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Surreal moment as Trump caught watching himself on live TV – and ignoring Fox News’ pleas

A surreal moment unfolded on Fox News Saturday when a panel of hosts spent roughly a minute begging President Donald Trump to wave – only for cameras to catch him standing near-motionless, apparently fixated on the same broadcast playing on a television in front of him.

Recording from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Fox News panel featured the network’s most popular figures, from Sean Hannity to Laura Ingraham. Fox News soon cut to a live shot of Trump, who could be seen indoors through a window watching the same Fox News broadcast.

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‘Now there’s a stampede’: Chaotic scenes emerge amid evacuation order at Trump’s fair

A number of journalists reporting on the ground at the Great American State Fair have shared video of chaotic scenes unfolding after an evacuation order was issued due to severe weather, chaos sparked by “several hundred” attendees who refused to leave the National Mall.

“Look, look, it’s a stampede, they’re jumping over the things, people are falling down right over here!” said controversial far-right journalist James O’Keefe, reporting from the National Mall in a video uploaded to social media Saturday evening. “They evacuated everything, and now there’s a stampede!”

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‘On life support?’: Mitch McConnell’s condition in question as medical expert raises alarm

A medical expert issued a bleak assessment regarding the health of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who was recently discovered unconscious at his Washington home and rushed to the hospital.

“Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for almost three weeks at this point with very little information that has come out about his condition,” said Hilary Booco, a speech language pathologist at Colorado Brain Recovery, in a video published Friday evening.

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Fox News host’s response to white supremacist rally leaves ex-GOP lawmaker floored

As dozens of masked men from the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched in the nation’s capital Saturday, Fox News host Laura Ingraham floated a theory in an apparent attempt to distance the GOP from the neo-fascist march, a theory that left one former Republican lawmaker floored.

On Saturday afternoon, journalist and writer Richie McGinniss uploaded a video of himself questioning people who appear to be members of Patriot Front standing in front of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

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Newsmax concedes Trump fair failures as exhibits shut down: ‘Are they just hotboxes?’

As soaring temperatures continue to rock President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair in Washington, D.C., several state exhibits at the event were forced to shut down Saturday, leaving the pro-Trump network Newsmax wondering whether exhibits had essentially become “hotboxes.”

“Looking at the state displays... we're assuming there's no portable air conditioners in there,” a Newsmax anchor said, speaking with Newsmax’s Alana Austin, reporting from the fair. “Are they just hotboxes?”

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Trump wants to sabotage his own party to send a message about himself: biographer

A Trump biographer suggested that Trump is sabotaging his own party ahead of the midterms for a selfish reason.

On an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast, Michael Wolff said that he believes Trump's strategy is to lay the groundwork for the Republicans to take the blame for losing the midterms, and his goal is to prove that the party needs him.

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Historian dismisses Trump Independence Day rhetoric as 'Red Scare idiocy'

A presidential historian slammed Trump's Independence Day speech as nothing more than "Joe McCarthy Red Scare idiocy."

During an appearance on MS NOW on Saturday, Doug Brinkley tore into the speech that Trump gave in front of Mount Rushmore to kick off the Independence Day weekend. In particular, Brinkley found it "deeply offensive" that Trump would spend time warning about communists because of recent primary victories by democratic socialists.

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DOJ whistleblower torches 'staggering' Trump move that gave fraudster a 'second chance'

A Justice department whistleblower on Saturday tore into President Donald Trump for what she described as a "staggering" decision to give a fraudster a "second chance."

During an episode of The Lincoln Project Podcast, former DOJ pardon attorney Liz Oyer argued that Trump's pardons were "fundamentally different" from others made in the past.

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'Such cowards': Masked men marching with Confederate flags in D.C. spark outrage

Footage of hundreds of masked men storming Washington, D.C., with Confederate flags spurred an outcry online Saturday.

An estimated 400 masked men, whom Reuters reported were with the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, marching into D.C. on July 4 with Confederate flags, online video shows.

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Masked men with Confederate flags storm D.C. on July 4: video

Hundreds of Confederate flag-bearing men marched into Washington, D.C. on July 4th, according to multiple reports.

In a post on X, journalist Mitchell Miller, a reporter for WTOP News, shared a video of what he described as "a group of masked men gathered at Union Station" with Confederate flags and calls for "reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants."

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Nothing can stop billionaires from 'running wild' under Trump: fired FTC official

A fired Federal Trade Commission official said Saturday that a recent Supreme Court ruling favoring President Donald Trump will leave billionaires "running wild."

During an appearance on MS NOW, Rebecca Slaughter talked about her Supreme Court case against Trump in which she and another former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, both Democratic appointees, challenged their dismissals.

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'Wild-eyed stuff': Blue state AG sounds the alarm on Trump's next moves after court loss

A blue-state attorney general sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump's next moves after a court loss set back his immigration plans.

During an appearance on MS NOW, California Attorney General Rob Bonta reacted to right-wing ideas for how to prevent immigrants from giving birth in the United States and warned that Trump could act on some of them.

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Conservative ex-judge warns Americans face 'stark' choice in the age of Trump

A conservative former judge warned Americans that they're facing a stark and important choice right now.

In a July 4 appearance on MS NOW, ex-judge Michael Luttig said Trump is forcing Americans to decide what kind of country they want for the next 250 years. Trump "could not have presented the choice any more starkly," Luttig added.

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