memeorandum: Stores to customers: “Cash not welcome here” (CBS News)

1:25 PM ET, August 13, 2016

Top Items:

Donald Trump May Be Violating RNC Consent Decree Aimed at Voter Intimidation — With Trump's dangerous and irresponsible hyperventilating about voter fraud and cheating in Pennsylvania potentially costing him the election, it is probably no surprise, as reported by the Weekly Standard …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, BuzzFeed, Washington Post, twitchy.com and Weekly Standard

Rebecca Morin / Politico:

Trump campaign launches drive to recruit ‘election observers’ — Donald Trump's campaign is seeking to recruit “election observers” following the Republican nominee's repeated claims that the general election is “rigged.” — In a move that's unprecedented in a presidential election …

Discussion: RedState, The Gateway Pundit and Joe.My.God.

Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Trump says he will only lose Pennsylvania if there's widespread voter fraud. That's very wrong.

Discussion: Guardian, Joe.My.God. and WBUR

Tyler Pager / Politico:
Trump: Clinton will only win Pennsylvania if ‘they cheat’

Discussion: neo-neocon, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly and ABC News

Patrick Healy / New York Times:
Donald Trump's Missteps Risk Putting a Ceiling Over His Support in Swing States

Discussion: Althouse

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Trump: I'll only lose Pennsylvania ‘if cheating goes on’

Discussion: electionlawblog.org and Politico

CNN:

Republicans question Trump's travel choices, tight purse strings — Washington (CNN)The last time Connecticut voted for a Republican presidential candidate, Americans were listening to music on cassette tapes and most cell phones were the size of shoe boxes.

Discussion: Hullabaloo, twitchy.com and Townhall.com

Katie Glueck / Politico:

Trump's run at blue Connecticut — Donald Trump's poll numbers are faltering in deep-red states from South Carolina to Georgia, his organization is a mess in perhaps the most important county in Ohio, and he admits that he has a “tremendous problem” in Utah, which hasn't gone Democratic since 1964.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hot Air

Bob Burnett / The Huffington Post:
Trump's Missing Money

Discussion: Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Hill and bradford-delong.com

Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:

Hacker Reveals Personal Information for Almost 200 Democrats — Guccifer 2.0 says records stolen as part of breach of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — WASHINGTON—A hacker posted cellphone numbers and other personal information of nearly 200 current and former congressional Democrats …

Discussion: Fox News, AFF, The Daily Caller, RedState, Guardian and Business Insider

Evelyn Rupert / The Hill:
Hacker publishes House Dems' cell phone numbers

Discussion: Politico, The Week, Mediaite and BizPac Review

Associated Press:

Frustration abundant, GOP could be near breaking point Trump — ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — The Republican Party could be nearing a breaking point with Donald Trump. — As he skips from one gaffe to the next, GOP leaders in Washington and in the most competitive states have begun openly contemplating turning …

Discussion: alan.com

Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:

After Mexican “Rapists” Comment, Ivanka Trump Wrote An Unused Clarification — In a deposition earlier this summer, Ivanka Trump said she drafted a statement last summer in the wake of her father's comments about the “rapists” that Mexico sends to the United States — though she denied …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico and Booman Tribune

Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:

Hope Solo, tolerated and excused in victory, exposes herself in Olympic defeat — RIO DE JANEIRO — It's called composure, and Hope Solo's never been overburdened with a lot of that, or grace either. The U.S. women's soccer team had their temperaments tested by a savvy, conservative Sweden in the Olympic quarterfinals and lost.

Discussion: New York Times and USA Today

Daniel Halper / New York Post:

SEE ALL 223 STORIES — Bill Clinton is accusing the FBI director of serving up “the biggest load of bull I've ever heard” — marking the first significant public comments from the husband of the Democratic nominee on the scandal that's plagued his wife's campaign for over a year.

MJ Lee / CNN: Bill Clinton talks email controversy: ‘Biggest load of bull’

New York Times:

Inside the Failing Mission to Save Donald Trump From Himself — Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate's advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention.

Discussion: alan.com

Mara Siegler / New York Post:

Anthony Weiner caught in new flirty online chat — First he was Carlos Danger. Now — in yet another sexting scandal — he's a randy “mongoose.” — Sext fiend Anthony Weiner boasted of his animal prowess — claiming he was “deceptively strong . . . like a mongoose” …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Feds debate releasing Clinton's FBI interview — The Obama administration is urgently debating how to respond to congressional demands for the official report on Hillary Clinton's three-and-a-half-hour interview at FBI headquarters, as some inside and outside government raise concerns …

Discussion: BizPac Review

Josh Feldman / Mediaite:

Trump Spox Katrina Pierson: We Weren't in Afghanistan Until Obama Decided to Go In — Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson has once again blamed President Obama for something that happened years before he took office. — Remember how Pierson blamed Obama for Captain Humayun Khan's death in 2004?

Discussion: The Atlantic, The New Civil Rights Movement and Joe.My.God.

The Hill:

‘Expedited Removal’ process as cold as ICE: Response to Jeh Johnson — I remember the look of dread on Mariana's face when I told her I was returning to Miami. I met with her on my first day in Texas, volunteering at the Karnes family detention center with the non-profit Refugee …

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog and Rewire

CBS News:

Stores to customers: “Cash not welcome here” — To get a glimpse of the future of commerce in America, look no further than Sweden. — The Scandinavian country is largely a cashless society, with consumers relying on mobile phone payments or plastic.

Victor Mather / New York Times:

Rio Today: A Taste of Middle East Tension — An Egyptian judo player declined to shake hands with his Israeli opponent after their match on Friday, eliciting jeers from the audience. — Or Sasson of Israel defeated Islam El Shehany of Egypt in a first-round match in the heaviest weight class.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Week, Mediaite and Guardian