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'They literally have nothing!' Morning Joe busts GOP's overheated claims about 'Biden crime family'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Rep. James Comer (R-KY) for admitting the Republican investigation into President Joe Biden's family was intended to hurt his 2024 chances.

The GOP-led House has investigated the president's son Hunter Biden and other family members who've done business overseas, but the "Morning Joe" host said those probes had failed to turn up substantial evidence of wrongdoing, just as previous politically motived Republican inquiries have.

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Trump's 'overwhelming insecurity' could cost him a lot of money in new legal twist: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump's insecurity could end up costing him a lot of money in another defamation suit.

Author and columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge to amend her defamation case against the former president to seek additional punitive damages after Trump again called her rape allegations a "fake story" during a CNN town hall, just days after a jury held him liable for defamation and sexual abuse.

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'Biggest problems': Morning Joe points out key threats to Trump after latest Mar-a-Lago revelations

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough believes Donald Trump's gathering legal problems will eventually hurt him with Republican voters.

The National Archives has notified the former president that it will hand over 16 records to special counsel Jack Smith, who is investigating classified documents that were found in Trump's Mar-a-Lago home. The records reportedly show that the former president and his advisers were aware of the correct declassification process, which the "Morning Joe" host said undercuts his stated defense and could help prove a key element in a criminal case.

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'Just nonsense': Morning Joe mocks Murdoch-owned media for lying about Durham findings

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped conservative media outlets for misrepresenting findings by special counsel John Durham.

The Republican-appointed Durham finally issued a report in his years-long investigation into the origins of the Donald Trump-Russia probe that turned up no bombshell findings and included only minor recommendations for FBI reform, although several outlets owned by Fox News boss Rupert Murdoch suggested otherwise.

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Bombshell pardon selling allegations could lead to charges for Giuliani: legal expert

A legal expert said Tuesday that the Department of Justice is likely interested in new allegations that Rudy Giuliani had offered to sell pardons while he was working in Donald Trump's administration

A recent lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani alleges that the former New York City mayor was attempting to sell pardons for $2 million.

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Morning Joe notices pro-Trump friends losing enthusiasm: 'Too many cases -- too crazy'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough has noticed that some of his Donald Trump-loving friends are beginning to back away from the former president.

The former president's top Republican rival, Ron DeSantis, pointed out the GOP's losing streak under Trump's leadership, and the "Morning Joe" shared some admittedly anecdotal evidence that could show a worrying trend line for his 2024 chances.

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Morning Joe gloats over Durham's 'humiliating' flop: 'Bad writing and bush-league posturing'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough gloated over the failure of special counsel John Durham's years-long investigation into the federal probe into Donald Trump's ties to Russia.

Trump-era attorney general William Barr tapped Durham to re-examine how the government investigated possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian election interference, but the $6.5 million probe failed to send a single person to jail and resulted in two acquittals, while a former FBI lawyer pleaded guilty to altering an email that a colleague used to seek court approval for surveillance of a Trump adviser.

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Lawsuit against Giuliani could also reveal money laundering, Ukraine meddling and Trump's election fraud: accuser

A new lawsuit was filed Monday against Rudy Giuliani alleging wage theft, sexual harassment, money laundering, selling of pardons, and a number of other accusations by former staffer Noelle Dunphy. Giuliani responded by saying that she had never worked for him.

"Now the lawsuit, to be clear, it's about Rudolph Giuliani as described, luring this woman, who he finds attractive into working for him, promising her to pay her a million dollars a year, which he can't pay her right now because he's trying to hide money from his wife while he's in divorce proceedings," described MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell during his Monday evening show. "And if she just waits until the divorce is over, which is way more than the year in the story that is told, then she will be paid retroactively all the money that she's owed."

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Fulton County DA tells judge to dismiss Trump's demand to hide grand jury report

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has responded to a recent filing from Donald Trump and fake elector Cathy Latham attempting to block a special grand jury report from being released.

Lawfare writer Anna Bower posted the filing, reading, "that all of the evidence 'derived from' the SPGJ be suppressed in any future proceedings; and that the Fulton County District Attorney's Office be disqualified from 'any further investigation and/or prosecution of this matter or any related matter derived from their use of the SPGJ.'"

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Why the Durham report is a major disappointment for Trump and his supporters

Former special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday in which he criticized the FBI for investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. But the details of the report are likely to disappoint Trump and his supporters, according to one expert.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace shortly after the over 300-page report was released, Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff Swan walked through her observations.

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Trump advisers used outraged AOC tweets to pump him up backstage during CNN town hall: report

Former President Donald Trump's advisers pumped him up during his CNN town hall by showing him supportive social media posts at commercial breaks.

The ex-president acted more aggressive toward moderator Kaitlan Collins after the first commercial break, when his longtime adviser Jason Miller showed him freshly posted tweets from prominent Democrats criticizing the network's decision to host the event and declaring Trump the winner, reported Axios.

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'No smoking gun': Morning Joe laughs as GOP's 'Biden crime family' claims fall apart on Fox News

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed at the Republican Party's investigation of President Joe Biden's family, which now appears to have flopped.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) presented his evidence of alleged influence peddling involving the president's brother and son to "Fox & Friends," but host Steve Doocy was not convinced at all that Republicans had proved their case, and the "Morning Joe" host mocked their failure.

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Trump once again showed he's 'Putin's dream' American president: Morning Joe guest

Donald Trump was noticeably noncommittal about his position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and national security expert Tom Nichols said he would give Vladimir Putin everything he wanted if re-elected as president.

The ex-president -- who was impeached in 2019 for an extortion scheme involving Ukraine -- told a town hall audience assembled by CNN that he wanted the killing to stop but refused to say who should prevail in the war, and Nichols told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that was an ominous sign.

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