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08/09/2024

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at podcaster Joe Rogan one day after Rogan heaped praise on independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Rogan caused a stir on Thursday when he said that Kennedy was the only candidate running who "makes sense" to him, while also adding that "he.....

08/09/2024

Three powerful far-right pundits recently made statements denigrating former President Donald Trump's campaign, a surprising trend raising questions about the future of his candidacy. White Supremacist Nick Fuentes, right-winger Joe Rogan — whom the New York Times recently described as hosting "th...

08/09/2024

At the start of the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump ally and convicted criminal Steve Bannon promoted the candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom he believed could throw a wrench into President Joe Biden's chances of holding the White House.Now that Biden has dropped out of the race, however, it....

08/09/2024

Psychiatrist Dr. Bandy Lee M.D. is concerned that Americans are being "blocked from receiving the most critical education" about Donald Trump and possible "dementia." After a lengthy press conference at Mar-a-Lago Thursday, questions surfaced again about Trump's purported decline. Former Labor S...

08/09/2024

Donald Trump's MAGA allies just set democracy ablaze in Georgia, legal experts warned on Friday.A new election regulation allowing “reasonable inquiry” into vote tallies has raised serious concerns that state Republicans plan to deliver Georgia to Trump whether or not the Republican presidential...

08/09/2024

Now that Donald Trump has agreed to at least one — and possibly three— debates with Vice President Kamala Harris, the editor of the conservative National Review Online, is cautioning supporters of the former president to not get their hopes up too high.In his column, Philip Klein reminded reader...

08/09/2024

On Friday morning, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Jonathan Lemire and Katty Kay couldn't stop laughing at Sen. J.D. Vance's inability to answer a reporter's simple question about what makes him smile or be happy.With Donald Trump's presidential campaign pushing back against accusations that it's bogged do...

08/09/2024

Donald Trump's campaign team has "major concerns" about the Republican presidential nominee's mental decline after he was exposed to the media for an hour of fielding questions, according to a controversial former associate of Rudy Giuliani. Lev Parnas, the Soviet-born businessman who figured in...

08/09/2024

An old insult from Donald Trump found new significance this week when the former president shared a questionable story about a perilous ride with Willie Brown that the California politician says never happened. Trump has been subjected to ridicule, raised eyebrows, and fact-checks since he told ...

08/09/2024

Psychotherapist Nick Carmody on Friday delivered an analysis of former President Donald Trump's Thursday press conference at Mar-a-Lago in which the ex-president claimed America was on the brink of both an economic depression and World War III, while also going off on angry tangents about Vice Presi...

08/09/2024

Donald Trump once praised Tim Walz for his handling of protests in 2020, a former Trump administration official confirmed Friday. Trump has hurled several attacks at Walz for his purported conduct during protests that stemmed from the murder of George Floyd, but it was later reported that the th...

08/09/2024

Republican State Representative Devan Seabaugh was driving in the bicycle lane on Thursday night when he ran into a cyclist. He was subsequently taken into custody by the North DUI Task Force, according to reports.WSB TV reported Friday morning that the Cobb County Republican was arrested after 9 p....

08/09/2024

ON MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Friday morning, the panel reacted with laughter as fill-in host Katty Kay took apart Donald Trump's "weird" tale of almost dying in a helicopter crash that reportedly never happened.During the ex-president's rambling press conference on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort he u...

08/09/2024

Donald Trump's supporters are asking him to "fire" his top campaign advisors, so much so that it has affected what topics are trending on the former president's social media network, Truth Social.On Friday morning, the former president's Truth Social platform was deluged with complaints about campa....

08/09/2024

Puck News senior political correspondent Tara Palmeri on Friday said that former President Donald Trump's sudden flip-flop on debating Vice President Kamala Harris on ABC showed that he's "desperate" for an event to turn around his presidential campaign.Appearing on CNN Friday, Palmeri argued that T...

08/09/2024

Republicans this week have been lobbing attacks on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's 24-year-record of service in the National Guard -- but the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial page is decidedly unimpressed.Writing about the campaign to accuse Walz of "stolen valor," the editors make the case that...

08/09/2024

Donald Trump's loyalists have infiltrated a Georgia election board and are now wreaking havoc, a legal analyst said on Friday.MSNBC's Lisa Rubin, a former litigator, highlighted the actions of three pro-MAGA members of the local board, and how some of them may be illegal."Georgia's State Election Bo...

08/09/2024

On Friday morning, MSNBC "Morning Joe" regular John Heilemann raised the specter that Donald Trump is not physically up to a hard-charging campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris, as evidenced by his staying out of the public eye since the Republican National Convention.Speaking with the MSNBC...

08/09/2024

During a discussion on Donald Trump's rambling Mar-a-Lago press conference on Thursday, Jonathan Lemire, host of MSNBC's "Way Too Early," revealed the former president decided to put himself in front of the press at the last minute after he learned his top aides were going to be speaking to reporte....

08/09/2024

A "deeply uncomfortable" CNN panel busted out laughing early Friday morning as one Democratic strategist said Donald Trump's obsession with crowd sizes is an indication that he is "insecure" about something. The panel was discussing Trump's recent press conference during which the former preside...

08/09/2024

According to a former Republican National Committee spokesperson, conservatives should be alarmed by a concession by Donald Trump during his Mar-a-Lago press conference that he is agreeing to more debates with Vice President Kamala Harris.Speaking with MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire on "Way Too Early," Tim...

08/09/2024

The first question during Donald Trump's "angry," "rambling, incoherent, demented," "complaining," and "lie-filled" Thursday afternoon news conference from Mar-a-Lago was about campaign strategy, and would he be changing it. No, Trump insisted. Another question – which the ex-president declared "s...

08/09/2024

A month after the Supreme Court issued a controversial decision that presidents enjoy immunity for "official acts," District Judge Tanya Chutkan has the federal election case against Donald Trump back in her hands — and has the task of working out for herself what acts fall under the justices' rul...

'2016 all over again': MSNBC host unloads on media for failing to fact-check Trump
08/09/2024

'2016 all over again': MSNBC host unloads on media for failing to fact-check Trump

MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell laid into news outlets on his show Thursday night, comparing their collective failure to call out Donald Trump's falsehoods to 2016."It was 2016 all over again, today," he told his viewers. "Donald Trump spoke at his home in Florida for over an hour and all the major ca...

Trump's ​tale of nearly dying in helicopter crash with Harris' ex-beau is false: report
08/09/2024

Trump's ​tale of nearly dying in helicopter crash with Harris' ex-beau is false: report

Former President Donald Trump's harrowing tale of nearly dying in a helicopter crash with a former San Francisco mayor — who is also Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris' former boyfriend — is a fairy tale, according to reporting from The New York Times.Trump said at his news conferen...

GOP's smearing of Tim Walz's military record reminiscent of 'Swiftboat' attacks: Democrat
08/09/2024

GOP's smearing of Tim Walz's military record reminiscent of 'Swiftboat' attacks: Democrat

A New Jersey Democrat and Navy veteran came to the defense of vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, saying the accusations questioning his military record are "incredibly offensive" and reminiscent of the "Swiftboat bulls---" that Sen. John Kerry faced in his presidential election. Rep. Mikie Sherri...

'Pure gibberish': Critics slam Trump’s 'nonsensical double-speak' answer on abortion drug
08/09/2024

'Pure gibberish': Critics slam Trump’s 'nonsensical double-speak' answer on abortion drug

Donald Trump appeared to be unfamiliar with the widely-used and extremely safe abortion drug Mifepristone when asked a question about it by a reporter Thursday afternoon at his Mar-a-Lago press conference. Critics are blasting his remarks.The ex-president, who is currently down in the polls as Vice....

'Absolute dumpster fire': Ex-Trump aide scorches 'ranting and raving' news conference
08/09/2024

'Absolute dumpster fire': Ex-Trump aide scorches 'ranting and raving' news conference

Former President Donald Trump's bizarre press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday was a desperate attempt to force the media's focus off Vice President Kamala Harris and back onto himself, argued former Trump administration communications official Alyssa Farah Griffin on CNN.The problem is, she add...

California lawmaker reveals why she's ditching Democrats to join GOP
08/09/2024

California lawmaker reveals why she's ditching Democrats to join GOP

A state lawmaker in California is ditching the Democratic Party — after becoming the first Democrat to win her district in decades — and heading to the GOP, and revealed to a newspaper's editorial board what she called the "last straw."State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil was elected two years ago to r...

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