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'What a disgrace': CNN host rips into Rudy Giuliani for continuing to lie

Rudy Giuliani was buried Tuesday as he hit out at the two women who filed a second defamation case against him just days after a court ordered him to pay them damages of $148 million.

The former mayor of New York and ex-Donald Trump attorney was sued for a second time Monday by Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, who asked the court for "injunctive relief to permanently bar Defendant Rudolph W. Giuliani from persisting in his defamatory campaign."

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'Clever' new lawsuit will force Giuliani to 'shut up' or get tossed in jail: legal expert

Rudy Giuliani was slapped with another defamation lawsuit just days after he was ordered to pay a staggering sum for his election lies, and a legal expert explained why the new complaint was a "clever" attempt to shut him up.

The former New York City mayor was ordered to pay $148 million to Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, who filed a new complaint Monday after he continued to push false claims about their work on the 2020 election, and MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade told "Morning Joe" what the new lawsuit was intended to accomplish.

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'We saw with our own eyes': Ex-prosecutor destroys Trump's defense of Jan. 6 'hostages'

During Monday night's episode of MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, guest host Symone Sanders-Townsend spoke with former U.S. attorney Barbara McQuade about a "false narrative" Donald Trump is pushing in his defense of January 6 rioters.

Sanders-Townsend played a clip of Trump comparing Minneapolis protesters following George Floyd's 2020 murder to the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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GOPer crashes and burns on TV after blaming Democrats for Trump's 'blood poisoning' speech

A GOPer tried to turn Donald Trump’s widely-reviled “poisoning the blood” speech onto the Democrats late Monday — and was shot down on live TV by a CNN host.

“Well, I don’t think that’s what he was saying,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told anchor Abby Phillip when she was asked about the speech Trump gave at a rally Saturday which many have said echoes Adolf Hitler’s “blood poisoning” reference in Mein Kampf.

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'It's kind of weird': Ben Carson reveals bizarre desire to sniff 'alcohol swabs'

Dr. Ben Carson revealed on Monday that he had a weakness for the smell of alcohol.

Carson made the admission while speaking with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point Action's America Fest conference.

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'A Christian lying to us': Mike Johnson faces backlash at conservative conference

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was grilled on Monday about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) "lying" despite his claims of being a Christian.

At Turning Point Action's America Fest conference, founder Charlie Kirk hosted a talk with Gaetz. Kirk demanded to know why Johnson had passed a continuing resolution (CRs) to fund the government after promising not to.

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'How did the city elect this clown?' NYC mayor buried for 'yikes' 9/11 comments

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has unleashed an avalanche of shock, derision and black humor after telling a local TV host that one of the attributes of the city he represents is the chance of witnessing a plane crashing into a building.

In an interview with PIX11 host Dan Mannarino, the mayor was asked to sum up the "totality of the year" in just one word — and he chose to answer with two: "New York."

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Morning Joe: Trump 'more and more explicit' in his plan 'to take American democracy down'

During a campaign rally in New Hampshire, GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" and praised authoritarian figures like Russian President Vladimir Putin and "highly respected" Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Trump's liberal and progressive critics have been citing the remarks as additional proof of how dangerous a second Trump term could be for the U.S., but not all the criticism is coming from the left.

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'Got exactly what he deserved': Dominion lawyer heaps dirt on Rudy Giuliani after verdict

An attorney who represented Dominion Voting Systems in its defamation lawsuit against Fox News heaped dirt upon Rudy Giuliani after a jury last week ordered him to pay $148 million to defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Appearing on CNN Monday, attorney Rodney Smolla explained how Giuliani drove himself into a ditch by failing to fully comply with discovery requests ahead of his trial.

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Senior Trump aide blurts out frustration over former president's 'unrestrained campaign'

According to MSNBC's Vaughan Hillyard, there is at least one senior aide to Donald Trump who is growing exasperated with the undisciplined campaign the former president is running made worse by his latest echoing of Hitleresque rhetoric, which ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is defending.

Hillyard, who has been following the former president to his rallies as he makes a third bid for the Oval Office after losing to President Joe Biden in 2020, noted that Trump is taking his rallies to new extremes that his fans seem to lap up, and explained there are some concerns within the Trump camp.

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'We are saying Merry Christmas again': New Trump video vows to restore American 'decency'

Donald Trump released a blistering attack on President Joe Biden’s claims of decency Monday, sharing a video juxtaposing the president's quotes with scenes suggesting scandal.

The clips are followed by video, apparently put together by the campaign of Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX), of Trump and his wife enjoying a wholesome Christmas season.

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'What's wrong with him?': Lindsey Graham buried by MSNBC's Mika over latest Trump defense

Reacting to Sen. Lindsey Graham's response to questions about Donald Trump on Meet the Press on Sunday where he dismissed the former president's comments about immigrants "poisoning" American blood, "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski pounced on the South Carolina Republican.

The show started out by playing clips of Graham telling MTP host Kristen Welker that Trump's "poisoning the blood of our country" wasn't important enough to even worry about while then adding, "You know, we're talking about language. I could care less what language people use as long as we get it right."

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'Coward!' QAnon Shaman rages at Matt Gaetz for blowing him off at 'AmericaFest'

Jacob Chansley, the infamous January 6th convict known as the "QAnon Shaman," accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of being a fraud after Gaetz blew him off at this weekend's Turning Point USA-sponsored "AmericaFest."

Chansley on early Monday morning posted a video on his Twitter account that showed him trying to get Gaetz's attention as he walked by, only to have Gaetz ignore him and continue on his way.

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