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

6:00 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: Hot Air, USA Today, RealClearPolitics, Fox News, Business Insider, Guardian, alan.com, Media Matters for America, Politico, Political Insider blog, Mediaite, 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, The Daily Caller, TheStreet.com, New York Post, KSNG-TV, Business Insider, Vox, The Gateway Pundit, Talking Points Memo, 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, The National Memo and Politicus USA

Natalie DiBlasio / USA Today:

‘History is watching’: Dan Rather rips Trump in epic Facebook rant — 44k Shares — Dan Rather, formerly of CBS Evening News, took to Facebook in a scathing rant after Donald Trump implied that people with guns could stop Hillary Clinton as president from appointing anti-gun judges.

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

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

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: The Daily Signal, Hot Air, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Mother Jones and Politicus USA

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 and The Week

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

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

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

Sarah Wheaton / Politico:
NRA circles the wagons around Trump

Discussion: The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, Campaign for America's Future, CBS New York, Media Matters for America, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, The New Civil Rights Movement, Mediaite and Bearing Arms

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

Discussion: Politico

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 and Taylor Marsh

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

Discussion: The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Mashable, Infowars and The New Civil Rights Movement

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

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

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

Discussion: Liberal Values

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

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The PolitiStick, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon, RedState, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Business Insider, New York Magazine and WND

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, Washington Free Beacon, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller, twitchy.com and BizPac Review

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

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, Balloon Juice, 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

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

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air

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

Discussion: Mother Jones, electionlawblog.org and Politico

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

Maxwell Tani / Business Insider:

Family of slain DNC staffer: Those attempting to politicize death are ‘causing more harm than good’ — The family of slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich is calling on conspiracy theorists to stop speculating about factually baseless connections between his death and a WikiLeaks hack.

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

Jeremy Stahl / Slate:
WikiLeaks Is Fanning a Conspiracy Theory That Hillary Murdered a DNC Staffer

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: NBC News, Talking Points Memo and Associated Press

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.