After trying to ignore the swelling furor for several hours, this is how Breitbart has finally responded to Donald Trump’s death threat. They write: Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook misinterpreted Trump’s statement and responded, saying, “This is simple – What Trump is saying is dangerous. A person seeking to be the President of the United States should not suggest violence …

Via Uproxx: Donald Trump’s campaign threw surrogate Katrina Pierson under the bus less than a week ago for suggesting President Obama and Hillary Clinton were directly responsible for Capt. Humayun Khan’s death. Yet this didn’t stop the frequent CNN guest from telling The Lead anchor Jake Tapper that her candidate’s comments about Clinton and Second Amendment supporters weren’t at all …

BOOM: Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday tore into Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Twitter for remarks that were widely interpreted to be about the possibility of using violence to stop Hillary Clinton. During a rally Tuesday afternoon in Wilmington, North Carolina, the real estate mogul accused Clinton of wanting to “abolish” the Second Amendment, a usual refrain expressed …

The Hill reports: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) says Donald Trump’s controversial line about “Second Amendment people” qualifies as an assassination threat against Hillary Clinton. Other Democrats joined Murphy in condemning Trump’s remarks. “This is simple – what Trump is saying is dangerous,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement. “A person seeking to be President of the United …

So this just actually happened. Via Politico: Donald Trump on Tuesday said “the Second Amendment” may be the only way to stop Hillary Clinton from getting to appoint federal judges if she wins the presidential election in November. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish, the Second Amendment,” he said, in what appeared to be a joke. “By the way, and …

And thus it was foretold that the Holy Word would rain from the heavens in tiny electronic form. The Washington Post reports: The apparent logic of the Swedish church Livets Ord, or “Word of Life,” is that by using a tactic that simulates the airstrikes that have traumatized a region, they will bring light and love and maybe convert some …

Dozens of canceled conventions, boycotts from more than a dozen states and major cities, and no more NBA All-Star game. That’s just for starters. But nope, not a scratch on the economy says the budget director for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory. From his op-ed in the Charlotte Observer: One of the benefits of being the Budget Director is that …

Yes, kids. This is a real actual thing. Via Raw Story: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been so bad that many people have wondered if it’s not just an elaborate marketing stunt gone wrong. Trump’s campaign offered more evidence for this theory on Tuesday afternoon, when it sent out a fundraiser email that offered donors a chance to get their …

NBC News reports: Nearly $100 million has been spent on general-election TV advertisements in the presidential race since the primary season ended, but Donald Trump’s campaign still hasn’t spent a single cent on one of them. This lack of advertising is all more striking given Trump’s deficit in the polls — as well as the recent influx of campaign contributions …

“About ten years ago I had a crush on a woman at Fox News. She was a low level staffer. I was in college at the time. So I was going out on what I thought were dates. Chris, I thought these were dates. These were not dates. She was actually reporting back to Fox News about me. She was …

Mediaite reports: Trump ally Roger Stone has confirmed that he was in communication with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about the controlled release of hacked Clinton documents. Speaking on Tuesday to the Southwest Broward Republican Organization, Stone was asked, “With regard to the October surprise, what would be your forecast on that given what Julian Assange has intimated he’s going to …

From Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds Hillary Clinton leading in the state, albeit by a narrow margin, for the first time since March. She’s at 43% to 41% for Donald Trump, 7% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein. In a head to head contest just between Clinton and Trump, she leads 47/46. Voters haven’t …

Donald Trump proclaims himself to be a defender of the LGBT community. Which is why he has agreed to appear alongside Marco Rubio at the Liberty Counsel’s hate fest in Orlando on Thursday. Right Wing Watch reports: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to attend a radical anti-LGBT event in being held in Orlando this week exactly two months …

From Britain’s Evening Standard: Adele is reportedly set to record an album of duets with fellow vocal heavyweight Barbra Streisand. The British superstar, who is currently on the North American leg of her world tour, is thought to be in talks with Streisand and their label Columbia Records. According to reports, the pair met up while in Los Angeles last …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: The Pulse nightclub shooter’s father attended Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s rally in Kissimmee Monday night. Cameras captured Seddique Mateen, Omar Mateen’s father, standing in the crowd. He later told a reporter for WPTV, a Palm Beach-based NBC affiliate, that he wanted to attend the rally as a member of the public and a Clinton supporter. …

Via New York Magazine: Fox News’ senior executives have said they were unaware of sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes’s inappropriate sexual …

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports: Longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly has lost her fight to block the maker of Schlafly beer from trademarking the brand’s name. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, in a decision last week, sided with the St. Louis Brewery, which applied for the Schlafly trademark in 2012 as its sales began to take off outside of …

The New York Times reports: Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.” Mr. Trump, …

Just in case. Politico reports: The venues that will host the presidential debates are drawing up plans for a three-person forum that would provide a lectern for a third-party candidate to stand on stage next to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The directive comes from producers working for the Commission on Presidential Debates and it’s meant, they say, to force …

Nutjob teabagger Larry Klayman is behind this. NBC News reports: The parents of two Americans killed in the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court Monday against Hillary Clinton. In the suit, Patricia Smith and Charles Woods, the parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, claim that Clinton’s use …