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Former Mexican president Vincente Fox doubles down on Trump criticism, calls him 'hated gringo'

Former Mexican President Vincente Fox doubled down on his criticism of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in a recent interview, comparing him to Latin American dictators and calling him a "hated gringo" while also giving him the middle finger. 
Fox made the obscene gesture to Trump after appearing on the Kickass Politics podcast with host Ben Mathis. The interview was pre-recorded and released Tuesday.
"He is the ugly American," he told Mathis. “He is the hated gringo because he’s attacking all of us. He’s offending all of us.”
The former president also reiterated his criticism of Trump's proposed border wall, while comparing him to Latin American dictators Hugo Chavez and Juan Peron. 
"I'm not going to pay for that f***king wall," he said. 
Fox also warned if Trump starts a trade war, that Mexico could retaliate by stopping or limiting money transfers and remittance for U.S. corporations and American tourists in the country. He added that some of Trump's proposals could add not just a trade war, but a full war.

AP Interview: Donald Trump says he's narrowed VP shortlist

Trump senior adviser on VP search, meeting with Paul Ryan

NEW YORK –  Donald Trump, the Republicans' presumptive presidential nominee, says he's narrowed his list of potential running mates to "five or six people," all with deep political resumes.
He says he has not ruled out New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a former rival who has embraced the billionaire's campaign with gusto.
"I have a list of people that I would like," Trump said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
The real estate mogul and former reality television star said he's giving special weight to political experience because he wants a vice president who can help him "with legislation, getting things through" Washington if he wins the White House.
"We don't need another business person," said Trump, who touts himself as one of the best in that category.
He also said choosing a person who's previously held elected office would help with the process of looking into the person's background, in part because that person already would have been checked out by voters, the news media and to some extent the government.

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"For the most part, they've been vetted over the last 20 years," he said.
If he selects a military or business person, he said, "the vetting is a whole different story. Whereas the politicians are, generally speaking, pretty well vetted."
Trump would not reveal the full list of possible running mates, but said his decision this week to appoint Christie to head his White House transition team did not mean the New Jersey governor was out of consideration.
"No, not at all," he said.
Trump's vice presidential pick could be crucial to easing the concerns of Republicans who worry about their presumptive nominee's lack of political experience, as well as his temperament to serve as commander in chief. Tapping a political insider would also be a way for Trump to signal a willingness to work with the party establishment he has thoroughly bashed throughout the primary.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer are among the Republicans who have suggested they would be open to joining Trump on the GOP ticket. Others, including Trump's former primary rival Marco Rubio, have ruled out being considered.
"I have never sought, will not seek and do not want to be considered for vice president," Rubio wrote in a Facebook post Monday.
Trump's campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, has been chosen to run the vetting effort "with a group" that includes former rival Ben Carson and Trump himself, the candidate said.
"Honestly, we're all running it. It's very much a group effort," said Trump, adding that he's in no rush to announce his pick.
"I do think I don't want to make a decision until the actual convention. Not even before it. I mean, until it," he said.

Sanders, Trump win W. Virginia, Trump also takes Nebraska

Sen. Bernie Sanders won the West Virginia Democratic primary Tuesday to stay alive in his long-shot bid to take the party’s presidential nomination from front-runner Hillary Clinton, while Republican Donald Trump won primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska.
Sanders had roughly 51 percent of the West Virginia vote, compared to 36 percent for Clinton, with 94 percent of precincts reporting.
Trump, his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, was running uncontested in both states.
“We won a big, big victory,” Sanders said at a rally in Salem, Oregon. “The people of West Virginia … said we need an economy that can help more than just the one percent.”
The self-described democratic socialist has now won 19 states, compared to 23 for Clinton. But he still faces an extreme “uphill climb” toward winning the party nomination, in his own words.

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Trump did not hold a victory rally but said in a statement: “It is a great honor to have won both West Virginia and Nebraska, especially by such massive margins. … Hope to win both states in the general election.”

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Nebraska technically held a Democratic primary, which Clinton was leading 60-to-39 percent, with 29 percent of precincts reporting.
However, Sanders won Nebraska in March in a caucus. He was awarded 15 pledged delegates. Clinton won 10 pledged delegates and the support of three superdelegates. 
The Vermont senator had won 16 of 29 delegates available in West Virginia, with 120,231 votes, or 51 percent. Clinton had 11 delegates, with 84,176 votes, or 36 percent, with 94 percent of precincts reporting.
However, Clinton has an insurmountable lead in the delegate race -- 2,239 compared to 1,469 for Sanders, with just nine more contests remaining. It takes 2,383 delegates to win the Democratic nomination.
Sanders has acknowledged his only hope to win the nomination is to go to the party’s nominating convention in July and convince enough superdelegates to cast ballots for him -- amid calls from Democratic leaders to exit the race.
Next week, Sanders and Clinton will compete in Kentucky and Oregon, for 55 and 61 delegates, respectively. Oregon will also hold a GOP primary in which 28 delegates are available.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the GOP primary last week but re-emerged Tuesday to add some intrigue into the race.
Cruz said he’s still out of the race but that his campaign would “certainly respond accordingly” if a path to victory emerges.
He also has written to state party chairmen to hold onto the delegates he won in primaries and caucuses. And he’s submitted a delegate slate to the secretary of state in California, which votes June 7, Fox News has learned.

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• West Virginia Primary

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California state director Jason Scalese downplayed Cruz's effort, saying it was the first-term senator’s attempt to “keep faith” with supporters.
Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich suspended their campaigns last week after Trump’s huge Indiana primary win.
Trump, a billionaire businessman, has now won 30 state primaries or caucuses but must now try to get support -- including fundraising help -- from Washington Republicans.
He is scheduled to meet Thursday with House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Capitol Hill Republicans, as he prepares for the general election.
“I have a lot of respect for Paul,” Trump said on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.” “He loves this country. He wants to see something good happen to this party.”
Trump also confirmed a report that he now has five potential running-mates in mind.  
He has 1,107 delegates toward to getting 1,237 to secure the nomination before his party’s nominating convention in July.
Trump won all 36 delegates available in Nebraska. He had 119,531 votes, or 61 percent, with 95 percent of precincts reporting.
Trump secured three of the 34 delegates available in West Virginia and 151,307 votes, or 76 percent of the vote, with 98 percent of precincts reporting.  
Clinton’s remarks in March about “putting a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business” severely hurt her chances of winning in West Virginia.
The former secretary of state apologized in person for the comment, which she said was taken out of context, but skipped campaigning in West Virginia.
Trump campaigned in West Virginia, donning a hard hat and pretending to shovel coal at a rally last week while vowing to help the struggling fossil fuel industry and its legions of out-of-work miners.
“I'm going to put miners back to work,” he told the crowd. Clinton “said I'm going to put mines out of business. That's a tough one to explain.”
The GOP presumptive presidential nominee also told the crowd to "save your vote for the general election. The primary's gone.”

Top Clinton aide Mills reportedly walks out of FBI interview about emails

 

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Senior Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills and her lawyer walked out of a recent interview with the FBI about Clinton's private email system after an investigator asked a question Mills believed to be off limits, according to a published report. 
The Washington Post said that Mills and her lawyer, Beth Wilkinson, returned to the interview room after a brief absence. However, the Post reported that Mills and Wilkinson asked for breaks during the interview to confer more than once.
According to the paper, the FBI investigator's questions that caused Mills and Wilkinson to walk out were related to the procedure used to produce emails for possible public release by the State Department. Mills ultimately did not answer questions about it because her attorney and Justice Department prosecutors deemed it confidential under attorney-client privilege. 
The FBI is currently investigating possible gross mishandling of classified information and Clinton's use of an unsecured personal account exclusively for government business. Investigators have already interviewed two of Clinton's top aides, Mills and Huma Abedin, and hope to be able to interview Clinton herself as they wrap up the case. 
Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination, told CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday that she had not yet been contacted by the FBI to arrange an interview. 
On Tuesday, the conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch said it had obtained emails showing that a top Clinton political aide pushed the State Department to hire Bryan Pagliano, who helped manage Clinton's personal email server. 
The emails show that State Department Undersecretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, a key figure in the Benghazi investigation, was involved in Pagliano's hire. The emails also appear to show members of the State Department's IT division questioning why Pagliano, a political appointee who had worked on Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign, would be assigned to that office. 
"[Kennedy] specifically said we didn't need to be [political appointees], but it sure sounds like we do," one email reads. 
In court documents made public Monday, the State Department said it could not find any emails sent to or received by Pagliano during Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, which lasted between 2009 and 2013.