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'He didn't kiss her on the lips': Fox News host defends Trump's 'air kiss' to Melania

Fox News hosts Rachel Campos-Duffy and Lisa Boothe defended Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump after he did not kiss his wife, Melania, on the lips at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week.

Following Trump's speech at the RNC, Trump's wife walked out on stage, where the two shared an air kiss.

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'He was obviously working with someone': Anna Paulina Luna invents Trump gunman theory

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) claimed without evidence that the man who allegedly shot former President Donald Trump was "obviously working with someone."

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Luna said she planned to press Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle about the background details of Thomas Crooks, the alleged gunman.

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Conservative's claim Trump will be 'less unhinged' after convention laughed at on MSNBC

Reflecting on Donald Trump's speech at the recently concluded Republican National Convention and his rally appearance in Michigan on Saturday night, a conservative strategist asserted on MSNBC on Sunday morning that it appears we will be seeing a more "disciplined" and less "unhinged" ex-president on the campaign trail going forward.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Brendan Buck conceded Trump will still say "weird things," but added it's possible Trump's people have finally reined him in.

That led Democratic pollster Fernand Amandi to laugh and suggest the former president "can't help himself" and that Trump will be his usual self.

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"I frankly am still a little stuck on the questions Brandon was asked earlier: can Donald Trump not be unhinged? Can Donald Trump be disciplined going forward? Hello? Have we been watching Donald Trump for the last 10 years — are you kidding me?" Amandi laughed. "In that clip, that unfortunately we have to watch, which is actually a little bit fortunate just his convention speech was fortunate."

"Why?" he asked. "Because Donald Trump can't help himself. Donald Trump in every single remark every time he has an opportunity to go before voters at the cameras he gives the game away."

"You see the projection there, where he accuses Democrats of being fascists, Democrats of being the enemies of democracy, when what he is saying there is 'I am suffering from that charge, it is a problem and in my week, feeble, undisciplined, unhinged attempt, which is what he is and who he is, he will try it weekly say no, it is not me."

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'I'm scared about Project 2025': Fox News host's daughter faces fears of Trump-linked plan

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy said one of her daughters was facing fears of a right-wing plan called Project 2025.

During a Fox & Friends Weekend discussion, host Pete Hegseth noted that Trump had disavowed the plan created by dozens of former Trump advisers and officials at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

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Chief economist says Trump's 'tax on American consumers' will 'add to inflation'

Donald Trump's plans for new tariffs would "add to inflation and equate to "a tax on American consumers," an economist told MSNBC.

Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi appeared on the cable news network on Saturday, and was asked about Trump's economic plans for 2025 if he is able to defeat President Joe Biden and the Democrats.

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Trump admin official: Ex-president's staff was 'cringing' during RNC speech

Donald Trump's own campaign staff members were likely "cringing" after the former president's remarks at the Republican National Convention, according to someone who worked in his White House.

Former Mike Pence Homeland Security staffer Olivia Troye appeared on MSNBC, and was asked about Trump going "off the rails" in his RNC speech and repeating many of his regular talking points.

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'We agree': Trump ridiculed for saying you can't 'teach a criminal not to be a criminal'

Donald Trump on Saturday said you can't "teach a criminal not to be a criminal," leading to widespread mockery online.

Trump at his rally over the weekend used the line about criminals in connection with his stated plans for a "mass deportation" if he were to win the presidency again.

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'They wrote it for him': Trump hit with pushback after 'admission' about Project 2025

Donald Trump went nuclear on Project 2025 at his rally on Saturday, going from saying he "knows nothing" about the plan to comparing its authors to the right's version of the "radical left," but the internet didn't let it slide.

Trump has consistently attempted to distance himself from the plan to overhaul the executive and judicial branches with MAGA loyalists, but went further than ever at his rally in Michigan over the weekend. Many of the plan's authors are associated with Trump, or served in the ex-president's administration.

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'They are seriously extreme': Trump goes nuclear on Project 2025 at Michigan rally

Donald Trump on Saturday went further than ever to distance himself from Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's plan to overtake the federal government with MAGA loyalists, while speaking at a Michigan rally.

Trump, who has already issued statements suggesting he "knows nothing" about the plan that is run by many of his own former administration officials, went nuclear against the group at his speaking event this weekend.

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Choice of 'mega-MAGA-misogynist' J.D. Vance just one more step in Trump's war on women

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former GOP campaign consultant Tara Setmayer claimed the choice of Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) should come as no surprise due to his attitude toward women's rights.

Speaking with the host, Setmayer pinned the label "mega MAGA misogynist" before documenting the Ohio Republican's history and what could happen if the Trump team wins in November.

According to both the host and Setmayer, the GOP convention was a decidedly anti-woman affair.

Pointing to the choice of Vance as a running mate, Setmayer stated, "This is the direction they are going in."

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'This is non-journalism': MSNBC's Katy Tur nailed by Mary Trump over convention comments

Taking to both TikTok and Instagram, Donald Trump's niece, psychologist Mary Trump, took some shots at MSNBC host Katy Tur for her commentary during the recently concluded Republican National Convention where she told viewers that she felt the former president appeared to be humbled after an assassination attempt one week ago.

Tur, a frequent target on social media for what is considered to be her glossing over Trump's copious issues, this week told viewers she was seeing a Trump she had never seen before, telling co-host Chris Jansing, that the former president looked "serene" at the convention.

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Bill Maher flattens GOP’s 'demigod worship' of Trump after assassination attempt

The Republican National Convention's conclusion with former President Donald Trump taking the stage to a crowd of adoring fans wearing bandages on their ears in solidarity was a little too much for comedian Bill Maher.

In summarizing the HBO host's weekly "new rules" segment, the Daily Beast described Maher as "sick of the latest wave of religious fervor around the ex-president. Maher noted that while he was personally grateful the shooter at Trump's Pennsylvania rally last week didn't hit his target, the assassination attempt nonetheless brought out "an orgy of magical thinking."

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'Something stinks': Questions raised over timing of Judge Cannon's pro-Trump ruling

On Saturday morning on MSNBC, former prosecutor Katie Phang and ex-RNC chair Michael Steele both suggested there was more than a hint of collusion that led to U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon to issue her ruling dismissing the obstruction of justice charges filed against Donald Trump on the same day the Republican National Convention convened.

Phang, appearing on Steele's "The Weekend," said the timing was very suspicious coming from a judge most famous for dragging her feet on the DOJ case filed against the man who placed her on the bench with a lifetime appointment.

Noting that Cannon's opinion that special counsel Jack Smith was unconstitutionally appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland was the basis for the dismissal of the case related to stolen government documents hoarded at Mar-a-Lago, ex-prosecutor Phang said everything about Cannon's performance deserves scrutiny.

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Add to that, the timing of the dismissal.

"Why not dispose of that issue in February? We hear the oral argument including friends of the court which never happens," she began. "This is at the end of June, the beginning of July and then she sits on a 93-page opinion for that long?"

"But the reality is once [Supreme Court Justice] Clarence Thomas gave her the green light to file her dismissal, that is when she did it," she added. "And for her to drop that on the first day of the RNC stinks. Something is rotten in Denmark, and I'm going to say it is Aileen Cannon."

Host Steele agreed, interjecting, "I am with you on that one because the timing and the process, the level of, you know, coordination is the only word that comes to mind."

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