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'Aced it!' Trump mocked as he forgets name of doctor who gave him dementia test

Donald Trump bragged again about how he “aced” a cognitive test designed to test for dementia — and then he gave the wrong name for the White House doctor who administered it.

Dr. Ronny Jackson was not only Trump’s doctor while president, he’s also a Texas Republican congressman and a staunch ally of the former president who even attended his New York criminal trial.

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‘They don’t know what the hell to do!’ Trump claims CNN scrambling after debate shock

Donald Trump claims CNN is scrambling to figure out how to handle the presidential debate after he left them shocked by accepting the network’s invitation.

The former president was speaking to a Detroit convention of the right-wing group Turning Point Action on Saturday.

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'Lathered beautifully': Trump goes off on hair-washing tangent at speech to right-wingers

Donald Trump drifted into a bizarre description of his hair-washing routine as he spoke about energy efficiency standards at a Michigan speech Saturday.

The former president was railing about environmental restrictions he said limited water use in dishwashers.

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‘Don’t tempt him’: Jack Smith could eye new Trump charges after Cannon 'consolation prize'

Judge Aileen Cannon thought she was handing Donald Trump a consolation prize when she dropped a paragraph from his indictment — but she may have just landed him with extra charges, a Florida prosecutor said Saturday.

Cannon, who’s overseeing Trump’s classified documents criminal case in Florida, refused his legal team’s effort to have some charges against him dropped this week.

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'Where's Lorenzo?' Trump brags of meeting Black pastor — but doesn't know he's beside him

Donald Trump celebrated the Black pastor who invited him to a roundtable at a Detroit church Saturday — but failed to recognize the man despite him sitting right next to him.

The former president was at the 180 Church for a roundtable with the Black evangelical congregation.

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'Can't help himself': GOP insider says fear of jail forced Trump's 'horrible city' insult

Donald Trump didn’t slip up when he insulted the host city of the Republican convention this week, according to the ex-aide of a GOP speaker. The former president was laying the groundwork in case a judge stops him from attending.

"Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city," he told congressional Republicans at a meeting Thursday.

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Ex-prosecutor warns the Supreme Court may drop a 'grenade' and flee on last day of term

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Alex Witt Show" MSNBC colleague and former prosecutor Katie Phang was asked when the Supreme Court will finally rule on Donald Trump's bid for absolute presidential immunity and suggested the delay could be the lead-up to them dropping a "grenade."

Speaking with Witt, Phang stated that she doesn't think the former president will get a total pass, but that she was nonetheless worried by the court's footdragging.

With the court's usual term normally ending mid to late June, Phang noted there is a very real prospect it could roll over into early July.

"Yesterday presidential immunity didn't come down from the Supreme Court," Witt prompted her guest. " Many anticipated that it would, what you think is behind the hold-up?"

''I don't know," the former prosecutor confessed. "You know, they've got until the end of the term that is technically the end of June but we have grumblings that maybe it will kind of bleed into the beginning of July."

"I would hate to think there is something like the justices saying 'Let me drop this grenade and then walk away and go on my summer vacation.' You know, it has happened before with the Dobbs decision where it came at the very last minute before they said 'peace out, we're going away.'"

"So I'm a little bit concerned about — but listen, whatever happens, we have to deal with the consequences of it, but I am fully confident you will not get a ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States that Donald Trump has absolute criminal immunity."

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'800 rounds in a minute, Clarence Thomas': Michael Steele rips judge over gun ruling

MSNBC host Michael Steele jumped all over Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Saturday morning over the majority opinion he wrote that allows so-called "bump stocks' to be sold, effectively allowing semi-automatic weapons to be converted into machine guns.

Thomas' opinion, which was harshly criticized by Justice Sonia Sotomayor was considered a major setback for opponents of allowing weapons of war to be commonplace in American homes.

Before discussing the controversial decision by the conservative-majority court with Slate's Mark Joseph Stern, the former RNC chair had a few words he directed at Justice Thomas.

"Mark, I will just cut to the quick," Steele began. "Folks really don't give a damn about the life of people when your court says, 'Yeah, you can just take this piece of equipment and latches onto your gun and just pull the trigger and have 800 rounds, 800 rounds in a minute be dispensed from that weapon.'"

"No human finger can fire 800 rounds in one minute, Clarence Thomas, but this bump stock can," he exclaimed.

"I mean Clarence Thomas thinks differently and he decides what the law is because he rules us. That is all I can really say," Stern replied. " You know, he claims that bump stocks do the work of a human with a lightning-fast trigger finger — I think that's outrageous. Bump stocks increase the rate of fire from about 180 rounds per minute at most to 800 rounds per minute as you said, they were used in the Las Vegas massacre."

"They decrease accuracy and their only use is to slaughter as many humans as possible in as short of time as possible," he added. "What Justice Thomas did was completely butcher the statutory text here. I think it's hard to overstate just how much violence he did."

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'Our leaders are not leading': Groups decry yet another G7 climate failure

As the Group of Seven summit wrapped up Friday in Italy, climate defenders condemned G7 leaders for their continued failure to take meaningful action to combat the worsening planetary emergency.

Taking aim at what critics called the G7 leaders' largely empty pledge to undertake "concrete steps to address the triple crisis of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss," 350.org U.S. campaigns manager Candice Fortin lamented that "yet another meeting ends without real commitments to revert the situation rich countries like the U.S. put us in."

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CNN conservative quickly gives up half-hearted defense of Trump's Hannibal Lecter rants

A conservative commentator wasn't able to muster a defense for Donald Trump's apparent obsession with an infamous cinematic cannibal.

The former president and presumptive Republican nominee keeps bringing up "the late, great Hannibal Lecter," a serial killer created by novelist Thomas Harris and depicted in films and TV series, and CNN commentator Shermichael Singleton was hard-pressed to explain why Trump praises him but trashes Milwaukee, which will host the Republican National Convention next month, as a "horrible city."

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‘Pyongyang in the Rotunda’: Red carpet rollout for Trump’s DC trip likened to North Korea

Donald Trump's first return to Capitol Hill since the violent and deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection he fomented elicited responses of celebratory embrace, near-coronation, and a whitewashing of history from House and Senate Republicans and some of the mainstream media. That has critics sounding the alarm, likening their remarks to those of the subjects of authoritarian dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong Un.

Trump is the Republican Party's presumptive 2024 presidential nominee, a convicted felon awaiting sentencing who remains criminally indicted and out on bail in three other jurisdictions, an adjudicated rapist and fraudster who has been credibly accused by at least 18 to 23 or more women of varying degrees of sexual misconduct including harassment, assault, and rape, who allegedly had sex with a Playboy Bunny, and a porn star, the latter just four months after his third and current wife had given birth to their four-month old son.

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'Deadly consequences': Critics predict horror after Supreme Court scraps bump stock ban

An earlier version of this story incorrectly quoted Justice Sonia Sotomayor. The error has been corrected

The Supreme Court on Friday overturned a ban on bump stocks, which was a Trump-era regulation that banned add-ons to firearms that increased their firing rates to those of machine guns.

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'Less capable in the brain' Trump mocked by elderly voters on CNN: 'How dumb was that?'

As Donald Trump turns 78 on Friday, CNN is reporting that he is losing the battle for voters close to his age who are becoming more active about keeping him out of the Oval Office as the presidential election nears.

Case in point, Gussie Farris, 86, a retired school counselor from Grand Rapids, who told CNN's Jeff Zeleny that Trump's brash style may make him seem a lot younger than President Joe Biden.

However, she added that that is misleading.

“Because Trump is big and loud, he doesn’t come off as old as maybe Biden does, but he’s way less capable in the brain area,” she said before laughing.

“I have people that come up to me because they know I’m a Democrat and say, ‘What can I do? I have to do something, find me something to do.’ I’ve never had that happen before,” she elaborated. “They don’t want Trump. They don’t want him to be the president. And I think they’re scared. They’re worried about our democracy and what he would do.”

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