memeorandum: Trump Is Right: The Shame of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell (Wlady Pleszczynski/The American Spectator)

12:05 PM ET, June 7, 2016

Top Items:

Trump self-destructive rambling baffles GOP strategists — How did the controversy begin over Donald Trump's attacks on the judge in the Trump University lawsuit? It began when Donald Trump couldn't stop talking about the Trump University lawsuit. — In the normal course of events …

Discussion: Hot Air

Bloomberg:

Trump Orders Surrogates to Intensify Criticism of Judge and Journalists — During a Monday conference call with supporters, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee overruled a directive sent out by his own campaign. — kevcirilli — michaelcbender

Bridget Bowman / Roll Call:

Grassley: Senate Can Be a Check on Trump's Judges — Senate Judiciary chairman says he's not concerned who would be nominated — Reid: McConnell ‘Poster Boy’ for GOP ‘Spinelessness’ Over Trump GOP Senators Criticize Trump's Comments on Judge Sanders' Long-Shot Delegate Hunt

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Des Moines Register and Daily Kos

Adrian Carrasquillo / BuzzFeed:

The RNC Approached Two Hispanic Operatives Who Weren't Interested Because Of Trump — Last week, news about the Republican National Committee's struggles hit in quick succession. — First, the RNC's Hispanic media director left to work on down ballot races because of discomfort with Donald Trump.

Discussion: alan.com and The Week

David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Paul Ryan Calls Donald Trump's Attack on Judge ‘Racist,’ but Backs Him Still

Discussion: Political Wire

New York Times:
Democrats Jump on Allies of Donald Trump in Judge Dispute

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, RedState, Politico, CNN, Courthouse News Service, New York Magazine, The Resurgent, Mediaite, WMUR, BizPac Review and Mother Jones

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo: Trump Spox Suggests Trump's Sister Could Be ‘Biased’ As A Female Judge

Marina Fang / The Huffington Post:
Trump Campaign: Female Judges Could Be Biased, Too

Discussion: RedState, Religion News Service, Yahoo and Politico

Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trump train derails on Capitol Hill

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Week, Booman Tribune, Raw Story, Washington Post, Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Resurgent, Associated Press and Business Insider

Media Matters for America:
Fox Vs Fox: Kelly Blasts “Pundits” Demanding Trump U. Judge Step Down, Moments After O'Reilly Did Just That

Discussion: Politico, Betsy's Page, Media Matters for America, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite and The Week

Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:

Nancy Pelosi ‘Proud to Endorse’ Hillary Clinton for President

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politicus USA, Hot Air, Washington Times, The Week and Washington Free Beacon

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves the Nomination — He was told there would be no math. — The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Live imagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond …

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight, Washington Post, Salon, The Week, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Politico and BuzzFeed

New York Times:

Hillary Clinton Has Clinched Democratic Nomination, Survey Reports — Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president, The Associated Press reported Monday night. — Mrs. Clinton had been expected to clinch the nomination on Tuesday after polls closed in New Jersey.

Discussion: Politico, Outside the Beltway, Mother Jones, Althouse and The Week

Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Clinton will call Sanders Tuesday night

Discussion: The Atlantic, Politico, Daily Kos and New York Times

Cyra Master / The Hill:
Sanders camp: Clinton has not secured nomination yet

Discussion: Politico, CNN, Daily Kos, ABC News, Common Dreams and Guardian

John Judis / Talking Points Memo: Bernie Sanders should drop out and endorse Hillary Clinton. Period.

Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Sanders plans to ‘assess’ presidential bid at home in Vermont after Tuesday contests

Discussion: Political Wire, Truth Revolt and AOL

Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Hillary Clinton clinches Democratic presidential nomination

Discussion: Jezebel, whorunsGov, Politicus USA and Mediaite

Carrie Dann / NBC News:
Clinton Hits ‘Magic Number’ of Delegates to Clinch Nomination

Discussion: Washington Post, Mother Jones, USA Today, Common Dreams, Gothamist, Vox, CNN, The Week, Al Jazeera English, Politicus USA, CBS New York, ABC News, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, New York Magazine, Shakesville and CANNONFIRE

Associated Press:
AP count: Clinton has delegates to win Democratic nomination

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders: Not sexist to stay in race against Clinton

Discussion: Breitbart and Washington Free Beacon

Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
NPR Reporter: Women Weep Over History-Making Hillary Clinton

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com

CBS News:
Obama called Bernie Sanders Sunday

Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Post, CBS New York, RedState, Sky Dancing and Balloon Juice

Wlady Pleszczynski / The American Spectator:

Trump Is Right: The Shame of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell — The GOP Establishment is in full flight. — No Abraham Lincolns here. — In a shameful haste to embrace identity politics, the latter the political descendant of slavery and segregation, Speaker Paul Ryan …

Discussion: Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and Media Matters for America

Joseph Murray / Breitbart:
Donald Trump Is Correct To Hit ‘La Raza’ Judge For Latino Identity Politics

Discussion: Salon, New York Times and Washington Free Beacon

Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
The Donald & The La Raza Judge

Discussion: Daily Wire

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Mitch McConnell: This Election Is About Choosing The Lesser Of Two Evils — “This is a choice that many Americans are not happy with.” — w.soundcloud.com — Asked on Monday if the general election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a “lesser of two evils election,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell answered yes.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Political Wire

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Republicans need to think very hard about whether they can live with Donald Trump for five more months

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and MSNBC

Mark Green / Los Angeles Times:
Op-Ed Don't panic, Democrats, Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump

Discussion: Liberty Unyielding, Reuters and Associated Press

Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:

Dick Morris Is in Talks to Join the Trump Campaign — The controversial former Clinton adviser could play a key roll in Trump's anti-Hillary strategy. — Before Donald Trump's campaign was derailed by his racist attacks on a federal judge, the GOP nominee was surprisingly disciplined in his attacks on Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: Media Matters for America

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Trump: I'm The One Who ‘Really Broke The Glass Ceiling’ In My Industry

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times, Politico, Jezebel and Balloon Juice

CNN:
Pro-Trump group's first ad uses Clintons' words against them

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Julian Hattem / The Hill:

FBI asks to make new secret filing in Clinton email case — The FBI has asked a federal judge for permission to file a second secret declaration detailing its probe into Hillary Clinton — 's private email server. — In the request, which came as part of a Freedom of Information Act …

Discussion: Hot Air

Lisa Hagen / The Hill:

State Dept. would need 75 years to compile Clinton emails — The State Department said it would take 75 years for the release of emails from top aides to Hillary Clinton — while she was serving as secretary of State. — Lawyers said it would take that long to compile the 450,000 pages …

Discussion: MichelleMalkin.com and CNN

Associated Press:

Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case — WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida's attorney general personally solicited a political contribution from Donald Trump around the same time her office deliberated joining an investigation of alleged fraud at Trump University and its affiliates

Discussion: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Washington Free Beacon and Politico

Daniel Horowitz / Conservative Review:

Trump Endorses Fanatically Open-Borders RINO, Renee Ellmers — The “Trump revolution” has officially come full circle. — As we've observed throughout this election season, every single House and Senate incumbent has won reelection. Ironically, the extra “Trump turnout” …

Discussion: The Atlantic, NPR, Breitbart, Daily Wire, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Caller and PoliPundit.com

Associated Press:
2 North Carolina US House Members Battle in Tuesday Primary

Discussion: Politico

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Republicans finally discover that Trump is an actual racist — Donald Trump needed validation. — At a rally Friday, Trump was discussing racial violence at his events and the perception that nonwhite people are against him, when he singled out a black man in the crowd.

Discussion: The Daily Beast

Jason Reed / National Review:

Inside the #NeverTrump Candidacy that Almost Was — Anti-Trump conservatives failed to recruit David French into the presidential campaign. What will they do now? — The latest would-be presidential candidate spent just under a week in the spotlight — long enough to confound official Washington …