Summary Here’s a glance at today’s major news items ... Brad Parscale faces Trump ‘fury’ after Tulsa comeback rally flops. Donald Trump’s campaign manager was under pressure on Sunday, after claiming hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to the president’s return to the campaign trail in Tulsa, only for the rally to attract an underwhelming crowd. A 2000 repeat in 2020? Concerns mount over ‘integrity’ of US election. Twenty years after the disputed election, cyberhacking, disinformation and coronavirus are new threats – and some experts fear the president will sow doubt. Trump AG Barr will escape impeachment thanks to ‘corrupt’ Republicans, Nadler says. The attorney general “certainly deserves” to be impeached and removed but will escape that fate because Republicans who control the Senate are “corrupt against the interests of the country”, the chairman of the House judiciary committee said on Sunday. Trump ‘played’ by K-pop fans and TikTok users who disrupted Tulsa rally. K-pop fans and users of TikTok claimed tickets to Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally in Tulsa then did not use them, as part of a coordinated effort which helped to leave hundreds of seats empty in a 19,000-capacity venue. Police say violent crowd prevented access to victims in Seattle Chaz shooting. Seattle police on Sunday continued to pursue their investigation of a shooting in a park in the city’s protest zone which left a 19-year-old man dead and another person critically injured. No arrests had been made. Tennessee paper religious ad claims ‘Islam’ will detonate nuclear bomb in Nashville. A Tennessee newspaper said on Sunday it was investigating what its editor called a “horrific” full-page advertisement from a religious group that predicts a terrorist attack in Nashville next month. Trump adviser Navarro blasts John Bolton’s ‘silly’ China claim. The White House trade adviser fired back at Bolton on Sunday, seeking to rubbish a key claim in the former national security adviser’s bombshell new book, that Donald Trump asked China’s president for help in winning re-election. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported a further 32,411 coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 2,248,029. This marks the third straight day with total new cases exceeding 30,000 after more than a week of the daily count holding between 19,000 and 28,000. The number of deaths has risen by 560 to 119,615. The CDC figures do not necessarily reflect cases reported by individual states. Leadership is broken. From the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality to the marginalisation of minority communities around the world, our leaders are failing us. Self-serving and divisive, they are gambling with public health and the future of younger generations. We have to make them raise their game. This is what the Guardian is for. As an open, independent news organisation we investigate, interrogate and expose the incompetence and indifference of those in power. Your support helps us produce quality, trustworthy, fact-checked journalism every day - and publish it free so everyone can read. Support the Guardian from as little as $1 – and it only takes a minute. Thank you. Seattle police on Sunday continued to pursue their investigation of a shooting in a park in the city’s protest zone which left a 19-year-old man dead and another person critically injured. No arrests had been made, the AP reported. The shooting occurred at about 2.30am on Saturday in an area near downtown known as Chaz, for “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone”. The zone, an area cordoned off by protesters, evolved after weeks of protests over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. According to a police blog, officers responding to the shooting said they “were met by a violent crowd that prevented officers safe access to the victims”. Video released by police appeared to show officers arriving at the protest zone saying they wanted to get to the victim and entering as people yelled that the victim was already gone. Police mostly retreated from the zone after clashes with protesters, KIRO-TV reported. Private vehicles took two males with gunshot wounds to Harborview Medical Center, where the 19-year-old died and the other was in critical condition in intensive care. Nascar’s ban of the Confederate flag got off to a checkered start with Sunday afternoon’s Geico 500 at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway, which marked the first large-scale sporting event in the United States to allow fans to attend since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. The Cup series race was the first Nascar event with spectators since it banned the Confederate flag from its properties earlier this month, formally distancing itself from what for many is a symbol of slavery and racism that had been a familiar sight at stock car events for more than 70 years. While it was hard to gauge the effect of the ban with only 5,000 fans allowed into a venue that can accommodate upwards of 100,000, at least one faraway spectator made their stance clear: a plane circled above the superspeedway with the message DEFUND NASCAR trailing behind it. As Guardian contributor Andrew Lawrence has written, enforcement is the big question when it comes to the flag ban. Nascar, for its part, has not disclosed how it will handle attendees flying the stars ‘n bars, nor any policy for Confederate standards in the campgrounds and tailgates that are as much a part of the Nascar experience as the races themselves. And yet: I can’t help but wonder – what does enforcement of this new policy even look like? You know, when spectators are actually allowed back on-site? A Nascar race, after all, is a sprawling spectacle that attracts stars ‘n bars enthusiasts by the tens of thousands. Even if a track’s army of blue-haired volunteers manages to turn back a few of these rebels at the gate, there are still acres of grassy parking space around the track for rebel tailgaters to let their freak flag fly. You’re telling me the local police who are regularly tasked with keeping the peace at races are gonna be the ones hauling off these tailgaters kicking and screaming? Nascar’s enforcement problem was underscored by the group of roughly two dozen protesters on pickup trucks and wagons with Confederate flags flying from the back who drove back and forth along Speedway Boulevard outside the venue in defiance of the ban. “Our southern heritage has been pushed to death and we are tired of it,” Alabama native Charles Burdette, who organized the demonstration, told Kickin’ the Tires. “Nascar is going to be a thing of the past. They are taking everything out for what it stands for. It was put together by rednecks, moonshiners and hillbillies.” The green flag for Sunday’s race was delayed for several hours due to heavy rain and lightning in the area, then postponed until Monday afternoon. As Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has worked overtime to spin Saturday night’s Tulsa debacle in its favor, Fox News anchor Chris Wallace proved an unaccommodating dance partner on Sunday morning. The veteran newsman repeatedly pushed back at Trump campaign adviser Mercedes Schlapp’s excuses for Saturday’s poor turnout in an interview on Fox News Sunday, noting the BOK Arena was far from packed to capacity, as breathlessly promised throughout the run-up, and that an overflow crowd stage event outside the building was canceled. After boasting of the sizable digital audience for the campaign reboot and large (and perhaps artificially inflated) number of RSVPs for tickets, Schlapp went on to blame protesters blocking entrances and metal detectors for preventing people from entering the rally – a theory Wallace calmly punctured. “He didn’t fill an arena last night,” Wallace said. “And you guys were so far off that you had planned an outdoor rally and there wasn’t an overflow crowd and watching the coverage and talking to [Fox News correspondent] Mark Meredith on the ground today, protesters did not stop people from coming to that rally.” From there Schlapp rapidly pivoted to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, saying: “I’d love to see a Joe Biden rally. Let’s bring it on, because there is no comparison. The phenomenon of the rally came because of President Trump, and people came out. Those people that knew that they wanted to be there physically present with the president. They joined us, and they’re family-oriented individuals who wanted to come out and be with us.” To which Wallace responded: “Mercedes, please don’t filibuster. We’re showing pictures here and it shows big, empty areas. Frankly, it makes you guys look silly when you deny the reality of what happened.” White House confirms Trump will tour border wall construction on Tuesday The White House has confirmed Donald Trump will visit the Arizona border on Tuesday to commemorate the completion of 200 miles of wall along America’s southern border with Mexico. This wil mark Trump’s second visit in as many months to Arizona, which has emerged as a key battleground state ahead of the November general election. Trump’s visit comes at a time when coronavirus cases in Arizona have nearly doubled in the last two weeks. Arizona health officials reported 2,592 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the statewide total to 52,390. On 7 June, the state reported 26,989 total cases, according to Johns Hopkins University’s tally. Following a stopover in Yuma to inspect the long-promised border wall, Trump will head to Phoenix to deliver “an address to young Americans”. “The President promised to build a strong border wall system and he continues to deliver on his promises,” the White House said last week in a statement. “His Administration continues to take bold, decisive action to safeguard our nation. A strong border system also combats the heinous human trafficking and exploitation of children and vulnerable populations by cartels.” Oklahoma health officials have reported a new daily record for coronavirus cases on Sunday, one day after Donald Trump’s much-ballyhooed comeback rally at an indoor arena in Tulsa. The state’s department of health said there were 478 new cases in the last 24-hour period, bringing the statewide total to 10,515. Health department officials reported one virus-related death on Sunday, raising the overall toll to 369. Daily counts of new virus cases in the United States are the highest they’ve been in more than a month, but public health experts say “second wave” is probably the wrong term to describe what’s happening. “When you have 20,000-plus infections per day, how can you talk about a second wave?” said Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and key member of the White House coronavirus taskforce. “We’re in the first wave.” The family of Tom Petty has issued a formal cease and desist letter to the Donald Trump campaign over its use of his song I Won’t Back Down at Saturday night’s rally in Tulsa. In a statement posted on Twitter, Adria, Annakim, Dana and Jane Petty said the US president was “in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense left behind”. They said the late musician and his family “firmly stand against racism and discrimination of any kind. Tom Petty would not want a song of his used for a campaign of hate. He liked to bring people together”. Petty’s family declared their support for America and for democracy, but said “Donald Trump is not representing the noble ideals of either. We would hate for fans that are marginalized by this administration to think we were complicit in this usage”. Back in 2000, Petty himself issued an eerily similar notice to then-candidate George W Bush when he used I Won’t Back Down on the campaign trail, claiming his use of the song implied an endorsement. New York City is set to enter phase two of reopening on Monday, which includes the return of outdoor dining, offices, in-store retail, hair salons and barbershops, real estate services, houses of worship as well as car sales and rentals. Anything indoors will include reduced capacity, social distancing and mandatory facemask compliance. “The Covid-19 pandemic isn’t over, and as we reopen New York safely and incrementally, the state government will continue to provide timely information so that New Yorkers can make educated decisions for themselves and their families,” New York governor Andrew Cuomo said. “Yesterday, less than 1 percent of COVID-19 tests conducted in the state were positive, which means we continue to be on the right path toward defeating the virus.” The state reported 664 new coronavirus cases on Sunday from 67,526 tests administered, a positive rate of less than 1%. Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has come under pressure after claiming that hundreds of thousands of people had applied for tickets to Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, only for the event to then attract underwhelming crowds. The Tulsa Fire Department said 6,200 people attended Saturday’s rally, and vast banks of seats were empty as the president took the stage to give his first public campaign speech since the Covid-19 pandemic put large parts of America under lockdown. The BOK Center, where the rally took place, has a capacity of up to 19,000. The Trump campaign claims 12,000 people attended the rally. CNN reported on Sunday that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “pissed” that Parscale promised huge crowds for the event. Parscale on Sunday blamed the low attendance on “a week’s worth of the fake news media warning people away from the rally because of Covid and protestors, coupled with recent images of American cities on fire, had a real impact on people bringing their families and children to the rally.” Parscale then appeared to threaten to rescind accreditation for journalists critical of the Trump campaign. “For the media to now celebrate the fear that they helped create is disgusting, but typical,” he said. “And it makes us wonder why we bother credentialing media for events when they don’t do their full jobs as professionals”. Rick Wilson, an author, former Republican consultant and Lincoln Project co-founder, was critical of Parscale’s approach. “Brad broke the first rule of American politics: under promise and over deliver,” he told the Guardian in an email. “Brad’s survival now depends on the good offices of his patrons inside the Trump camp, and [Ivanka and Jared Kushner] are already signaling their displeasure to the media.” There is speculation that the number of applicants to Saturday’s rally was inflated by young users on social media platform TikTok applying for tickets and then deliberately not attending. “Trump has been actively trying to disenfranchise millions of Americans in so many ways, and to me, this was the protest I was able to perform,” Erin Hoffman, an 18-year-old New Yorker, told the New York Times. The Trump campaign said protesters had blocked entrances and metal detectors, preventing people from entering the rally. However, reporters on the ground, including the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland, said they saw no evidence of such tactics. Public health officials had warned against holding a large indoor gathering as Covid-19 cases in Oklahoma rise. The Trump campaign did not require attendees on Saturday to wear masks, and some speculated fear of Covid-19 may have stopped some supporters from attending the rally.