2024 Elections

Donald Trump Jr. and a Texas lawmaker are floating a new conspiracy theory claiming the Federal Bureau of Investigation will corrupt its own investigation into Thomas Crooks' assassination attempt against the presumptive Republican nominee.

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) claimed Monday that the FBI could not be trusted to investigate the attempted attack on former President Donald in an X message read nearly 350,000 times in under two hours.

After her husband was nearly shot at a Saturday rally, Melania Trump released an extensive statement that is leading some to question whether it is genuine.

The Daily Beast reported that the word "human" was used several times in the 12-paragraph release, which is curious because it is a word that actual humans don't generally use that much when talking about themselves.

Real America's Voice host Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, said he was refusing the call for unity and pushed the Second Amendment following the shooting of former President Donald Trump.

During a Monday discussion on imprisoned Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Glenn spoke to guest host Natalie Winters about the assassination attempt.

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, the sheer length and breadth of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling on the Donald Trump stolen documents case makes it seem that it has been in the works for a suspicious amount of time.

Reacting to the bombshell ruling where Cannon asserted special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was not allowed under the Constitution, and using that as her reason for the dismissal, Rubin noted the amount of research and cites that made up the 93-page document showed it was not a rush job -- and that raised questions about when it was begun.

With the former president's lawyers questioning the legality of Smith prosecuting the case at a hearing just three weeks ago, Rubin raised her eyebrows at the timing.

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"After hearing oral arguments on this motion based on Jack Smith's allegedly unlawful appointment and appropriations of money to fund his office, she ordered an evidentiary hearing on another issue," she told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart. "That led people to believe that, if she was going to have a days-long hearing seeking evidence on some other issue relevant to the case, that she was not going to dismiss the case outright based on the appointments clause and appropriations clause arguments."

"And yet the length of this opinion suggests that this has been in the works for some time," she pointed out. "Whatever one thinks about Judge Cannon, a 93-page opinion citing case law and briefs and constitutional texts does not emerge overnight."

"This is a serious piece of work involving the judge and likely her law clerk's assistance, but it's not something that one spends two weeks writing. It's something that someone spends usually several weeks writing," she claimed.

Donald Trump's campaign has pressed the message that he is a "changed man" after the failed assassination attempt on Saturday. But after his Monday update on Truth Social, things seemed like they were back to the same again.

In particular, Trump went on an angry rant claiming that his espionage case in Florida a "witch hunt," alleging the Jan. 6 attack on Congress was a "hoax" and the New York fraud case is a "scam."

Former President Donald Trump connected a recent attempt on his life to the criminal and civil court cases filed against him Monday in a new Truth Social post responding to the dismissal of his classified documents case.

Trump claimed he wanted to move forward with "Uniting our Nation" before accusing prosecutors of an elaborate political witch hunt against him and E. Jean Carroll, the writer he has been found liable of sexually abusing and repeatedly defaming, of lying.

Donald Trump Jr., son of the former president and convicted felon, celebrated the future of American Democracy Monday when a judge his father appointed tossed a case involving classified documents stored in a Florida social club bathroom.

His MAGA followers responded with calls for retribution.

Viewers tuning into MSNBC on Monday morning expecting to hear the co-hosts and panel on "Morning Joe" about the attempt on Donald Trump's life on Saturday were instead presented with NBC News instead after the network put one of their most popular shows on pause.

According to CNN media analyst Oliver Darcy, the brass at NBC bumped the show hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist over fears that the diverse panel might say something untoward on the opinion-heavy show.

Reacting to interviews given to sympathetic conservative journalists where Donald Trump claimed he is a changed man after being shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend, one CNN analyst suggested it may be an insurmountable climb considering his history.

Following the shooting, the former president agreed to interviews with right-wing journalist Salena Zito and the New York Post in which he stated he tore up the Republican National Convention speech he claims he wrote and is replacing it with another calling for national unity.

In a deep dive into what reporters claim will be a "changed" Donald Trump after an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania left him with a bleeding ear, the founders of Axios wrote that a portion of the purported change in the former president stems from his criminal conviction in a Manhattan courtroom weeks ago.

As Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen wrote, there is reporting -- much of it based on an interview the former president participated in with conservative reporter Salena Zito — that Trump is tearing up the speech he intended to give at the Republican National Convention for a more unifying one.

Hours after Donald Trump was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin, his most avid high-profile supporters were hard at work pinning blame for the shooting on what they call overheated rhetoric by Democrats who have been pointing at his criminal record and his links to the authoritarian Project 2025.

According to Slate political analyst Emily Tankin, that concerted effort has less to do with cooling down potential violence and more to do with undercutting the Democrat's seeming strategy of holding Trump's record — as well as the Jan. 6 insurrection — up to the light for voters before they cast their votes.

Residents and volunteers were urging a lowering of tensions Sunday in Milwaukee as Republicans descend on the city for their national convention just a day after Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally.

The lakeside municipality in battleground Wisconsin finds itself in the eye of a political and security maelstrom following the spasm of violence that has shaken the 2024 campaign and prompted questions about the country's political polarization.