memeorandum: Homophobic rap video of Sanders rally seems fake (Chris Johnson/Washington Blade)

4:15 PM ET, May 28, 2016

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Trump Attacks Federal Judge in Trump U Case — The presumptive GOP nominee devotes 12 minutes of a 58-minute address to the suit — SAN DIEGO-In one of his most personal attacks against an apolitical figure since becoming the presumptive Republican presidential nominee …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, Washington Examiner, RedState, protein wisdom, alan.com, The San Diego Union …, Politicus USA and Booman Tribune

Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:

Trump Attacks Judge Overseeing The Case Against His Fake University: 'He's A Hater' — During a campaign stop in San Diego on Friday, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump devoted a significant amount of time to attacking the federal judge overseeing the ongoing case against Trump University …

Discussion: FOX News Radio, Hullabaloo, CNNMoney and Politico

Michelle Moons / Breitbart:

Death Threat to Trump at Protest: 'He'll Be Dead Within a Week' — SAN DIEGO — Hundreds of protesters gathered outside a Donald Trump rally on Friday, chanting “f**k Donald Trump” and holding obscene signs — including one that included a death threat against Trump should he win the presidency in November.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review, Walid Shoebat, ABC News, France 24 and The Hill

Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
In San Diego, Trump shames local ‘Mexican’ judge as protesters storm streets

Discussion: The American Conservative

Adelle Platon / Billboard:

DMX Responds to Bernie Sanders Walking Out to ‘Where the Hood At’ at California Rally — EMAIL ME — Bernie Sanders' street cred might be all the way up. The Democratic presidential candidate hosted a California rally on Thursday where his entrance theme music was DMX's “Where the Hood At?”

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

John Aravosis / AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog News:

Sanders uses “shoot the gays” rap song at CA rally — UPDATE: 3:46pm ET... The plot thickens. There is now a second video, published two days ago, before the controversy over this began, that shows the same DMX song playing at the Sanders rally, from a different vantage point. The audio certainly sounds real.

Discussion: RedState, Mediaite, The Root, Politico and New York Times

Henry C. Jackson / Politico:

The RNC's state(s) of disarray — STATES OF DISARRAY: Top Republicans in key states are concerned they're not getting enough help from the Republican National Committee — and that's even with reassurances this week from the RNC and chairman Reince Priebus.

Discussion: Guardian, CANNONFIRE, The Atlantic and alan.com

Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Homophobic rap video of Sanders rally seems fake

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Joe.My.God.

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

DNC rejects Sanders's request to remove committee chairs — Senior Democratic National Committee (DNC) officials have rejected a request from Bernie Sanders — 's campaign to change the leadership of two crucial committees at the convention. — Jim Roosevelt and Lorraine Miller …

Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite

Eugene Scott / CNN:

Sanders to DNC: Remove Clinton backers from convention committees — Washington (CNN)Bernie Sanders' campaign wants the Democratic National Committee to remove two Hillary Clinton supporters from key convention roles, accusing them of being “aggressive attack surrogates.”

Discussion: Salon

Daniel Strauss / Politico:
Sanders calls for ouster of Clinton convention allies

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, ABC News and The American Spectator

Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:

Trump camp concedes it's low on money — Donald Trump's campaign has alerted Senate Republicans that he won't have much money to spend fending off attacks from Hillary Clinton over the next couple months. — The notice came when Paul Manafort, Trump's senior advisor …

Discussion: Hot Air, Hullabaloo, BNR, Politicus USA and RedState

Jim Acosta / CNN:

First on CNN: Trump campaign eyeing big stadium for acceptance speech — (CNN)Donald Trump's campaign is considering booking one of Cleveland's big sports venues for his acceptance speech in July, two GOP sources familiar with the planning of the upcoming GOP convention say.

Discussion: The Hill, RedState and Hot Air

USA Today:

Donald Trump tells Californians there is no drought — 6.1k Shares — California had one of its driest years in 2015. In fact, last year marked the driest four-year period in the state's history. — But Donald Trump isn't sold. Six months later, the presumptive GOP nominee told supporters …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Talking Points Memo, National Geographic, The Talking Dog, The Huffington Post and BuzzFeed

Devin Henry / The Hill:
Trump pledges to ‘open up the water’ to solve Calif. drought

Discussion: RedState, Conservative Tribune and Daily Kos

Peter Baker / New York Times:

Rise of Donald Trump Tracks Growing Debate Over Global Fascism — WASHINGTON — The comparison was inflammatory, to say the least. Former Gov. William F. Weld of Massachusetts equated Donald J. Trump's immigration plan with Kristallnacht, the night of horror in 1938 when rampaging Nazis smashed Jewish homes …

Discussion: Politico and Mediaite

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

Trump's Intellectuals — They're out there—beyond the Beltway. — Inside the Beltway and along the Washington-to-Boston corridor, #NeverTrump has won the hearts and minds of conservative intellectuals and the high-toned media. The dissenters—yes, there are some—make a lot less noise.

Julian Hattem / The Hill:

Clinton email headache is about to get worse — 's email headache is about to get even worse. — A scathing inspector general's report this week was just the first in what is likely to be a series of official actions related to her private server stemming from the FBI, a federal courthouse and Capitol Hill.

Daily Mail:

Iraqi migrant who bought a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' is hospitalised by three Islamic asylum seekers who thought he was insulting their religion — An asylum seeker who jokingly wore a T-shirt saying 'I'm Muslim, don't panic' was so savagely beaten by his fellow refugees that he had to be rushed to hospital.

Discussion: Power LinePower Line and National Review

New York Times:

Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown — CARACAS, Venezuela — The courts? Closed most days. The bureau to start a business? Same thing. The public defender's office? That's been converted into a food bank for government employees.

Discussion: neo-neocon

Kristen East / Politico:

Paula Broadwell to NYT: I screwed up — Three years after Gen. David Petraeus resigned as CIA director and apologized to Congress for an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell now asks, “how long does a person pay for their mistake?” — “I'm the first to admit I screwed up.

Discussion: alan.com and New York Times

John Hayward / Breitbart:

War Crimes of Imperial Japan: A Lesson In Moral Equivalence for Mr. Obama — President Obama made a single, vague reference to “evil” during his prepared remarks in Hiroshima: “We may not be able to eliminate man's capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves.

Discussion: Power LinePower Line, The Gateway Pundit, Xinhua News Agency, Outside the Beltway, Raw Story, New York Times and The American Spectator

Andrew Freedman / Mashable:

Trump on climate: He's even worse than we thought — No one expected Donald Trump to give a single energy speech and suddenly pivot to the left on global warming, after a record of expressing skepticism that global warming exists on several prior occasions.

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News

New York Times:

The World Reaps What the Saudis Sow — Saudi Arabia has frustrated American policy makers for years. Ostensibly a critical ally, sheltered from its enemies by American arms and aid, the kingdom has spent untold millions promoting Wahhabism, the radical form of Sunni Islam that inspired …