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'He had this vacant look': Author alarmed by Trump's 'severe memory issues'

The author of a new book on Donald Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice" said the former president has nursed years-long grudges in spite of clear memory issues.

Ramin Setoodeh, the co-editor-in-chief of Variety, interviewed Trump six times for the book "Apprentice in Wonderland" between May 2021 and November 2023, and he told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that reality show was wholly responsible for the failed businessman becoming president.

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'Head case' Trump will blow a completely winnable election: Ex-GOP insider

Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum made the case on Monday that former President Donald Trump will blow what should be a very winnable election to President Joe Biden.

Appearing on CNN, Frum argued that Trump's narcissism is simply too great to allow the 2024 election to be a referendum in the incumbent, President Joe Biden.

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Bill Barr ripped for previous waffling on Trump plan to execute staffers after new report

Former Attorney General Bill Barr came under harsh criticism on Monday morning after a former high-ranking Donald Trump White House aide claimed over the weekend that the ex-president wanted to execute disloyal staffers.

In the new interview, former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin stated the former president was furious about leakers in his administration and insisted they should be put to death.

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From western fire to eastern heat, fossil-fueled extremes menace U.S.

As the Midwestern and Eastern U.S. braced for what could be the longest heatwave in decades for some locations, a wildfire near Los Angeles forced more than 1,000 people to evacuate over Father's Day weekend.

The climate crisis caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels is making both heatwaves and wildfires more frequent and extreme, and politicians and environmental advocates pointed out the role that state and national policy can play in fueling extreme weather.

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MSNBC's Mika busts Sam Alito for 'bold-faced lying' about MAGA flags

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski cast doubt on U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito's explanations for flags associated with right-wing extremism flown at his properties.

The conservative justice blamed his wife for an upside-down American flag displayed outside their Virginia home between the Jan. 6 insurrection and Inauguration Day and an "Appeal to Heaven" flag associated with Christian nationalism that was flown at their New Jersey vacation home, but the "Morning Joe" co-host didn't trust his explanation.

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The Trump campaign has 'a serious problem' as he continues to show decline: Morning Joe

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" kicked off Monday morning by pouncing on Donald Trump screwing up the name of the White House doctor who administered the cognitive tests he has continued to claim he "aced."

During a speech in Michigan on Saturday night, the former president was attempting to make a point about President Joe Biden's cognitive decline when he brought up his own tests and called former White House doctor Ronny Jackson —now a member of the House — "Ronny Johnson."

According to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, the Trump campaign has its work cut out for it convincing the voters their candidate isn't in decline.

"Who's Ronnie Johnson?" Scarborough asked sarcastically before joking, "Person, man, woman, horse, Ronny Johnson."

RELATED: Neuroscientist explains how Trump and Biden's cognitive impairments are different

He then segued to the Trump campaign passing around "cheap fake" clips of Biden that imply the current president has dementia before stating, "I'm new at this politics thing, but I'm guessing if you're going to make fun of your opponent for being cognitively disconnected from facts and figures, it's probably good for you to not be disconnected cognitively from facts and figures as Donald Trump was this weekend."

After jokingly getting Scarborough's name wrong multiple times, MSNBC contributor John Heilemann quipped, "Glass houses, man. You don't want to be throwing stones. People live in glass houses and shouldn't be throwing stones, that's all I'll say. "

"You know, the thing is too, it's getting really more obvious, that they have, the Trump campaign understands they have a serious problem with Donald Trump on facts, on issues, on you name it," Scarborough replied. "Because they have to keep engaging in cheap fakes to make Joe Biden look bad; they've done it this weekend, the past several weeks."

"I mean, they're grasping in many different ways," co-host Mike Brzezinski contributed. "But I think that's Trump being Trump, getting names wrong and getting information wrong and I don't think he cares."

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'Preposterous lies': Ex-GOP insider torches Trump's 'completely fake' Detroit church stunt

Former President Donald Trump over the weekend had a roundtable discussion at a predominantly Black church in Detroit that raised eyebrows because photos showed that white people made up the vast majority of people in the audience.

This drew the attention of former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum, who told CNN on Monday that the stunt revealed a very soft underbelly in polls showing increasing Black support for Trump.

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‘It’s God’s plan’: Mike Lindell intends to ‘deputize’ Trump voters for Election Day

MyPillow CEO and election-denier Mike Lindell told conservatives this weekend he was going to deputize them as part of "God's plan" for former President Donald Trump's Election Day victory.

Lindell addressed Trump supporters at the Turning Point USA People's Convention in Detroit on Sunday, when he delivered a plan for the former president and presumptive Republican nominee.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'I'm gonna be making boat parade plans' to help Trump win

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed over the weekend that boat parades were her plan to put presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over the top.

During an interview on Saturday, Real America's Voice host and convicted criminal Steve Bannon asked Greene what people in her Georgia district could do to help Trump in 2024.

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'Done to appease': Ex-prosecutor shreds Republicans' latest attack on Trump's conviction

Republicans whipping up a bill to bump former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial to federal court are wasting their time, a former federal prosecutor argued Sunday.

Renato Mariotti, formerly of the U.S. Attorney's office in Northern Illinois, appeared on MSNBC Sunday to throw cold water on Republicans' latest plans to challenge Trump's criminal conviction with a bill that would take the case away from New York state's criminal court.

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'Kissing and petting': Trump 'spiritual advisor' tries to dismiss molesting 12-year old

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the pastor of Texas megachurch who was appointed to Donald Trump's "spiritual advisory" group in 2016, has admitted that he fondled a 12-year-old when he was 20 and was staying with her family in 1982.

That admission, made in a statement to the Christian Post, came after the woman, identified as Cindy Clemishire, spoke with The Wartburg Watch and accused Pastor Robert Morris, who is now a senior pastor at the Gateway Church in Dallas- Ft. Worth, of sexually assaulting her.

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GOP Intel chair: Ronny Jackson's drug use 'unrelated to the handling of classified' docs

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-OH) dismissed concerns that a Republican member of his committee used drugs while serving two presidents in the White House.

During a Sunday interview on Face the Nation, CBS host Margaret Brennan asked Turner about reports that Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), a former White House doctor, used alcohol and Ambien while on an overseas trip where he was in charge of caring for a president. Jackson reportedly also made sexist comments about women, according to the reports.

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'If you're explaining, you're losing': Ex-GOP adviser busts Trump for new 'asinine' claim

Donald Trump's claim that he can't be a racist because he has "Black friends" was laughed off by former Republican party campaign adviser Tara Setmayer during an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning.

Speaking with fill-in host Melissa Murray, Setmayer explained that the very fact that the former president felt the need to address the racism issue is bad news and that his answer made it worse.

"We have said this many times before about how asinine this is coming out of Donald Trump's mouth," she told the host. "If you have to say 'I am not a racist,' trust me, if you're explaining, you're losing. There is a reason people feel this way."


"It starts at the beginning of his business career when he was sued for racial discrimination housing back in New York in the 70s," she elaborated. "And his consistent racism and bigotry throughout decades of his career, it's evident whether it was the books that were written about how he treated black employees at his casinos, whether it was about the Barack Obama birther theories or whether it was about his presidency calling immigrants from African countries 'sh--hole countries.'"

"Whether it was about his treatment of election workers, let's remember [Georgia poll workers] Ruby Freeman and Shaye Mossand what MAGA and Trump did to them? Why don't we ask those folks?"

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