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'Blame Trump!' Conservative mocks ex-president for 'getting out-maneuvered' by Biden

Donald Trump and his campaign are metaphorically working the referees ahead of his debate because he allowed the rules to be "rigged" against him.

The former president and his allies have been preemptively complaining about the rules, the CNN moderators, and the studio setup, and suggesting that president Joe Biden will be taking some form of performance-enhancing drugs to gain an advantage, but conservative columnist Matt Lewis told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump clearly doesn't feel confident that he'll win on the merits.

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Biden may forget to turn off porch light but Trump 'will kill your dog': Ex-Bush adviser

In the days leading up to the first presidential debate of 2024, pundits and analysts are coming up with the perfect metaphor to describe the two candidates.

Former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd summed up the two candidates when speaking Tuesday to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace.

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Barack Obama's sister hit with tear gas during live CNN interview as Kenya protests rage

Barack Obama's half-sister was tear-gassed as she gave a live interview to CNN during protests in Kenya's capital.

Auma Obama, a Kenyan-British activist, was speaking with reporters Tuesday in Nairobi during a nationwide protest against tax hikes when police opened fire near parliament with live ammunition and tear gas, reported Kenyan newspaper The Star.

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Shocking new photos reveal chaotic storage of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Special Counsel Jack Smith's latest filing shared new photos taken at Mar-a-Lago showing classified documents Donald Trump is accused of taking from the White House strewn messily across a bathroom floor.

Trump is on trial in Florida for taking the documents, refusing to return them and attempting to obstruct the investigation into their disappearance.

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Ex-prosecutor shares big red flag he says shows Aileen Cannon is in the bag for Trump

Former top prosecutor Andrew Weissmann pointed to two tells that he said show Judge Aileen Cannon is in the bag for Donald Trump.

Cannon is currently overseeing Trump's classified documents case alleging he improperly took White House documents as he left power in January 2020.

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Morning Joe panel busts Trump team's 'pathetic efforts' to manage debate expectations

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire ripped Donald Trump's allies for pushing misleading videos to suggest president Joe Biden was feeble while also claiming he might be using drugs to boost his performance in the upcoming presidential debate.

The "Morning Joe" host wasn't surprised that Trump and his campaign aides were trying to manage expectations before Thursday's debate, but he lambasted the Wall Street Journal and New York Post for helping to boost those false claims about the president's mental fitness.

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'Rambling monologues about sharks' will doom Trump at debate: Morning Joe panel

President Joe Biden is hoping to get under Donald Trump's skin during their first debate and induce him to reveal the unhinged version of himself he shows to fans at rallies, in hopes of horrifying viewers who haven't seen much of him since his presidency ended.

The president's advisers are combing through Trump's recent remarks to help identify potential triggers that might knock him off balance and send him into an off-topic tirade, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that should be relatively easy to do.

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'She was challenging him': Analyst lays out tough day for prosecutors in secret docs case

Donald Trump and his lawyers went up against special counsel Jack Smith's team in Florida on Monday, day two of three, where Judge Aileen Cannon will hear five motions.

Up until Friday, Cannon had been sitting on a number of motions, refusing to rule on them. Some legal analysts have argued that the tactic is part of an ongoing effort to slow the trial so that it doesn't happen until after the November election.

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David Duchovny tells The View he once had to explain a sexual term to King Charles

For those who believe that the British royals are just like everyday citizens, actor and writer David Duchovny has a different story about an encounter he had with now-King Charles.

The "X-Files" and "Californication" star appeared on "The View" on Monday to discuss his book "Bucky F---ing Dent," which has now been made into a film.

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Ex-White House aide nails Trump spokeswoman's 'stunning lack of message discipline' on CNN

The co-hosts of "The View" began Monday by trouncing Donald Trump's spokesperson, who went up against Kasie Hunt on CNN Monday and was cut off as she launched attacks on the host's colleagues.

The spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, answered questions with furious assaults on CNN debate moderators Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, who will preside over the event on Thursday.

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'Everything you said was crazy': Trump's latest shark rant leaves Morning Joe floored

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shook his head in astonishment after watching Donald Trump revive his widely mocked rant about electric boats and shark attacks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee sparked widespread speculation about his mental fitness earlier this month with a rambling story about electric boats sinking and electrocuting their passengers that then drifted into a rumination on whether that would be a worse fate than being killed by a shark, and he reprised the story over the weekend.

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'Off his rocker': Morning Joe mocks Trump rant that was so 'crazy' Fox News cut away

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were astonished by Donald Trump's latest rant that was so rambling and incoherent that Fox News cut away from a live broadcast of his remarks.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke to supporters Saturday evening at Temple University in Philadelphia, where he raged about "Joe Biden's wave of bedlam and death and terror" and then prattled about shampoo lather water pressure – for the second time in a week – before the conservative network dropped live coverage.

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Trump’s lawyer argues Jack Smith is 'Trojan Horse for the Biden campaign': analyst

Special counsel Jack Smith appeared in the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida on Friday to hear claims from Donald Trump and his allies that Smith's appointment as prosecutor in the former president's classified documents case was unconstitutional.

Detailing the hours-long courtroom hearing, legal analyst Lisa Rubin said that if one believes that no one is truly above the law, there isn't much justification for it.

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