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'Something's really warped in him': Trump buried by Morning Joe over 'shocking' new claim

On Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ripped into Donald Trump for yet another attack on America's military veterans, with criticism ranging from "shocking" to "warped."

Late Thursday Trump told a crowd at his Bedminster Golf Resort that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is more worthy of admiration than the Congressional Medal of Honor traditionally given to war heroes.

He then set off a wave of outrage by saying of the Medal of Honor recipients, "They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead."

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After showing the clip on Friday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted Willie Geist with, "He has a long history, Willie, of disparaging American veterans and service members."

"He does," Geist conceded. "I mean, you said it right. This is shocking but not surprising because of the pattern. This is not a one-off, this is the way he thinks about people who serve the country in uniform. In 2015, Trump mocked, of course, the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for having been a prisoner of war. Remember he said, quote, 'I like people who weren't captured.'"

"Yeah, there's something really warped inside of him, there really is," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson added. "Just something — I guess the word weird is overused, but all that we just played is weird."

"And it is just appalling that he would speak of America's heroes that way," he continued. "I mean, the heroes, many who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country, and he simply does not get it. He doesn't understand. There's a connection there that's not being made, and, you know, you saw it where for years he was president and, boy, if he ever became president again, I would really worry about this country because of that emptiness, that lack inside of him, that lack of empathy, that lack of patriotism. It's just not there. It's not there."

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'Disqualifies himself': Veterans blast Trump for 'disrespectful' remarks about war heroes

Donald Trump sparked an outcry from military veterans and many others by proclaiming that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom as "better" than the Medal of Honor for military valor.

The Republican presidential nominee praised Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, during a speech Thursday evening at his New Jersey golf resort, where he recalled awarding her the civilian honor after the couple had poured millions of dollars into his first campaign.

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'Talk about weird': Nancy Mace CNN appearance described as 'most entertaining train wreck'

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), an ally of Donald Trump, made a splash on the internet after an appearance on CNN that some said went off the rails.

Mace, who became better known after she alienated much of her caucus when she joined the small group of renegade Republicans who voted to oust former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the House Speakership, appeared on a CNN panel, where the topic of Kamala Harris' race was broached by others.

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'You are intending that I am racist!' Chaos erupts on CNN between Republican and professor

A CNN panel erupted into chaos Thursday night with a Republican lawmaker forcefully denying she's racist while a university professor insisted she's accomplishing racism even if it's not intended.

The heated interaction on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip came during a discussion over the correct pronunciation of Vice President Kamala Harris' name.

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'He wants us to say it wrong': CNN panel derails as GOP strategist mispronounces 'Kamala'

A CNN panel ahead of former President Donald Trump's press conference at his Bedminster golf club grew tense and combative after theGrio correspondent Natasha Alford called out a Republican strategist for both mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' name, and falsely blaming a number of longstanding national policy challenges on her four years in the vice presidency.

"Trump's out here doing press conferences, and Harris is interviewing with her running mate," said GOP strategist Scott Jennings. "We need to know more about this candidacy because of the way it came about and the fact that it's never received a single vote ever in a primary."

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'Fooled the press again!' CNN expert slams media for covering Trump's 'lie'-filled speech

A Democratic strategist laughed Thursday night on CNN when asked if Donald Trump can stay on message before laying into media outlets that he said were duped into giving the MAGA leader free air time at his news conference Thursday.

Keith Boykin told panelists on "NewsNight" that Trump didn't hold a news conference — he held a campaign rally speech at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club — even bringing MAGA supporters.

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CNN commentator Van Jones says Trump's 'worst 3 weeks' showcase his 'pure narcissism'

Donald Trump was indicted, convicted and shot at this year — and all of those events weren't as important to him as Vice President Kamala Harris outshining him, remarked CNN political commentator Van Jones, which he said highlights the former president's "pure narcissism."

Jones' comment came in response to a question on CNN's "The Source" in which he was asked whether Democrats ought to push back against Trump's repeating of false claims that he won the 2020 election.

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Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country.

Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to preach.

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Donald Trump again claims people don't know Kamala Harris' last name

Donald Trump once again claimed Americans don’t know the last name of Vice President Kamala Harris during a lengthy, meandering diatribe to the press Thursday afternoon.

The remarks, given steps away from a box of Froot Loops and other grocery items on a table, came during Trump’s speech on inflation, and soon after, Harris.

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Fox News host fact-checks Republican governor who claimed 35 percent inflation

Fox News host Neil Cavuto gave New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu a math lesson on inflation during his Thursday afternoon broadcast after Sununu seemed to imply that the effects of inflation are cumulative.

While discussing the increased costs of living, Sununu said voters won’t look at the economy's recent strength, but rather price hikes that have come over President Joe Biden’s term.

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Trump laments San Francisco was a 'great city' 15 years ago — when Kamala Harris was D.A.

Former President Donald Trump took time during his news conference at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey to rage against Vice President Kamala Harris' home state of California, calling it "one of the worst run states" and accusing her and Gov. Gavin Newsom of destroying the quality of life there.

"Many people are leaving the state, sixth-most, from her state ... she destroyed as attorney general, she destroyed California, along with Gavin Newscum and she — San Francisco you know, is a great city 15 years ago, now it's considered almost unlivable, you can't live there," said Trump. "And what they've done to that great state with the beautiful weather like this, where they have this weather all the time. And they have the ocean, they have the sun, they have everything good. But what they've done to it is a shame, and she's going to do the same thing to our country."

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MSNBC columnist draws direct line between Trump posts and KKK's 'Fiery Cross' newspaper

Donald Trump's campaign is using "racist" imagery that differs little from the hateful propaganda pushed out by the Ku Klux Klan, according to a new analysis.

The Trump War Room account run by his campaign shared a racially charged post on X that suggested Kamala Harris, if elected, would flood suburban neighborhoods with hordes of Black and brown immigrants. MSNBC columnist Ja'han Jones drew a direct line between that content and imagery used by the KKK.

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Watch live: Trump delivers news conference from New Jersey golf club

Former President Donald Trump is set to speak to reporters at his Bedminster golf club in New Jersey on Thursday.

It follows last week's Mar-a-Lago press conference in which he agreed to participate in presidential debates with Vice President Kamala Harris — an question and answer session that was widely criticized as devolving into chaos.

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