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Reporter reveals new detail that ‘puts Trump at the center’ of stolen docs case

A detail from a new Washington Post report shows that Donald Trump was personally involved in returning only a portion of the government documents the National Archives had repeatedly asked him to return.

The former president asked one of his lawyers to tell the National Archives earlier this year that he had returned all the documents, which the attorney refused to do because he wasn't sure it was true, and the Post's Jacqueline Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Trump personally packed the boxes himself -- suggesting that he was fully aware that additional materials remained at Mar-a-Lago.

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‘Scary as hell’: GOP pollster spooked by survey showing Republicans drifting away from democracy

A new survey shows Republicans are more likely than any other political group to reject the results of a losing election, and a veteran pollster expressed alarm at those findings.

The new poll conducted by Yahoo News and YouGov found just 43 percent of Republicans say political candidates who got fewer votes should concede their loss, compared to 74 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of independents, and Republican pollster Frank Luntz told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" those results were chilling.

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'It's a political loser': Morning Joe says Biden impeachment chatter could doom GOP's midterm chances

Republicans have promised to impeach President Joe Biden if they retake the House majority, but MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said that could cost them a shot at winning.

The White House reportedly is gaining confidence that the various investigations being proposed by congressional Republicans may backfire politically, and the "Morning Joe" host agreed that might motivate the ultra-MAGA base but would doom their chances with other voters.

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Morning Joe claims Trump is trying to get Mitch McConnell killed

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough explained what Donald Trump thinks he has to gain from issuing a death threat against Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell.

The former president raged that McConnell had a "death wish" and racially slurred his "China loving wife" Elaine Chao in a Friday night Truth Social rant, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump clearly sees the Kentucky Republican as an obstacle that needs to be removed.

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'She's in this up to her neck': Morning Joe unravels 'demented' Ginni Thomas' role in Jan. 6 'coup'

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" denounced Ginni Thomas for proudly affirming her belief in Donald Trump's election lies during testimony before the Jan. 6 committee.

The wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas testified before the House select committee, whose chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) revealed that she still believes the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, and she emerged smiling from the interview with lawmakers.

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Morning Joe hammers GOP's mishandling of Jan. 6 probe: 'This is just a self-own'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said congressional Republicans had played themselves by refusing to join efforts to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who serves on the House select committee investigating the attack, recently confronted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) for spreading debunked conspiracy theories accusing FBI agents of fomenting the riot, and the "Morning Joe" host said that was emblematic of the GOP's response to the insurrection.

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‘Pure madness’: Morning Joe calmly dismantles GOP complaints about America

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough calmly dismantled Republican claims that America's greatness was diminished when they were out of power.

Former President Donald Trump gripes through his campaign rallies about gasoline prices and rising crime, but the "Morning Joe" host said those complaints were simply unfounded.

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Morning Joe: Republicans are fooling themselves if they think Trumpism will just fade away

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Republicans are fooling themselves if they believe anti-democratic views will fade away when Donald Trump exits the political scene.

The "Morning Joe" host said his former party had become a "personality cult" around the former president, but he said the forces that Trump unleashed in the GOP had to be defeated -- and he said Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) seemed to be one of the only Republicans who seemed to grasp that.

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Trump Organization suddenly ‘in a world of pain’ with cascading legal problems: Mueller prosecutor

The Trump Organization is facing existential threats with a new lawsuit filed by New York attorney general Letitia James and a tax fraud trial scheduled to start next month.

The attorney general filed a $250 million civil fraud lawsuit against Donald Trump, his three eldest children, his family-owned business and some of the company's top executives, alleging that they wildly inflated property values for personal gain and underreported assets for tax purposes -- and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weismann told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that's not the only peril they face.

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Trump’s delay strategy quickly stalls because the special master’s ‘patience already ran out’: reporter

Donald Trump loves to stall out investigations with lengthy legal battles, but his effort to do that in the Mar-a-Lago documents case probably won't drag things out quite as long as he'd like.

District court judge Aileen Cannon granted the former president's request for a special master to examine the government documents seized at his Florida resort, apparently hoping that would drag out the process past the election or beyond, but NBC News reporter Tom Winter said that doesn't seem like it will work.

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'Pure essence of judicial corruption': Morning Joe panelists 'stunned' by Cannon's ruling on classified docs

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough was so mystified by the latest ruling by District Court judge Aileen Cannon that he wondered if it had been written by Donald Trump himself.

The federal judge selected a special master to sort through documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago, but Palm Beach state attorney Dave Aronberg told "Morning Joe" that he was astonished by her reasoning to withhold top-secret government materials from the Department of Justice.

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'A form of terrorism': MSNBC's Heilemann slams Trump's 'hostage-taking' over potential indictment

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and John Heilemann sounded the alarm on Donald Trump's "fascist" predictions of street violence if he's indicted in one of the many criminal cases against him.

The twice-impeached former president appeared Thursday on conservative broadcaster Hugh Hewitt's talk radio program, where he warned there would be "problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen" if he faced prosecution, and the "Morning Joe" host said that was clearly a violent threat.

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'Clearly wrong': Morning Joe rips Trump judge for 'bizarre' Mar-a-Lago order that 'harms national security'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped a judge's ruling appointing a special master to review documents seized from Mar-a-Lago and setting restrictions on the Department of Justice investigation.

District Court judge Aileen Cannon's ruling forbids the DOJ from presenting those seized materials before a grand jury or using the contents of the documents to conduct witness interviews, which essentially prevents the department from indicting Trump until the order is lifted, and the "Morning Joe" host was baffled and outraged.

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