memeorandum: The Latest: Trump Blames Shootings on ‘Lack of Leadership’ (Associated Press)

8:45 PM ET, July 17, 2016

Top Items:

Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday — BATON ROUGE, La. — The deceased suspect in the deadly shooting of Baton Rouge law enforcement officers appeared to have attacked police on his 29th birthday, CBS News has learned. — The suspect has been identified …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Townhall.com, Guardian, Raw Story, Hot Air, The Week and Balloon Juice

Gregory Krieg / CNN:

Cleveland police union asks for suspension of ‘open carry’ in wake of Baton Rouge, ahead of RNC — Witness describes Baton Rouge police shootout scene — Cleveland, Ohio (CNN)The head of one of Cleveland's largest police unions is calling on Ohio Gov. John Kasich to temporarily restrict …

Discussion: WPMT FOX43, Independent Journal Review, ThinkProgress, WTVR-TV, Vox, Reuters, Guardian, FOX6Now.com, alan.com, Fox 59, The Daily Caller, LawNewz, WTKR-TV and Joe.My.God.

CNN:

Source: 7 officers shot; 3 feared dead in Baton Rouge — (CNN)At least seven officers were injured and at least three of them are feared dead in a shooting in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN. — Police received a call of “suspicious person walking …

Discussion: Breitbart, WHNT-TV, Daily Kos, Pamela Geller, Bearing Arms, CityLab, The Hayride, RedState, Daily Wire, Washington Free Beacon, Power Line and The Week

The White House:

Statement by the President — I condemn, in the strongest sense of the word, the attack on law enforcement in Baton Rouge. For the second time in two weeks, police officers who put their lives on the line for ours every day were doing their job when they were killed in a cowardly and reprehensible assault.

Discussion: Mother Jones, myfox8.com, The Gateway Pundit, The Last Refuge, CBS New York, NPR, Balloon Juice, Independent Journal Review, FOX6Now.com, Deadline, NBC News, fox13now.com, BizPac Review, National Review, Mediaite, The Week and twitchy.com

New York Times:

Baton Rouge Shooting Leaves 3 Officers Dead and 3 Wounded — BATON ROUGE, La. — Three law enforcement officers were fatally shot and three others wounded on Sunday in Baton Rouge, La., the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office said, less than two weeks after a black man was killed by the police here, sparking nightly protests.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Guardian, Balloon Juice, Little Green Footballs, Media Matters for America and France 24

John Eligon / New York Times:

Black Lives Matter Leader Calls for End to Violence — DeRay Mckesson, one of the best known voices for the Black Lives Matter movement, and who was arrested at a demonstration in Baton Rouge, La., earlier this month, called for peace in a phone interview after news of the shooting broke on Sunday.

Discussion: Mediaite and The Week

NBC News:

Three Baton Rouge Officers Killed, Three Injured in Ambush — Baton Rouge mayor: Three officers killed 6:40 — At least three Baton Rouge police officers were killed and three others injured in an apparent ambush shooting Sunday morning, the city's mayor and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office said.

Discussion: CNBC, CBS New York, NBC News, AOL, Towleroad, New York Times, WQAD-TV, Mediaite, Mother Jones, The American Spectator and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:

Baton Rouge Shooter Gavin Eugene Long Was Nation Of Islam Member, Railed Against ‘Crackers’ On YouTube Channel [VIDEO] — A Youtube account operated by Gavin Eugene Long and discovered by The Daily Caller reveals key insight into what might have motivated the 29-year-old black man …

Discussion: Power Line and Pamela Geller

Associated Press:

Obama Urges Americans to Tamp Down Inflammatory Rhetoric — Confronting another killing of police officers, President Barack Obama on Sunday urged Americans to tamp down inflammatory words and actions as a violent summer collides with the nation's heated presidential campaign.

Discussion: Politico, Breitbart, Power Line, Associated Press and ABC News

The Advocate:
Two Baton Rouge police officers dead, multiple injured in shooting; scene ‘active’ but contained

Discussion: Washington Post, CNN, New York Times, CBS Miami, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, The Week, Jezebel and RedState

Donald J. Trump / Wall Street Journal:
Live Updates: Police Shootings in Baton Rouge

Discussion: Bearing Arms, The Hayride and CBS Dallas

Peggy Gallek / fox8.com:
CLE police union president asking governor to ban open carrying of weapons during RNC

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Slate, Talking Points Memo, ABC News, Washington Post and Politicus USA

Kevin Litten / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
1 suspect dead, others sought in Baton Rouge police slaying

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Bart Jansen / USA Today:
Report: 2 Baton Rouge police officers shot dead

Discussion: The Last Refuge, The Week and Chicago Boyz

WAFB-TV:
WATCH LIVE: Officials confirm 3 law enforcement officers dead, 2 suspects at large

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, CBS News, POLICE Magazine and Hit & Run

Wall Street Journal:
Three Police Officers Killed in Baton Rouge Shooting; One Suspect Is Dead

Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Raw Story

CBS News:
3 police killed, 3 more wounded in Baton Rouge

Discussion: WREG-TV, CBS New York, Townhall.com, CBS Boston, Daily Kos and The Week

Aaron Klein / Breitbart:

EXCLUSIVE - Roger Stone: Trump To Name Prospective Cabinet at RNC — CLEVELAND, Ohio - Donald Trump is planning to use the Republican National Convention to make the unusual move of announcing names of potential cabinet members, Trump's longtime confident Roger Stone has confirmed.

Discussion: The Huffington Post

Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:

Trump to roll out potential Cabinet picks at convention: report — Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump — reportedly plans to roll out the names of potential Cabinet members this week, after his vice presidential announcement failed to generate the enthusiasm he was hoping for, The Huffington Post reported.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Rob Tornoe / Philly.com:
Newest speaker to join Donald Trump at the RNC: Scott Baio?

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Politicus USA, UPI, Mediaite and Joe.My.God.

Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Blames Shootings on ‘Lack of Leadership’

Discussion: Washington Post, Politico and ABC News

Jon Ward / Yahoo:
In Cleveland, a dazed GOP marches toward a Trump nomination

Discussion: The Resurgent

Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Anti-Trump delegates consider several attempts to upend convention

Discussion: ABC News, Politico, New York Times and BizPac Review

Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Anti-Trump delegates plot convention havoc: report

Discussion: ABC News, Washington Post, No More Mister Nice Blog, Politico and RedState

TIME: Behind The Scenes Drama as Donald Trump Picks Mike Pence

Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Never Trump plots last stand at Cleveland convention

Discussion: The Week

John McCormack / Weekly Standard:

Manafort Confirms Christie Was ‘Livid’ He Wasn't Picked To Be Trump's VP — New Jersey governor Chris Christie was reportedly enraged he didn't earn the VP spot, according to a top Trump campaign official. — While minding my own business at the Starbucks inside the Westin hotel this morning …

Discussion: The Resurgent

Susan Wright / RedState:

Months of Servitude With No Payoff Has Left Chris Christie “Livid” — Poor Chris Christie. — For months, he acted as Trump's loyal manservant. He stood dutifully by during press conferences, often becoming the butt of Trump's fat jokes. — Some reports state he was fetching Trump's lunch for him.

Discussion: bradford-delong.com

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Mike Pence Argued In An Op-Ed That Disney's “Mulan” Was Liberal Propaganda — When Donald Trump's running mate Mike Pence was a talk radio show host in Indiana, he wrote an op-ed declaring the film Mulan was an attempt by some “mischievous liberal” at Disney to influence the debate over women in the military.

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Raw Story

Edward Luttwak / Foreign Policy:

Why Turkey's Coup d'État Failed — And why Recep Tayyip Erdogan's craven excesses made it so inevitable. — Rule No. 2 in planning a successful military coup is that any mobile forces that are not part of the plot — and that certainly includes any fighter jet squadrons — must be immobilized or too remote to intervene.

Discussion: ParaPundit, Chicago Boyz and Guardian

Darren Boyle / Daily Mail: Did Erdogan STAGE the coup? …

Mark Murray / NBC News:

Poll: Clinton Keeps 5-Point Lead Over Trump Heading Into Conventions — On the eve of the GOP convention, Hillary Clinton maintains a five-point national lead over Donald Trump even after a period of negative news for the presumptive Democratic nominee, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Discussion: NBC News, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly, Hot Air and Politicus USA