Trump booed at MSG, Apache down in Iran, and a primary day rigged against independents
Trump got booed off the screen at Madison Square Garden, an Iranian drone just took down a US Army Apache off Oman, and four states are holding primaries today that lock hundreds of thousands of independents out of their own elections. Paul Rieckhoff runs the solo briefing on all of it — no guest, no spin, no BS. If you're in the angry middle watching the rigged two-party system and the forever wars metastasize in real time, this is your morning intel dump.
Trump showed up at Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden and got booed loud enough that he had to lie about it on the tarmac.…
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