Warren Attacks, Bernie Moves to the Door

Gloves Off: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren broke her leash last night as the attack dog for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, calling Donald Trump “a thin-skinned racist bully.”

Attacking where he’s proudest, Warren said, “Trump tells everyone who will listen he is a great businessman. But let’s be honest. He is just a guy who inherited a fortune and kept it rolling along by cheating people.”

The zingers kept coming. She attacked Trump for his claim that the judge hearing the Trump University fraud case has treated him unfairly. “Trump also whines that he he’s being treated unfairly because the judge happens to be, ‘we believe,’ Mexican. And when he got called out he doubled down by saying, ‘I’m building a wall. It’s an inherent conflict of interest.’ He has personally, personally directed his army of campaign surrogates to step up their own public attacks on Judge Curiel. He’s even condemned federal judges who are Muslim in the disgusting theory that Trump’s own bigotry compromises the judge’s neutrality.”

And she said, “Donald Trump is a loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself.”

So Sue Me: USA Today’s Paul Reilly has dug up the records of 3,500 lawsuits filed against Donald Trump and his companies over the last 30 years. While Trump claims he will bring jobs back to America, Reilly reports that Trump frequently hasn’t paid workers who do the work and puts up a fight when they sue. Among those who have sued, Reilly reports: “A dishwasher in Florida. A glass company in New Jersey. A carpet company. A plumber. Painters. Forty-eight waiters. Dozens of bartenders and other hourly workers at his resorts and clubs, coast to coast. Real estate brokers who sold his properties. And, ironically, several law firms that once represented him in these suits and others.”

Bernout: Hours after he met with Bernie Sanders yesterday, President Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton in a video posted on her website. “I don’t think there’s ever been someone so qualified to hold this office,” Obama says. He goes on, “I have seen her judgment, I’ve seen her toughness, I’ve seen her commitment to our values up close.”

The method of endorsement shows that it’s been in the can for a while, waiting for the right moment. The White House said it was recorded Tuesday.

The Democrats look like they are pulling themselves together. After meeting with President Obama, Sanders said he would take his issues to the Democratic convention. Sanders didn’t exactly say he would continue his campaign, but he did say, “We will continue doing everything we can to oppose the drift that currently exists toward an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires exercise enormous power over our political, economic and media life.” And he said he looks forward to seeing how he can work together with Hillary Clinton to defeat Donald Trump.

Roundup: The world says goodbye to Muhammed Ali today in a service to be held in a 15,000 seat sports arena in his hometown Louisville —A federal court in San Francisco ruled that the Second Amendment doesn’t include the right to carry a concealed weapon — The murder trial has begun for the Baltimore police officer who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was fatally injured.

The Obit Page: David Lamb, a fearless foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times who covered the Vietnam war from the front and wrote books about the Arab world and Africa, died on Sunday in Alexandria, Va. at age 76.

Lamb covered the war in the jungle for United Press International and the fall of Saigon for The LA Times in 1975. Lamb was credited with naming the site of a 10-day battle in the A Shau Valley in 1969 “Hamburger Hill.” An American soldier had told him, “With all this chopped-up red meat, it reminds me of a hamburger.”

Thanks for the Memeories: Rocker Axl Rose is demanding for Google to remove images used in internet memes making fun of his weight.

The Guns n’ Roses frontman has been the target of “Fat Axl Rose” memes. One of them says, “Remember the 80s? He ate them.”

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It's Been Said

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

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