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1:10 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: Politico, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, alan.com, The Week and twitchy.com

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, Politicus USA, The Canary, Fox News Insider, Washington Times, Mother Jones, The Week, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Occupy Democrats and Vox

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, Talking Points Memo, Politico, The Week and The Gateway Pundit

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: AOL, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, The National Memo, Associated Press, The Moderate Voice, Occupy Democrats, Washington Post, Raw Story, NPR, Guardian, TVNewser, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, Glamour, Vox and The Stranger …

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, CBS Pittsburgh, The American Mirror 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: alan.com, Gothamist, 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: Politico, The Hill, TalkLeft, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, The Week, The Moderate Voice, Heat Street, Bearing Arms, Lawyers, Guns & Money, No More Mister Nice Blog, Associated Press, Hot Air, Media Matters for America, The Democratic Daily and The Gateway Pundit

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

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

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

Louis Nelson / Politico:
‘Morning Joe’ co-hosts Brzezinski and Scarborough tiff: 'Mika, you're a Democrat'

Discussion: The Week

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

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

David S. Cohen / Rolling Stone:
Trump's Assassination Dog Whistle Was Even Scarier Than You Think

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Establishment, Vox, Shakesville and Talking Points Memo

Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Outside the Beltway

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

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

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

Discussion: Politico, New York Magazine and BillMoyers.com

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

Discussion: Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:
Trump accused of threatening violence against Clinton with gun-rights remarks

Discussion: The Atlantic and Hot Air

ABC News:
The Note: Clinton Courts Republicans

Discussion: Politico

Will Drabold / TIME:
Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’

Discussion: American Prospect, Fox News, BizPac Review, AOL, Washington Times, Bloomberg.com, France 24, Politico, Business Insider, twitchy.com, Politicus USA, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite and ABC News

Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Pence attacks media after Trump's latest controversy

Discussion: RedState, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, The Federalist, Patterico's Pontifications, The Hill and The Resurgent

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

Associated Press:

LEGAL GROUP ISSUES PRIVATE EMAILS CLINTON DID NOT TURN OVER — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has turned over 44 previously-unreleased Hillary Clinton email exchanges that the Democratic presidential nominee failed to include among the 30,000 private messages she turned over to the government last year.

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

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, Scared Monkeys, Washington Free Beacon, New York Post, BizPac Review, The Week, The Daily Caller and twitchy.com

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
Deleted Clinton emails might remain secret until after election

Discussion: Hot Air and twitchy.com

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 and Daily Wire

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: Politicus USA

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

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

WOW! BREAKING=> Julian Assange Suggests Seth Rich - Who Was MURDERED in DC - Was Wikileaks DNC Source! — On July 8, 2016, 27 year-old Democratic staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC. The killer or killers took nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.

Discussion: Shot in the Dark, RT, The Last Refuge, BizPac Review, Vox Popoli and Infowars

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Julian Assange Floats Theory That Murdered DNC Employee Was Informant In Dutch Interview

Discussion: Slate, The Hill, Hullabaloo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, RedState, Pamela Geller, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Liberty Unyielding, Heat Street and Media Matters for America

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

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

Molly Ball / The Atlantic:

Maybe Trumpism Doesn't Work Without Trump — That House Speaker Paul Ryan easily won his congressional primary on Tuesday, by a nearly 70-point margin, should not have surprised anyone. Yet the political world was watching the result on tenterhooks, waiting for a surprise that never came.

Discussion: RedState, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Washington Post, Politico and Hot Air