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'Frustrating': Springfield mayor begs Trump and Vance to stop spreading conspiracies

Rob Rue, the Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio, is begging former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to stop spreading lies about his town.

Trump and his running mate have promoted a baseless far-right conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are stealing people's pets to eat them.

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'She's a free spirit': Trump claims ignorance over Laura Loomer's racist outbursts

Former President Donald Trump on Friday refused to disavow racist commentary and Sept. 11 conspiracy theories shared by a controversial new member of his entourage.

Trump claimed ignorance during a California press conference when he was asked about Laura Loomer's appearances this week on Trump Force One and at a Sept. 11 memorial event — despite her recent racist remarks about Vice Kamala Harris.

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Trump makes bizarre name glitch during California speech

Former President Donald Trump on Friday took a firm stance against his political foe — whom he referred to as Comrade Howard.

Trump at a press conference in California, home state of Democratic Party presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, appeared to glitch when it came time to call her by name.

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Christian conservatives deal with 'whiplash' amid sense of Trump betrayal: report

Christian conservatives who not too long ago were ecstatic that Donald Trump set in motion the gutting of Roe v. Wade with his Supreme Court appointments are expressing dismay that he has dropped them like a bad habit as he makes his third bid for the Oval Office.

According to a report from the New York Times, Trump's waffling on abortion has hardcore anti-choice Christians feeling abandoned and betrayed.

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'I don't know where to start': MSNBC host baffled by J.D. Vance's Jan. 6 comments

During a MSNBC panel discussion about extremists attaching themselves to Donald Trump's faltering presidential campaign, host Andrea Mitchell expressed bafflement and disgust with Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) over his latest comments about Jan. 6.

Speaking with guests Michael Steele and journalist McKay Coppins, Mitchell noted the firestorm created by the former president embracing far-right gadfly Laura Loomer who seems to be at war with the entire Republican party, before bringing up the former president's 2024 running mate.

Sharing a clip of Vance stating he disagreed with former Vice President Mike Pence on the certification of the 2020 election and that, instead, he "would have asked the states to submit alternative slates of electors and let the country have the debate about what actually matters and what kind of an election that we had.”

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That left Mitchell to promptly state, "I don't know where to start. The Supreme Court made decisions in 60, well there were 63 separate judges and several other cases that went all the way to the Supreme Court that there were not fraud that would have changed the election outcomes and that the electors needed to be on schedule on January 6 all be certified."

"And the fact that Pence wasn't asked, there was endless testimony about that including from him," she added.

"Yeah, there is literally no substance to back up what J.D. Vance just said," Coppins offered. "But I think it is important to talk about what he's doing here, this is why he was added to the ticket, right? He made a Faustian bargain a few years ago when he decided to transition his career from best-selling author and thought leader to MAGA political candidate. That he was going to do what needed to be done to get on Trump's good side."

"And he's spent the last several years basically auditioning for the role of Donald Trump's VP, and when you're auditioning for that role, you have to say a lot of things that you know are untrue, " he added.

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Donald Trump Jr. dodges Ohio father's plea to keep dead son out of politics

Donald Trump Jr. has been subtly dodging a Ohio father's plea not to drag his dead son's story in the former president's campaign attacks on Haitian immigrants.

Trump Jr. this week has published at least three posts on X that make subtle reference to Aiden Clark — the 11-year-old Springfield boy killed in 2023 when a Haitian driver hit his school bus — since Tuesday, the same day his father Nathan asked former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance to stop.

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'That is what he's proposing': MSNBC host hits J.D. Vance over latest Ukraine plan

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) described to podcaster Shawn Ryan how he and Donald Trump intend to resolve the Russian war against Ukraine.

"It would probably look like — is something like the current line of demarcation between Russia and Ukraine, that becomes a demilitarized zone so the Russians don't invade again and Ukraine remains its independent sovereignty and it doesn't join NATO or some of the sort of allied institutions," Vance proposed.

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Court likely to impose supervision on Trump's 2024 election challenges: legal expert

Black voters have asked a federal court to supervise Donald Trump's legal challenges to a possible election loss in November, and an expert believes they have a strong case.

The lawsuit originally filed in the days following the 2020 election has moved slowly through federal court as an appeals court considered Trump's eventually rejected claims of presidential immunity from civil lawsuits, and the plaintiffs recently asked permission to drop one of their demands, which legal analyst Norm Eisen told CNN should get the case moving forward again.

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'Rock bottom': GOP strategist says Trump may soon 'find out' he must debate Harris again

An aide to two former Republican House Speakers is warning that Donald Trump must have another debate.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Brendan Buck said that Trump may not want to do another debate, "but he's probably going to find out that he has to."

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'I'm ringing this bell': Ex-Trump aide warns recent decisions show 'he's in decline'

Donald Trump is palling around with a far-right firebrand, Laura Loomer, known for spreading conspiracy theories — and it's left an ex-aide of his incredulous.

The co-hosts of "The View" were flabbergasted that he was joined by the controversial figure at ceremonies marking the 9/11 attacks in New York — and on Friday wondered how a presidential candidate could incorporate someone like that into his campaign.

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'Shameful. Scandalous. Sick': J.D. Vance accused of 'terrorizing schoolchildren' in Ohio

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) faced severe criticism Friday for spreading anti-immigrant rhetoric on social media minutes before flocks of children in his state were rushed out of their classrooms over an undisclosed threat.

Vance, running mate to former President Donald Trump, doubled down on his attack on Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio in an X post published about 9:25 a.m. — about 10 minutes before a local Catholic school announced safety threats had forced them to dismiss their students.

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'Plenty of meat on the bone' for continuing Trump's Georgia prosecution: legal expert

According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, there is still a solid case against Donald Trump to take to trial despite the dismissal of several charges on Thursday.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera, the legal analyst noted that on Thursday Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court tossed out three charges in the Trump case related to election interference in 2020 which was hailed as a win by the former president's legal team.

However, McAfee notably left in place a felony racketeering charge filed against Mr. Trump and his co-defendants, calling it “facially sound and constitutionally sufficient.”

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Asked by host Cabrera where the case now stands after being reduced to 32 charges from the initial 41, Vance claimed there is still a solid case to take to trial.

'Is there still meat on the bone as far as the charges Trump is facing here?" the host pressed.

"Yes, there is plenty of meat on the bone," Vance agreed. "It's the RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] charge, the large overarching conspiracy that's so central to the efforts to interfere with the vote count in Georgia. And, at least for now, that charge goes forward."

Asked, "And so, in terms of when we could expect any kind of action in the courtroom, what does the timeline look like?" Vance replied, "So that's complicated, because we're in the middle of this Georgia appellate process over whether or not [Fulton County prosecutor] Fani Willis can continue with the case."

"What we're seeing in Georgia, a largely Republican-led state, is sort of the equivalent of when [Ohio Republican] Jim Jordan announces he's holding committee hearings in Washington over weaponization of government by Democrats," she elaborated. "That's what we're seeing in Georgia now with this legislative effort to delay Willis' prosecution. There are separation of powers issues that keep the legislative branch from looking into what prosecutors are doing, and here they've demanded documents and insight into her case while it's ongoing."

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'Sleeper case' could severely weaken Trump efforts to undo an election loss in November

A long-dormant lawsuit seeking to limit Donald Trump's efforts to overturn a potential election loss has finally begun to show signs of life again.

The lawsuit was originally filed in the days following the 2020 election and has moved slowly through the federal courts in Washington, D.C., while an appeals court considered his claims of presidential immunity from civil lawsuits, but the plaintiffs recently asked to drop one of their demands in hopes of getting the case moving, reported CNN.

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