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A onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump scrambled to excuse the convicted felon and Republican nominee's 92-minute speech which one critic called "flabby and windy and flat."

That was the analysis CNN political commentator Paul Begala delivered Friday morning that Trump's 2016 campaign adviser Jason Osborne found himself struggling to rebut.

For the past week, the theory circulating was that Donald Trump's brush with near assassination had left him a "changed man" more focused on unity than retribution

But, when he delivered his speech to the Republican National Convention Thursday, he pivoted from prepared remarks to the same themes voiced at multiple previous allies, former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) told The View.

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway on Friday went on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to talk about his new "Psycho PAC '24" aimed at warning voters about former President Donald Trump's mental state.

While speaking with host Mika Brzezinski, Conway brought on a large poster board featuring the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, a pathology that he and others have speculated Trump suffers from.

Attendees at the Republican National Convention waved signs demanding "mass deportation now," echoing Donald Trump's campaign pledge, but conservative commentator Charlie Sykes wondered how exactly that policy could be carried out.

The former president's signature political issue has been purging the U.S. of undocumented migrants, whom he derides as inherently dangerous and filthy, and he has vowed to expand and stiffen the draconian policies he implemented in his first term if re-elected to serve a second, which Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" posed some horrifying questions.

Donald Trump flouted his Secret Service detail and stood up to pose for a photograph after a gunman fired shots at him during a rally, and security experts were "flabbergasted" by the reaction to that apparent assassination attempt.

Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatle is facing intense criticism for security failures that failed to stop 20-year-old Thomas Crooks from firing several shots toward the former president at a rally Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, but NBC News correspondent Ken Dilanian raised questions on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" about Trump's personal security detail.

Former Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) on Friday talked up Vice President Kamala Harris' chances in a hypothetical matchup against former President Donald Trump.

Appearing on CNN, Ryan told host Kasie Hunt that he did not believe that President Joe Biden's position in the 2024 campaign was tenable and he reiterated his call for the president to bow out.

Republicans were underwhelmed by Donald Trump's acceptance speech for the party's nomination, according to MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire, while Democrats gained new hope they can win November's election.

The former president accepted the GOP nomination for the third time Thursday night in a record 93-minute speech that started as a call to unity following a shooting at his rally last week but quickly veered into one of his characteristic rambling monologues, and Lemire told "Morning Joe" that Republicans feel like he missed an opportunity to attract undecided voters.