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<em>The Atlantic</em> Politics &amp; Policy Daily: Justin and the Giant Impeach

Justin Amash leaves the Freedom Caucus. Plus: Trump weighs in on reports about Kim Jong Nam's 2017 assassination.
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It’s Tuesday, June 11.

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam, killed in a chemical-weapons attack two years ago in a Malaysia airport, was a CIA informant, according to two new accounts. In comments at the White House, President Donald Trump said, “I wouldn’t let that happen under my auspices.” “The context of his remarks makes clear that what Trump ‘wouldn’t let … happen’ is not Kim Jong” argues David A. Graham.

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