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A prominent New York Times reporter disagreed with Pete Buttigieg on Friday after the transportation secretary theorized a day earlier that former President Donald Trump's repeated false claim that Haitian migrants are eating pets was a strategy to distract people from Trump's record.

Buttigieg told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that there's "even more to it than demonizing immigrants" for Trump.

An MSNBC host jabbed Donald Trump's former office of personnel management leader on Friday afternoon after he posted a video on TikTok seeking the women who Vice President Kamala Harris claimed at the debate were "bleeding out in parking lots."

Harris was attacking Trump on reproductive freedom and his claims that he would make it safe for those who have a medical need. Yet, when Harris and debate moderators asked if he would veto a federal ban, Trump dodged his question.

A former FBI official and an ex-Justice Department official cautioned Fox News that Donald Trump won't help or save their network and pointed to a hefty lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems as a prime example.

The segment on Nicole Wallace's "Deadline White House" followed one about a racist conspiracy theory about Springfield, Ohio, experiencing pet disappearances due to Haitian immigrants. Trump has perpetuated the story by promoting it at the debate to an audience of over 70 million.

When Pope Francis said Friday that U.S. voters must choose between the "lesser of two evils," he didn't outwardly make a judgment between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, but said their rejection of immigrants and support of abortion rights, respectively, equally weighted down both.

But put in context, the statement represented a bigger swipe at Trump, argued Nayyera Haq, former President Barack Obama's senior director of cabinet affairs, in a panel on CNN.

A key part of Donald Trump's speech from California on Friday was trashing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the state's fires. One comment he made is turning heads, however.

“And Gavin Newscum is gonna sign those papers, and if he doesn’t sign those papers, we won’t give him money to put out all his fires,” Trump said, deliberately mispronouncing the governor's name, as he's often done in the past.

Rob Rue, the Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio, is begging former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to stop spreading lies about his town.

Trump and his running mate have promoted a baseless far-right conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are stealing people's pets to eat them.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) described to podcaster Shawn Ryan how he and Donald Trump intend to resolve the Russian war against Ukraine.

"It would probably look like — is something like the current line of demarcation between Russia and Ukraine, that becomes a demilitarized zone so the Russians don't invade again and Ukraine remains its independent sovereignty and it doesn't join NATO or some of the sort of allied institutions," Vance proposed.

Donald Trump is palling around with a far-right firebrand, Laura Loomer, known for spreading conspiracy theories — and it's left an ex-aide of his incredulous.

The co-hosts of "The View" were flabbergasted that he was joined by the controversial figure at ceremonies marking the 9/11 attacks in New York — and on Friday wondered how a presidential candidate could incorporate someone like that into his campaign.

According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, there is still a solid case against Donald Trump to take to trial despite the dismissal of several charges on Thursday.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ana Cabrera, the legal analyst noted that on Thursday Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County Superior Court tossed out three charges in the Trump case related to election interference in 2020 which was hailed as a win by the former president's legal team.

However, McAfee notably left in place a felony racketeering charge filed against Mr. Trump and his co-defendants, calling it “facially sound and constitutionally sufficient.”

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Asked by host Cabrera where the case now stands after being reduced to 32 charges from the initial 41, Vance claimed there is still a solid case to take to trial.

'Is there still meat on the bone as far as the charges Trump is facing here?" the host pressed.

"Yes, there is plenty of meat on the bone," Vance agreed. "It's the RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations] charge, the large overarching conspiracy that's so central to the efforts to interfere with the vote count in Georgia. And, at least for now, that charge goes forward."

Asked, "And so, in terms of when we could expect any kind of action in the courtroom, what does the timeline look like?" Vance replied, "So that's complicated, because we're in the middle of this Georgia appellate process over whether or not [Fulton County prosecutor] Fani Willis can continue with the case."

"What we're seeing in Georgia, a largely Republican-led state, is sort of the equivalent of when [Ohio Republican] Jim Jordan announces he's holding committee hearings in Washington over weaponization of government by Democrats," she elaborated. "That's what we're seeing in Georgia now with this legislative effort to delay Willis' prosecution. There are separation of powers issues that keep the legislative branch from looking into what prosecutors are doing, and here they've demanded documents and insight into her case while it's ongoing."

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