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Duncan Hunter said Donald Trump "saying things about things is different than him saying what he’s going to do," which we think is a serious cry for help. The Trump campaign has only 30 paid staff, though it has a plan to conceal the deficiency with an elaborate weave. Today's the first anniversary of the Charleston church massacre, and it's hard to believe how much our society has changed since then, how we've grown and learned to put massacres behind us faster than ever. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Friday, June 17th, 2016:

PAUL RYAN IS FOR DONALD TRUMP, BUT ALSO AGAINST HIM - It's very clever. Matt Fuller: "House Speaker Paul Ryan has limits to what he’ll accept from presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — it’s just that, apparently, Trump hasn’t crossed that line yet. In a sit-down interview in his ceremonial Capitol Hill office on Thursday, Ryan told The Huffington Post that Trump does not have 'a blank check' with his endorsement. 'I don’t know what that line is,' Ryan said, 'but right now, I want to make sure that we win the White House.' Ryan originally withheld his endorsement of Trump in early May, citing a desire to have 'real unity,' not 'fake unity,' with the likely GOP nominee. Four weeks later, Ryan endorsed. But the speaker doesn’t seem to think he and Trump have found authentic harmony. 'It’s something that has to be worked at,' Ryan said, 'and we still got work to do.'" [HuffPost]

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