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'Confused Trump' ridiculed by Biden for 'glitches' in his 'bizarre slur-filled NRA speech'

Donald Trump took some heat from the Joe Biden campaign on Saturday after the former president gave a speech for the National Rifle Association in Texas, and appeared to mess up his words as well as some key facts.

Trump, who was mocked online for bragging during the speech that he was healthier and a "better physical specimen" than fellow former president Barack Obama, also dealt with a bothersome fly during the political campaign event. He called the fly "brutal" as he swatted it away while speaking.

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'Delusional': Trump gets laughs for bragging he's a 'better physical specimen' than Obama

Donald Trump on Saturday attended the 153rd Annual National Rifle Association Meeting in Dallas, Texas, where he gave the keynote speech and claimed his former doctor once said he was a "better physical specimen" than Barack Obama.

Trump mentioned a lot of his greatest hits at the speech, but things went off-script when he dealt with a "brutal" flying insect. Before that moment, however, the 45th president spoke about his time in office, when he had the same White House doctor as Obama did.

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'The fly is brutal': Trump swats at insect that's 'driving him crazy' mid-speech

Donald Trump on Saturday reminded the world of his former Vice President Mike Pence when he dealt with a fly while trying to give a speech for the National Rifle Association Saturday.

Trump, who spoke with the NRA in Texas in an effort to consolidate conservative support for his campaign for president, was in the middle of talking about independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he became upset by an insect. Pence had a fly land on his head during a debate, sparking internet jokes.

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'That's a mistake': Trump said to have given Joe Biden the gift of a winning attack line

It's months away from Christmas, yet Donald Trump just gave Joe Biden a major gift, according to a MSNBC analyst.

Trump is tied or beating Biden in many swing state polls, but he recently did something that opens him up to attacks, according to James Downie, a MSNBC opinion editor and a former editor and columnist for The Washington Post.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend makes surprise announcement ahead of Trump NRA speech

Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend made a surprise announcement while covering the 153rd Annual NRA Meeting in Dallas, Texas, where Donald Trump is expected to speak on Saturday.

The Republican lawmaker from Georgia has reportedly been dating Brian Glenn, a Right Side Broadcasting Network host who frequently covers events by the former president. Glenn was recently profiled by Politico, which said he is "the Trump rally gameday host who plumbs the depths of MAGA America in the crowds wherever Trump goes."

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Trump campaign faced with 'startling weakness' in scramble for cash: report

Donald Trump and his affiliated PAC's may be raking in hundreds of millions of dollars with the November presidential election less than six months away, but approximately only a third is going to his campaign with a staggering amount being funneled elsewhere.

According to a comprehensive analysis by Politico, Trump's legal woes are "soaking up" a stunning amount of the dollars taken in with the costs of raising even more money coming in second, far ahead of campaign expenditures.

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'You do it first': Trump put on the spot to take drug test before debate with Biden

Reacting to Donald Trump's attack on President Joe Biden on Friday night, where the former president suggested the man who beat him in 2020 should have to undergo a drug test, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele invited Trump to take the lead and go first.

On Saturday morning's edition of MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Steele lambasted Trump for creating a needless distraction before the first 2024 presidential debate.

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GOP hopes of retaking the Senate in November facing new risk: analyst

The Republican Party's pursuit of a Senate majority after the 2024 election may be in jeopardy with a slate of rich political newcomers scrambling to convince voters that they are just like them.

According to MSNBC analyst Ja'Han Jones, multiple rich Republicans are trying to use the Donald Trump playbook and paint their success as a rags-to-riches story that is just as bogus as the former president's and it's a tough climb.

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Trump insider hands Dems roadmap for derailing ex-president's courthouse grandstanding

Anthony Scaramucci is well aware of how his name became a running D.C. punchline back in 2017. A "Scaramucci" or "Mooch" equals 11; as in the brief 11-day period where he served as former President Donald Trump's White House Communications Director.

But even though he holds such a record, he's versed in the Trump playbook.

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'Most succential': Trump ridiculed after speech in which he 'confused his criminal cases'

Donald Trump on Friday was ridiculed online following a Minnesota speech during which the former president is said to have confused his own criminal cases.

Trump began his GOP dinner keynote address with complaints about the teleprompters, which he said were "falling down," and continued by whining that the podium itself needed work as well. During the speech, the ex-president also said that Special Counsel Jack Smith was prosecuting him in New York. In reality, Smith's cases are in D.C. and Florida.

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'Botched' sentencing of man who attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband could lead to redo

A judge's process goof during the sentencing of the man convicted of kidnapping and assaulting then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband could force a do-over.

"Today in Court at sentencing, the defendant did not allocute," reads a document filed shortly after 44-year-old David DePape was sentenced to 30 years in prison by Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley during the formal proceedings on Friday. " Of course, he is not required to do so. However, the record does not state that he had the opportunity to do so."

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Moms for Liberty founder sent Florida GOP chair to bars prowling for hookups: police docs

Bridget Ziegler, the founder of the far-right, anti-gay Moms for Liberty group, sent out her husband, Florida GOP chairman Christian Ziegler, to bars to find women to bring home for sex, police documents reveal.

According to The Daily Beast, "Text messages quoted in a Sarasota Police Department (SPD) memo that was obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune revealed how Ziegler sent her husband, Christian, hunting for a third sexual partner at local bars and directed him to send photos of possible hits. She allegedly told him to pretend to take pictures of his beer while photographing the women so he wouldn’t get caught sneaking pictures of them."

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Trump starts speech by whining about teleprompter: 'They wonder why I don't pay the bill'

Donald Trump has consistently ridiculed President Joe Biden for using teleprompters, but the former president repeatedly complained about the fallen teleprompters at his Minnesota speech.

Trump on Friday gave the keynote speech at the Minnesota GOP's Lincoln Reagan Dinner, where the former leader started his speech with complaints about teleprompters.

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