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9:25 AM ET, August 10, 2016

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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: Raw Story
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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 …
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.
Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Warren: Trump a ‘pathetic coward’ who can't handle ‘losing to a girl’  —  (D-Mass.) took to Twitter on Tuesday to slam Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump  —  for appearing to joke about the possibility of gun owners taking action against Hillary Clinton
Heather Caygle / Politico:
Democrats: Trump costing GOP in key House districts  —  Hillary Clinton is trouncing Donald Trump in several swing House districts, Democratic Party officials say in a new memo obtained by POLITICO that touts the party's down-ballot prospects in November but does not predict they'll capture the chamber.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
Will Drabold / TIME:
Former Secret Service Official: Donald Trump Is ‘Pretty Close to the Edge’  —  'You don't know what you're encouraging other people to do'  —  Donald Trump's comments Tuesday about “Second Amendment people” could be considered a “veiled threat” against Hillary Clinton, a former top Secret Service official told TIME.
New York Times:
Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts to Slide
Discussion: Political Wire
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Trump says ‘Second Amendment people’ could stop Clinton
New York Times:
Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton
Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post:
From Trump's controversial words, a pattern: Outrage, headlines and then denial
Discussion: Politico and New York Magazine
Washington Post:
Trump's reckless call to ‘Second Amendment people’
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Nation
CNN:
Trump: ‘Second Amendment people’ could deal with Clinton
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.
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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.
New York Post:   SEE ALL 221 STORIES  —  Hillary Clinton put the State Department …
Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
E-Mails by Clinton Aides Show State-Foundation Links
Discussion: twitchy.com
Jason Leopold / VICE News:
FBI probe of Clinton's emails prompted by espionage fears, secret letters say
Discussion: RedState
Julian Hattem / The Hill:
In email, State asked to ‘take care of’ Clinton Foundation associate
Discussion: Liberal Values and Heat Street
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 …
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan weathers his primary but GOP's populist storm still rages  —  JANESVILLE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) reveled in the aftermath of his commanding and expected primary victory Tuesday against Paul Nehlen, a Donald Trump-inspired opponent, by ordering cheese curds and beer for his supporters.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Power Line
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
Ryan crushes Trump-imitating primary foe
David Robinson / Variance Explained:
Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half  —  I don't normally post about politics (I'm not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics).  But this weekend I saw a hypothesis …
Michael V. Hayden / New York Times:
What Intelligence Briefings Can Tell Us About Candidates  —  The no-longer-presumptive nominees of the Democratic and Republican parties will soon start receiving periodic classified intelligence briefings, with the first one coming perhaps this week.  Rarely has this routine ritual received …
Daniel Lippman / Politico:
RNC suffers spate of Trump-related departures  —  The Republican National Committee has seen a spate of departures in recent months related to its embrace of Donald Trump, whom some former staffers felt uncomfortable supporting.  —  In recent months, deputy press secretary James Hewitt …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Annie Karni / Politico:
Inside Clinton's GOP recruitment plan  —  Day by day, the defectors are trickling out: Republican elected officials, bold-faced names from the George W. Bush administration, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, all repudiating Donald Trump.  —  In one burst on Monday, 50 former Republican national …
Discussion: ABC News
Guardian:
The Nauru files: 2,000 leaked reports reveal scale of abuse of children in Australian offshore detention  —  Exclusive: The largest cache of documents to be leaked from within Australia's asylum seeker detention regime details assaults, sexual assaults and self-harm
KSL-TV:
Layton police sergeant hospitalized after Subway worker allegedly puts drugs in his drink  —  LAYTON — A Subway employee deliberately put illegal drugs into a Layton police sergeant's drink Monday, causing the man to be hospitalized, investigators say.  —  Tanis Lloyd Ukena, 18 …
 
 
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Lauren McGaughy / Dallas Morning News:
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