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'At a loss': Internet mocks 'whiny' Trump over 'Beta male' attack on Howard Stern

Critics of Donald Trump ridiculed the former president on Wednesday after he tried to insult Howard Stern as a "Beta male."

Stern's show was once a favorite platform for Trump to flaunt his bravado — dozens of conversations that would later come back to bite him in 2016. As Stern voices support for Vice President Kamala Harris in the election, the ex-president attacked the 6-foot-5 Stern, whining he was a "Beta male" over a "puff" interview piece with Harris.

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'He's a great one!' Trump praises Mark Robinson despite report he called self 'Black Nazi'

Former President Donald Trump gave a shout-out Tuesday to a North Carolina candidate who reportedly described himself as a pro-slavery Black Nazi on a porn site.

Trump praised Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson during a rally in North Carolina — where the controversial lawmaker is campaigning to become governor — weeks after a CNN investigation linked him to disturbing commentary on the porn site Nude Africa.

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'Couldn't make it up': Novelist who wrote 'Dictator's Wife' left awed by Melania memoir

Caviar skin cream, pith helmets, tennis pavilions and ignorance of riots at the U.S. Capitol — the novelist who wrote a book called "The Dictator's Wife" says Melania Trump's memoir must be read to be believed.

Freya Berry said Wednesday her novel, inspired by the former first lady, was nowhere near as odd as the "stranger than fiction" narrative presented in Melania Trump's 184-page memoir.

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Judge dismisses lawsuit to force probe into 'rogue' Georgia election board officials

A Fulton County judge dismissed a lawsuit from Democrats that sought to force Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) to investigate three MAGA Republican State Election Board members who have pressed for drastic changes in election laws weeks ahead of the 2024 general election.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday that Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville didn't oppose the investigation or even formal charges, but said that proper steps must be taken first.

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'Propaganda': Trump adviser fumes as Fox News airs Hurricane Milton briefing

Former President Donald Trump's senior campaign adviser was furious that Fox News updated Americans on a deadly hurricane barreling toward the nation's southern coast.

Chris LaCivita shared bitter complaints on X Wednesday afternoon that the conservative news network opted to air a Biden administration briefing on preparations for Hurricane Milton hours before its expected landfall in Florida.

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Trump launches bitter attack on 'beta male' Howard Stern after Kamala Harris interview

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump lashed out at his former friend Howard Stern Wednesday after the radio host interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump, once a frequent guest on Stern's show, resorted to schoolyard insults after the interview with Harris.

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Election 'gadfly' is singlehandedly injecting chaos into Georgia vote: experts

A longtime conspiracy theorist who filed unsuccessful legal challenges to Donald Trump's election loss has grabbed the ear of Georgia officials who will oversee this November's vote, according to a report.

Garland Favorito, who published a book in the early 2000s filled with debunked theories on the Sept. 11 attacks and John F. Kennedy's assassination, pushed for new rules later adopted by the Republican-led state election board that experts believe will inject chaos into the Georgia vote count, and CNN reported that he has close ties to officials all over the state.

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Vance's 'sleazy' evasion of key question needs to be exploited by Dems: op-ed

Fake auto workers recently caught at a Sen. J.D. Vance rally present Vice President Kamala Harris with an ideal opportunity to expose dark plans to yank hundreds of billions of dollars from those attendees' purported industry, according to a new political analysis.

Michigan rally attendees who sported "Auto Workers for Trump" T-shirts — but told the Detroit News they were not autoworkers at all — reveal a disturbing truth about what former President Donald Trump intends for those on the production line, the New Republic argued Wednesday.

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'Butler is big, big': Mike Johnson mocks Trump with impersonation

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) attempted to do a short impersonation of former President Donald Trump.

At a recent rally with evangelicals in Arlington, Texas, Johnson said that he had tried to speak to the former president at an earlier event but wasn't able to because the Wi-Fi on Trump's plane was not working.

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Afghan citizen accused of plotting election day terrorist attack in U.S.

An Afghanistan citizen living in Oklahoma City was charged Tuesday with plotting a terrorist attack for Election Day, local KOCO news reported citing a Justice Department filing.

Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, tried to liquidate his family's assets and have them move to the United States so he could buy guns to carry out the attack, according to the filing which says he used Facebook in an attempt to coordinate with a juvenile involving purchasing firearms.

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'Russia has recordings': Ex-FBI agent says Trump's Putin calls mean more 'leverage' on him

Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa pointed out that the Kremlin likely has recordings of recently-reported calls between former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to journalist Bob Woodward, Trump has had as many as seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021. The former U.S. president went so far as to reportedly provide COVID-19 tests to the Russian dictator.

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Top GOP strategist names 3 key issues he says will get Republicans to vote for Harris

Mike Madrid, a top Latino GOP strategist, says there are three key issues the Harris-Walz campaign must focus on to win over Republicans, these "three messages are far more important than the messengers," and if they do so they will "win the race."

Madrid, a Lincoln Project co-founder, is a veteran political consultant and one of the country’s authoritative experts on Latino voters. He is also the author of, "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority Is Transforming Democracy."

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'Another form of slavery': MAGA host lectures Black co-anchor on supporting Democrats

MAGA TV host Gina Loudon lectured her co-anchor, Terrance Bates, about how Democrats had imposed "another form of slavery" on African-Americans.

During a Wednesday panel discussion on Real America's Voice, Loudon reported that Vice President Kamala Harris was seen favorably by Black voters while former President Donald Trump was not.

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