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Judge Chutkan will allow the DOJ to put on a 'mini-trial' after immunity ruling: expert

Appearing with her colleague Alex Witt on MSNBC, former prosecutor and host of her own show, Katie Phang made her prediction on how the Supreme Court will rule on Donald Trump's bid for absolute immunity on Monday and how Judge Tanya Chutkan will proceed afterward.

According to Phang, she expects the nation's highest court — which has been dragging its feet on the highly anticipated ruling — will instruct Chutkan to define which acts Trump committed fall under presidential powers and which ones are outside the scope of protection.

Phang suggested Chutkan would jump into the case with both feet immediately after all of the delays.

'"I believe, as do others, that Judge Chutkan will be told she needs to make a determination as to what conduct that is alleged in the indictment is quote 'official acts as president' and what conduct is quote 'unofficial acts.' The unofficial acts do not get the immunity."

"I'm a believer and I've been pushing this idea you will see an evidentiary hearing that Judge Chutkan will do and I think very quickly, she's going to put the pedal to the metal on this," she added.

"And the evidence you'll be hearing will be an opportunity for special counsel Jack Smith to present the entirety of the indictment because I believe the indictment against Donald Trump is all unofficial acts; none of that was kosher, none of it was supposed to happen, it was all illegal."

"You will see special counsel Jack Smith put on what I'm going to call a mini-trial through the course of the evidentiary hearing so Americans can hear what Donald Trump did."

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'Betrayed' Black businessman accuses Trump aides of misleading him for a campaign event

Speaking with both Atlanta News First and News 11 Alive, the Black owner of an Georgia barbershop claimed he was suckered into becoming part of a Donald Trump campaign event after the former president's aides got him to host what he thought would be a private business roundtable aimed at boosting Black businesses.

According to Rocky Jones, owner of Rocky's Barbershop in Buckhead, he was blindsided when Trump called to the get-together and the exchange was filmed and used to promote the former president who was in town for his debate with President Joe Biden.

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'Shut the hell up': Michael Steele blisters Trump over his latest racist attack

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Michael Steele hammered Donald Trump over his "Black job" comments made during his Thursday night debate with President Joe Biden.

Simply put, the former RNC chair told the convicted felon ex-president to "shut the hell up."

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MSNBC host buries Democrats over their 'big freakout' immediately after Biden stumble

On Saturday morning, MSNBC host Michael Steele hammered Democratic insiders for their knee-jerk response to President Joe Biden's poor debate performance, saying they need to calm down.

As co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele cautioned Democrats and liberal commentators to settle down and think it through before making a full-fledged effort to force Biden to drop out of the race.

Reacting to the panic expressed after Biden stumbled his way through his debate with Donald Trump, former RNC head Steele told his co-hosts, "The big freak out Thursday night even stunned me. I mean, in politics it was so immediate to me, so fast."

"We were talking with former Lieutenant Governor [Mandela] Barnes about the fact that, you know, on the Republican side it's like 'We're good, our guy is a criminal, our guy is a sexual predator, we're good.' Democrats: 'Oh my god, he slurred a word!'"

"He did not just slur a word, it was a bad performance," co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend interjected.

"I will not take away from that, I got it, it was a bad performance, it did not meet anyone's expectations," Steele replied. "The thing that amazes me is just the immediate decision by so many in the party to just go: 'Okay, I'm done, I can't do this.'"

"Explain some of this, I don't understand," he continued. "On my side of the aisle, I would hunker down, get the press release out, close the doors, we are going to work it out and when we get outside, we will steamroll."

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'Land Schlade': Social media roasts Trump as he 'slurs badly' to 'crowd of empty chairs'

Donald Trump followed up Thursday's presidential debate with a rally on Friday, but onlookers complained that he slurred his way through the speech.

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'Stop this': Texas GOP lawmaker roasted for 'cheesy' concealed carry holster infomercial

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This follows some other controversial product plugs by Republican lawmakers, including Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD) promoting a Texas dental practice that fixed her teeth — which actually led to her facing a false advertising lawsuit.

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Biden trolls Trump as he outraises MAGA leader 2-1 despite 'car accident' debate

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What it may not have seen coming: a haymaker of a Joe Biden campaign counter-punch.

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It's unclear exactly how this happened and it could easily have been a coincidence — this Russian aircraft, an exception to the general ban on Russian planes in U.S. airspace, visits Washington, D.C. every few months to exchange embassy staff — but the sight of these two aircraft parked together triggered a flurry of speculation and jokes, given that the former president famously received support from the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election, and was always close with Russia's strongman leader Vladimir Putin.

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'They treated me very fairly': Trump praises CNN at rally after debate night

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While he was speaking at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, the 45th president saluted the efforts of CNN's moderators of Thursday night's debate where he distinguished himself from President Joe Biden — roundly seen as struggling to put cohesive sentences together during the 90 minute face-off.

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One of the moments of Thursday night's debate that went poorly for former President Donald Trump was when he proclaimed that Joe Biden is "allowing" migrants to come through the border and "they're taking Black jobs and they're taking Hispanic jobs" — a remark that swiftly generated outrage, as many Black commentators inferred he was saying Black people are better fit for menial, low-wage labor.

Even Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and right-wing commentator who served as one of the highest-ranking Black people in Trump's Cabinet, appeared to be somewhat uncomfortable as he tried to defend Trump's words to CNN's Phil Mattingly on Friday.

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So spoke Donald Trump on Friday, who took a brief moment out of his rally in Chesapeake, Virginia, to rip a fellow Republican's loss, whom the MAGA leader of the free world recently accused of being a backstabber.

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