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MSNBC resurfaces decades-old video of 'irresponsible' Trump attacking 'Indians'

Responding to Donald Trump's onslaught of racist attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris' ethnic heritage, MSNBC presented viewers on Friday morning with a super clip of the former president questioning his opponents on race and indulging in birtherism.

As part of the clip, Trump can be seen battling former Rep. George Miller (D-CA) over Native American casinos in 1993 that Trump felt would hurt his own casino business interests.

In the exchange, Miller pressed Trump, "Is this you, discussing Indian blood: ‘We’re going to judge people by whether they have Indian blood whether they’re qualified to run a casino or not?’”

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"That probably is me, absolutely. Because, I’ll tell you what. If you look at some of the reservations that you’ve approved, that you, sir in your great wisdom have approved, I'll tell you right now, they don’t look like Indians to me,” Trump shot back.

He then argued, "And they don’t look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not politically correct, they don’t look like Indians to me, and they don’t look like Indians to Indians. A lot of people are laughing at it. You're telling how tough it is, rough it is, to get approved, When you go up to Connecticut, they don't look like Indians to me, sir."

That led Miller to lecture the future president, "Thank God that’s not the test of whether or not people have rights in this country or not – whether or not they pass your ‘look’ test. "

Following the clip, MSNBC's Ana Cabrera noted, "Congressman George Miller of California, who confronted Trump in that 1993 clip, said that was the most irresponsible testimony he had heard in his 40 years in Congress."

You can watch the MSNBC report below or click here.

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'Twisting the knife': McConnell takes 'jab' at Trump over his running mate J.D. Vance

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) "jabbed" former President Donald Trump over his choice of running mate in an exclusive interview released Friday.

McConnell was dismissive and slyly critical of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) in the upcoming presidential election he is determined Republicans should win, Punchbowl News reports.

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Clinical psychologist explains the power of calling Republicans 'weird'

Democratic leaders began calling Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), "weird" for some of their political ideas and comments they've made about women and people of color. One clinical psychologist explained that the word has a lot more impact than one would think.

Dr. Carl Hindy, Ph.D., HSP posted in a thread on X that the power of using phrases like "that's weird" or "that's just weird" is that it conveys, "That's just not worth of discussion."

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Kamala Harris has already hit Trump where it hurts most — the wallet

Vice President Kamala Harris' ascension as the likely Democratic presidential nominee not only raised the spirits of Democrats worried about President Joe Bidens age, it also cut into Donald Trump's net worth.

According to a report from CNN, from the moment Harris hit the ground running and created a tidal wave of interest in her presidential campaign the valuation for Trump's Truth Social platform plummeted almost 25 percent.

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'The Nazi approach': U.S. Army strategist declares Trump is 'unfit' to lead

A retired U.S. Army Strategist with two Bronze Star Medals says politics is not the reason he urges Americans to vote for anyone except Donald Trump in the upcoming presidential election in November — Nazi Germany is.

ML Cavanaugh explained the dire reasons he finds Trump unfit to lead the U.S. military in a damning editorial published Friday morning by the Los Angeles Times.

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Sexy texts, club hook-ups, Secret Service trysts: Sordid affair rumors plague Trump family

Tabloid cover-ups, sexy texts, a hookup in a gay nightclub bathroom, and many affairs with the staff: these are the sordid affair rumors that plague the family Trump.

The List, a digital lifestyle magazine, delivered Friday a salacious report on the rumors that swirl not just around Trump — convicted of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments paid to an adult film star — but his wife and children as well.

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'This is not a well man': Questions raised about Trump after Harris outburst

Reflecting on Donald Trump's doubling down on his attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris' racial makeup, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson speculated on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that there seems to be something deeply wrong with the former president.

With fill-in host Jonathan Lemire sharing Trump's smears of Harris on his Truth Social platform, the "Morning Joe" panel agreed Trump may not realize how bad it is making him look.

After MSNBC regular Mike Barnicle called Trump a "badly, deeply damaged individual," Robinson pounced.

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"I would absolutely agree. Beneath all that bluster, who am I to diagnose him?" the journalist admitted. "I'm not a psychologist, but there is clearly some deep insecurity and feeling of inadequacy that causes him to continually lash out and puff himself up and adopt this air of infallibility, which is absurd."

"But that's who he is," he continued. "I think he is a really, really damaged person, and, you know, because of that and for a lot of other reasons, he's really dangerous. And he proved that in four years as president. He would prove it again if he were ever allowed near the White House again."

"This is not a well man," he concluded.

Watch below or at the link.

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'Messy breakups': Far-right slams Kyle Rittenhouse after he says he won't vote for Trump

Convicted felon Donald Trump won't get a vote from a man who was found not guilty in his own criminal case, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the ex-president's allies have gone to war against the young gun.

Rittenhouse announced on social media that he won't be voting for the former president because of his record on guns.

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'Pathetic': J.D. Vance buried for latest attempt to turn Trump loss into a win

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) was raked over the coals on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday for his "pathetic" spin on President Joe Biden's successful effort to free unjustly arrested Russian prisoners and return them to their families.

On Thursday, while doing a photo-op at the border, Donald Trump's running mate told reporters, “We certainly want these Americans to come back home. It was ridiculous that they were in prison to begin with."

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Trump 'threatened to back out of interview if Black journalists fact-checked him'

Donald Trump reportedly refused to go onstage at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention if reporters fact-checked him, but he finally gave in following a lengthy delay.

The former president blamed the delay of more than an hour on audio problems, but NABJ president Ken Lemon told Axios that Trump's team asked organizers if the panel of Black journalists, including ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott, Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, and Semafor reporter Kadia Goba, would refrain from correcting his false statements.

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George Conway: Trump’s 'stupid' Harris attacks make him 'look weak'

Donald Trump has been drawing widespread criticism for questioning presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' racial identity during a conversation at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, July 31 — comments that, according to Never Trump conservative George Conway, show that his campaign is flailing.

Trump claimed that Harris has conveniently "turned Black," telling attendees "Is she Indian or is she Black?.... She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now, she wants to be known as Black. So I don't know, is she Indian or is she Black? I respect either one, but she obviously doesn't."

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'Black job': Simone Biles takes social media by storm with apparent swipe at Trump

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles took an apparent swipe at Donald Trump on social media, leading to widespread cheering.

Singer Ricky Davila appears to have started it all with a simple message posted to X:

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Biden's historic prisoner swap an indication Putin betting Trump will lose: pundits

The rumors of what became the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War started Tuesday.

"Five prominent political prisoners got missing from their prisons in Russia. It seems a big prisoner swap is in the making with the West and/or Ukraine," wrote former BBC and Wall Street Journal reporter Alexander Kolyandr, now a a non-resident senior scholar at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). "If so, #EvanGershkovich might be free very soon."

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