2024 Elections

Taking to both TikTok and Instagram, Donald Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, took some shots at MSNBC host Katy Tur for her commentary during the recently concluded Republican National Convention where she told viewers that she felt the former president appeared to be humbled after an assassination attempt one week ago.

Tur, a frequent target on social media for what is considered to be her glossing over Trump's copious issues, this week told viewers she was seeing a Trump she had never seen before, telling co-host Chris Jansing, that the former president looked "serene" at the convention.

The Republican National Convention's conclusion with former President Donald Trump taking the stage to a crowd of adoring fans wearing bandages on their ears in solidarity was a little too much for comedian Bill Maher.

In summarizing the HBO host's weekly "new rules" segment, the Daily Beast described Maher as "sick of the latest wave of religious fervor around the ex-president. Maher noted that while he was personally grateful the shooter at Trump's Pennsylvania rally last week didn't hit his target, the assassination attempt nonetheless brought out "an orgy of magical thinking."

Now that the Republican National Convention — with its promise of "unity" is in the rearview mirror, — Donald Trump is back to being the Donald Trump of old with a rambling rant on Saturday morning.

Just days after cable TV pundits lauded the former president for being humbled and changed after the attempt on his life just a week ago, the former president once again lashed out about his legal problems and accused the Biden administration of conspiring against him.

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Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend" on Saturday morning, MSNBC host Katie Phang blasted newly anointed 2024 Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH) for treating voters like they are "dumb" in his Republican National Convention acceptance speech.

Speaking with the hosts, Phang said Vance has done all he can to downplay not only the approach a second Trump administration would take on abortion but also plans to implement the controversial Project 2025.

That, she pointed out, is the GOP's "dirty secret."

" J.D. Vance is a type of person that we all know who puts on whatever masks that fits at the time," Phang began. "Nobody talks about abortion at the RNC; they pretend like it's this dirty secret but we all know about it. And we are not dumb."

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"That is one of the sins of the party to underestimate the intelligence of the American voter. Just because you don't talk about it, although you kind of allude to it in the platform, it doesn't mean that we are not aware that J.D. Vance not two years ago said I want a national abortion ban," she continued. "So now he pivots, which is a J.D. Vance thing to do, and says, whatever the head of our party Donald Trump wants is okay, but that is the problem. Donald Trump is not consistent when it comes to abortion positions."

"Now the thing that really troubles me is the fact that we know Project 2025 is the blueprint for the next Trump administration and Project 2025 makes it clear they are going to go as far as not even allowing things like abortion medication to be sent in the mail," she added. "They're going to pursue a national abortion ban. So I think it is important for people to always remember what the base means."

"We have seen pro-life advocates who are mad that the GOP is not including in their platform an explicit national ban but we note once they are in the office, that is what they will do. They will try to put their heel on more Americans," she warned.

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A multi-millionaire who was a key Donald Trump ally pushing election theft conspiracy rumors after the former president's 2020 loss is already laying the groundwork for 2024 chaos by providing financial support to groups pushing more fringe theories.

According to a report from the Guardian's Peter Stone, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne is sinking millions into the Pro-MAGA America Project which is then being dispensed to groups in the key states of Arizona and Michigan among others.