Shoot From the Lip: Speaking in Wilmington, NC, yesterday, Donald Trump said another of those things that left you wondering whether he just said what you think he said. Warning his audience that Hillary Clinton wants to get rid of the 2^nd Amendment, Trump said, “If she gets to pick her judges ― nothing you can do, folks. Although, the Second Amendment, people, maybe there is. I don’t know.”

Trump didn’t clarify whether he was suggesting that someone could just shoot Hillary Clinton. Later, his campaign said Trump was talking about political power, not the power of the gun.

This came just one day after Trump delivered a major economic speech designed to show him as a candidate of issues rather than whoppers. The NY Times said in an editorial, “That he would make Tuesday’s comment amid sinking poll numbers and a wave of Republican defections suggests that when bathed in the adulation of a crowd, Mr. Trump is unable to control himself.”

And, by the way, that bit about Hillary trying to get rid of the 2^nd Amendment? Even if it were true, which it is not, how exactly might she go about that?

The Games: Michael Phelps won his 20^th and 21^st gold medals last night, making it a career 25 medals. He won his signature event, the men’s 200-meter butterfly, and an hour later anchored the winning 4×200 freestyle relay. — Katie Ledecky won the 200-meter freestyle for the US, her second gold of the games — The US women’s gymnastics team, led by the near-perfect Simone Biles, finished ahead of Russia and China for gold in the women’s team all-around competition — Venus Williams was knocked out of the women’s singles tennis by Kirsten Flipkens of Belgium — The water in the Olympic diving pool turned emerald green and no one knows why.

Nation: Baltimore police have wrongly targeted black citizens for stops and arrests, according to a Justice Department investigation. In the city where Freddie Gray suffered fatal injuries in police custody, the investigation found that, while black residents are 63 percent of the population, they account for 84 percent of police stops. The Justice Department identified seven black Baltimore residents stopped by the police 30 times or more.

Job Change: Saturday Night Live stalwarts Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah have been dropped from the show. With Pharoah’s departure, the show loses its President Obama — Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow has been training for a year to try out for Major League Baseball. Tebow is 29 and hasn’t played baseball since 2005.

It Gets Weirder: Not only did former Fox News boss Roger Ailes proposition and harass the women who worked for him, but according to some reports he was a paranoid who monitored and investigated his perceived enemies. Dylan Byers writes for CNN Money, “According to six current and former employees, many Fox News hosts, on-air personalities and producers have long feared that Ailes had tapped their phones and was monitoring their conversations.”

Byers also mentions reports that Ailes maintained a “black budget” to conduct surveillance and public relations campaigns against those enemies. In addition to that, he cost the company millions in settlements.

The fallout continues. Fox host Andrea Tantaros claims she was taken off the air in April after she complained about Ailes’ sexual advances. She’s still being paid.

And Shelley Ross, the former executive producer of “ABC’s Good Morning America,” wrote for The Daily Beast that, when she interviewed with Ailes for a job back in 1981, he told her, “loyalty comes in the form of a ‘sexual alliance.’”

To sum it up, the powerful conservative voice of Fox News may have been run by a paranoid perv.

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