Nikki Haley

President Donald Trump will be running for president for a third time in 2024, but the effort will be largely geared towards personal enrichment, a former official explained on Saturday.

MSNBC's Alex Witt interviewed Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump's communications director in 2017.

MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough called out House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Friday morning for sucking up to Donald Trump in the belief it will allow him to hang onto his leadership position within the Republican Party, calling the California Republican -- in a word -- "gutless."

Speaking with Morning Joe co-host Willie Geist, the MSNBC host reminded McCarthy of the ex-president's complicity in the Jan 6th. Capitol riot that had lawmakers -- including McCarthy -- fleeing for their lives.

Observing that McCarthy accused fellow Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) of participating in "cancel culture" for attacking Trump, Scarborough joked, "Do they get paid money every time they say those words, 'cancel culture'? How stupid can you be? They're blaming everything on, quote, 'cancel culture,' even when it doesn't apply. If somebody trips over their shoelace and falls down, they going to blame it on cancel culture."

"Here you have Kevin McCarthy accusing Liz Cheney of cancel culture?" the MNSNBC host continued. "I don't really understand, when it was Kevin McCarthy who was on the phone screaming at Donald Trump when he feared for his life. It was Kevin McCarthy begging the terrorists -- that Donald Trump call down the terrorists and stop the terrorists from attacking -- and Donald Trump refused to do it. When Kevin got angry, he said, 'well, I guess those attackers, I guess they're more upset about the election than you are, Kevin.'"

"And McCarthy goes to the floor attacking Donald Trump and then, like [Republican Sen.] Lindsey Graham, gets scared, scared of his own shadow and flies down to Mar-a-Lago and takes a picture with Donald Trump," he continued. "Just like [Trump administration U.N. ambassador] Nikki Haley. She dares to tell the truth about him for about three seconds, and now she's going to try to get back in with Donald Trump because he's refusing to meet with her at Mar-a-Lago. It is extraordinary that these people want to meet with the man."

"So my question really is: how sick does a political party have to be? How gutless and directionless does a politician have to be to actually want to be within 100 miles of that guy on the left, " Scarborough said in reference to a picture on the screen with Trump standing next to McCarthy, "who will forever be remembered as the only president ever to call for an insurrection against the United States of America to try to stop a peaceful transition of power and stop the constitutional process of counting electoral votes."

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A large tapestry depicting Pablo Picasso's fabled "Guernica" that hung outside the UN Security Council chamber for decades to remind diplomats of the risks of war has returned to its owner, Nelson Rockefeller, Jr., officials said Thursday.

Commissioned in 1955 by Nelson Rockefeller and woven by the French workshop Jacqueline de La Baume-Dürrbach, the tapestry had been on loan to the world body since 1984.

Several potential Republican contenders are jockeying for position on the "Trump turnpike" this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Former president Donald Trump, who will begin his re-entry into politics with his CPAC speech, remains the GOP's undisputed leader, but contestants in the next two election cycles will also fire off the starting line in the event that he decides not to run for another term, reported Politico.

As President Donald Trump enters his new life post-presidency, he's getting exactly what he wanted when he was in the White House: Zero responsibility with all of the perks and power, according to Vanity Fair.

The Former Presidents Act provides that Trump gets a pension without pressure to donate it to charity, taxpayer-funded healthcare, security and $1 million a year to handle his staff.

"The View" co-host Meghan McCain didn't exactly defend Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for abandoning his constituents for Cancún during a statewide power outage, but she did change the subject.

The Texas Republican ended the widely criticized vacation after about 12 hours and flew home without his wife and children, who he tried to blame for the travel plans, but McCain didn't really feel like talking about it.

Former President Donald Trump refused to see his former ambassador, Nikki Haley, Politico reported on Thursday. So, she tried to patch up their relationship with a Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Afternoon Playbook cited one source familiar with the situation who said that when Haley reached out Wednesday to Trump, who has moved into Mar-a-Lago as his permanent residence, he turned her down. She reportedly wanted a sit-down meeting with him since the two haven't spoken since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid any tensions to rest Wednesday by finally holding their first phone call since the change of administration in Washington.

Netanyahu was one of the last foreign leaders to get a call from Biden, who took office on January 20, despite Israel's special relationship with the United States.

The chairman of the Utah Republican Party was put on the spot on Tuesday morning over reports that GOP voters are fleeing the party since pro-Donald Trump rioters overran the Capitol on January 6th.

Speaking with host Poppy Harlow, Derek Brown appeared on CNN to discuss GOP lawmakers in his state who want to censure Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) for voting to convict Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection as part of the ex-president's second impeachment trial.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) said the Republican Party is likely to descend into turmoil following the end of Donald Trump's impeachment trial as the various factions with the party battle with each other over the future of the post-Trump party.

According to Dent, the GOP is in "a really bad spot."