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NBC National Security Editor David Rohde claimed Friday there's a very real risk that a re-elected Donald Trump could make good on his threat to sic the Department of Justice on his political enemies.

He appeared on MSNBC to elaborate on a piece he wrote in which he said, "What Trump is proposing would shatter 50 years of post-Watergate norms dictating that federal prosecutors don’t take orders from the president regarding criminal investigations.

Donald Trump is still facing a possible term behind bars for 34 felony convictions in New York — and a former Manhattan prosecutor thinks winning the election is his last shot at avoiding it.

The former president has successfully delayed his sentencing, now scheduled for Nov. 26, for his convictions for falsifying business records to influence the 2016 election by covering up a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. A judge is scheduled to decide a week after Election Day how the Supreme Court's immunity ruling will impact the case, reported CNN.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning, the editor-in-chief of the The Economist explained why the venerable institution couldn't bring itself to back Donald Trump and instead cast its lot with Vice President Kamala Harris with an endorsement that caught political observers by surprise.

Speaking with the panel, Zanny Minton Beddoes summed up the Economist's position on Trump by calling him an "unacceptable risk we think he poses to America and the world."

"The audience that we had in mind when we wrote this was our many readers who are Republicans," she explained to Morning Joe regular Katty Kay. "We have Republicans and Democrat readers and we didn't want this to be a grand statement for the history books. We wanted to try to lay out to those readers that we have, who are likely to vote for Donald Trump, why we think he poses a risk."

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After explaining point by point why Trump is now completely unacceptable, Minton Beddoes said of the ex-president, "We think he'd be much more unconstrained. There is a real risk that he threatens America's institutions."

Donald Trump was forced to burn one of his final days on the campaign trail cleaning up the lingering stench from his Madison Square Garden rally, said one of his former White House aides.

The former president rallied Thursday in New Mexico, which no Republican presidential candidate has won since 2004, and explicitly said he was there to pander to Latino and Hispanic voters.

According to "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire, there is good reason for panic within Donald Trump's inner circle that his re-election, which they recently felt so confident about just weeks ago, is falling apart.

On MSNBC on Friday morning, co-host Joe Scarborough prompted his panel by observing that, "You have people like Charlie Kirk freaking out now, telling the truth. Saying the numbers are looking terrible in Pennsylvania, that right now, Trump is on his way to losing."

"The Trump campaign has two things happening: one, Donald Trump is starting –– you know things are going well in Pennsylvania for [Kamala] Harris because he is starting to claim, 'Oh, my gosh, they're stealing the vote from me,'" he continued. "That's one hand. On the other hand, Charlie Kirk and other people attached to the Trump campaign, are literally freaking out, saying publicly, we're going to lose if the voting patterns continue this way."

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"Yeah, you're seeing a false confidence being put forward by the Trump campaign," Lemire agreed. "In part, because they want to appease the candidate who doesn't like to hear bad news. Behind the scenes, there is growing worry. I've talked to people connected to the campaign in the last day or two and the Trump folks were feeling much better a couple weeks ago than they are today."

After pointing out that the Harris campaign has grown "increasingly confident" but still expect a close race, he added, "Joe mentioned his Truth Social post the other day, claiming fraud in Pennsylvania –– no evidence of that."

"I think we're seeing Trump's outbursts and violent rhetoric increase more and more. What does that usually show us?" he asked. "Behind the scenes, that means he is getting worried. The Truth Social is a window into his soul, what he really thinks and there is a growing anxiety at Mar-a-Lago that this might be slipping away from him."

"Were he to lose, suddenly, the criminal cases come back –– that's adding to the pressure, I'm told," he reported.

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A Republican strategist attempted to defend Donald Trump's ominous comments about Liz Cheney facing down "guns are trained on her face."

The former president appeared onstage Thursday night in Glendale, Arizona, for an interview with right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson, where he insulted president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris and mused at length about Cheney, one of his most prominent Republican critics, having guns pointed at her.

The entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was left almost speechless on Friday morning after watching a clip of Donald Trump rambling about having guns pointed at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).

During an interview with fired Fox News personality Tucker Carlson on Thursday, the former president accused Cheney of wanting to start too many foreign wars and then suggested, "Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face.”

Co-host Joe Scarborough was aghast that this was how Trump was spending the final days of the 2024 presidential campaign.

A CNN panel Thursday night wasn’t buying theories floated by Sen. J.D. Vance that he and Donald Trump had the support of “the normal gay guy” before adding that “a lot of upper-middle-class kids” have become “trans” to get into elite universities.

The eyebrow-raising comments came Thursday on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast as both presidential campaigns spend the final days before Nov. 5 making their closing arguments.

Donald Trump's son warned young men listening to his show on Thursday to get out and vote — women are doing so in droves, and that's "not great for us."

Donald Trump Jr. made the remark on his show "Triggered," saying social media star and boxer Jake Paul "gets it."

Joe Biden’s playful interaction with children at the White House Halloween party haunted Fox News on Thursday with a panel of hosts proclaiming the president’s “baby-biting spree” should trigger discussions of using the 25^th Amendment against him.

“It’s just extraordinary, we’ve just spent five minutes talking about the president of the United States eating babies,” Piers Morgan said on Fox News’ “The Five.” “And whether you think we’re exaggerating, you see that close-up picture of him literally taking that baby’s leg like it’s a chicken leg or Sunday lunch and it’s bizarre behavior.”

A former intelligence officer cautioned on MSNBC Thursday afternoon against Donald Trump as president, saying he disqualified himself.

Sue Gordon was among those who briefed Trump when she served in his administration. Her final position was as the fifth principal deputy director of National Intelligence, and she's spoken since then about Trump's relationship with national security.

Basketball legend LeBron James announced his support for Vice President Kamala Harris to tens of millions of followers on social media Thursday.

"What are we even talking about here??" James wrote. "When I think about my kids and my family and how they will grow up, the choice is clear to me. VOTE KAMALA HARRIS!!!"

The far-right was up in arms this week after Kamal Harris' campaign reminded women in a new ad they don't have to share who they vote for.

The ad shows a couple where the husband thinks he's getting his wife to vote for Donald Trump, but in the privacy of their voting booth, the women fill in the bubble for Harris.