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'His deterioration is accelerating': Psychologists express alarm at latest Trump gaffes

Two professional psychologists this weekend explained why they are growing increasingly alarmed at what they say is former President Donald Trump's "deteriorating" mental state.

Harry Segal, clinical psychologist and senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at Cornell University, and John Gartner, a psychologist and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, hosted a podcast on Saturday where they discussed the urgent need to talk publicly about Trump's mental stability heading into the 2024 presidential election.

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'Reagan did the same thing': Fox News host corners Rick Scott on Biden's Israel policy

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) could not come up with a good answer Sunday when Fox News guest host Benjamin Hall pointed out that President Joe Biden had a similar Israel policy to former President Ronald Reagan.

As Scott was criticizing Biden for not providing enough support to Israel, Hall noted that he was not the first president to withhold arms from Israel.

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'He had dinner with an anti-Semite': CNN host grills JD Vance on bigoted Trump statements

CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday grilled Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) about former President Donald Trump's repeated attacks on American Jews and his associations with notorious anti-Semites.

During the interview, Bash asked Vance to comment on Trump's recent remarks that any Jewish person who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 should be "ashamed" of themselves.

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'Crowd has been thinning': Trump supporters reportedly 'walking out' of N.J. rally

Donald Trump loves to brag about the "huge" size of his political rallies, but on Saturday a reporter spotted the ex-president's supporters leaving the event while he was still speaking.

Trump over the weekend spoke in New Jersey, which most polls show is solidly behind the current president, Joe Biden. After the event, the former president was criticized for making a mistake about China and for apparently slurring his speech.

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'Carry-dite-bye-raye-sigh-en': Trump mocked as rally shows his 'slurring is getting worse'

Donald Trump was ridiculed online after his rally on Saturday, including for appearing to "slur" his words.

The former president spoke in New Jersey over the weekend, where he confused people with his comments about "O.J." and appeared to mistake Beijing for Taiwan.

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas dismisses lavish gifts reports as lies

WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has found himself under scrutiny over his judicial decisions and accepting lavish gifts from a billionaire Republican, is dismissing the criticism as "nastiness" and "lies," according to U.S. media.

"There's certainly been a lot of negativity in our lives, my wife and I, over the last few years, but we choose not to focus on it," the New York Times quoted Thomas as saying Friday at a judicial conference in the southern U.S. state of Alabama.

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Wisconsin GOP details aftermath of $2.3 million theft

The Republican Party of Wisconsin has vowed to not get fooled again — at least not like it did in October 2020, according to a letter the party committee sent the Federal Election Commission on Friday night.

After initially losing more than $2.3 million to hackers just days before Election Day 2020, the Republican Party of Wisconsin told the FEC that it's taken "concrete steps" to better defend against fraud after falling victim to one of the nation's largest cybertheft incidents that targeted a political committee.

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'Trump is not winning': Strategist says 'ugliness of MAGA' is causing GOP to 'lose ground'

A lot of polls show that Donald Trump has a good chance of winning the 2024 election, but one strategist doesn't see that actually happening.

Democratic political strategist Simon Rosenberg analyzed the state of the presidential race on Saturday, ultimately concluding that "Trump is not winning" the race against President Joe Biden. Rosenberg's analysis was published as part of his Hopium Chronicles.

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'Mighty damn corrupt': Senate likely to investigate Trump’s 'quid pro quo' with oil barons

Former President Donald Trump recently made a controversial proposal to a gathering of oil executives and lobbyists at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida: favorable policy in exchange for $1 billion in campaign cash.

Now, it looks as if the U.S. Senate may launch an official inquiry into the ex-president.

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Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon

Brian K. Pritchard is no longer the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party after a large majority of his fellow Republicans voted to remove him from his position this week.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Pritchard was removed from his role as the party's number two official after a whopping 86% of the Georgia GOP's state committee supported a motion to oust him.

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U.S. report criticizes Israel but does not block arms

A long-awaited State Department report on Friday said that Israel likely violated norms on international law in its use of US weapons but it did not find enough evidence to block shipments.

The report said it was "reasonable to assess" that Israel, which receives some $3 billion in US weapons a year, has used the arms in ways inconsistent with standards on humanitarian rights but that the United States could not reach "conclusive findings."

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Trump insiders say Nikki Haley being considered for VP — if she pays his legal fees

Donald Trump’s campaign is considering offering the role of vice president to his most long-standing campaign rival, Axios reported Saturday.

Nikki Haley is under “active consideration” for the position, according to unnamed insiders in the former president’s camp.

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Fox News' Laura Ingraham mocked for lacking 'self awareness' over latest Biden accusation

Fox News' Laura Ingraham held a segment on Friday evening that took aim squarely at President Joe Biden — but her core complaint with him raised immediate eyebrows.

Biden, she thundered, is "a man who thought an endless stream of made-up, folksy anecdotes were enough to hide the fact that he believed in nothing — nothing at all — except building his own brand to help his family get rich."

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