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Newsmax host claims partner was beaten for stealing Israeli flag from pro-Gaza protesters

Newsmax host Sarah Williamson claimed Sunday that pro-Palestinian protesters beat her boyfriend after he tried to steal an Israeli flag they were burning.

"Before we do head into the discussions, I would just like to talk about something personal," Williams began. "Last night, my partner and I were walking home when we came across a large group of protesters."

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Trump flattened for talking about executing Biden before gun owners

All three co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," along with former Donald Trump White House aide Sarah Matthews, pounced on Donald Trump for telling a raucous NRA crowd on Saturday that President Joe Biden deserves to be executed.

During his speech before the gun owners in Texas, the former president told the crowd that "Manchurian candidate" Biden has accepted money from Russia, China and Ukraine before claiming, "If that were a Republican, he would have been given the electric chair, they would have brought back the death penalty."

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'Can anyone else see him?' SNL's Trump promotes potential VP picks in cold open

NBC's "Saturday Night Live," closed out its latest season with former president Donald Trump (played by James Austin Johnson) promoting potential VP picks while standing in the hall of the Manhattan courtroom where he is facing 34-felony counts related to hush money payments.

In the segment, Trump introduced three possibilities: an overly-animated Sen.Tim Scott (R-SC) played by Devon Walker, puppy-murdering Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), portrayed by Heidi Gardner and fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter, cast member Michael Longfellow.

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'Glitched out': Internet erupts as Trump 'blacks out for a beautiful 2 minutes' at event

Donald Trump on Saturday made major waves on social media after he stopped talking during his rally speech, and stayed silent for a significant period of time before speaking again.

Trump over the weekend gave a speech for the National Rifle Association in Texas, and was criticized for appearing to mess up his words as well as some key facts.

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'Lot of disgust there': Court insider flags Trump trial move that 'didn't land' with jury

Donald Trump's team of lawyers hit hard at the ex-president's former "fixer," but the same move didn't land when tried on another witness, according to a former prosecutor who was in the courtroom at the time.

Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where she was asked about her attendance of Trump's criminal trial in New York. In that case, Trump faces numerous felony charges for an alleged scheme to cover up hush money payments meant to affect the 2016 election.

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'Confused Trump' ridiculed by Biden for 'glitches' in his 'bizarre slur-filled NRA speech'

Donald Trump took some heat from the Joe Biden campaign on Saturday after the former president gave a speech for the National Rifle Association in Texas, and appeared to mess up his words as well as some key facts.

Trump, who was mocked online for bragging during the speech that he was healthier and a "better physical specimen" than fellow former president Barack Obama, also dealt with a bothersome fly during the political campaign event. He called the fly "brutal" as he swatted it away while speaking.

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'Delusional': Trump gets laughs for bragging he's a 'better physical specimen' than Obama

Donald Trump on Saturday attended the 153rd Annual National Rifle Association Meeting in Dallas, Texas, where he gave the keynote speech and claimed his former doctor once said he was a "better physical specimen" than Barack Obama.

Trump mentioned a lot of his greatest hits at the speech, but things went off-script when he dealt with a "brutal" flying insect. Before that moment, however, the 45th president spoke about his time in office, when he had the same White House doctor as Obama did.

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'The fly is brutal': Trump swats at insect that's 'driving him crazy' mid-speech

Donald Trump on Saturday reminded the world of his former Vice President Mike Pence when he dealt with a fly while trying to give a speech for the National Rifle Association Saturday.

Trump, who spoke with the NRA in Texas in an effort to consolidate conservative support for his campaign for president, was in the middle of talking about independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. when he became upset by an insect. Pence had a fly land on his head during a debate, sparking internet jokes.

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Trump lawyer 'concerned' about 'negative impact on jury' from ex-president's latest move

Donald Trump's desire to have more visible support at his criminal trial in New York might cause him to walk away with a guilty verdict, according to a lawyer who has represented Trump and other MAGA-world figures.

Tim Parlatore, who represented Trump in his criminal documents case and continues to be on good terms with the former president, appeared on CNN on Saturday to discuss Trump's criminal case in which he stands accused of a scheme to cover-up hush money payments to an adult film star for the purposes of affecting the 2016 election. Trump has denied all wrongdoing, as well as the affair at the heart of the criminal allegations.

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Ex-prosecutor shows how Justice Alito's flag scandal may be 'worse than people are saying'

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito may be in deeper trouble than media reports suggest, according to a former federal prosecutor.

Alito has been under fire since it was first reported that the jurist's home flew an upside-down American flag weeks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and insurrection attempt at the Capitol. The upside-down flag was also carried by numerous protesters claiming they were trying to "Stop the Steal" of the presidential election in 2020.

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'Mad' Marjorie Taylor Greene meltdown tied to Trump snub by MSNBC host

Reacting to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) getting into a shouting match during a House hearing with Reps. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). MSNBC host Alex Witt suggested there may be more going on below the surface with the Georgia Republican than just trading insults.

Welcoming fellow MSNBC co-host Ali Velshi, who sat with Crockett for an interview earlier Saturday morning to talk about her returning fire at Taylor Greene with her now-viral "bleach blond, bad-built butch body" potshot, Witt wondered why the Georgia lawmaker decided to pick a fight.

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Trump lawyer Blanche under the gun to recover from 'rookie mistakes' before it's too late

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade and Lawfare correspondent Anna Bower stated Donald Trump's lead lawyer Todd Blanche has a lot of work to do in the few days remaining in the Manhattan hush money trial.

Speaking with the host, McQuade claimed attorney Blanche's grilling of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was riddled with "rookie mistakes" with Bower noting the ex-president's lawyer managed to bore some of the jurors with his aggressive yet scattershot questioning.

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'You do it first': Trump put on the spot to take drug test before debate with Biden

Reacting to Donald Trump's attack on President Joe Biden on Friday night, where the former president suggested the man who beat him in 2020 should have to undergo a drug test, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele invited Trump to take the lead and go first.

On Saturday morning's edition of MSNBC's "The Weekend," co-host Steele lambasted Trump for creating a needless distraction before the first 2024 presidential debate.

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