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'Are these the best people we can get?' GOP operative questions Trump RNC hires

To the amusement of his Democratic co-panelist, GOP campaign strategist Scott Jennings questioned the Republican National Committee hiring election denier Christina Bobb as counsel overseeing election integrity.

Bobb, a former Donald Trump attorney and anchor on the right-wing One America News, is the latest hire by the RNC that is undergoing turmoil with firings after Trump loyalists were installed after the purge of former head Ronna McDaniel.

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'Out and out lie': Rand Paul spars with Fox & Friends over TikTok ban

Things got heated between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a segment on Fox & Friends this Thursday as the two discussed the potential ban of the social media platform TikTok in the United States and whether or not the app is controlled by the Chinese government.

According to Kilmeade, the app's alleged link to China is “national security issue" since its algorithm is controlled by the Chinese. But Paul countered that the app's alleged ties to China are not as straightforward as lawmakers and some in the media are suggesting. The conversation then turned tense as the two argued who the actual owners of TikTok are.

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'This is insane': Legal experts take wrecking ball to latest Trump classified docs defense

Former President Donald Trump is in a Florida courtroom Thursday as he continues to get criminal charges involving retaining top-secret government documents dismissed.

Trump doesn't deny that he was in possession of the documents — in fact, he has doubled down on the accusations that he took them. But he defends himself by saying that they were "mine." It has been a point of contention between Trump and his lawyers.

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'I am a bona fide sexist': MAGA host says 'women need to stop whining' about pay gap

Dr. Gina Loudon, a television host who supports Donald Trump, said that women are at fault for the gender pay gap.

Axios reported this week that female White House workers made less than men on average.

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'Lied flat out': Morning Joe trashes Katie Britt for 'doubling down' on falsehoods

The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" pounced on Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for blowing off accusations she has been repeatedly lying about a sexual assault victim in an effort to malign President Joe Biden long before she brought it up in last week's State of the Union response.

After sharing a clip of Britt appearing on Sen Ted Cruz's podcast laughing it up about Saturday Night Live spoofing her "scary mom" act, co-host Joe Scarborough wondered why it is Republican lawmakers can't admit it when they are wrong.

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Trump's 'cover-up' of classified docs will eventually 'seep in with voters': strategist

As the 2024 election season continues, swing voters will start to notice that Donald Trump is so wrapped up in legal cases that it's preventing him from addressing issues that people want to eventually see formulated into policy. Voters will eventually also figure out that the details surrounding his handling of classified information are much more criminal than they realize.

That's according to political strategist and publisher of The Bulwark, Sarah Longwell, during an appearance on CNN.

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Morning Joe ridicules 'snowflake' Trump's latest whimpering about mistreatment

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough brutally mocked Donald Trump for claiming that no president had ever been treated worse than him.

The ex-president appeared Wednesday on Newsmax for an interview with host Greg Kelly, who obsequiously asked if anyone had ever endured such travails, and Trump allowed that Andrew Jackson and perhaps Abraham Lincoln had possibly been treated almost as poorly – and the "Morning Joe" host mocked his misery.

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Jack Smith's 'frustration' with Judge Cannon evident in recent filings: CNN's John Berman

CNN host John Berman on Thursday claimed that special counsel Jack Smith's "frustration" with Judge Aileen Cannon appeared to be boiling over given some of his team's recent court filings.

While interviewing former federal prosecutor Donya Perry, Berman brought up the argument being made by Trump's lawyers that he had the right as president to take America's nuclear secrets with him after he left the White House in January 2021.

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'No court will uphold' possible Judge Cannon dismissal of Mar-a-Lago charges: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped federal judge Aileen Cannon for even considering whether to dismiss the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case against Donald Trump.

The U.S. District Court judge will hear arguments Thursday morning on whether Trump had the authority under the Presidential Records Act to declassify and retain any government documents he wanted after leaving the White House, and the "Morning Joe" host cast doubt on Cannon's ethics.

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'Broken-down' Aaron Rodgers trashed on Morning Joe for Sandy Hook conspiracy lies

Reacting to reports that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers — now being considered vice presidential material by fringe candidate Robert Kennedy Jr — has engaged in spreading "deranged" Sandy Hook conspiracies, the co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" thoroughly trashed him on Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, CNN reported the NFL player — who is becoming better known for his anti-vax rants than any exploits on the field — was overheard by CNN's Pamela Brown, "attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it."

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Trump waging psychological warfare using 'one of the main tactics of autocrats': pollster

Wayward Republican pollster Sarah Longwell said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump is essentially waging psychological warfare against American voters by overloading their capacity to process outrage.

During an appearance on CNN, Longwell was asked about a recent column by the Financial Times' Edward Luce that argued about a dangerous acceptance and resignation among Americans about Trump's nonstop falsehoods.

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Aileen Cannon sends 'frightening' signal by considering Trump  argument to dismiss: expert

Judge Aileen Cannon will hear former President Donald Trump's argument that he was entitled to keep any presidential documents he wanted, and a legal expert said that sends an ominous signal.

The former president's legal team has argued in court filings that the Mar-a-Lago case should be dismissed because they say the Presidential Records Act gave him the authority to decide which records he could take with him from the White House, and MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" the hearing itself was cause for concern.

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Haberman: Trump put Mar-a-Lago staff in a 'dangerous situation' handling classified docs

Many of former President Donald Trump's staffers who likely lack security clearances were allegedly directed to handle classified documents, thus putting them in compromised situations, argued New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

During an appearance on CNN, Haberman argued that after Brian Butler, a.k.a., "Trump Employee 5," revealed some of the inner workings behind Trump's alleged efforts to obstruct investigators, it's clear that the protection of the material and Mar-a-Lago employees' legal insulation wasn't given much consideration.

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