Daily Standard: Trump Says 'No Preconditions' to Meeting with Iran

[View this as website]( [SUBSCRIBE - Get Print and Full Digital]( [header] Monday, July 30, 2018 [Trump Says 'No Preconditions' to Meeting with Iran]( Mere days ago he condemned Hassan Rouhani’s ‘demented words of violence & death' in a tweet. [Read More]( [Trump Praises Italian Prime Minister During Visit]( Giuseppe Conte heads a right-wing and populist coalition government [Read More]( [Rand Paul Announces Support For Kavanaugh]( Kentucky senator had expressed reservations about the judge's record on surveillance and data collection. [Read More]( [Charles Koch, #Resistance Hero?]( On today's Daily Standard podcast, reporters Andrew Egger and Haley Byrd discuss the Koch Network's growing efforts to push back against President Trump's protectionist policies and divisive rhetoric and go in-depth about the president's latest efforts to dismiss and discredit Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. [Read More]( [The Coming Constitutional Storm]( On the special counsel, presidential pardons, and impeachment, the most important decisions will be rendered not by judges or senators but by the American people. [Read More]( ADVERTISEMENT [TWS CRUISE 2017 FALL]( Afternoon Links McRigged. As a poor Senate aide, my colleagues and I would trek from the Capitol grounds over to the Union Station McDonald’s. Not only was the food cheap, but we wanted to see if we could win $1,000,000 in the annual fast food game. The Daily Beast has[a fascinating look]( at how an insider rigged it to enrich himself and his friends. Congrats, Jim Thome. The former Indians slugger made it to Cooperstown and[got a little choked up](. Unhappy Worrier. Do read Kyle Smith’s wonderful National Review[essay on parenting](. Oh, Canada. Our peculiar neighbors to the north are creating a new tradition:[Adding chairs around the little white pizza table]( soon to be banned, I’m sure, in California. If it isn’t already. Be A HERO. That’s GoPro’s slogan,[and that is what this dog is](. When HP ruled the world. Jean-Louis Gassée of the Monday Note has a neat remembrance of his career in tech,[when Hewlett Packard dominated the world](. Medicare for all is gonna be costly. A friend observes that a recent study thinks Bernie’s proposal will cost about half of the planet’s yearly GDP[to fund 10 years of Real Socialism™](. "My client didn't do it, and even if he did it, it's not a crime." After months of suggesting the Mueller investigation was all a witch hunt, Rudy Giuliani, speaking for Team Trump,[has finally moved the goalposts](. Make sure to update your talking points.[Here are all of the various arguments]( President Trump has made against the special counsel investigation. Seinfeld Law. Ever wonder about how the zany cast of characters’ actions in Seinfeld might intersect with legal reality?[There’s a website for that](. “When should you leave the ballpark?” That’s what FiveThirtyEight wondered, before crunching the numbers[to conclude]( “The leading team has a more than 95 percent chance of winning a game if it holds a lead of at least four runs after the sixth inning." The correct answer, of course, is that you leave when the game is over. Being a nut pays off. Call it the “Bernie Effect” or whatever you want, but do[read Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review]( on the unfortunate rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As David Rutz[summarizes]( “The more wrong an insurgent candidate is—and the more that's pointed out—the more credibility and respect said candidate gets from the base: ‘They're scared!!’" —Jim Swift, deputy online editor. Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. —30— ADVERTISEMENT [Free Luggage Tag]( This email was sent to {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe from this List]( [Update Subscription Preferences]( The Weekly Standard | [1152 15th Street NW Suite 200 | Washington, DC 20005](