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'Buffet of bigotry': Congressman calls Trump the 'disease' and racist jokes a 'symptom'

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) spoke out on MSNBC after a slew of racist and sexist comments were made during Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace began her Monday show highlighting a comedian who called Puerto Rico a "floating pile of garbage" at the rally in New York City.

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'What does God say?' Televangelist Paula White says Trump asks her for advice from God

National Faith Advisory Board President Paula White, a televangelist, confirmed that former President Donald Trump turns to her when he wants a message from God.

Trump's "spiritual advisor" made the remarks during a Monday interview with the former president at an event for the advisory board.

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'Huge mess-up': GOP descends into 'finger-pointing' amid panic over Puerto Rico racism

Former President Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden kicked off a firestorm of controversy after a right-wing comic introducing him called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage," with even hardcore MAGA Republicans immediately denouncing the joke as racist and inappropriate.

But behind the scenes, the turmoil is even worse, CNN's Kristen Holmes told Jake Tapper — even as on the surface of it, the Trump campaign considers the rally a rousing success.

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‘I remember’: Marc Anthony slams Trump over his handling of Puerto Rico in powerful video

In a video posted to his social media, singer and songwriter Marc Anthony said that while many have forgotten, he remembers former President Donald Trump's handling of Hurricane Maria and its devastating impact on Puerto Rico.

Sunday night, Trump held a rally where he welcomed a right-wing comedian who equated Puerto Ricans with "garbage" as other speakers spewed other racist, sexist and perverse comments.

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We’ll have to deal with ‘nihilistic’ Trump voters after the election: George Conway

Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway started his Anti-Psycho PAC in order to warn voters about what he says is Donald Trump's psychological disorders.

However, Conway also seems to have some ideas about the psychological makeup of many Trump supporters.

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'Hundreds of millions of dollars on fire': Fox News analyst laughs off Trump Media stock

A financial analyst told Fox Business on Monday that he found the idea of investing in former President Donald Trump's eponymous media company laughable.

David Bahnsen, the managing partner of the Bahnsen Group, said he could not recommend voting in Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social that trades under the ticker DJT, despite a recent increase in stock prices from $18 to $42 a share.

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Watch: Trump supporters tell 'The Daily Show' how they think Democrats control the weather

The Daily Show's Jordan Klepper recently spoke with supporters of former President Donald Trump who believe that Democratic politicians have the power to control the weather.

In a teaser clip posted on a segment scheduled to air Monday night, a Trump-supporting woman tells Klepper that it's no coincidence that the United States was hit by major natural disasters with just weeks to go until the 2024 presidential election.

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'Cuckoo!' Ex-GOP lawmaker mocks C-SPAN caller who blames Trump opposition on 'dark arts'

Former Republican Congressman Charlie Dent mocked a supporter of Donald Trump who blamed opposition to the former president on Satan and "the dark arts."

During Monday's Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, a Nevada caller named Keith defended Trump's claim that liberals were the "enemy within."

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‘We know how to take the trash out’: Influential Latino stars blast Trump’s racist rally

Popular, famous, and highly-influential Latino stars, and superstars including Bad Bunny, Luis Fonsi, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin, are lashing out at Donald Trump after his six-hour Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday served up racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic rhetoric. A New York Times headline described it as "Trump's racist rally."

The most-noted racist remarks came from a comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, in an attack calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean,” and saying, "these Latinos, they love making babies, too, just know that. They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country,” before talking about Black people carving watermelons.

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'So, so stupid': Strategist thinks Trump's MSG rally was a critical blunder

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona on Monday said that former President Donald Trump may have made a critical error when he held a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday that was marked by racist and misogynistic rhetoric.

During an appearance on CNN, Cardona said that the Trump rally was "jaw-dropping" and that ridicule of Puerto Rico as an island of "garbage" was particularly offensive.

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'The crowd didn't mind': Trump spokesperson defends New York rally after racist joke

Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Donald Trump's campaign, downplayed racist jokes at her boss' Sunday rally in New York City by insisting that "the crowd didn't mind."

During a Monday interview on Fox News, host Steve Doocy noted comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made a racist joke about Puerto Rico at Trump's Madison Square Garden event. At one point, Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico "a floating island of garbage."

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The View host heavily bleeped as she unleashes profane tirade against Trump rally joke

"The View's" co-host Ana Navarro was incensed after a comedian at Donald Trump's rally in New York's Madison Square Garden called Puerto Rico a "floating pile of garbage" — and on Monday she unleashed.

Navarro, an immigrant from Nicaragua and longtime Republican strategist, joined with her Puerto Rican colleague Sunny Hostin in bashing Trump and his campaign for what they said was embracing racism.

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'Hundreds of ballots lost' after drop boxes seen burning in blue states

Hundreds of completed ballots were reportedly lost in Vancouver, Washington, after smoke was seen billowing out of a ballot drop box.

A photographer from KATU was on the scene to capture images of the smoking drop-off box.

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