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Former White House communications chief, Stephanie Grisham, confessed that Donald Trump's announcement speech wasn't quite what she thought it would be.

Speaking to Alex Witt on Sunday, Grisham agreed that it was "low energy," an attack Trump once lobbed at Jeb Bush. She said that it appeared that in his speech they were doing some message testing with the speech, which may have been why he was reading it from the TelePrompter.

A Fox News expert said on Sunday that hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community happen because children are not taught tolerance in elementary schools.

Following a mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado over the weekend, Steve Rogers suggested to Fox News host Arthel Neville that laws limiting LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools do not help stop hate crimes.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) hasn't announced he's running for president yet, but Donald Trump has — and he's expecting to win the support of Republicans in Pennsylvania, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.

DeSantis was in the state to help support Doug Mastriano during the final months of the campaign. Mastriano lost, along with some of the other candidates DeSantis supported like Derrick Schmidt.

While Donald Trump remains the favorite to be the GOP's nominee in 2024, some are growing increasingly worried that rising skepticism in his party over his influence will prevent him from winning another term, the Washington Examiner reports.

"Republicans saw disappointing midterm results, with Democrats outperforming several high-profile Trump-endorsed candidates. While not all Republicans blame the former president for the fallout, many argue that his shrinking appeal with swing and independent voters has alienated parts of the American electorate the party must claw back in order to win," the Examiner's report stated.

On Friday morning, Donald Trump went on a multiple-post tirade on his struggling Truth Social platform complaining about how his Trump Organization is being persecuted in a Manhattan courtroom for using accounting scams to avoid paying taxes on income.

According to the Washington Post, longtime Trump financial executive Allen Weisselberg grew teary-eyed when describing the ways he illegally dodged taxes before his boss became president.

Former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are moving toward an inevitable clash, and political insiders tried to imagine how that would ultimately play out in the 2024 race.

Political insiders say Trump remains the Republican favorite until he's not, although some GOP donors have already said they're backing the Florida governor over the former president, and some believe DeSantis can weaken and wear down Trump by essentially ignoring him until the primary campaign begins in earnest, reported Politico.

On Thursday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," former President Donald Trump's "Art of the Deal" co-author Tony Schwartz predicted how the former president's third consecutive bid for the White House will play out.

"Right now in the republican primary, there's only one person running, and it's the former president, and he ran earlier than most," said Schwartz. "I'll show you a few headlines here. We haven't done this a bunch. People trying to walk out. Ivanka Trump publicly counting herself out. She could have delayed that. She made it clear immediately. Right-wing donors backing away. Some say it's different this time and he's weakened. Others say not so fast. You have some knowledge here. Your take, for the first time, tonight."

After securing the majority in the wake of the midterms, House Republicans announced their plans to focus on multiple targets for investigation regarding President Joe Biden and his family's business practices.

“In the 118th Congress, this committee will evaluate the status of Joe Biden’s relationship with his family’s foreign partners and whether he is a President who is compromised or swayed by foreign dollars and influence,” said Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee. “I want to be clear: This is an investigation of Joe Biden, and that’s where the committee will focus in this next Congress.”

Judge Arthur F. Engoron has instructed a retired judge to begin monitoring the practices of the Trump Organization and new court documents reveal the scope of her powers.

According to the decision filed Thursday, the former president's company has two weeks to deliver retired Judge Barbara S. Jones "a full and accurate description of the corporate structure" there.