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'Who is the freak?' Trump ally Laura Loomer hits back at conservative who called her bigot

A far-right influencer facing spurring MAGA discord for racist commentary about Vice President Kamala Harris slapped back with vulgar language at the conservative pundit who called her a "bigot" and a "freak."

Laura Loomer, a self-described proud Islamophobe, took to X Thursday morning to rail against Charlie Sykes and the argument he made on MSNBC that former President Donald Trump's campaign is collapsing because he listens to such people.

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Psychiatrist flags 'alarming' debate tic — and urges Trump to seek a neurologist

Former President Donald Trump should immediately seek a neurologist after exhibiting a classic and common sign of dementia at the presidential debates on Tuesday, according to a prominent psychiatrist.

Prof. Richard A. Friedman, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, argued in an Atlantic editorial Thursday that Trump's rhetorical tendencies would make any mental health expert "very worried."

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City hall evacuated by bomb threat in town where Trump claims immigrants are eating pets

A bomb threat was called into city hall in the Ohio town that has become an immigration flashpoint in Donald Trump's re-election campaign.

Springfield city hall was evacuated Thursday around 8:30 a.m. after city officials said the bomb threat was made against "multiple facilities throughout" the town where Trump and his running mate have claimed that Haitian immigrants are stealing and eating pets, reported the Springfield News-Sun.

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'She's a lunatic!': GOP insiders call for 'wake up moment' as Trump embraces MAGA 'kook'

Laura Loomer, a right-wing activist who has earned the rare distinction of being a MAGA supporter too extreme for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), has increasingly become a member of former President Donald Trump's inner circle.

A pair of CNN panelists on Thursday sounded the alarm about the fact that Trump has embraced someone like Loomer, who is notorious for pushing conspiracy theories and racism in her social media posts that are too much for even a one-time QAnon believer like Greene to stomach.

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Trump is 'hanging himself' with his own rope as campaign spirals out of control: analyst

During an MSNBC panel discussion on Donald Trump allowing himself to be influenced by far-right characters, which had a marked influence on his Tuesday night debate performance, contributor Ed Luce suggested the former president has quickly become his own worst enemy.

Speaking with the hosts on "Morning Joe," the Financial Times columnist claimed the Trump campaign's downward spiral is purely the result of the candidate himself.

Noting that the former president recently added far-right conspiracist Laura Loomer to his travel entourage, Luce explained "This is the kind of person Donald Trump is hanging out with."

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"He's hanging out with people who tell him, 'Yes, what you said about crowd sizes is true. Yes, what you said about you having the greatest economy in world history is true. What we've been hearing about people hanging other people's pet dogs or abducting their cats, that's true.'"

"I doubt, frankly, that [Trump campaign managers] Chris LaCivita or Susie Wiles, who are professionals, worked on other campaigns, are being listened to much at all by Donald Trump," he observed. "The more we see of that, a bit like the debate the other night, the more rope he is given to hang himself, the more he will hang himself."

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'Not a conversation I thought I'd be having': CNN anchor stunned by GOP guest's admission

Another member of the George W. Bush administration has come out in support of Kamala Harris for president.

Alberto Gonzalez, who served as attorney general and White House counsel during Bush's presidency, joined former vice president Dick Cheney and publicly endorsed the Democratic nominee against Donald Trump in an op-ed published by Politico, and he joined CNN's John Berman to discuss his decision.

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'Kind, loving, and welcoming': Marjorie Taylor Greene goes 'woke' in surprising twist

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene delivered a shocking response to mounting discord among former President Donald Trump's MAGA entourage: She went "woke."

Greene (R-GA) took to X Thursday morning to position herself against self-described "proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer, the far right influencer facing backlash for tweeting the White House would "smell like curry" should Vice President Kamala Harris win the 2024 presidential election.

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'Insane': Republicans warned against blowing off Taylor Swift's Harris endorsement

During a very long "Morning Joe" panel discussion on the debate night endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris by pop superstar Taylor Swift, NBC Capitol Hill correspondent Ali Vitali expressed surprise Republicans are not taking it seriously.

Speaking with hosts Joe Scarborough, Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, Vitali went to so far as to say it was "insane" that Republicans aren't in a panic over a wave of new voters heading to the polls in November.

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Trump team said to be worried about 'unfixable glitch' that could doom him against Harris

Axios reporters Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei bring word that Trump campaign officials worry that the former president has what is being described by the publication as an "unfixable glitch" that could doom his 2024 presidential campaign.

Essentially, they write, Trump is completely incapable of not taking the bait whenever Vice President Kamala Harris mocks things such as the size of his campaign rally crowds and it completely throws him off message during crucial portions of debates.

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Colorado election officials denounce ‘sham lawsuit’ targeting voter rolls

Colorado is the latest state to have its election system targeted by a lawsuit from a fringe conservative group repeating debunked claims of widespread fraud.

Two Colorado voters and the Missouri-based nonprofit United Sovereign Americans filed suit against Colorado state officials and U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in the U.S. District Court of Colorado on Tuesday, alleging that its analysis of Colorado voter rolls shows the results of the state’s 2022 midterm elections were “unreliable.”

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'J.D. Vance effect': Conservative says Trump risks win by sticking with 'weirdest figures'

As part of a discussion on Tuesday night's presidential debate on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," conservative Charlie Sykes claimed that Donald Trump's campaign is collapsing because he is listening to the wrong people.

As the conversation turned to Trump closely associating with conservative gadfly Laura Loomer, who Sykes said was "not just a bigot, she is a freak," the longtime Republican pundit said she is not the only one who has persuaded the former president to follow his worst instincts.

"I mean, think about this," he began. "We're less than two months from the election and Donald Trump is associating with some of the craziest, weirdest figures on the right."

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"And in part, you know, this is kind of the J.D. Vance effect," he elaborated. "J.D. Vance and Donald Trump Jr. who have decided they want Donald Trump to be extremely online. And you saw that play out during the debate, but you're also seeing it play out, you know, throughout this campaign and all of the rallies."

"In Donald Trump's head, you have people with the most extreme and bigoted ideas, who are feeding him lines and memes and encouraging him to go places that no politician in our century and, you know, maybe for the last century and a half, have even thought to go," he added. "I think this is concerning in terms of this bubble of delusion he's created himself: this bubble of extremism and delusion that he'll carry up until the election and past the election."

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'Very generous': CNN host laughs at ex-Trump spokesman's attempt to defend 'dogs and cats'

Donald Trump's baseless comments about immigrants stealing and eating pets in Ohio have been the basis for countless mocking memes since the debate, and one of his former spokespeople attempted to place them into a reasonable context.

The Republican nominee repeated claims during Tuesday night's debate that got a neo-Nazi kicked out of a Springfield city council meeting exactly two weeks earlier about Haitian immigrants purportedly eating residents' dogs, and former White House communications director Mike Dubke told CNN that Trump had touched on an important issue with his bizarre remarks.

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‘There’s two sides’: Paternal grandma shares her take on J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy

LOVELAND, Ohio — Amid nearly 100 guests adorning red elephant skirts, sequined "Trump" clutches and bedazzled patriotic hats, one attendee at the Northeast Republican Women's Club luncheon on Tuesday stood out among the crowd, not for her outfit but for her famous family member.

Melva Lene Shepherd, the paternal grandmother of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) — Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate — listened in on the meeting in Loveland, Ohio, as a "special guest" of a club member, welcomed with applause from the group.

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