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Melania Trump 'trawls the internet for coverage' of herself: author

Melania Trump smashed the norms for being first lady because she didn't actually want to be in the White House, according to the author of a new book on the wives of recent presidents.

Katie Rogers, author of the new book "American Woman," which examines the role of first ladies from Hillary Clinton to Melania Trump, told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" what made Donald Trump's wife stand out from the others who held that ceremonial role before her.

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Trump should be 'hiding under the sheets' from 'flashing red lights': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump was in more danger in the Republican presidential primary than he might realize.

The former president easily beat challenger Nikki Haley once again, this time in Michigan, but his former U.N. ambassador intends to remain in the race until the March 5 "Super Tuesday" primary, and the "Morning Joe" host said there were clear "warning signs" in Tuesday's GOP primary results.

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'It's dangerous': Expert warns MAGA 'conditioning' has crept into schools and homes

NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard spent several months traveling the country asking fans of former President Donald Trump their attitudes and views, and the results, according to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, were shocking.

Wallace began their interview Tuesday segment by citing lawyer and Howard University Civil Rights chair Sherrilyn Ifill, who argued that autocracy is contagious.

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Ex-Mueller prosecutor points to glaring problem with Trump filing: 'Going to backfire'

Andrew Weissmann, former senior prosecutor for special counsel Robert Mueller's team, thinks Donald Trump's new filing claimed that he's being unfairly targeted for keeping classified documents at his home will flop.

MSNBC's host Nicolle Wallace explained that the critical part of the Mar-a-Lago documents case comes back to national security, and that individuals may have risked their lives to give the United States the information they contain.

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'Let's get real': Ex-prosecutor says classified documents case based on undisputable facts

Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann and fellow NYU law school professor Melissa Murray penned a new explainer for the Donald Trump charging documents and details about the four cases he faces.

Speaking to "Pod Save America," Murray explained that, as she dived deeper into Trump's "alleged criming," what stood out is "this is a vast tableau that, taken together, shows Donald Trump, allegedly, committing crimes before, during and after his presidency. And I don't think the enormity of the scale of the alleged criminality had really hit us in that way."

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Trump fears 'daily drip drip drip' of his 'incredible array of crimes' in court: expert

Donald Trump faces so much legal peril that it can be hard to keep up, so legal experts compiled an analysis so thorough that it stretches out to book length.

Two of those experts appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where they gave a summary of the 91 criminal counts Trump faces in four jurisdictions, along with the lawsuits alleging fraud, defamation, sexual abuse and violation of civil rights, and the various appeals he's made in all those cases.

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'Republicans have lost the country' – and Trump only makes things worse: Morning Joe panel

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele wrote off Republican election chances for the foreseeable future.

The "Morning Joe" host pointed to turmoil within the Michigan Republican Party, whose election-denying former chair Kristina Karamo chased away donors and competent leadership and now refuses to recognize the vote to remove her, and Scarborough said that was "a sign of things to come" in the wake of Donald Trump's takeover of the GOP apparatus.

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'Where are the men?' Ex-Trump aide calls on more Republicans to condemn her former boss

Donald Trump's former deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews on Monday slammed Republicans who refuse to speak out against her old boss at the 2024 presidential election looms.

This prompted MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace to hone in on one particular group: "Where are the men?"

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'So twisted': Nicolle Wallace slams Trump's courthouse press conferences and fundraising

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace returned to the airwaves Monday and was quick to convey her disgust at Donald Trump using courtrooms and courthouses to increase engagement in his 2024 election and score more campaign cash.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) kicked off the conversation looking at the big cash demands coming from multiple court cases, which she argued prop up a victimhood narrative he uses to squeeze supporters for donations.

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'There doesn’t appear to be a strategy': Legal expert says Trump's fraud appeal is aimless

Former President Donald Trump filed a notice of appeal against the verdict in his New York fraud trial on Monday, prompting legal experts to debate what, if any, is his legal strategy.

When asked about the filing, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner summed it up: "It says absolutely nothing."

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Trump ally threatens to sink State of the Union to put pressure on Biden

Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) suggested that House Republicans might disrupt the State of the Union address to pressure President Joe Biden to accept their legislative priorities.

The Donald Trump ally warned that congressional Republicans might rescind an invitation to address the joint session on March 7 as leverage to force Biden to accept border legislation favored by conservatives after a bipartisan bill failed in the U.S. Senate.

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'This is how he feels about us': Whoopi sounds the alarm on Trump’s latest brand of racism

The co-hosts of "The View" started Monday off with a recap of Donald Trump's comments about people of color in speeches over the weekend.

Trump told crowds that he is getting greater support in the African American community because he was indicted four times on 91 charges — implying that people of color now relate to him because he claims he's victimized by the criminal justice system.

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Republican claims Ronna McDaniel quit because she won't let Trump 'use RNC as a bank'

Former Republican senior congressional adviser Rina Shah added to what many have hinted at over the past several weeks — the breakup between Donald Trump and Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel involved money.

Speaking to MSNBC Monday, Shah, a former 2016 RNC delegate, said that the root of the bust-up is the struggle between Trump and people in the party who are not loyal to him.

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