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'What the hell?' Morning Joe baffled by audience reaction to Trump lies

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough criticized CNN's town hall broadcast of Donald Trump, and he faulted the rival network for packing the audience with the former president's supporters.

The audience cheered and laughed at the former president's lies and insults, and the "Morning Joe" host wondered what was wrong with those people.

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Trump's 'virus of lies' on CNN was 'as chilling as anything on TV since Jan. 6': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough scalded CNN and Donald Trump for releasing a "virus of lies" on the public with a televised town hall packed with the former president's supporters.

The former president spread lies about his 2020 election loss, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, his sexual assault trial and other topics, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled the network would broadcast something like that and said it couldn't possibly help Trump win re-election.

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Here are the 6 most infamous times Donald Trump targeted CNN reporters

CNN's town hall is set to begin Wednesday night with Donald Trump despite the years the network spent being attacked by the former president.

Trump attacked specific correspondents in front of the cameras during press conferences, he encouraged his supporters to boo and abuse cameras and reporters at events in the back of the room, and posted images that showed him attacking CNN violently.

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Watch: Katie Porter mocks GOP at House hearing for portraying investment firm as a ‘commie organization’

Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) ridiculed Republican objections to block a leading investment firm from imposing its own standards on utility companies to cut emissions linked to climate change.

A group of Republican attorneys general filed a motion this week to block BlackRock, the world's leading asset manager, from forcing utilities to comply with their environmental, social and governmental (ESG) policies on fossil fuels and emissions, and Porter needled one of them during a House Oversight Committee hearing.

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'We don't lose these cases': The View's Sunny Hostin predicts 20 years behind bars for George Santos

ABC's "The View" walked through the 13 federal charges against Republican New York Rep. George Santos during their show Wednesday. Santos faces charges that range from lying to Congress to money laundering and wire fraud, all of which add up to a lengthy prison sentence if he's found guilty.

The View co-host Sunny Hostin is a former federal prosecutor from the Eastern District of New York, where the charges against Santos originate.

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Former Trump aide: the Republican Party 'has a moral obligation to walk away from this man'

The co-hosts of "The View" began their Wednesday show celebrating the accountability handed to Donald Trump by a New York jury on Tuesday which found he sexually abused and defamed columnist E. Jean Carroll.

The show's conservative co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin – who previously worked as a communications adviser to Trump's White House – was frustrated with her party's lack of reaction on the topic.

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'How depraved!' Tommy Tuberville's reaction to Trump sex abuse torched by Morning Joe

Former President Donald Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil trial, and a jury ordered him to pay $5 million in damages to author E. Jean Carroll -- which didn't seem to trouble some Republican lawmakers at all.

In fact, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said the verdict made him even more likely to vote for the former president -- twice, if he could -- and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was disgusted by the Alabama Republican's reaction.

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MSNBC's Mika hammers GOP for running cover on Trump's sex abuse: 'He said he did it!'

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski unloaded on Republican lawmakers who dismissed Donald Trump's liability for sexual abuse and defamation as unimportant.

The twice-impeached former president was ordered to pay $5 million for sexually assaulting and then defaming author E. Jean Carroll, but some of his GOP allies shrugged off the jury's decision, which the "Morning Joe" co-host slammed as politically and morally indefensible.

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Estranged wife of Oath Keepers' leader Stewart Rhodes describes his paranoia and alleged abuse

Elmer Stewart Rhodes is begging for leniency in the sentence for his sedition charge. Meanwhile, the government released recordings of Rhodes' estranged wife, in which she describes years of paranoid behavior.

According to the recordings, which are part of the government's sentencing materials and were posted online by Lawfare's senior editor Roger Parloff, Tasha Adams gave details about the daily life she had with Rhodes.

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'Cruel' ridicule of Trump's appearance makes Morning Joe panel erupt in laughter

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked Donald Trump for trashing the looks of a woman who accused him of sexual assault.

Author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has sued the ex-president for defamation over his insistence that he couldn't have raped her because she wasn't his "type," and the "Morning Joe" host marveled that Trump, of all people, would slur anyone's physical appearance.

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Connecting the dots from J6 to the Allen mall shooting

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow began her Monday show detailing the Nazi speakers being welcomed to Trump Doral in Miami over the week and drew a line from those individuals to the Jan. 6 attacks and ultimately to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas, over the weekend.

Maddow also noted that this week is the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at the Buffalo, New York market by a white supremacist who believed Tucker Carlson's monologues about the "great replacement theory."

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Legal expert: Biden could side-step the McCarthy showdown using Constitutional powers

Constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe told MSNBC on Monday that he thinks there might be some wiggle room for President Joe Biden as he tries to keep the United States government afloat amid the debt ceiling limit.

According to host Lawrence O'Donnell: "Whether the Constitution, 'which says the validity of the public debt of the United States shall not be questioned,' overrides the cap on public, legislated by Congress, as they call the debt ceiling. If Congress fails to pass an increase in the debt ceiling to cover the debts already incurred by congressional spending, can the president and the Treasury use the authority of the Constitution to continue to incur more debt to pay the government's bills? Which are bills that were legislated by Congress? Everyone has changed their minds about the debt ceiling."

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Maddow highlights the Nazi speakers welcomed to Trump Doral Miami event this week

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow began her Monday show with a list of pro-Nazi speakers that are being welcomed to the Trump Hotel in Miami for an event where a number of former White House officials will also be speaking.

A former national security adviser, a former U.S. trade chief, a former Pentagon chief of staff and a former acting attorney general are all appearing at the same confab with those who have promoted Nazi ideology — and in some cases — Hitler himself.

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