memeorandum: Another Ailes Spectacular—Second Amendment saga—erstwhile AP power-duo reunites (Joe Pompeo/Politico)

5:30 PM ET, August 10, 2016

Top Items:

CNN:

Secret Service spoke to Trump campaign about 2nd Amendment comment — (CNN)A US Secret Service official confirms to CNN that the USSS has spoken to the Trump campaign regarding his Second Amendment comments. — “There has been more than one conversation” on the topic, the official told CNN.

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: RealClearPolitics, Fox News, Hot Air, Business Insider, Guardian, alan.com, Politico, Political Insider blog, Mediaite, Media Matters for America, twitchy.com and The Week

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: Washington Post, ABC News, TheStreet.com, New York Post, KSNG-TV, Business Insider, Vox, Talking Points Memo, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller, The Week and Politico

Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:

Study: Nets Squash Hillary's Terror Woes to Scold Trump's Gun Remark — Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should have been forced to deal with campaign messes on Tuesday, but the three networks only treated the Republican's problem as a huge gaffe worthy of extensive coverage.

Discussion: Red Alert Politics, Fox News Insider and Washington Times

Dara Lind / Vox:

Donald Trump's most WTF moments happen when he tries to speak conservative — Why Trump's comments on subjects like guns and abortion end up sounding monstrous. — What the hell is a “Second Amendment person”? — It's not a phrase gun rights supporters typically use to describe themselves.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, The National Memo, Politicus USA and Althouse

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: ABC News, TalkLeft and The Week

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

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

Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:

Of Course Hillary Wants to ‘Abolish’ the Second Amendment — Before he made his reprehensible “Second Amendment people” joke yesterday, Donald Trump said once again that Hillary Clinton wants “to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment.” — Whenever Trump says this the press works itself …

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air, Mother Jones, Boing Boing and Politicus USA

Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA circles the wagons around Trump

Discussion: The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, Campaign for America's Future, CBS New York, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, The New Civil Rights Movement, Bearing Arms, Mediaite, The Times of Israel and Washington Post

Ryan Struyk / ABC News:
Rudy Giuliani Defends Donald Trump's Second Amendment Comments on ‘GMA’

Discussion: Politico, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, The National Memo, The Week, AMERICAblog NewsAMERICAblog …, The Daily Caller, The Moderate Voice, Raw Story, Media Matters for America and Associated Press

Natalie DiBlasio / USA Today:
‘History is watching’: Dan Rather rips Trump in epic Facebook rant

Discussion: The National Memo, Breitbart, CNNMoney, AOL, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Mediaite and Occupy Democrats

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

Discussion: Politico

Grant Smith / Reuters:
One-in-five U.S. Republicans want Trump to drop out: Reuters/Ipsos poll

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

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

Discussion: Washington Post, Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, Guardian, Politicus USA, Above the Law, The New Civil Rights Movement, Taylor Marsh, Mother Jones and The Gateway Pundit

Esme Cribb / Talking Points Memo:
Report: Secret Service Spoke To Trump Camp About 2nd Amendment Line

Discussion: Mashable and The New Civil Rights Movement

Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Trump's Ambiguous Wink Wink to ‘Second Amendment People’

Discussion: ThinkProgress, NBC News, Occupy Democrats, Gothamist, Guardian, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, alan.com, WBUR, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and NPR

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

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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

Daniella Diaz / CNN:

Newly released Clinton emails shed light on relationship between State Dept. and Clinton Foundation — Washington (CNN)Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state raise questions about the nature of the department's relationship with the Clinton Foundation.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, CBS News, The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, RedState, The Daily Caller, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Business Insider, WND, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon and Heat Street

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.

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: Politico, Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh, The Hill, Daily Wire, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, twitchy.com, BizPac Review 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 BizPac Review

Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Newly Released Emails Highlight Clinton Foundation's Ties to State Department

Discussion: Fox News, Media Matters for America, The Atlantic, ABC News and Washington Free Beacon

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: Daily Kos, Raw Story, Boing Boing and The Week

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: Washington Post, Mother Jones, Politico, Talking Points Memo, Politicus USA and New Republic

McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton Pitches Mormon Voters In Utah Newspaper Op-Ed

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

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

BREAKING: Three Republican Judges Restore Wisconsin's Voter Suppression Law — BREAKING: Three Republican Judges Restore Wisconsin Voter Suppression Law — In a boost to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, an especially conservative panel of three Republican-appointed judges stayed …

Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post:
In Wisconsin, a controversial voter ID law could help choose the president

Discussion: Politico, electionlawblog.org and Hot Air

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.

Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:
Family of slain DNC staffer: Those attempting to politicize death are ‘causing more harm than good’

Discussion: Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Raw Story, BizPac Review and NBC4 Washington

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:

Christie Disputes Ex-Aide's Claim He ‘Lied’ About Bridgegate — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is disputing a former aide's claim, made public in court filings Wednesday, that he “lied” about being certain his senior staffers had no knowledge of the 2013 Bridgegate scandal. — “I absolutely dispute it.

Discussion: The Week

David Porter / Associated Press:
Former aide in text: Christie ‘flat out lied’ in bridge case

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Associated Press and NBC News

Katy Tur / Marie Claire:

My Crazy Year with Trump — The presidential hopeful has insulted reporter Katy Tur on national TV, called her names during interviews, and made his campaign seemingly impossible to cover. Here, her no-holds-barred account of trailing the most unlikely candidate in GOP history.

Discussion: Mediaite

Kelsey Sutton / Politico:

The new Salon - very different from the old Salon — A new CEO adds conservative voices, plans ‘reallocations’ away from political coverage — After the presidential election in November, expect to see a lot less political coverage from liberal news and commentary site Salon.

Discussion: twitchy.com, more at Mediagazer »