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Trump making crucial error – again – heading into debate: ex-president's White House aide

One of Donald Trump's former White House aides cautioned that he was setting up Kamala Harris to make a positive impression at their first debate.

The former president has frustrated his campaign team and other Republicans by personally attacking Harris as unintelligent and unable to talk off the cuff, and his former White House director of strategic communications Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN that Trump was setting expectations too low for voters who may not know much about her.

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'What is he talking about?' J.D. Vance ripped over new 'anti-child' corporation claim

On Friday's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson went on an extended rant about new comments made by GOP Vice Presidential nominee J.D. Vance (R-OH) made about families and children by calling him out for complaining about problems that don't exist.

After running a clip of Vance on Thursday "doubling down" on previous comments about Democrats and corporate America being "anti-child," Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough remarked, "Perhaps a family wants to step in when their 10-year-old daughter has been raped by an illegal immigrant in the state of Ohio and instead they want to get together with their doctor and preacher and mental health provider, and they want to be able to make that decision as a family instead of making the raped 10-year-old girl flee J.D. Vance's state."

"Again, that's the lunacy of all of this," Scarborough continued. "He's sitting up there saying what he's saying and just ignoring everything that's happening because of Donald Trump's ban."

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"Yeah and incidentally if you want to be pro-family, maybe it would be pro-family not to have to worry that children would be shot in the schools because of the easy availability of assault weapons," Robinson quipped before continuing, "That aside. What is he talking about? What corporate America is he talking about that is anti-child?"

"He's just inventing this sort of strawman to attack with this sort of oblique angle that doesn't really relate to anything in the real world or to anybody in the real world, and he does it without any policies behind it, right?" he added. "Okay, fine, let's have a generous national family leave policy so that mothers and fathers get a chance to spend a good time with their newborns. Let's have, you know, all sorts of policies that encourage and make it easier for parents."

"I've heard no such agenda," he added. "I heard this weird and frankly untrue slur on corporate America, and I'm not usually a defender of corporate America writ large but I just don't see what he's talking about."

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Fuming MSNBC host gets personal about Trump's 'insulting' smears of Jews

Reacting to new comments Donald Trump made about Jews where he attacked them as disloyal to America if they refuse to vote for him, Bulwark managing editor and fill-in MSNBC host Sam Stein was visibly fuming as he pushed back on Friday's "Morning Joe."

The normally unflappable Stein lashed out at the former president on multiple fronts, but admitted that, as a Jew, he takes Trump's comments as a personal attack.

Prompted by co-host Joe Scarborough, who stated, "He had said that any Jew that doesn't vote for him is not a good Jew, and when he talks to Americans who happen to be Jewish, he calls Benjamin Netanyahu 'your prime minister.' He calls the Israeli ambassador to America 'your ambassador,' calls the country 'your country,' suggesting that if you're a Jew, you're not fully American," Stein delivered a scathing rebuttal.

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"Yeah, he's talked about the dual loyalty trope," he began. "I think people need to understand this: the dual loyalty trope is inherently anti-Semitic because it suggests that people like me, Jews who were born in America, we're not loyal to America but only to the Jews in the Jewish state and he's pushed this stuff since running for president.

"And then he gets up there and says, you know the real threats to anti-Semitism on the other side and [Kamala Harris husband] Doug Emhoff, who is the first Jewish spouse to serve in the big four, that being president, vice president, is not really sufficiently Jewish," he added.

"I don't think people can quite appreciate how insulting that is, but also how deflating that can be because Jewish-Americans are Americans," he added. "We don't identify with Israel because it's our faith. In fact, a lot of Jewish-Americans find the Israeli government in its current incarnation abhorrent."

"We have the capacity for independent thought. We have the capacity for loyalty to America and he removes that from us when he says things like the things that you just read," he concluded.

Later in the segment, Donnie Deutsch, also Jewish, called Trump's slurs "Disgusting."

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'Sir, you need to shut up': GOP pollster says Trump running out of time to turn it around

Kamala Harris continues to gain momentum in her sprint to the White House, and one veteran Republican pollster says Donald Trump is running out of time to turn things around.

The former president made two public appearances Thursday at his golf resort in New Jersey, where he offended military veterans with remarks about the Medal of Honor and asserted that he was "entitled" to insult vice president Kamala Harris, and GOP pollster Frank Luntz said the Trump campaign must stop him from turning off more voters with that sort of talk.

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'Something's really warped in him': Trump buried by Morning Joe over 'shocking' new claim

On Friday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ripped into Donald Trump for yet another attack on America's military veterans, with criticism ranging from "shocking" to "warped."

Late Thursday Trump told a crowd at his Bedminster Golf Resort that the Presidential Medal of Freedom is more worthy of admiration than the Congressional Medal of Honor traditionally given to war heroes.

He then set off a wave of outrage by saying of the Medal of Honor recipients, "They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they're dead."

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After showing the clip on Friday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted Willie Geist with, "He has a long history, Willie, of disparaging American veterans and service members."

"He does," Geist conceded. "I mean, you said it right. This is shocking but not surprising because of the pattern. This is not a one-off, this is the way he thinks about people who serve the country in uniform. In 2015, Trump mocked, of course, the late Senator John McCain (R-AZ) for having been a prisoner of war. Remember he said, quote, 'I like people who weren't captured.'"

"Yeah, there's something really warped inside of him, there really is," Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson added. "Just something — I guess the word weird is overused, but all that we just played is weird."

"And it is just appalling that he would speak of America's heroes that way," he continued. "I mean, the heroes, many who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country, and he simply does not get it. He doesn't understand. There's a connection there that's not being made, and, you know, you saw it where for years he was president and, boy, if he ever became president again, I would really worry about this country because of that emptiness, that lack inside of him, that lack of empathy, that lack of patriotism. It's just not there. It's not there."

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'Disqualifies himself': Veterans blast Trump for 'disrespectful' remarks about war heroes

Donald Trump sparked an outcry from military veterans and many others by proclaiming that the civilian Presidential Medal of Freedom as "better" than the Medal of Honor for military valor.

The Republican presidential nominee praised Miriam Adelson, the widow of the late GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, during a speech Thursday evening at his New Jersey golf resort, where he recalled awarding her the civilian honor after the couple had poured millions of dollars into his first campaign.

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'Talk about weird': Nancy Mace CNN appearance described as 'most entertaining train wreck'

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), an ally of Donald Trump, made a splash on the internet after an appearance on CNN that some said went off the rails.

Mace, who became better known after she alienated much of her caucus when she joined the small group of renegade Republicans who voted to oust former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the House Speakership, appeared on a CNN panel, where the topic of Kamala Harris' race was broached by others.

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'You are intending that I am racist!' Chaos erupts on CNN between Republican and professor

A CNN panel erupted into chaos Thursday night with a Republican lawmaker forcefully denying she's racist while a university professor insisted she's accomplishing racism even if it's not intended.

The heated interaction on "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip came during a discussion over the correct pronunciation of Vice President Kamala Harris' name.

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'He wants us to say it wrong': CNN panel derails as GOP strategist mispronounces 'Kamala'

A CNN panel ahead of former President Donald Trump's press conference at his Bedminster golf club grew tense and combative after theGrio correspondent Natasha Alford called out a Republican strategist for both mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris' name, and falsely blaming a number of longstanding national policy challenges on her four years in the vice presidency.

"Trump's out here doing press conferences, and Harris is interviewing with her running mate," said GOP strategist Scott Jennings. "We need to know more about this candidacy because of the way it came about and the fact that it's never received a single vote ever in a primary."

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'Fooled the press again!' CNN expert slams media for covering Trump's 'lie'-filled speech

A Democratic strategist laughed Thursday night on CNN when asked if Donald Trump can stay on message before laying into media outlets that he said were duped into giving the MAGA leader free air time at his news conference Thursday.

Keith Boykin told panelists on "NewsNight" that Trump didn't hold a news conference — he held a campaign rally speech at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club — even bringing MAGA supporters.

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CNN commentator Van Jones says Trump's 'worst 3 weeks' showcase his 'pure narcissism'

Donald Trump was indicted, convicted and shot at this year — and all of those events weren't as important to him as Vice President Kamala Harris outshining him, remarked CNN political commentator Van Jones, which he said highlights the former president's "pure narcissism."

Jones' comment came in response to a question on CNN's "The Source" in which he was asked whether Democrats ought to push back against Trump's repeating of false claims that he won the 2020 election.

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Ex-GOP lawmaker shreds Project 2025 masterminds for 'perversion' of Christian faith

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country.

Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to preach.

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