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'Haul out the guillotine': Trump unveils disturbing new campaign message

Former President Donald Trump has a disturbing new campaign cash-grab demand: "Haul out the guillotine."

Trump warned heads will roll following his criminal conviction on felony charges in New York City in a campaign fundraising email shared on X Wednesday morning by CNN anchor Jim Acosta.

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'Pornographically violent': Rachel Maddow unleashes no-holds-barred attack on Trump

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attacked the former president in a brief commentary on Tuesday, addressing comments he had made over the weekend.

The MSNBC host joined colleague Nicolle Wallace to discuss the speech Donald Trump gave in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the weekend that left even Republicans scratching their head.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Biden 'threatened American citizens with F-15s'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Joe Biden of wanting to attack American citizens with F-15 fighter jets.

In a post on X Tuesday, Greene highlighted an 11-second video clip from the Republican National Committee that showed Biden stuttering while speaking at an Everytown for Gun Safety event.

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Snubbed Republican throws tantrum and accuses Trump of taking bribes for endorsements

A Nevada Republican whom Donald Trump chose not to support threw a public tantrum and accused the former president and convicted felon of accepting bribes for endorsements, according to a new report.

Dr. Jeff Gunter, a Senatorial candidate in Tuesday's Republican primary, lashed out after Trump endorsed opponent Sam Brown by claiming on social media and to the New York Times he could produce evidence the former president had been bribed.

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Judge Cannon quickly grants Trump's latest request for delay

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon granted former President Donald Trump's request to delay a filing in his classified documents case.

On Monday, Trump's legal team requested a delay in filing to disclose the experts he intends to use at trial. Cannon first set the deadlines in May.

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'Death grip': Trump hold over GOP likened to 'Jonestown suicide' by ex-RNC member

Former President Donald Trump's hold on the Republican National Committee is like that of cult leader Jim Jones' on the residents of Jonestown, a former RNC member said Tuesday.

Fergus Cullen, former party chair in New Hampshire, made this analogy to the Huffington Post in his explanation of why the RNC would move forward with nominating a convicted felon as its 2024 presidential nominee.

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These Republicans don’t believe Trump was indicted – but say he’s not guilty

Donald Trump has been indicted on dozens of criminal felony charges, and yet a combination of approximately two-thirds of Republicans are either unsure that the ex-president was indicted on certain charges, or disagree that he was. They also say he’s not guilty.

Guilt or innocence aside, given that Trump himself and the news media frequently talk about the indictments, about the cases, about the judges, the prosecutors, and the evidence, it is a stunning revelation.

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'Slow-moving scandal': MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace slams Fox for ducking Trump rally reports

The Fox networks once broadcast Donald Trump's speeches live, but it has been a while since the ex-president graced the airwaves in anything that wasn't edited by the network.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her show Monday with a clip of some of the confusing statements the ex-president made during his Sunday Las Vegas rally.

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Exposé shares bizarre stories about Trump-backed governor hopeful

Bizarre stories involving a top Republican candidate up for election as governor in 2024 have been revealed in an expose published Monday.

New York Magazine has a new report on North Carolina candidate Mark Robinson, in which he's described as having no real government experience but has some odd obsessions.

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'Peak boomerism': House GOP trolled for odd Cheesecake Factory rant

House Judiciary Committee Republicans are mad as hell about cheesecake and they're not going to take it anymore.

This is the message delivered in an odd X post Monday afternoon bemoaning New York City's plight under President Joe Biden's administration.

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Scandal-laden Brazilian slaughterhouse billionaires tricked Trump into deadly policy: book

A 60-year-old grandmother died without ever meeting her only grandchild after contracting COVID-19 in a slaughterhouse former President Donald Trump ordered to remain open at the behest of scandal-laden Brazilian billionaire backers who misled his administration, according to a new report.

Tin Aye's death was one of hundreds the Trump administration "sacrificed" to protect meat monopolies pursuing billions in profits amid a global pandemic that claimed 7 million lives, author Peter S. Goodman argues in his new book "How the World Ran Out of Everything."

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'Just an act?' Trump argues Taylor Swift is 'pretending to be liberal'

A new book by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh revealed Donald Trump wonders if pop star Taylor Swift is only pretending to dislike him — despite her being an open critic and confessing online during the 2020 election year she wishes she'd spoken out against him "two years ago."

Trump conceded she was "probably liberal" when speaking to Setoodeh in one of six conversations.

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'Out for blood': Undecided voters offer surprising reactions to Trump's hush money trial

After Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 criminal counts in his hush money/falsified business records trial, Frank Luntz hosted a focus group featuring 11 undecided voters. And the veteran GOP pollster, according to the New York Times, asked them, "How the heck can you be undecided at this point?"

Luntz is a conservative, but he didn't mean that question in a MAGA-friendly way.

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