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'Is Colorado still a state'? Political insiders pounce on Trump's ballot loss

Donald Trump on Tuesday got some bad legal news: the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that he is ineligible to appear on the state's ballot because of his behavior in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attempt at insurrection.

The internet was quick to react to the unprecedented decision.

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'Very dirty game': Trump threatens 'repercussions' for Biden if he doesn't nix indictments

Donald Trump on Tuesday warned the current president of "repercussions" if he doesn't "withdraw" indictments the ex-president faces.

Trump, who is speaking live in Iowa Tuesday evening, said before going on stage that President Joe Biden should be worried about the "two-way street" he's facing.

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'Five-alarm fire': Ex-Trump aide shows how ex-president will react to Colorado ruling

Trump's going to sound the alarms.

Shortly after Colorado's Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump's name would be scratched from the state's 2024 presidential ballot, the spin wheels started turning for former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farah Griffin.

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Trump is blindsided by ballot ruling — and it could affect his criminal defenses: analyst

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on the state primary ballot under the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment, partially reversing a lower court decision and all but guaranteeing the U.S. Supreme Court will have to step in on the issue and settle the matter.

This was not what Trump was expecting to happen, said reporter Hugo Lowell on MSNBC — and it could have bearing not just on his ballot eligibility, but on how he can defend against the criminal cases from the special counsel and Fulton County.

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Colorado top court says Trump can't appear on ballot in insurrectionist ban challenge

Colorado's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump's name cannot appear on the state's presidential ballot in 2024, reports show.

The court ruled for the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which challenged Trump's eligibility under the 14th Amendment's ban on insurrectionist from holding elected office, according to a court filing.

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Ex-FBI official warns of unprecedented violence from Trump's 'hardcore' supporters

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi cautioned that more than any time in recent history stopping far-right domestic terrorism has been incredibly challenging.

As the former assistant director for counterintelligence, Figliuzzi was among many of those who came together under former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who was in charge of changing the FBI after Sept. 11, 2001.

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Ex-Fox host tries to strongarm Trump into dropping potential vice president pick

A former Fox network host is threatening to pull his support of Donald Trump if he doesn't meet certain demands.

In an interview with Tim Pool at the Turning Point USA conference, Tucker Carlson revealed that he wouldn't back Trump if Nikki Haley was the vice presidential running mate.

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'Unprecedented interference': Expert says report shows 2024 election 'critical' to Russia

The National Intelligence Council report for the 2022 election walks through all the ways that Russia is continuing its attacks on American voting.

Former FBI agent Peter Strzok highlighted pieces of the extensive report Tuesday, detailing imperative intelligence gathered about the use of social media to hurt the United States. Namely, the report claims Russia has continued its efforts to sow division in the U.S. using social issues.

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The top craziest things Trump supporters told Daily Show's Jordan Klepper in 2023

"Daily Show" correspondent Jordan Klepper has spent countless hours outside of Donald Trump rallies trying to help understand them better.

In his 2023 wrap-up video, Klepper showed the confusion at the Trump announcement as fans struggled to figure out if it was a rally or another sort of event.

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Maddow sounds the alarm that voters are loving Donald Trump's new Hitleresque campaign

While many people in the country heard about synagogue threats in their state over the weekend it wasn't until Sunday and Monday that it became clear there was a coordinated act of terrorism unfolding across the United States.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm on Monday that it wasn't merely the few threats in Mississippi and a handful in Washington, D.C., but hundreds of threats from California to Maine and Florida to Washington state. USA Today explained that there were more threats in a single day than the U.S. had in an entire year in 2022. They charted 200. CNN later calculated over 400 threats.

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Republicans are embracing white nationalist blood purity 'to stay in power': GOP columnist

A panel on MSNBC hammered Republicans and the mainstream media for downplaying Donald Trump's white purity campaign.

Host Joy Reid on Monday, explained that it continues to be a discussion about non-white people damaging the blood of white purity.

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'The stain is on you': Ex-RNC chair slams GOP for silence on Trump's call for blood purity

The Republican Party at large owns former President Donald Trump's increasing descent into fascistic and racist rhetoric, former GOP chair Michael Steele told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Monday.

This comes as Trump stated at a rally that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," language that has clear roots in Nazi Germany — and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended it furiously when cornered by reporters.

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'Destroy the whole house': MAGA fans say they're just fine with Trump's dictator comments

Attendees at Donald Trump's rallies over the weekend uniformly don't have any worries that he said he'd love to be a "dictator" for one day if he is reelected, with some claiming he's just taunting his critics — and others saying that the U.S. system of government needs a good housecleaning.

In interviews with USA Today's Riley Beggin, MAGA supporters were pressed to explain how they can stand behind the former president who, to other's eyes, is edging close to full-on authoritarianism, if his recent comments are taken seriously

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