The Daily Trail: We may have just gotten a Trump convention preview...

A reminder that the Daily Trail looks a little different right now -- a bit more streamlined this week -- for very solid logistical reasons: I am currently typing this note with one hand, editing The Fix with another, and tweeting with the third hand evolution has generously gifted campaign reporters. #blessed

We have also had to take a few minutes to process the Trump speech we took in tonight, which was a masterpiece of the genre. But don't take our word for it — Clinton rapid response was also scrambling for historical analogues:

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what made Trump's Cincinnati stop so special. Maybe it was the moment he said he'd called on "Big Don King" to speak in Cleveland, praising the boxing promoter for "beating the system" — an interesting choice of words, given the givens...

Maybe it was his decision to relive the greatest hits of the past few weeks at. considerable. length, from his post-Brexit golf course visit to his recent (qualified) praise for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as tough on terrorism.

Maybe it was the long stretch he spent insisting that anyone who saw an image of a six-pointed star on a bed of money — a meme that first appeared via a white nationalist social media account — and thought it might be, you know, anti-Semitic...that those people were themselves the "sick" and racist ones.

Maybe it was his decision to go Rambo on a stray mosquito.

Or maybe it was all of it, together — an echt-Trump performance so perfectly 2016 in every way that it should immediately be packed in dry ice and shipped off to the Smithsonian, so future generations can experience it for themselves.

That isn't all that happened today, of course. The Trump campaign also announced a $51 million fundraising haul for June — $26 million of that in direct donations to the campaign itself. Yes, it was short of both Hillary Clinton's $68 million June total, Mitt Romney's $100 million in June 2012, and the Trump team's own lofty original fundraising goals — but for a campaign that raised little more than $1 million in outside donations in May, it was a staggering upswing, solid enough to earn a spot as the 6th-best election year June haul ever.

Also today: the Justice Department announced that, following the FBI's recommendation, it would close the probe against Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server while secretary of state without criminal charges. And Hill Republicans seemed less inclined to let the matter go — though it was unclear exactly what they could do. Either way, the controversy was firmly back in the spotlight.

In fact, Trump himself started the day saying he didn't want to distract from the Clinton email latest.

And then — for reasons best known only to himself — he decided to spend a solid chunk of his speech raising Star-ghazi, again — thus ensuring a likely sixth day of coverage, and a news cycle that would end not with talk of Clinton's continued image woes, but his own.

Earlier in the day, following a scathing Tuesday op-ed by a writer at his own paper, the New York Observer, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner wrote his own response, titled "My father-in-law is not an anti-Semite." This was notable for several reasons — starting with the title, which instantly joined "[my husband] is not Hitler" and "[my father] is not a groper" in the pantheon of solid Trump family endorsements.

Why did Kushner feel compelled to come out and insist his father-in-law was not anti-Semitic? Because, Callum Borchers explained, "Observer entertainment reporter Dana Schwartz wrote an open letter to Kushner on Tuesday in which she called the presumptive Republican presidential nominee an ant—.

"Wait a sec. No, she didn't. Here's an excerpt from Schwartz's letter" (which called on Kushner to urge his father-in-law to more strongly condemn the actions of some racist and anti-Semitic supporters):

"...maybe Donald Trump isn't anti-Semitic," she wrote. "To be perfectly honest, I don't think he is. But I know many of his supporters are, and they believe for whatever reason that Trump is the candidate for them. ...And now, Mr. Kushner, I ask you: What are you going to do about this?"

(Chanukah lasted eight nights. As of tonight, Trump seems determined to give the controversy over his campaign's reaction to anti-Semitic imagery a chance to last almost as long — which, much like Chanukah itself, would be its own sort of miracle.)

—More family support! Eric Trump does not appreciate Post reporter David Fahrenthold's questions about his father's charitable donations. He does not appreciate them one bit. "At 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, he called The Post. He denounced its reporting — often in forceful, profane terms. 'I’m just saying, Jesus Christ, why is this guy trying to f---ing kill us?'" (For the record: he is not.) The younger Trump also revealed a surprising bit of info about Donald Trump himself. "My father likes to keep some anonymity. It’s who he is. It’s who he is as a person," he said.

(Yes, he was referring to the same Donald Trump who is running for president, with campaign headquarters located in Trump Tower. We checked.)

—Hillary Clinton headed to Atlantic City today to try to focus attention on Trump's casino record. So which came first: the city's economic woes, or the mogul's? The answer is actually sort of complicated; more details here.

—The day after Clinton unveiled a student loan proposal that adopted key elements of the Bernie Sanders platform came reports that the two camps were discussing the possibility of an endorsement event, possibly as early as next week.

—Back inside the Beltway: The skies outside were clear, but inside it was raining money on the Senate floor today, as campaign finance protesters seemed to decide, much as the Supreme Court did, that money is speech.

—An intriguing claim from a #NeverTrumper:

—Trump veepstakes update: Sen. Bob Corker (who campaigned with Trump yesterday) said he wasn't going to be Trump's running mate and Sen. Joni Ernst (who will be speaking at the GOP convention) made it sound very, very unlikely. Trump himself — who had said recently that there were "5 or 6" names on his veep list — said today there were actually 10 in the running at the moment, including more than one general.

Also on the list: former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who campaigned with Trump in Ohio tonight. "I'm not saying anything, and I'm not telling even Newt anything, but I can tell you, in one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government," said Trump. "That I can tell you." (A successful Trump-Gingrich ticket, by the way, would deliver both the oldest president and the oldest vice president ever.)

—2016 alumni update: a senator reserves the right to change his mind. Marco Rubio, now running for reelection, will now skip the Republican convention and spend the time stumping in Florida instead.

YOUR DAILY TRAIL PIT STOP: We take our inspiration from the presumptive GOP nominee's tweet tonight, with a stirring performance by Alex Boyé and the One Voice Children's Choir.

Let it go, guys.