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Recent developments have sparked fears that the Trump administration is plotting to “engineer” its ideal outcome for the upcoming midterm elections, but journalists Greg Sargent and Gillian Brockell argued Tuesday that the administration had “overshot so badly” that its 2026 plot may end up backfiring spectacularly.

Last week, President Donald Trump’s FBI – controversially accompanied by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard – raided an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, which remains at the center of Trump’s longstanding false claims that he won the 2020 election.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration’s ongoing immigration raids have sparked concern that they could suppress voter turnout among nonwhite Americans. And on Monday, Trump openly called for Republicans to “take over” the voting process in a number of states ahead of the upcoming midterm elections....

Members of the team behind the Melania Trump documentary are hoping the film bombs at the box office, according to a report.

Insiders have suggested the filming of the Brett Ratner-helmed documentary, "Melania," was chaos behind the scenes. Part of the problem was getting access to Melania and the Trump family, but some issues were caused by Ratner himself, according to Rolling Stone. The film director has not worked on a project since 2014's Hercules and was subject to a number of sexual assault and harassment allegations in 2017.

One insider, speaking to Rolling Stone, said, "People were worked really hard. Really long hours, highly disorganized, very chaotic." ...

The American media refuses to call them out, so I guess the job falls to me: you can cut the racism with a knife, it’s so thick. With the Trump administration, the Confederacy is actively rising again, using the Lost Cause mythology/lie as its basis.

Trump this past week, apparently just in time for Veterans Day, erased tributes to Black U.S. soldiers who died fighting fascism — removing displays and plaques honoring African American liberators in Europe and removing similar memorial content at home — not merely to rewrite history but to say that only white men’s stories matter.

First, he claimed that brown-skinned people from south of the border were “murderers and rapists,” openly promoting racist tropes and activating enthusiastic bigots all across America to his side....

A ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Cameron McGowan Currie has some legal experts “scratching their heads” as it appears to be putting newly-appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsay Halligan in the position for a face-to-face smack-down next Monday.

That is the opinion of former litigator and current MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who claimed there is more than enough evidence for the judge to dismiss the case against New York Attorney General Letitia James for bank fraud out of hand, but she is holding off until Monday where she will take up both the James case and the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” Rubin stated, “Judge Currie does seem skeptical, but she issued an order in both cases yesterday that has some people scratching their heads as well. And here's what she's asking for: she's telling the government, by Monday at 5 P.M. which is not, coincidentally, the day on which they have to respond to these motions to dismiss the indictments because of Lindsay Halligan, you also have to give me all evidence of Lindsey Halligan's involvement in the grand jury proceedings affecting both Tish James and Jim Comey.”...

President Donald Trump vowed to eradicate mail-in ballots and “controversial voting machines” via an executive order ahead of the 2026 midterm elections Monday in an early-morning rant on social media.

“I am going to lead a movement to get rid of mail-in ballots, and also, while we’re at it, highly ‘inaccurate, very expensive, and seriously controversial voting machines, which cost ten times more than accurate and sophisticated watermark paper,” Trump wrote in an online post on his social media platform Truth Social. “The mail-in ballot hoax, using voting machines that are a complete and total disaster, must end now!”

Trump has long been a critic of mail-in voting, arguing that the practice is fraught with fraud, despite no evidence supporting his claims. He aggressively attacked mail-in voting in the lead-up to the 2020 election, rhetoric that led to significant party splits by vote methods, with Republican voters leading in Election Day voting, and Democrats, in mail-in voting....

It’s happening.

This morning, President Donald Trump took the largest step since he took office to test the limits of his power. And he did it in a way calculated not to alarm most Americans.

Trump announced that he was essentially supplanting the D.C. police with the National Guard and — most inappropriately — FBI agents to address what he termed an “emergency” crime problem in the nation’s capital....

In a bid to navigate the “biggest single mistake” of President Donald Trump’s two terms in office, the president has sparked a new “complete catastrophe,” a panel of journalists argued Monday on MS NOW.

“This war with Iran is going to prove to be the biggest single mistake of Donald Trump's two terms in office,” said David Rohde, MS NOW senior national security reporter. “The Saudi Arabian government could fall there — it's a disaster for this country and it's extraordinary what's happening, just the stakes here every day.”

A cascade of attacks has erupted across the Middle East in recent days amid Trump’s deeply unpopular war against Iran, a conflict that has kept U.S. fuel prices elevated. However, Trump has increasingly blamed the Russo-Ukrainian war for elevated fuel prices....

President Donald Trump delivered his rally speech in Tennessee Saturday to entire sections of empty seats at the F&M Bank Arena in Clarksville, new video and photos of the rally revealed.

“President Trump’s crowd on a Saturday afternoon in Clarksville, Tennessee, near the Kentucky border, deep in the heart of Trump country,” wrote New York Times reporter Shawn McCreesh in a social media post on X, alongside a video showing entire seating sections devoid of attendees.

Reuters photographer Seth Herald also captured a photo featuring “a section of empty seats” at the arena while Trump delivered his rally speech, which was disrupted within minutes by a heckler....

President Donald Trump is already displaying signs that he's a depressed old man, and one author predicted that those signs could be magnified if the November midterms go the way the polls currently suggest.

Kurt Anderson, founder of Spy Magazine, told Joanna Coles on a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent statements about his devoted aide, Natalie Harp, suggest he's "manifestly miserable." Trump told reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in an interview for their book "Regime Change" that "All of you will go off and make money ... she'll never leave me," referring to Harp.

Anderson predicted that if Republicans get trounced in the midterms, as polls suggest they might, then Trump's depression might begin to spiral. ...