Hillary Hits Hard, Faint Endorsement

Foreign to Policy: As emotions heat up, Anti-Trump protesters clashed with the candidate’s supporters in San Jose last night. Punches were thrown and a little blood spilled. Police broke up several big fights.

Earlier in the day in California, in a speech billed as a foreign policy address, Hillary Clinton lunged at Donald Trump’s political jugular. “Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different,” Clinton said. “They are dangerously incoherent. They’re not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds and outright lies.”

Clinton went on, “He is not just unprepared, he is temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires stability and immense responsibility.”

And she said, “This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes, because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because someone got under his very thin skin.

Speaking last night in San Jose, Trump said, “I watched Hillary today. It was pathetic. It was pathetic. It was so sad to watch.” And he said, “Hillary Clinton has to go to jail.”

Foreigner Policy: Trump continues to attack the federal judge overseeing the fraud lawsuit against Trump University. At first Trump said he “believes” Judge Gonzalo Curiel is Mexican, but now he claims the judge is biased because Trump wants to build a wall between the US and the home country of Curiel’s parents. The lawsuit was filed long before Trump announced his run for president.

Curiel was born in Indiana where his father worked in steel mills. He got a college education and a law degree, eventually becoming a federal prosecutor in California attempting to take down Mexico’s Arellano-Felix drug organization. When a hit man was recorded on the phone saying he was authorized to kill Curiel, he was transferred to Washington.

Tree Falls in the Woods: Instead of standing in front of television cameras in Washington, House Speaker Paul Ryan announced he will vote for Trump for president in a short column published in his hometown Wisconsin newspaper, the Janesville Gazette.

It was not exactly a ringing endorsement. Ryan said he and Trump have discussed the conservative agenda and “Through these conversations, I feel confident he would help us turn the ideas in this agenda into laws to help improve people’s lives. That’s why I’ll be voting for him this fall.”

Next door in Michigan, Gov. Rick Snyder said he will not back Trump. He told the Detroit News editorial board, “I’ve stayed out of the whole thing, and I’m going to continue to.”

Epidemic: The death of the pop star Prince has become the most prominent case in the nationwide epidemic of opioid painkiller addiction. Prince died of an overdose of the opioid Fentanyl, according to the results of an autopsy performed by the Midwest Medical Examiner.

The musician was found dead in his home on April 21 at age 57. Some painkillers were found on his person.

Nearly two million Americans are believed to be addicted to prescription painkillers, and their use has been listed as one of the factors in a slightly higher national death rate.

High Water: Five soldiers from Fort Hood, Tex., are dead and four missing after a transport truck tipped over in floodwaters on the huge military base. A state of disaster has been declared in 31 Texas counties as floodwaters linger or continue to rise. More heavy rain is forecast.

Nation: In separate incidents, a member of the Navy’s Blue Angels precision flight team and the Air Force Thunderbirds crashed yesterday. The Navy pilot was killed, but the Air Force pilot, who had just flown over the Air Force Academy graduation where president Obama was speaking, safely ejected.

>The man who killed a UCLA professor two days ago had a “kill list” that included a second professor, and his ex-wife, who was found dead in her Mainak Sarkar Minnesota home. Sarkar had been a doctoral student at UCLA.

No, Really: The Former Tribune Company, publisher of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers, more recently known as TribPub, is getting a new name once again. It’s “Tronc.” Brilliant. They’ve solved the problem of dying newspapers. The company say it is “rebranding as a content curation and monetization company,” a line that would never get past the editors if a reporter wrote it.

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It's Been Said

"In my mind, I’ve never crossed the line with anyone, but I didn’t realize the extent to which the line has been redrawn. There are generational and cultural shifts that I just didn’t fully appreciate, and I should have, no excuses."

-Andrew Cuomo, resigning as governor of New York after accusations of sexual harassment

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