memeorandum: Happy Cinco de Mayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. (Donald J. Trump/Facebook)

10:20 PM ET, May 5, 2016

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Donald J. Trump / Facebook:

Happy Cinco de Mayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!

Joe Klein / TIME:

Why the Clintons Don't Fear the Coming Armageddon With Donald Trump — Hillary Clinton's ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity — On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Danielle Allen / Washington Post:

Hillary Clinton is walking into Donald Trump's trap — The writer is a political theorist at Harvard University and a contributing columnist for The Post. — Donald Trump has set a big, fat trap for Hillary Clinton, and so far she has stepped right into it. He turned his attacks against women against her.

Discussion: Liberal Values, Althouse and The Slot

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

Everyone Is Getting Today's Trump Tweet Totally Wrong — I think everyone is badly misinterpreting this tweet from Donald Trump: … This is not an awkward and embarrassing outreach to Hispanics. It's not aimed at Hispanics at all. It's aimed at white people.

Discussion: Mashable, Guardian, The Daily Caller, Vox, NBC News and USA Today

Harry Enten / FiveThirtyEight:
Americans' Distaste For Both Trump And Clinton Is Record-Breaking

Discussion: The Week

John Cassidy / New Yorker:
Why Bernie Sanders Is Staying in the Race

Discussion: The Atlantic, NBC News, New York Times, Washington Post, Sky Dancing and CBS New York

Media Matters for America: Neil Cavuto Calls Trump's Taco Bowl Tweet “An Olive Branch” To The Mexican People

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Woman Who Built Trump Tower Says She's Backing Clinton Over Trump

Discussion: Shakesville

Jake Sherman / Politico:

How Ryan decided to ditch Trump — On Wednesday morning, not even 24 hours after Donald Trump effectively clinched the Republican nomination, Paul Ryan convened his top advisers for a call. With Congress out of session, Ryan was bouncing between multiple states, raising the piles of money needed …

Discussion: ABC News and Political Wire

Philip Rucker / Washington Post:

Mitt Romney will skip Trump's nominating convention in Cleveland … Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, plans to skip this summer's Republican National Convention in Cleveland where Donald Trump will be officially nominated — an unusual move that underscores the deep unease …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Guardian, Politico, Hot Air, AOL, Western Journalism, Business Insider, Independent Journal …, ABC News, RedState, Political Wire, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, The Last Tradition, The Week, The Daily Caller, CBS Boston and New York Times

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:

Paul Ryan Says He Cannot Support Donald Trump for Now — WASHINGTON — Speaker Paul D. Ryan, the nation's highest-ranking elected Republican, said Thursday that he was “not ready” to endorse Donald J. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee. — Mr. Ryan, who is also chairman …

Discussion: Western Journalism, National Review and Politico

Dana Bash / CNN:

First on CNN: Rick Perry endorses Donald Trump for president — Washington (CNN)Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry told CNN Thursday he will support Donald Trump as the Republican presidential nominee and will do everything he can do to help him get elected. — Perry, speaking by phone …

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, Independent Journal …, Trail Blazers Blog, Politicus USA and Washington Times

Eric Bradner / CNN:

Paul Ryan: 'I'm just not ready' to back Donald Trump — (CNN)House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday he cannot yet support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump's presidential campaign. — “I'm just not ready to do that at this point. I'm not there right now,” the Wisconsin Republican told CNN's …

Discussion: Vox, The Atlantic, ABC News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Western Journalism, Complex, NY State of Politics, Politico, The Week and The Huffington Post

Wall Street Journal:

Ben Carson Says Donald Trump Could Consider Democrat for Running Mate — Former GOP candidate, now a Trump ally, also takes his name out of the running as possible pick — Ben Carson, the former rival now helping presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump choose a running mate …

Discussion: RedState, Complex and The Week

Fred Imbert / CNBC:
Barry Diller: Donald Trump is ‘actually of evil character’

Discussion: New York Post and Liberty Unyielding

Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Dole alone in not shunning GOP convention

Discussion: Politico and Talking Points Memo

Sara Jerde / Talking Points Memo: Carson Says He Won't Be Considered For Trump's VP, But A Dem Might Be

Burgess Everett / Politico: Reid spoiling for a fight with Trump

Wall Street Journal:
The Trump Reality — He may be the highest variable nominee in American history.

Discussion: Guardian

Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party's Woman Problem

Discussion: New York Magazine

Julian Hattem / The Hill:
GOP experts choose exile over Trump

Discussion: Red Alert Politics

Media Matters for America:
STUDY: Trump Won The Fox Primary, Doubling Any Other Candidate In Interview Airtime

Discussion: Salon

Ben Sasse / Facebook:

AN OPEN LETTER TO MAJORITY AMERICA — TO: Those who think both leading presidential candidates are dishonest and have little chance of leading America forward: — (...or, stated more simply) — TO: The majority of America: — Note: If you are one of those rare souls …

Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Third-party push gaining steam — Momentum is building in the conservative movement for a third-party alternative to Donald Trump — The effort got a big boost from Speaker Paul Ryan — (R-Wis.) on Thursday when he said he wasn't yet ready to back Trump, the presumptive GOP nominee.

Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
New Trump Finance Chair Has Given Twice As Much To Democrats As To The GOP

Discussion: Hot Air, Talking Points Memo, Washington Free Beacon, Politicus USA and The Resurgent

Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump Names Hedge Fund Manager as National Finance Chairman

Discussion: The Daily Beast, zerohedge.com/fullrss2 …, CANNONFIRE, Talking Points Memo, The Talking Dog and Raw Story

Ben White / Politico: Hillary forces target Bush donors

CNN:

First on CNN: FBI interviews Clinton aides including Huma Abedin as part of email probe — (CNN)Some of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, including her longtime adviser Huma Abedin, have provided interviews to federal investigators, as the FBI probe into the security of her private email …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, MichelleMalkin.com, Politicus USA, Los Angeles Times, AOL, Western Journalism, U.S. Uncut, LawNewz, NBC News and Washington Free Beacon

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Report: Hillary Clinton aides interviewed by FBI in email probe

Discussion: ABC News

Brandon Cockerham / Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch Lawsuit Uncovers More Hillary Clinton Emails Withheld from State Department

Discussion: Independent Journal …

Jordyn Phelps / ABC News:
Hillary Clinton Aide on Trump Playbook: 'We're Not Going to Chase Him Into the Gutter'

Discussion: Associated Press

Streiff / RedState:

BREAKING. Donald Trump Renounces His Own Tax Plan — We've said over and over... and to no avail... that Donald Trump believes in absolutely nothing more than Donald Trump. During the course of this campaign, Donald Trump has proposed any number of half-baked, nonsensical ideas and now he's in the process of reneging on them.

Discussion: MSNBC, Politico, neo-neocon and TheStreet.com

Bryce Covert / ThinkProgress:
Donald Trump Walks Back His Only Detailed Economic Proposal

Discussion: Wall Street Journal

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

This brutal new ad shows the shredding machine that awaits Trump — THE MORNING PLUM: — Predictably enough, the hand-wringing has already begun among some Democrats over the prospect of Donald Trump waging “unpredictable” attacks on Hillary Clinton and the possibility that the Clinton camp will be …

Discussion: CNN, Politico, The Stranger …, Althouse, Talking Points Memo, Townhall.com, Mother Jones, Slate, Shakesville and The Moderate Voice

David Samuels / New York Times:

The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama's Foreign-Policy Guru — How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. — Picture him as a young man, standing on the waterfront in North Williamsburg, at a polling site, on Sept. 11, 2001, which was Election Day in New York City.

Discussion: Weekly Standard and EconLog

Bloomberg.com:

Why GOP Strategist Mary Matalin Is Registering as a Libertarian — Republican strategist Mary Matalin discusses Donald Trump and her decision to change her party affiliation on “With All Due Respect.”

Discussion: New York Times and Political Wire

Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:

NC won't meet Obama administration's Monday deadline on House Bill 2, House speaker says — Department of Justice says HB2 violates the U.S. Civil Rights Act and Title IX — Tim Moore: ‘We will take no action by Monday’ — House Speaker Tim Moore said Thursday that legislators won't meet …

Discussion: Politico, Raw Story, Towleroad, Washington Blade, Talking Points Memo, The New Civil Rights Movement and NPR

Barack Obama:

A Nation of Second Chances — Earlier this spring, I met with a group of individuals whose sentences were commuted either by President Bush, President Clinton, or myself. They were all at different stages of a new chapter in their lives, but each of their stories was extraordinary.