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Newsmax host Lidia Bastianich asked Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, if President Joe Biden could be sued after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley was allegedly murdered by an undocumented immigrant.

"We saw what happened with that Venezuelan illegal alien who is now accused of killing that nursing student, Laken Riley," Bastianich told Habba during a Sunday interview. "Now he's accused of killing this beautiful young girl, 22 years old, prime of her life. Does Joe Biden have blood on his hands at this point, Alina?"

According to a former Donald Trump White House communications official, the former president's rhetoric is reaching "unhinged" levels as he scrambles to return to the Oval Office.

Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki, Sarah Matthews — who quit following the Jan. 6 insurrection — claimed Trump's open embrace of extremist racist rhetoric should be alarming to anyone who has watched him recently.

"I'm sure you've been watching, because he's been so outspoken in the recent days and weeks, and you are someone, I know from the role, you probably read speeches, you edited speeches, you are very familiar with how he talks.," Psaki prompted. "As you are watching, do you think he's gotten worse, more unhinged?"

"I do think he's gotten more unhinged in his rhetoric," Matthews replied. "Obviously, Donald Trump's first four years in office were marked by lots of controversies. but I think that the type of rhetoric that he is using today, it's really concerning."

"It's almost Hitler-esque in a way, when he talks about immigration, poisoning the blood of our country," she continued. "He is trying to prey on people's worst instincts and get them angry and riled up; that is something he tends to do, but it's just the rhetoric that he is using, it's really concerning to me now."

National Review reporter Caroline Downey faulted Donald Trump after the former president declined to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

During a Sunday Fox News panel discussion about Trump's remarks, Downey said Trump made a mistake by omitting Putin's role in Navalny's death. Instead, Trump compared himself to the dead opposition leader.

Donald Trump's victory speech in South Carolina after winning the Republican Party presidential primary drew a mixture of laughter and stunned reactions on MSNBC Saturday night that led to more questions about his fitness to not only be re-elected but also to run for the presidency a third time.

As members of the panel noted, the former president went to great lengths to thank his family members and their spouses but made a glaring omission by forgetting his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara whom he has endorsed to become co-chair of the RNC.

Asked for comment about the whole affair, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow pointed to the 'incoherence" of the speech — where the former president also misidentified the supporters standing behind him — and said his speech was the kind of "schtick" the public has become accustomed to.

"There is all of the weirdness of it, " she told her co-hosts before issuing an exasperated, "What are you talking about!?"

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Calling Trump "Uncle ramble standers, " she continued, "Trump is rambling and incoherent even when he is at his best early in the evening."

Continuing in that vein, she explained, "And tonight, getting that little slice of it is a real reminder again of [Republican] Nikki Haley's message. Nikki Haley is saying both Trump and Biden are both unfit and you should pick me instead."

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Democratic strategist Donna Brazile tore into former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus after he offered a defense of a recent "racist" speech given by Donald Trump to the Black Conservative Federation.

During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, host Martha Raddatz noted Trump had been criticized for saying Black voters like him because he has been charged with crimes.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) admitted that former FBI informant Alexander Smirnov may have lied when he tried to connect President Joe Biden to allegedly corrupt business dealings.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo noted that Smirnov had twice been arrested for making false statements after Republicans used intelligence he provided to the FBI to attack Biden.

Former CIA Director John Brennan pounced on the House GOP leadership for using a now-indicted Russian purveyor of lies about President Joe Biden to be their central witness in their bid to impeach the president.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Brennan said it doesn't matter if they knew they were being played or not by their informant Alexander Smirnov who is now in custody for lying to the FBI.

Speaking with co-host Symone Sanders-Townsend, Brennan didn't mince words when taking his shot at Rep's James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH).

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''I think it's unclear whether they knew or not, quite frankly" he began before adding, "Based on what I've seen, they really don't care if these things are true or not.

"They will just try to use them to advance their efforts to undermine the integrity of President Biden, as well as to advance their impeachment process," he continued. "So, therefore, they seized upon something that was clearly on un-evaluated information, it was raw, it was obtained by the FBI. Director Christopher Wray initially tried to resist them being provided to the Hill, but then the pressure increased and it was eventually shared with them."

"As is now clear, Mr. Smirnov is a serial liar," he added. "Nothing that he was claiming about President Biden was true. Therefore, I think the whole impeachment effort, which was resting heavily on that is really quite questionable."

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NBC host Kristen Welker and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) disagreed over a speech Donald Trump gave to a group of Black conservatives.

In a speech Friday to the Black Conservative Federation's annual gala, Trump argued that African-Americans like him because of his legal problems.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend" Sunday morning, the former chair of the Michigan Republican Party claimed stocking the Republican National Committee with Donald Trump loyalists will have a devastating impact on the party both short and long term.

Speaking with the hosts, Saul Anuzis stated it will be hard for anyone who is not in the Trump camp to get any help not just this election cycle but long after the former president has disappeared from the scene.

Adding to that, he said big-money donors may shut their wallets.

Admitting, "This is going to be a big problem for Republicans," he explained, "As we look forward, if you go back to 2016 when Trump first ran we had eight or nine Republicans in the race, only three RNC members endorsed Trump in the primary election. Today 140 plus of the 168 have been elected under his two tutelage. We have a very Trumpian party in that regard."

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"I do think one of the problems with us not being able to raise money is there's a lot of Republican donors who are saying 'I'm not in this just to pay for Trump's legal bills,'" he continued. "We do have to worry about down-ticket, we have a chance of picking up the United States Senate. Republicans want to hold on to House of Representatives. The map should be great for us if we can afford it."

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Despite an overwhelming win by Donald Trump in Saturday's South Carolina Republican presidential primary, there are dark clouds on the horizon for him after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) promised to continue her uphill campaign.

According to analysts from both Politico and the Wall Street Journal, the fact that Trump lost close to 40 percent of the vote is a red flag that he still has not convinced a substantial number of conservative voters to back his bid despite being an overwhelming favorite to be on the ballot in November.

Add to that, suggested the Wall Street Journal's Catherine Lucey, Haley's decision to stay the course gives her the opportunity to keep reminding some wavering voters why they don't want a return to the chaos that accompanies the former president.

According to Politico, there is "one big warning sign for Trump," with analysts pointing to the 40 percent that failed to fall in line with the Republican frontrunner.

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"That number itself isn’t a problem in a primary. But it includes some serious reasons for concern in a general election. Trump lost moderate and liberal voters to Haley by a wide margin, according to exit polls. And, according to AP VoteCast, a bit over 1 in 5 GOP primary voters said they would not vote for Trump in November if he was the party’s nominee," the report states.

"...the clearest illustration of this dynamic came in the city of Charleston, where Haley racked up more than 80 percent of the vote in some precincts," the report added.

Appearing on CNN on Sunday morning with host Victor Blackwell, who stated there was "bad news for Trump" in the results, the Journal's Lucey agreed that the former president has some work to do and it may be an impossible task.

"I think this is a really interesting thing to think about when you look to the general and if you assume that Trump is obviously the likely general election candidate for Republicans, Haley is picking up a lot of support still," she told the host.

"I think one area to look at in particular is her appeal to moderate and suburban women who, as we know, can be a key voting block in deciding a general election," she continued. "And what she's doing right now in South Carolina and what is going we continue to do in Super Tuesday states is reminding those voters of what they don't like about Donald."

"So that is a real issue for him going forward," she pointed out. "She's out there really sending a message to those people about his policies, about his rhetoric and that could create issues for him going forward."

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