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If Haley can't say 'slavery' — can she defend Trump's 'racist' attacks toward her: analyst

Donald Trump sees Nikki Haley as the closest Republican behind him, so he's questioning whether she can legally run for the presidency.

Political strategist, Dr. Basil Smikle, Ph.D., appearing on CNN's "Out Front" with Erin Burnett, accused the former president of trafficking in hate by attempting to bring back a debunked accusation to score political points.

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Trump says he wants economy to crash ASAP so he can have something to use against Biden

In an interview posted Monday on Mike Lindell's new streaming network, Donald Trump told disgraced former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs that he really hopes the economy crashes as soon as possible.

While Americans are climbing out of the economic fall in 2020, numbers have slowly improved, charts posted by the Washington Post explain. Inflation is continuing to go down. Employment continues to go up. After Republicans blamed President Joe Biden for high gas prices, those have fallen.

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Jack Smith could have a witness Trump 'wanted the violence': Jan. 6 investigator

Special counsel Jack Smith now has clear and devastating insight into former President Donald Trump's intent and mental state during the attack on the U.S. Capitol, argued former House January 6 Committee investigator Tim Heaphy on MSNBC Monday.

This comes amid new reporting that a key Trump campaign official gave Smith testimony that Trump didn't care if the violence at the Capitol stopped.

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'He wants the coverage': Trump brutally fact-checked over campaign flier claim

Former President Donald Trump was the subject of a brutal fact-check Monday after legal experts found his election flier claims that his court cases were keeping him from the campaign trail.

MSNBC legal expert Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves Monday to explain Trump doesn't have to appear in court this week for his cases after an email to supporters went viral.

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Trump has 'steep uphill climb' to convince judges in upcoming hearing: legal expert

Donald Trump is facing a big week in court, but he faces a "steep uphill climb" in his effort to escape prosecution in the Washington, D.C., election subversion case, according to an expert.

The former president has asked an appeals court to grant him broad immunity in that case and others, arguing that he was acting in his official capacity as president when he sought to overturn his 2020 election loss.

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Conservative zeroes in on 'least plausible' claim Trump made about Civil War

Donald Trump blamed the Civil War on Abraham Lincoln in a campaign speech over the weekend, but conservative Charlie Sykes said his sourcing was implausible.

The ex-president spoke to supporters in Iowa, where he claimed Lincoln should have "negotiated" an end to slavery to avoid bloodshed, and Sykes told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that was one more example of Trump's right-wing extremism.

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Trump leaning into his criminality because Republicans love his crimes: Morning Joe

Donald Trump has been leaning into the crimes that he's been charged with committing, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough concluded that his supporters actually approve of him breaking the law.

The twice-impeached former president has been indicted four times on 91 counts, found liable for fraud and sexual assault, and disqualified from two states' ballots for violating the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, but his lawyers insist Trump should be immune from prosecution and called for special counsel Jack Smith to be held in contempt for working on the case before that appeal is decided.

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'Deranged': Morning Joe pounces on 'lunatic' Trump's latest rant

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned Donald Trump's latest remarks about the Civil War and bashed conservatives who continue to run cover for his outrageous statements and behavior.

The twice-impeached former president, who has been disqualified from the ballot in two states under the Constitution's insurrectionist clause, suggested in a campaign speech over the weekend that Abraham Lincoln should have negotiated an eventual end to slavery to avert bloodshed, and the "Morning Joe" host was appalled.

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Like having your dad give Harvard $2M: Internet mocks Jared Kushner speech on 'challenges'

An October interview with Jared Kushner was unearthed Sunday, showing an overlooked piece of his interview with Lex Fridman in which the Kushner heir explains how he overcomes "challenges" he has in business or life.

Ron Filipkowski, editor and chief of the organization Meidas Touch, clipped a 40-second piece from an extensive interview after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. While it dealt primarily with the unfolding hostage crisis and Kushner's pledge to solve Middle East peace, he touched on the business aspect of his life, leading to considerable ridicule.

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'If they are hostages then what are we — the police?' Capitol cop asks Elise Stefanik

One of the officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, expressed his concern about the recent Republican talking point that those arrested and convicted, or those who pleaded guilty, are hostages.

Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on the final night of his Sunday show, Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said that making things up like the "hostages" comment is crazy, given they are people who have been convicted in court.

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Host knocks CNN live on air for even mentioning the Jan. 6 conspiracies

CNN Headline News host S.E. Cupp was disgusted with the idea that a panel's conversation turned to questioning the legitimacy of whether Jan. 6 was a conspiracy from the FBI.

The conversation began with Republicans like Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) adopting the language of Donald Trump about his supporters in prison for violence against the U.S. Capitol as "hostages," akin to those kidnapped in Israel by Hamas. Republican Party leaders have since adopted the language.

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'He knows he's lying': Ex-Trump press secretary recalls him telling her to lie

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham recalled that during her time on Donald Trump's team, the ex-president told her to lie to the press because all that needed to happen was they say the lie enough.

The conversation she had with CNN's Jim Acosta was about Jan. 6 and Trump's so-called belief that he won the 2020 election. Trump recently renewed the claim of the "big lie" that he won, but Grisham said that there is no doubt in her mind that he knows it isn't true.

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Would they be 'hostages' if they broke into Mar-a-Lago? Ex-Trump aide on Jan. 6 rioters

Stephanie Grisham worked briefly as Donald Trump's press secretary, but she spent the majority of her time working with first lady Melania Trump's office. She was there on Jan. 6 when the U.S. Capitol came under siege by MAGA fans who tried to stop Congress' certification of 2020 presidential electoral votes.

On the weekend of the third anniversary, CNN's Jim Acosta couldn't help but notice the new Republican Party talking point to referring to those in prison for their crimes on Jan. 6 as "hostages" rather than convicts. Grisham suspected it's a new talking point that Republicans are being urged to use to refer to rioters.

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