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Killing shows Trump losing control of fans triggered by violent rhetoric: analysis

Donald Trump is losing control over the unstable MAGA base as his violent rhetoric pushes past the brink of sanity, and the proof is a decapitated federal worker’s head, a new analysis contends.

Salon’s Amanda Marcotte Thursday took a hard look at the disturbing news to come out of Pennsylvania Tuesday night when Justin Mohn, 33, posted YouTube video demanding violence against the government with his dead father’s head in full view.

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Ex-Trump official raises alarm about the return of 'fundamentally ignorant' ex-president

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday, one of Donald Trump's former national advisors warned that returning the former president to the Oval Office would be a grave mistake that would haunt the country — and the world — for years.

Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, former Trump official John Bolton explained that he had no doubt the former president would try and gut NATO by withdrawing U.S. support because he doesn't understand geopolitics or the dangers such a move would create at all.

After watching a clip of Trump disparaging NATO, Bolton told the MSNBC host, "I think Trump actually says what comes to mind. As a very astute person once said to me, he doesn't have a filter between his brain and his mouth."

"So when he, for example, threatens to get out of NATO, as he did during his first term and has done since then, I think people better believe it, and I think that would be a catastrophic mistake for American national security and the security of the west as a whole" he added.

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"In the clip you just ran, he said several things that are simply incorrect," he asserted. "And it reveals an important trait about Trump on national security issues and many others: he is fundamentally ignorant. He really doesn't care about the facts. He thinks international relations are about personal relations, which is a line and approach that I can tell you, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are eagerly looking forward to."

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'Definitely smells': Nevada Republicans accuse party of 'rigging' caucus for Trump

The Nevada Republican Party's decision to hold both a caucus and a primary this year has led to widespread confusion and has led to accusations even from some of the state's Republicans about rigging the contest for former President Donald Trump.

As things stand now, former President Donald Trump is the only GOP candidate still in the race to be competing in the caucus, while rival Nikki Haley is the only remaining contender whose name is on the Nevada primary ballots.

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Nikki Haley: Under Obama ‘you just felt, people felt like they were being put in camps’

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley says only when Barack Obama became President did America "really" start to face racist "division," that under the nation's first Black president "everything became about race and gender, and that's when "you just felt, people felt like they were being put in camps."

Haley, a former Trump UN Ambassador and former South Carolina governor, has insisted America is not a racist country and has yet to put to bed her initial refusal to say slavery was the cause of the Civil War. In an hour-long interview on "The Breakfast Club," with hosts Charlamagne tha God and DJ Envy, Haley continued to weave a whitewashed web of America's history.

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Trump woos union bosses on election campaign trail

Former US president Donald Trump met leaders of one of the country's largest labor unions on Wednesday as he seeks the backing of blue-collar America in his bid for a stunning White House return.

The sit-down with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters in Washington came with Trump, a Republican, hoping to leach away support for Democratic President Joe Biden among manual laborers as the pair look set for a rematch in November's election.

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Trump is burning through cash faster than he can raise it: report

According to campaign finance reports filed on the last day of January, Donald Trump and the PACs closely associated with him are burning through cash faster than they can rake it in putting his ability to run for re-election effectively at risk.

At the top of the list factors sucking up money? His mounting legal bills.

According to a report from Politico's Steven Shepard and Jessica Piper, in 2023 Trump and his people spent more than they raised driven "in part due to his legal woes."

The report notes that two of the entities tied to the former president spent $50 million to pay lawyers— an amount that surpassed "advertising, payroll or other typical campaign expenditures."

Shepard and Piper note that MAGA Inc. had to kick back tens of millions to Trump's leadership PAC to help with bills and that the bleeding has yet to stop.

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"Trump still has plenty of cash in the bank and the ability to raise more of it. But the legal spending highlights a real challenge for the former president entering the election year: he is diverting an increasing share of his resources from the campaign to address his legal woes. And that is likely to keep being costly," Politico is reporting.

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'Trump is confused again': Nikki Haley responds to Trump's Indiana ballot claim

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Wednesday to gloat that former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), his final major remaining challenger for the 2024 presidential nomination, did not qualify for the primary ballot in Indiana.

"Nikki Haley is not on the Ballot in Indiana because she didn’t get enough Petition Signatures — She missed the deadline!" wrote Trump. "If she’s not on in Indiana, she’s not a serious Candidate. 'You can’t miss Indiana, and say you’re running for President,' said future Senator of Indiana, Jim Banks."

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'Serious violation of the Constitution': Ex-GOP gov says Trump must be thrown off ballot

Former Gov. Marc Racicot (R-MT) spoke forcefully on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Wednesday about why he is urging the Supreme Court to let former President Donald Trump's ballot disqualifications in Colorado and Maine stand.

Several voters and good governance groups have sued to get Trump disqualified in various states under the Insurrection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, on the basis that Trump is ineligible for his role in inciting the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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'Not a trustworthy individual': Exec says Trump has 'zero' chance of winning union support

Trump is courting the Teamsters for their prized endorsement, but an exec with the union whose members run 1.3 million deep says the former president can't erase his past and therefore he should save his breath.

"I would say zero," John Palmer, vice president at-large of the Teamsters, said in a Wednesday interview on CNN. "I don't believe he does have a chance."

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'Total waste of a question': Sinema chides reporters asking about her low fundraising

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) rebuked reporters on Capitol Hill who were trying to ask whether her dismal fundraising numbers are an indication she doesn't plan to run for re-election, CNN reported on Wednesday.

The Arizona senator, who abandoned the Democratic Party after a couple years of friction between herself and party activists frustrated at her refusal to endorse Senate rule reforms and her obstruction of various Democratic tax policies, has been on the receiving end of intense speculation as to whether she will bow out of the race, or stay in and create a three-way Senate election.

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Biden leads over Trump in new national poll as swing state survey tells different story

President Joe Biden grabbed a 6% lead over Trump in a national poll released Wednesday even as a survey of battleground states painted a gloomier picture of his reelection prospects.

Biden leads Trump 50% to 44% in their likely presidential election rematch, according to the new Quinnipiac University poll.

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Trump's campaign advisor warns GOP donors not to take his words 'too seriously': report

Give with your heart, not your ears.

Susie Wiles, a top GOP adviser to former President Donald Trump's third bid for the White House, made such a pitch to deep-pocketed mega donors at a ritzy and hush-hush mixer at Palm Beach, Florida's Four Seasons on Tuesday, according to CNBC. It reported she told people not to take the ex-president's words too seriously.

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Trump may tap son-in-law Jared Kushner for Secretary of State in a second term: report

Former President Donald Trump could tap his son-in-law Jared Kushner as Secretary of State if he wins another term, reported Vanity Fair on Wednesday.

"According to two sources, prominent Republicans are speculating that Kushner is in the running to take charge at Foggy Bottom if Trump wins in November," reported Gabriel Sherman. "One source briefed on the conversations said Republican senators have privately asked Kushner to head up the agency." Sources also said that Kushner, who walked away from politics to work in investment, will take until late summer to make his decision.

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