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Colbert knows Trump never read Hitler's manifesto — unless it was in a children's book

Teleprompter Donald Trump probably read a preschool version of "Mein Kampf"— if he read any of the former German leader's manifestos at all.

Comedian Stephen Colbert sarcastically took a dig at the former president for channeling Hitler with the recent "blood poisoning" reference.

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Another drill sergeant found dead at South Carolina's Fort Jackson: Army

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the second time in little more than a week a drill sergeant was found dead at Fort Jackson, the U.S. Army said Monday. The body of Staff Sgt. Zachary L. Melton, a 30-year-old with the 1st Battalion, 34th Infantry Regiment, was discovered on Saturday at Fort Jackson, Army officials said in a news release. After he failed to report to work, an unresponsive Melton was found in his vehicle, according to the release. The Directorate of Emergency Services were called, and Emergency Medical Services personnel pronounced Melton dead shortly after arriving, officials said. On Dec. ...

Georgia Republican mocks Trump and co-defendants 'batting 0 for 500' in court

Donald Trump and his co-defendants are swinging and missing.

Geoff Duncan, the former GOP lieutenant governor of Georgia, turned to baseball metaphors to drive home the poor showing in court among Trump and those floating in his orbit.

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Maddow sounds the alarm that voters are loving Donald Trump's new Hitleresque campaign

While many people in the country heard about synagogue threats in their state over the weekend it wasn't until Sunday and Monday that it became clear there was a coordinated act of terrorism unfolding across the United States.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow sounded the alarm on Monday that it wasn't merely the few threats in Mississippi and a handful in Washington, D.C., but hundreds of threats from California to Maine and Florida to Washington state. USA Today explained that there were more threats in a single day than the U.S. had in an entire year in 2022. They charted 200. CNN later calculated over 400 threats.

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Giuliani's latest attacks on Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss could land him in jail: expert

Former President Donald Trump's longtime ally Rudy Giuliani, fresh off of his $148 million loss in the defamation case brought by poll workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, is continuing to push the same false claims. It opened him up to a second lawsuit at a moment when he is already drained of money from his legal fees.

But that could be the least of his worries, argued former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Monday evening — he could soon find himself re-arrested in the Georgia election racketeering case, as his ongoing attacks on Freeman and Moss also violates the terms of his pretrial release.

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North Korea ICBM test was a response to the U.S. being mean

By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Tuesday it had tested the isolated state's newest ICBM on Monday to gauge the war readiness of its nuclear force against mounting U.S. hostility, as Washington and its allies began operating a real-time missile data sharing system. North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un watched Monday's launch of the Hwasong-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at a site east of the capital, Pyongyang. The missile reached an altitude of 6,518 km (4,050 miles), flying 1,002 km and accurately hitting the intended target, an empty patch of sea, s...

Even far-right judges are 'having none' of Mark Meadows' trial antics: Legal expert

11th Circuit Appeals Chief Judge William Pryor is an extremely right-wing jurist. Having been on a shortlist for former President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominations, Pryor has supported the power of states to ban LGBTQ sex acts, and hired a GOP activist who was kicked out of Turning Point USA for saying "I hate Blacks" as one of his law clerks.

But even he was completely unpersuaded by former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' bid to interfere with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' racketeering case against the plot to overturn the 2020 election, said former solicitor general Neal Katyal on MSNBC Monday.

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Republicans are embracing white nationalist blood purity 'to stay in power': GOP columnist

A panel on MSNBC hammered Republicans and the mainstream media for downplaying Donald Trump's white purity campaign.

Host Joy Reid on Monday, explained that it continues to be a discussion about non-white people damaging the blood of white purity.

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'The stain is on you': Ex-RNC chair slams GOP for silence on Trump's call for blood purity

The Republican Party at large owns former President Donald Trump's increasing descent into fascistic and racist rhetoric, former GOP chair Michael Steele told MSNBC's Katie Phang on Monday.

This comes as Trump stated at a rally that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," language that has clear roots in Nazi Germany — and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) defended it furiously when cornered by reporters.

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Ron DeSantis campaign organizer arrested for actions during Jan. 6 riot

A Florida woman who interned for Sen. Marco Rubio and worked as an organizer for Gov. Ron DeSantis' campaign was taken into custody for Jan.6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Prosecutors say Barbara Balmaseda of Miami Lakes, Florida was captured on CCTV footage "entering the Capital building via the Senate Wing door at approximately 2:16 p.m., just four minutes after rioters initially breached the building," according to a release by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia. "According to the allegations, when Balmaseda entered the building, broken glass was scattered on the ground, and an alarm blared near the doorway.

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Ron DeSantis lost in translation over Donald Trump's 'blood stuff'

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is lost in Trumpistan.

Former President Donald Trump's repeated refrain about illegal migrants "poisoning the blood" of the country has stumped the Florida governor hoping to earn the GOP nomination for president.

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Trump's million-dollar expert 'lost all credibility': Fraud trial judge says

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - An expert witness paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial "lost all credibility" by "doggedly" justifying the former U.S. president's business records, the judge overseeing the case said on Monday. Eli Bartov, a New York University accounting professor, testified on Dec. 7 that he did not see any evidence of fraud in Trump's family real estate company's financial statements, which New York state's attorney general alleges overstated property values in order to win favorable loan and insurance terms. Bartov testified ...

Here's the video that could help Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss win a lawsuit against Trump

Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani faces a $148 million judgment for pushing lies and conspiracy theories about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after their lives and reputations were completely derailed by threats and harassment.

But Giuliani could be just the beginning, argued MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday — the former president himself could end up on the hook as well.

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