2024 Elections

During an interview with MSNBC's Alex Witt, NBC justice reporter Ryan Reilly claimed some of the accused Jan. 6 insurrectionists who have yet to appear in court may walk away without ever going to trial after Donald Trump is sworn in next January.

And for that, he stated, they can thank some FBI agents and officials who are sympathetic to their cause.

It didn't take long after Donald Trump won a second term as president after three tries for squabbling to begin among allies in a hurry to make radical changes in government to ensure a conservative majority for decades.

According to a report from the New York Times, two conservative allies of Trump are butting heads over the suggestion that two of the oldest Supreme Court justices, Clarence Thomas, 76, and Sam Alito, 74, should step aside so the incoming president can choose two younger conservatives with decades in front of them to serve.

Boasts by Donald Trump and his allies that he was swept back into office in a "landslide" does not hold up under scrutiny based upon an analysis by CNN's Zachary Wolf who also noted that the numbers suggest there are warning signs on the horizon in the 2026 midterms.

In his column, Wolf wrote that the former president may claim he was the recipient of a stunning wave of voters last Tuesday, but recent history reveals he didn't even come close.

Appearing on MSNBC just days after Donald Trump won re-election over Vice President Kamala Harris, conservative lawyer George Conway suggested Donald Trump's biggest campaign promise will fall apart just like a similar one did after he was first elected in 2016.

Speaking with the co-hosts of "The Weekend," the Trump critic maintained that, if the former president's history with Congress is any guide, the president-elect will botch his mass deportation plans which he made central to his bid for a third shot at the presidency.

As part of the ongoing, and seemingly endless, postmortem on Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to Donald Trump, the co-hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend" attempted to tackle the finger-point at voting groups for not showing up and questions over running women and people of color for office.

According to co-Host Symone Sanders Townsend, she has spent years working in Democratic politics, "when there were usually, the people at the top were men and they were all white men and then over the course of years it has changed."

The entire panel of MSNBC's "The Weekend" was left speechless before dissolving into nervous laughter after a noted expert on authoritarianism detailed how Donald Trump managed to get himself re-elected and what to expect now that voters have handed him another four years in office.

Co-host Michael Steele prompted historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat with, "I want to get your thoughts of what we can now say is the emerged, the realized form of American fascism that the American people, by some 50-plus percent decided, 'Yes, let's do that.'"

"I mean there is much to say," she began. "We are here now, you know, Donald Trump was very skilled at conditioning Americans to think that democracy and American democracy in particular was failing."

"He called America a garbage can. He spread with his allies disinformation about the economy, said that America was failing and praised foreign dictators so he could bolster his own idea of leadership, which is 'I alone can fix it,'" she elaborated.

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"And all the slogans we have seen for years from him add up to this kind of strong men model of leadership which depends on having an enemy and an internal enemy, the enemy within," she continued.

"So you can justify these kind of crackdowns on the vulnerable, these repressions," she predicted. " And so this is all very unfortunate but he did a good job of conditioning over and over. We've have had eight years of this, Americans to see democracy is inferior to something else. That something else would be strong men ruled by him."

After she concluded, there was a long pause before Steele and co-host Symone Sanders Townsend simultaneously uttered, "Hmmm," which then led to a smattering of nervous laughter before turning to guest George Conway.

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Donald Trump's presidential transition team has already hit its first bump in the road after he won re-election Tuesday, reports the New York Times.

At issue is a failure to turn in paperwork –– now over a month overdue — that would clear the path to the turnover of sensitive documents which would allow the incoming administration to hit the ground running after the former president returns to the Oval Office.

According to investigations director Miranda Green at Floodlights News, if there's one thing that the right does exceptionally well, it's disseminating misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda.

The Metric network of a "pink-slime news operation" delivered far-right-framed information while lifting up "the voices of right-leaning think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and SBA Pro-Life," she said.