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'Disgusting!' Trump blamed after Republican's whites-only rant sparks clash on live TV

A Republican caller's live argument that citizenship should be limited to white people drew an instant rebuttal from a Democratic woman who blamed President Donald Trump for riling up white supremacists.

During Monday's Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, Jim, a North Dakota man calling on the Republican line, invoked America's first citizenship law to make his case. Victoria, a Connecticut woman on the Democrats' line, called it "disgusting" — and said it was the president's fault.

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'Ouch': MS NOW's Mika cringes at Fox News coverage of Trump's thinly attended festival

President Donald Trump has boasted about the crowds flocking to the Great American State Fair, but photos show the semiquincentennial celebration has been thinly attended.

The 80-year-old president claimed last week that 45,000 people attended the fair's kickoff celebration, although independent reporting estimated a far smaller crowd, and MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski mocked the misleading coverage over the weekend on Fox News.

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DC insider calls out JD Vance's 'slick sleight of hand' to avoid mockery from key audience

Bill Maher challenged Vice President JD Vance on President Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud, and a well-connected Washington, D.C., reporter flagged a sneaky maneuver the V.P. used to avoid heckling from the talk show's live audience.

The vice president agreed that candidates should not refuse to concede elections but claimed that technology companies had interfered in the 2020 election by censoring political narratives to favor Democratic candidates, but Jonathan Martin, Politico's politics bureau chief and senior political columnist, told MS NOW's "Morning Joe" that Vance had sidestepped Trump's actual claims.

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Analyst stunned as Trump puts 'remarkably submissive' message in bizarre place

President Donald Trump set off widespread mockery with the unveiling of his so-called "patriot passport," and one political analyst highlighted a surprising message sent by the official document.

The passport design shows a glowering Trump standing at the Resolute Desk in front of the text of the Declaration of Independence, but the featured slogan – “Welcome, but be good!” – mystified critics and prompted ridicule.

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Supreme Court signaling willingness to test Trump's 'wildly illegal' order: expert

A legal expert warned on Sunday that the Supreme Court seems willing to test the limits of America's constitutional multiracial democracy by approving a "wildly illegal" executive order from President Donald Trump.

Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-host of the "Strict Scrutiny" podcast, said during a new interview on the podcast "Pod Save America" that the Supreme Court's recent spate of immigration decisions gave her pause. Last week, the court sided with the Trump administration by ending Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and thousands of Syrian immigrants. The Supreme Court has an opportunity to further rewrite America's citizenship standards in an upcoming case about birthright citizenship, an opinion that several court watchers expect will come down this upcoming week ahead of the court's summer recess.

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Experts flag new legal woes for Trump in Epstein case: 'It's become a big problem'

President Donald Trump has had a hard time distancing himself from the Jeffrey Epstein saga, and a new development in the case might prove to be more of a headache than he wants, according to two legal experts.

Earlier this month, convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's assistant, Lesley Groff, testified before Congress about her relationship with the disgraced financier and his crimes. The transcripts of that interview were released late last week, and some of the details Groff shared with investigators raised red flags for attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian, who co-host the "Civil Action" podcast on the Legal AF Network.

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Fox News mocked for spinning Trump's sparse Great American State Fair crowd

Fox News was roundly mocked on Sunday after one segment claimed that pictures of the sparsely attended Great American State Fair, organized by an entity linked to President Donald Trump called Freedom 250, did not tell the full story of the event.

Kevin Corke, Fox News's senior national correspondent, claimed on "The Big Weekend Show" that the energy at the state fair was much greater than what pictures of the event showed. Several photos emerged online on Sunday showing that few people were at the event, held at the National Mall, due to rainstorms in the area.

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Nobel economist aghast at 'horrifying' report on Trump's corruption: 'My God'

A Nobel Prize-winning economist was aghast on Sunday while reacting to new reporting about President Donald Trump's corruption.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2008 for his work on trade theory, said in a new video on his Substack that the report the New York Times published on Sunday about an agreement struck between the U.S. and a mining company in Kazakhstan where his sons, Don Jr. and Eric, as well as the family of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stand to financially benefit was "horrifying." He also noted that it revealed how "departed" the Trump administration is from American history.

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Analyst flags Trump's midterm elections threat that has alarms ringing 'off the dial'

President Donald Trump has created a new threat to the 2026 midterms, one in which there is "little recourse" for those who could stand in his way, according to one analyst.

Michael Feinberg, MS NOW's national security analyst, revealed on a new episode of MS NOW's "Deadline: White House Weekend" with host Nicolle Wallace that Trump's decision to install Bill Pulte as the Acting Director of National Intelligence presents a potent threat to the midterm elections. He warned that Pulte has access to swaths of sensitive information that can be used to sow doubt in the election results, and possibly give Trump an avenue to rig it ahead of time.

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'We have fallen so low': Analyst laments 'dark moment' of Trump's 'ridiculous' state fair

A political analyst lamented the "dark moment" that is President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair, a 16-day festival at the National Mall organized by a Trump-linked entity called "Freedom 250," during a new podcast interview on Sunday.

Jon Lovett, co-host of "Pod Save America" and a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, discussed the state fair on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with host Joanna Coles. He noted that attendance is low amid a heatwave across the East Coast and that several attractions at the event aren't working as advertised. While those issues were almost expected, Lovett noted that the event itself also casts a shadow over the nation's upcoming 250th birthday.

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'Wow': Journalist stunned by epic reach of Senator's speech on Trump admin corruption

Former CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane expressed astonishment on Sunday at the viral reach of a Senate floor speech by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) cataloging alleged corruption across the first 500 days of President Donald Trump's second term.

"Wow," MacFarlane wrote, noting that Murphy's floor speech on Trump administration corruption "has now received 1 million views."

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'Stop lying, Mike': Joe Scarborough calls out Speaker Johnson for 'embarrassing' new claim

MS NOW host and former GOP lawmaker Joe Scarborough sharply rebuked House Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday, accusing him of hypocrisy after the speaker claimed Democrats were trying to "steal" elections.

The exchange stemmed from Johnson's appearance on Fox Business's "Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo," where, according to a clip shared by the anti-Trump outlet The Bulwark, the speaker framed an election fight in stark partisan terms.

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Trump failures spark global 'shift' — and his irrelevancy in 'only a few months': expert

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch his unpopular war against Iran earlier this year has already sparked a global “shift,” renowned economic professor Richard Wolff argued recently, one that also set the president on an imminent path toward total irrelevancy in “only a few months.”

A professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and former professor at Yale, Wolff pointed to the recent progressive sweep last week in New York as evidence of his theory, and compared it directly with the civil unrest sparked during the Vietnam War that ultimately helped – at least, in part – bring about the U.S. withdrawal.

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