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A former attorney for Donald Trump says it might be best for the country if an "addled" and "out-of-it" President Joe Biden drops out of the presidential race, but that swapping Biden with someone else could end up hurting the party's chances at retaking the White House.

Former prosecutor Jim Trusty was asked Friday on Newsmax's "Newsline" about a recently aired clip in which Biden appears to flub a sentence and call himself a "black woman." Responding to the clip, Trusty called Biden "addled" and said he has appeared that way for several years.

On Friday morning, former CNN media analyst and host Brian Stelter returned to the network that fired him to weigh in on the fall-out from President Joe Biden's disastrous CNN debate performance which led to questions about Vice President Kamala Harris taking his place at the top of the ticket.

Since the debate, Stelter has been on his X account providing blow-by-blow reports about Biden's ongoing difficulties and, on Friday, he addressed those issues with CNN's Jim Sciutto.

A discussion about how the press is covering President Joe Biden's poor debate performance grew combative on Friday morning when MSNBC host Joe Scarborough went back and forth with Axios founder Jim VandeHei, accusing the New York Times of flooding the zone with Biden attack stories while ignoring Donald Trump's debate lies.

According to VandeHei, the Biden White House has been threatening reporters if they report on Biden's health, and now the Times is in overdrive on Biden stories.

MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton made "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough and the rest of Friday's panel burst into laughter when he took some shots at Donald Trump who was filmed in his golf cart sneering at President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

Reacting to media demands that Biden make himself available after his disastrous debate performance over a week ago, Sharpton suggested everyone should relax — and questioned reporters who have ignored Trump's gush of lies during the same debate.

Reacting to comments made by the head of the conservative Heritage Foundation who suggested blood will be spilled if Donald Trump is not re-elected, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance stated his threat should be taken seriously.

During a recent appearance on the conservative outlet "Real America's Voice," Heritage president Kevin Roberts replied to a question about the upcoming election by ominously stating, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be."

"Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough pounced on the Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts Friday for threatening violence if Donald Trump doesn't win re-election in November.

During a recent appearance on the conservative outlet "Real America's Voice", Roberts replied to a question about the upcoming election by ominously stating, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless ― if the left allows it to be."

After taking most of the week off, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough returned to "Morning Joe" on Friday morning and immediately noted Donald Trump's lack of public appearances since the CNN debate over a week ago.

And he claimed he knows why.

During an appearance on MSNBC on July 4th afternoon, Slate legal analyst Dahlia Lithwick expressed skepticism that Chief Justice John Roberts has any idea what he expects from the lower courts after his majority ruling on Donald Trump's presidential criminal immunity was punted back to them.

Speaking with host Richard Lui and former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner, the topic turned to the Supreme Court's stunning 6-3 majority opinion that seems to absolve Donald Trump of any criminality committed while he was president.

At issue was the conservative majority court's broad expansion of what constitutes "presidential duties" as opposed to "personal conduct."

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With Judge Chutkan being put on the spot to make her own determination after holding evidentiary hearings as soon as possible, only to have the Supreme Court to review her findings, Lithwick suggested Roberts himself is in the dark as to what he is looking for from the lower court judge and in the Trump Manhattan hush-money case that has been being presided over by Judge Juan Merchan who is also undertaking a review.

"But it's really not a clear test, it's an incredibly murky test, and the court wants it to get worked out in the appellate process," Lithwick offered. "So, you know, the short answer I think we can do a ton of lawyering around this and clearly, that's what [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg's team is going to try to do is lawyer this, and I think Glenn's right."

"An awful lot of this conduct by any construction of what is private unofficial acts still seems to survive, But I want to be really clear. I don't know that John Roberts knows what the test is that he's set forth in his opinion on Monday," she added.

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