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'Get out of here!' Don Jr. snaps at MSNBC 'clown' after tough question on RNC floor

Donald Trump Jr., the son of former President Donald Trump, snapped at MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff during a confrontation at the Republican National Convention.

As convention proceedings were underway on Monday, Soboroff asked Trump what would be different if his father won a second presidential term.

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'I'm not unifying': Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend pushes 2nd Amendment on War Room

Real America's Voice host Brian Glenn, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) boyfriend, said he was refusing the call for unity and pushed the Second Amendment following the shooting of former President Donald Trump.

During a Monday discussion on imprisoned Steve Bannon's War Room podcast, Glenn spoke to guest host Natalie Winters about the assassination attempt.

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New questions raised about Judge Cannon's dismissal ruling start date

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, the sheer length and breadth of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling on the Donald Trump stolen documents case makes it seem that it has been in the works for a suspicious amount of time.

Reacting to the bombshell ruling where Cannon asserted special counsel Jack Smith's appointment was not allowed under the Constitution, and using that as her reason for the dismissal, Rubin noted the amount of research and cites that made up the 93-page document showed it was not a rush job -- and that raised questions about when it was begun.

With the former president's lawyers questioning the legality of Smith prosecuting the case at a hearing just three weeks ago, Rubin raised her eyebrows at the timing.

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"After hearing oral arguments on this motion based on Jack Smith's allegedly unlawful appointment and appropriations of money to fund his office, she ordered an evidentiary hearing on another issue," she told MSNBC host José Díaz-Balart. "That led people to believe that, if she was going to have a days-long hearing seeking evidence on some other issue relevant to the case, that she was not going to dismiss the case outright based on the appointments clause and appropriations clause arguments."

"And yet the length of this opinion suggests that this has been in the works for some time," she pointed out. "Whatever one thinks about Judge Cannon, a 93-page opinion citing case law and briefs and constitutional texts does not emerge overnight."

"This is a serious piece of work involving the judge and likely her law clerk's assistance, but it's not something that one spends two weeks writing. It's something that someone spends usually several weeks writing," she claimed.

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Aileen Cannon just gave Hunter Biden a massive gift: legal expert

Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's team, tore apart Judge Aileen Cannon's recent ruling to dismiss Donald Trump's documents case on Monday.

Speaking about the matter on MSNBC, Weissmann explained that Cannon is restricting the executive branch's power, and it isn't within her scope as a Florida district judge to do something like that.

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'Dismiss all witch hunts': Trump ditches unity message in raging rant

Former President Donald Trump connected a recent attempt on his life to the criminal and civil court cases filed against him Monday in a new Truth Social post responding to the dismissal of his classified documents case.

Trump claimed he wanted to move forward with "Uniting our Nation" before accusing prosecutors of an elaborate political witch hunt against him and E. Jean Carroll, the writer he has been found liable of sexually abusing and repeatedly defaming, of lying.

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MSNBC legal analyst pounces on Judge Cannon's unusual concluding remarks in doc dismissal

Reacting to a stunning decision on Monday by Judge Aileen Cannon to summarily dismiss charges against Donald Trump for the theft of government documents after he was busted for hoarding them at his Mar-a-Lago resort, MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin focused on the last page of her ruling that should raise alarms.

During her appearance with host José Díaz-Balart, he read the controversial Cannon's concluding remarks at the end of the 93-page ruling where she wrote:

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'Really thrilled' Trump is 'praising Judge Cannon': Fox News' Bret Baier

Former President Donald Trump is gleeful at the ruling that dismissed the classified documents case, Fox News' Bret Baier reported on Monday morning.

The case was dismissed by District Judge Aileen Cannon, a far-right jurist herself appointed by Trump, who has generated controversy for months over a series of decisions that appear calculated to tilt the trial in her favor.

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'Didn't think they were doing anything illegal': GOP leader defends fake electors at RNC

Wisconsin Republican Party chief Brian Schimming was confronted by CNN's Kate Bolduan on Monday over why the GOP in his state is sending people who took part in the fake elector scheme as delegates to the national convention — and he was quick to defend them as "good Republicans" who didn't believe anything they were doing was against the law.

This defense, occurring amid the backdrop of several fake electors around the country being charged with crimes, comes as the Republican National Convention is set to begin this week, shaken up by the weekend assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania.

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Trump's new campaign strategy facing an uphill climb: CNN analyst

Reacting to interviews given to sympathetic conservative journalists where Donald Trump claimed he is a changed man after being shot in the ear during an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally over the weekend, one CNN analyst suggested it may be an insurmountable climb considering his history.

Following the shooting, the former president agreed to interviews with right-wing journalist Salena Zito and the New York Post in which he stated he tore up the Republican National Convention speech he claims he wrote and is replacing it with another calling for national unity.

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'He may have squared the circle': Biden's Oval Office address has many singing his praises

President Joe Biden on Sunday gave a speech from the Oval Office in which he condemned political violence that led to his opponent, Donald Trump, being grazed on the ear by a bullet on Saturday at a political rally.

Biden, who has been until recently facing more and more frequent calls from within his own party to drop out of the presidential race, may have turned a corner with the speech, according to onlookers.

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GOP senator's false claim about Trump after shooting said to have damaged public 'trust'

Donald Trump-aligned U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) is in hot water on Sunday after he claimed that Donald Trump went golfing the day after being shot in the ear at his rally.

Trump on Saturday was grazed by a bullet from a shooter outside of the event. The shooter was killed by Secret Service, and authorities are investigating to determine a motive.

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'Could be very ugly': CNN analyst warns of GOP convention 'clash' security can't prevent

CNN reported from the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Sunday, with one of the network's political analysts giving an ominous warning about a potential "clash" that event security won't be able to stop.

Kaitlan Collins and Mark Preston were discussing President Joe Biden's call for unity among Americans, when Preston elaborated about a lurking threat behind the scenes.

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GOP lawmaker calls Secret Service director 'a DEI person' after Trump shooting

Following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) suggested that the head of the Secret Service was to blame because she was a "DEI initiative person."

Burchett was flanked by two rifles on Sunday while he spoke to Fox News about the shooting of the former president. He argued that Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was hired because of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies.

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