Vladimir Trump: Taking sides against his own country in pursuit of the presidency, Donald Trump yesterday said he hoped that Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server and gotten possession of her State Department mail. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said during a news conference. “I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.”

Trump was basically encouraging a foreign adversary to commit espionage on a former secretary of state and current candidate for president. A headline on the front of the Daily News says, “Comrade Trump’s treasonous call for Russia to hack Hil.”

The Presidential Seal: President Obama heaped praise on Hillary Clinton as both a political opponent and an ally last night in a speech to the Democratic National Convention. Recalling how tough Clinton was to beat in the 2008 election, Obama said, “She was doing everything I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers it was backwards and in heels.”

Obama said both Clinton and some of his aides were shocked when he asked her to be secretary of state. “For four years I had a front row seat to her intelligence, her judgment, and her discipline.”

And delivering one of the rousing lines of the night he said, “I can say with confidence, there has never been a man or a woman, not me, not Bill, nobody more qualified than Hillary Clinton to serve as president of the Unites States of America.”

But much of his message was a warning about Donald Trump. The President said, “Anyone who threatens our values, whether fascist or communist or jihadist or homegrown demagogues, will always fail in the end.”

Zingers: Joe Biden on Donald Trump: “He has no clue about what makes America great. Actually he has no clue, period.” The crowd chanted. “Not a clue!, Not a clue!, Not a clue!”

Michael Bloomberg: “Trump says he wants to run the nation like he runs his business? God help us. I’m a New Yorker and I know a con when I see one.”

Tim Kaine: “Folks, you cannot believe one word that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth.” The crowd chanted, “Not one word! not one word!”

Black Lives: Charges were dismissed yesterday against the last three Baltimore police officers accused in the 2015 fatal injury of Freddie Gray while in custody. Two had already been acquitted and the trial of a third ended with a hung jury. The decision means that no one will be held criminally responsible for the death of Gray, who entered the police van whole and healthy, and was dying when he was delivered to the station house.

It’s possible that the federal government could pursue a civil rights case, but Michael Avery, a professor emeritus at Suffolk Law School, recently wrote in The Baltimore Sun that the law gives too much leeway to the cops. “The legal doctrine of qualified immunity, invented by judges and unknown to the general public,” Avery wrote, “provides that to win a civil rights case it is not enough to prove that a police officer violated someone’s rights. One has to prove that every reasonable officer would have known the specific misconduct in question was a constitutional violation.”

Freed: The man with an obsession for actress Jodie Foster who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan, is being released from the psychiatric hospital where he’s been held since the 1981 shooting. A judge ruled that the 61-year-old John Hinckley is no longer a danger and he will be allowed to live with his elderly mother.

Three people were wounded in the shooting outside a Washington hotel; Reagan, Secret Service Agent Tim McCarthy, and Press Secretary James Brady, who was hit in the head and crippled. Brady’s 2014 death was ruled a homicide.

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