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Donald Trump takes aim at right-wing targets as 2024 GOP primary heats up

Donald Trump is focusing his rage on a new array of perceived enemies as the 2024 GOP primary heats up, and this time the former president is setting his sights on targets on the political right.

The early returns suggest this could be a losing strategy.

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'Watch out': E. Jean Carroll says women are rising up to fight back against oppression and abuse

Fresh off her legal victory against Donald Trump in her civil rape and defamation trial, and with plans to bring another lawsuit over his subsequent repetition of his claims about her, writer E. Jean Carroll told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that she and her attorney are working on a new project to empower women to speak up and take back the country from abusers.

Carroll's promise came amid a discussion about the romance novel on which she is collaborating with Mary Trump, the former president's niece.

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‘They have ZERO chance!’: Trump rips new contenders in GOP primary battle

Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and another competitor for the Republican nomination for president of the U.S., saying neither of them have a chance of winning.

Trump, who earlier in the same day attacked Fox News in a post on Truth Social, put a separate message on his own social network to insult his 2024 opponents. One of those opponents is Christie, who previously criticized CNN for its cozy town hall with the former president. The other is Chris Sununu, who's the Governor of New Hampshire.

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'Beginning of the end for Licht': Report says days could be numbered for CNN's CEO

A decision by CNN's parent company could reportedly be a bad omen for the company's CEO, who staked his reputation on the recent Donald Trump town hall event.

Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced the hiring of CNN’s new chief operating officer, David Leavy, and a new report from The Atlantic has an in-depth analysis of the hiring and its implications. The article focuses on the rough beginning for its CEO, Chris Licht, who decided to bet it all on a Trump event in an attempt to rehabilitate the network's image.

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Trump's latest tirade accuses Fox News of 'pushing Ron DeSanctus'

Donald Trump on Friday unleashed an all-caps Truth Social post aimed directly at Fox News, the conservative network the former president accuses of "pushing Ron DeSanctus" over him.

Trump, who is known for posting rants on his own social media platform when receiving bad news, began by saying Fox should "embrace MAGA."

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YouTube policy that banned election fraud lies reversed as 2024 approaches

YouTube has reversed a policy that previously banned false claims about the 2020 election, according to a statement on the site.

The video sharing platform now says that the policy, which was enacted in December 2020, is a violation of constitutionally protected speech.

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'Highly avoidable:' Ex-GOP Chair calls out Republicans' 'political posturing' on debt ceiling

House Republicans who demanded massive spending cuts as part of the proposed debt ceiling increase are merely "politically posturing," according to former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele, who said the whole debacle was completely avoidable.

Steele, who last month warned that the party he led over a decade ago doesn't currently have a direction or a message for voters, appeared on MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle late Thursday night. The host asked Steele if there was some disappointment among Democrats that Biden's student debt relief was taken off the table as part of the negotiations.

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'Dunce' Marjorie Taylor Greene roasted for Jan. 6 plan that could be great for Democrats

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and GOP leadership have a new plan to try to bring down Democrats: release the raw footage from the January 6 insurrection to even more people, including right-wing reporter John Solomon, pro-Trump writer Julie Kelly, and an unidentified "third source," in the hope the footage will exonerate the Capitol rioters.

This strategy is ill-fated, wrote Ja'han Jones for MSNBC's TheReidout Blog, calling Greene a "political dunce" who hasn't thought through any of this.

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Trump was asked about potentially incriminating audio in town hall, and he pivoted to Biden

Donald Trump on Thursday described the latest revelation that federal prosecutors are in possession of an audio recording in which the former president is heard admitting he understood he wasn’t allowed to keep the documents as “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”

Fox News’ Sean Hannity hosted the town hall, which was Thursday night after being recorded in Clive, Iowa, earlier in the day.

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'Height of irresponsibility': ex-Trump aide says new audio proves he is lying about docs

Former Donald Trump White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin tore into her former boss on Thursday for his conduct in the Mar-a-Lago classified document theft investigation.

Trump has long claimed he has blanket declassification authority, but new reports show he was caught on audio discussing a highly classified document laying out an attack plan against Iran, and admitting he doesn't have full authority to declassify military secrets — something that should come as no surprise, Griffin argued, because she saw firsthand that Trump understood this.

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NH Republican lawmaker revokes Trump endorsement over Kayleigh McEnany rant: report

Donald Trump's attack on his former press secretary has cost the former president the endorsement of a Republican lawmaker.

New Hampshire Rep. James Spillane, who earlier this year announced his support for Trump in the 2024 presidential race, said Thursday he’s switching sides and backing the former president’s top rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, The New Hampshire Journal reports.

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Trump kept classified documents to help him 'control the narrative': law professor

Former President Donald Trump's defense that he was allowed to mentally declassify the top-secret documents stashed at Mar-a-Lago has been thrown into chaos by reporting showing that audio tapes exist of Trump telling people he possessed a document showing plans to attack Iran, but didn't have the authority to show it to them.

But more interesting, argued New York University law professor Ryan Goodman, is the reports that Trump apparently wanted to use the document to embarrass Gen. Mark Milley and pin efforts to invade Iran on him.

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North Carolina GOP faces backlash after calling local faith leader a ‘poverty pimp’

The North Carolina Republican party is facing backlash for calling a prominent local faith leader a “poverty pimp,” The Raleigh News & Observer reports.

The North Carolina GOP on Thursday made the insulting remark against Rev. William Barber II ahead of the religious leader’s scheduled visit to Durham with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for a “Rally to Raise the Wage” in support of hiking the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour.

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