskly through the review process and appeared skeptical of the Trump team's reluctance to say whether it believed the records had been declassified. Trump's lawyers claimed the declassification issue might be part of Trump's defense in the event of an indictment and said they didn't want to reveal details. "You can't have your cake and eat it" too, Dearie said. [AP] TRUMP'S ENDORSEMENTS COULD DOOM GOP CHANCE TO RETAKE CONGRESS Republicans had assumed for months that November's elections would give them control of at least the House and possibly the Senate. But Trump, still focused on lying about his 2020 defeat, is now poised to help Democrats hang on to both chambers. The GOP is being battered by a combination of weak candidates endorsed by Trump, the former president's insistence on staying in the spotlight, and his reluctance to spend any of the money his fundraising operation has amassed. [HuffPost] MIGRANTS STRANDED IN MARTHA'S VINEYARD SUE RON DESANTIS OVER POLITICAL STUNT A group of Venezuelan migrants flown by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) from Texas to Martha's Vineyard last week filed a class-action lawsuit against the governor and others, saying they were defrauded in a reckless political stunt. "These immigrants ... experienced cruelty akin to what they fled in their home country," the lawsuit says. [HuffPost] | | | WHY DEMOCRATS ARE SUDDENLY PUTTING A FOCUS ON DARK MONEY With seven weeks until Election Day, Democratic leaders are seeking to put Republicans on the defensive over the corrosive influence of money in politics, scheduling a Senate vote today on legislation known as the Disclose Act. The bill would require all groups spending money in elections or in support or opposition of a judicial nominee to disclose donations of $10,000 or more. [HuffPost] PROTESTS ERUPT IN IRAN OVER DEATH OF WOMAN HELD BY MORALITY POLICE Iran faced international criticism over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security forces in the capital and other unrest that claimed at least three lives. The U.N. human rights office called for an investigation into her death and condemned the country's "systemic persecution" of women. [AP] FOX NEWS' BRET BAIER WANTED NETWORK TO RESCIND ARIZONA CALL FOR BIDEN Fox News host Bret Baier tried to persuade the right-wing network to rescind its decision to call Arizona for Joe Biden in the 2020 election, according to a new book. "The Trump campaign was really pissed," the host reportedly told his boss after Fox News became the first major network to declare Biden's victory in Arizona. Baier "was ready to give into" pressure from Trump's team to influence the calls in his favor. [HuffPost] HOW MICHIGAN BECAME THE BIGGEST STATE LEGISLATIVE BATTLEGROUND OF 2022 A new independent redistricting commission erased a GOP gerrymander, fueling Democratic optimism that they could flip one — and maybe both — state legislative chambers in Michigan. "For the first time in a very long time, I feel like we're playing on an even playing field," Democratic state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. told HuffPost's Travis Waldron. [HuffPost] TRUMP RAPE ACCUSER PLANS SUIT UNDER NEW NY 'SURVIVORS' LAW A writer who accused Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room intends to file another lawsuit against him under a new New York law allowing sexual assault victims sue over attacks that happened decades earlier. [AP] | | | Does somebody keep forwarding you this newsletter? — Subscribe here! © HuffPost BuzzFeed, Inc 111 E 18th St, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10003 You are receiving this email because you signed up for updates
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