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REDDING, Calif. — WhenMathew Gonzales, a Latino musi-cian from San Jose, heard thatDonald J. Trump was coming totown, he knew he had to do some-thing.

Unwilling to let the presump-tive Republican nominee’s visitpass quietly, he created an eventpage on Facebook to organize aprotest titled “Manda A DonaldTrump A La Chingada” — Spanishfor “Send Donald Trump to Hell.”

Two days later, Mr. Gonzales,and more than 100 other pro-testers who visited his page, ar-rived at the arena in San Josewhere Mr. Trump would speakand jeered his supporters througha megaphone. The taunting atThursday night’s rally turned vio-lent, with some of Mr. Trump’sbackers beaten and “Make Amer-ica Great Again” hats set on fire.

“I saw he was coming andthought, ‘We got to go out andspeak against him,’” said Mr. Gon-zales, 31, who avoided the violencethat ensued. “He’s obviously notrepresenting what we’re all abouthere in San Jose. San Jose is verybased on immigrants and stufflike that.”

While Mr. Trump has blamedpaid “disrupters” and operativesfrom Hillary Clinton’s and SenatorBernie Sanders’s campaigns forsuch protests in the past, the vio-lence at this rally and the protestthat inspired it appeared sponta-neous and not directed byDemocrats or other groups. In-stead, it was more the product ofindependent local efforts thatcaught fire through social media.

Such episodes, like a protest inApril in Burlingame near SanFrancisco and at an abruptly can-celed March rally in Chicago, rep-resent some of the most signifi-

Trump Rallies

Attract Passion

And Violence

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A Trump hat burned at a rallyThursday in San Jose, Calif.

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Days after several of his col-leagues were awakened in theirhotel rooms by the police and ar-rested on corruption charges lastyear, Sepp Blatter, the longtimepresident of FIFA, made an im-portant decision. He decided hedeserved a raise.

With soccer in crisis and an un-precedented scandal beginning toboil, Mr. Blatter — who had justwon re-election to a record fifthfour-year term — signed a newemployment contract that in-creased his salary to $3 million ayear and guaranteed him a $12million bonus if he completed hismandate.

That arrangement, completedjust as FIFA was plunging into or-ganizational chaos, was one of

many instances in which three ofFIFA’s top officials arranged overfive years to pay themselves morethan $80 million, according to aninternal investigation of worldsoccer’s governing body by theAmerican law firm Quinn Eman-uel.

It was the latest in a series ofjaw-dropping accusations about aculture of corruption pervadingFIFA. For years, top soccer offi-cials have been accused of usingbribes and payoffs to profit fromtheir roles overseeing the billionsof dollars FIFA and other govern-ing bodies generate through tour-naments like the World Cup. Butin the past year, dozens of soccer

FIFAOfficials Took Huge RaisesAs Scandal Grew, Inquiry Finds

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WASHINGTON — Donald J.Trump’s blustery attacks on thepress, complaints about the judi-cial system and bold claims ofpresidential power collectivelysketch out a constitutional world-view that shows contempt for theFirst Amendment, the separationof powers and the rule of law, legalexperts across the political spec-trum say.

Even as much of the Republicanpolitical establishment lines upbehind its presumptive nominee,many conservative and libertar-ian legal scholars warn that elect-ing Mr. Trump is a recipe for a con-stitutional crisis.

“Who knows what DonaldTrump with a pen and phonewould do?” asked Ilya Shapiro, alawyer with the libertarian CatoInstitute.

With five months to go beforeElection Day, Mr. Trump has al-ready said he would “loosen” libellaws to make it easier to sue newsorganizations. He has threatenedto sic federal regulators on hiscritics. He has encouraged roughtreatment of demonstrators.

His proposal to bar Muslimsfrom entry into the country teststhe Constitution’s guarantees ofreligious freedom, due processand equal protection.

And, in what was a tipping pointfor some, he attacked Judge Gon-zalo P. Curiel of the Federal Dis-trict Court in San Diego, who isoverseeing two class action law-suits against Trump University.

Mr. Trump accused the judge ofbias, falsely said he was Mexicanand seemed to issue a threat.

“They ought to look into JudgeCuriel, because what Judge Curiel

is doing is a total disgrace,” Mr.Trump said. “O.K.? But we willcome back in November. Wouldn’tthat be wild if I am president andcome back and do a civil case?”

David Post, a retired law profes-sor who now writes for the VolokhConspiracy, a conservative-lean-ing law blog, said those commentshad crossed a line.

“This is how authoritarianismstarts, with a president who doesnot respect the judiciary,” Mr. Postsaid. “You can criticize the judicialsystem, you can criticize individ-ual cases, you can criticize indi-vidual judges. But the presidenthas to be clear that the law is thelaw and that he enforces the law.That is his constitutional obliga-tion.”

“If he is signaling that that is nothis position, that’s a very seriousconstitutional problem,” Mr. Postsaid.

Beyond the attack on judicial in-dependence is a broader question

Trump Declarations Seen

As Threat to Rule of Law

Scholars Find Disregard for Constitutional

Rights in Remarks That Raise Alarm

By ADAM LIPTAK

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A man sleeping near Waikiki Beach. Honolulu is trying to rid its streets of the homeless.

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HONOLULU — Anna Sullivanis prohibited from sitting on asidewalk. She cannot wander offto find food without worrying thatthe police might seize her shop-ping cart. She cannot sleep onWaikiki Beach without fear of be-ing rousted.

Ms. Sullivan, 45, has beenhomeless for eight years since shegot out of prison. But these days —after run-ins with the police overwhere she sleeps, sits or leavesher belongings — she tries to keepaway from Waikiki, the bustling

tourist district whose sidewalksand beaches she once used as herhome.

“Tickets, tickets, tickets,” shesaid, already looking weary at thestart of her morning, sipping a cupof iced coffee as she sat on a benchby the beach. “The cops give you aticket to keep you moving. And

then you have to pay the ticket forsleeping in the park. It gets toyou.”

Two years ago, Honolulu, for allits opulence and appeal totourists, was a nationally knownhub of homelessness: peoplesprawling on benches and side-walks, panhandling, guardingpiles of tents and clothes, sleepingin doorways and moving aroundaimlessly. Business leaders de-scribed the atmosphere as a fun-damental threat to the tourist-based economy.

But these days, the homelesswho had crowded large parts of

Aloha, and Welcome, Unless You’re Homeless

By ADAM NAGOURNEY

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Honolulu’s Crackdown

Shows That Tourists

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The federal judge who has beenaccused of bias by Donald J.Trump was once wanted by aMexican drug cartel. Page A12.

Judge Was Targeted Before

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Staff at the Louvre scrambled Friday to move artworks to higher floors as Paris experienced its worst flooding in 30 years. Page A4.

Safe and Dry

FORT STEWART, Ga. — WhenStaff Sgt. Chris Brown headed intothe swamplands of Georgia for amilitary training exercise earlythis spring, he found himself miss-ing his time in Iraq and Af-ghanistan — and the relative com-forts he had enjoyed there at theheight of both wars.

Without running water, he nowhad to bathe with baby wipes andshave without a mirror. He had noidea how his favorite basketballteam, the Golden State Warriors,was faring in the playoffs. And thefood was so bad that he relied onpeanut butter crackers and lost 10pounds.

“When we were out there, theytasted amazing,” said SergeantBrown, who went to the gym twicea day when he was overseas tomake sure he did not put on toomuch weight from the dining halland its honey buns and muffins.

While some American militarypersonnel, in particular SpecialOperations forces and a number ofMarine and conventional Armyunits, operated out of small, spar-tan outposts in Iraq and Af-ghanistan, the bulk of Armytroops lived on bases that had run-ning water, electricity and hous-ing units. Some larger bases evenhad wireless internet, televisions,gyms and coffee shops. Civiliancontractors guarded the bases,cooked meals and transportedammunition, food and fuel.

But now that the American foot-print in Iraq and Afghanistan is

far smaller, the Army has begunplanning for its next conflict. Nomatter where and when it occurs,it will almost certainly be foughtunder more austere conditions. Toprepare for this, nearly all Armyunits are refocusing their trainingon being self-sustaining, or “expe-ditionary,” as their commandersput it.

What that means is that a gen-eration of soldiers with more bat-

tlefield experience than any sinceWorld War II is getting back to ba-sics: learning how to cook theirown meals, cover their faces incamouflage paint, dig foxholesand latrines, lay concertina wireand live out of their rucksacks.

The training, known as Deci-sive Action Training Envi-ronment, or DATE, is designed toprepare units for a variety of con-tingencies, ranging from humani-tarian missions to traditional com-bat. The Army created the pro-gram in 2012, shortly after theUnited States pulled its last troopsout of Iraq, to replace its counter-insurgency training, known asCOIN. But the Army’s training cy-cles take several years, and in part

Back to Basics (and Foxholes) for Today’s Army

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More Spartan Life as

Military Prepares for

Its Next Mission

The government reported onFriday that employers added just38,000 workers to their payrolls inMay, a sharp slowdown in hiringthat is expected to push back a de-cision by the Federal Reserve toraise interest rates.

The latest snapshot suggestedthat the economic recovery mighthave stalled this spring, at leasttemporarily.

Despite the anemic job gains,the official unemployment rate,(which is based on a separate sur-vey of households), fell to 4.7 per-cent, its lowest point in nearly adecade. But the decline was pri-marily a result of Americans drop-ping out of the labor force ratherthan finding new jobs.

“Boy, this is ugly,” said DianeSwonk, an independent economistin Chicago. “The losses weredeeper and more broad-basedthan we expected, and with thedownward revision to previousmonths, it puts the Fed back onpause.”

“The only good news is thatwages held,” Ms. Swonk said. Av-erage hourly earnings rose again,0.2 percent for the month, for again of 2.5 percent for the last 12months, an encouraging sign that

Fed Less Likely To Raise RatesAfter Jobs Data

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‘The President’ as Reality TV

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