memeorandum: No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares … (Dan Rather/Facebook)

2:15 PM ET, August 10, 2016

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Joe Scarborough / Washington Post:

The GOP must dump Trump — The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain's military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken …

Discussion: Fox News, Politico, Guardian, Mediaite, alan.com, Media Matters for America, The Week and twitchy.com

John McCormick / Bloomberg:

Clinton Up 6 on Trump in Two-Way Race in Bloomberg National Poll — The findings suggest damage has been done to one of Trump's main calling cards, his business expertise. — McCormickJohn — Hillary Clinton has retained most of the bounce she received after the Democratic National Convention …

Discussion: Vox, KSNG-TV, New York Post, The Daily Caller, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, Politico and The Week

New York Daily News:

Trump must go: Hinting at assassination is too much, even for him — Donald Trump must end his campaign for the White House in a reckoning with his own madness, while praying that nothing comes of his musing about an assassination of Hillary Clinton. — In the event that Trump fails …

Discussion: AOL, CBS New York, Politicus USA, Fox News Insider, The Canary, CNN, The Week, Washington Times, Mother Jones, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Occupy Democrats and Vox

Dan Rather / Facebook:

No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today. When he suggested that “The Second Amendment People” can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential.

Discussion: CNNMoney, Infowars, Hot Air, AOL, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The National Memo, Occupy Democrats, Washington Post, Raw Story, NPR, Guardian, TVNewser, Vox and AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …

David S. Cohen / Rolling Stone:

Trump's Assassination Dog Whistle Was Even Scarier Than You Think — Republican nominee engaged in so-called stochastic terrorism with his remarks about “Second Amendment people” and Clinton — “If [Hillary Clinton] gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is.

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Vox, The Establishment and Shakesville

Grant Smith / Reuters:

One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll — Nearly one-fifth of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to drop out of the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday, reflecting the turmoil his candidacy has sown within his party.

Discussion: Vox, CNBC, New York Magazine, Hot Air, The American Mirror, CBS Pittsburgh and The Week

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:

Trump's Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’ — And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin got assassinated. — His right-wing opponents just kept delegitimizing him as a “traitor” and “a Nazi” for wanting to make peace with the Palestinians and give back part of the Land of Israel.

Discussion: WBUR, alan.com, Gothamist, NPR, Guardian, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Raw Story

Ryan Struyk / ABC News:

Rudy Giuliani Defends Donald Trump's Second Amendment Comments on ‘GMA’ — Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani today defended Donald Trump's controversial comments about the Second Amendment that Hillary Clinton's campaign and others interpreted as a suggestion of violence against her.

Discussion: The Hill, The National Memo, Politico, The Daily Caller, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, The Moderate Voice, The Week, Associated Press, Heat Street, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Bearing Arms, No More Mister Nice Blog, Media Matters for America, Hot Air, The Democratic Daily and The Gateway Pundit

Louis Nelson / Politico:

GOP squirms amid latest Trump firestorm — Republican lawmakers and even Donald Trump allies were squirming Wednesday amid the fallout from the Manhattan billionaire's suggestion that “the Second Amendment people” might be the only group capable of stopping Hillary Clinton from appointing liberal judges if she is elected president.

Discussion: TalkLeft

New York Times:
Further Into the Muck With Mr. Trump

Discussion: The Atlantic, Guardian, Above the Law, Raw Story, Politicus USA, Mother Jones, The New Civil Rights Movement, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Occupy Democrats, Boing Boing, The American Spectator, The San Diego Union …, The Gateway Pundit, Right Wing Watch and Hit & Run

Sahil Kapur / Bloomberg:
Trump Resurrects Worries on His Character and Nation's Violent Past

Discussion: The Root, Politico, Mediaite and New York Daily News

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Donald Trump's problem, in a nutshell: More than half the country says they'd never vote for him

Discussion: New York Magazine

New York Times:
Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide

Discussion: Daily Kos, Political Insider blog, Outside the Beltway and Washington Monthly

Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump Says ‘Second Amendment People’ Can Stop Hillary Clinton From Curbing Gun Rights

Discussion: Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
From Trump's controversial words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines and then denial

Discussion: Politico, New York Times, BillMoyers.com and New York Magazine

ABC News:
The Note: Clinton Courts Republicans

Discussion: Politico and Washington Free Beacon

Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:

Emails Renew Questions About Clinton Foundation and State Dept. Overlap — WASHINGTON — A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.

Discussion: The Atlantic, Althouse, Mediaite, Shadowproof, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Mahablog, twitchy.com, Raw Story, Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, New York Magazine, The Week, Judicial Watch, Power Line, Liberal Values, Hot Air and The Federalist

Ben Brody / Bloomberg:

E-Mails by Clinton Aides Show State-Foundation Links — Foundation aide flagged someone State should ‘take care of’ — Cache includes previously unreleased e-mails from Clinton — Newly released e-mails from a top aide to Hillary Clinton show evidence of contacts between Clinton's State Department …

Discussion: Hot Air, Politico, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, BizPac Review, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com and The Week

Associated Press:
LEGAL GROUP ISSUES PRIVATE EMAILS CLINTON DID NOT TURN OVER

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Fox News Insider and CBS Philly

Daniella Diaz / CNN:
Newly released Clinton emails shed light on relationship between State Dept. and Clinton Foundation

Discussion: RedState, Washington Examiner, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon, The Hill, Heat Street and New Urban Legends

Hillary Clinton / Deseret News:

Exclusive: Hillary Clinton: What I have in common with Utah leaders — religious freedom and the Constitution — Editor's note: The Deseret News has asked the major presidential candidates to share their views with our readers. Last week, we published an op-ed from Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson.

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo and Politicus USA

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:

Hillary Clinton Pitches Mormon Voters In Utah Newspaper Op-Ed — Hillary Clinton will pitch her candidacy to Mormon voters in Utah with an op-ed Wednesday in the church-owned Deseret News. — “I've been fighting to defend religious freedom for years,” Clinton writes in an excerpt of the op-ed provided to BuzzFeed News.

Discussion: RedState, Mediaite, Daily Wire and twitchy.com

Jeremy Stahl / Slate:

WikiLeaks Is Fanning a Conspiracy Theory That Hillary Murdered a DNC Staffer — Julian Assange and his WikiLeaks organization appear to be actively encouraging a conspiracy theory that a Democratic National Committee staffer was murdered for nefarious political purposes, perhaps by Hillary Clinton.

Discussion: NBC News, Media Matters for America, BuzzFeed, Hullabaloo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Tablet Magazine, Talking Points Memo, Althouse, Politicus USA, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, RedState and Mediaite

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
WOW! BREAKING=> Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source!

Discussion: John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Shot in the Dark, WOMEN VOTE TRUMP, RedState, The Last Refuge, BizPac Review, Hot Air, Vox Popoli, Heat Street and Infowars

Fox News:
Assange implies murdered DNC staffer was WikiLeaks' source

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Hill, The Times of Israel, Red Alert Politics, RT, The Gateway Pundit, Business Insider, Sputnik International and Mediaite

Washington Post:

TRUMP: A TRUE STORY — The mogul, in a 2007 deposition, had to face up to a series of falsehoods and exaggerations. And he did. Sort of. — Hover over the claims above for more information … By David A. Fahrenthold and Robert O'Harrow Jr. August 10, 2016

Discussion: Boing Boing, Raw Story and The Week

Al Weaver / Washington Examiner:

New audio: Ted Strickland jokes that Scalia's death came ‘at a good time’ — Ohio Senate candidate Ted Strickland joked about the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Monday, saying it came “at a good time” for union workers since he was unable to cast the deciding vote in a March case that ended up in a 4-4 deadlock.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, RedState, Politico, The Daily Caller, Washington Times, Mediaite and Independent Journal Review

Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Dem Senate candidate: Scalia's death ‘happened at a good time’

Discussion: Cincinnati.com

David Edwards / Raw Story:

Trump's head of black outreach: Rally-goers blurt N-word to show ‘frustration with the system’ — DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! — Ashley Bell, Donald Trump's newly-appointed director of African-American outreach, excused the repeated use of the N-word and other epithets …

Discussion: Political Insider blog

The Daily Beast:

ISIS Intel Was Cooked, House Panel Finds — A leading U.S. general pressured his intelligence analysts into playing down the ISIS and al Qaeda threats, according to a congressional task force. — A House Republican task force has found that officials from the U.S. military's Central Command …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Caller and Fox News Insider

Ryan Dunn / Toledo Blade:

Report says body found on July 22 had plastic gag in mouth — ARCHBOLD — An autopsy report shows that 20-year-old Sierah Joughin died of asphyxiation from a large plastic gag that was found in her mouth. — The report, which The Blade reviewed early today, also shows that Ms. Joughin died over a period of minutes.

Discussion: WCMH-TV

Amy Chozick / New York Times:

Stress Over Family Finances Propelled Hillary Clinton Into Corporate World — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Losing the governor's race here in 1980 so shattered a young Bill Clinton that he couldn't face his supporters, so he sent his wife around to thank campaign workers instead.

Discussion: Daily Wire, National Review, The Daily Caller and Betsy's Page