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'This boils my blood': CNN panel erupts as Republicans praise Trump 'leadership'

A CNN panel erupted in shouting Friday as a Republican tried to defend former President Donald Trump's baseless claims about the Biden Administration's disaster response and liberals reminded them of Trump's record.

Host Abby Phillip opened the conversation with a blunt assessment that Trump had been lying about Biden withholding aid from states less friendly to his party — as two of the Republican's former staffers say Trump did to California in 2018.

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'We don't have to yell': Trump adviser shut down on CNN during Jan. 6 'murdered' rant

A longtime supporter and former adviser to Donald Trump was admonished "Don't do this" and to stop "yelling" when he want off on a rant about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

With the Jan. 6 riot taking center stage once again in the wake of a filing from special counsel Jack Smith accusing the former president of criminal acts, host Jim Acosta, Democratic strategist Karen Finney and conservative David Urban ended up engaging in a contentious debate that went off the rails when Urban claimed MAGA fan Ashli Babbitt was "murdered."

After Urban was told he was "moving the goalposts" to justify Trump's loss to President Joe Biden, Acosta bluntly told the conservative, "The last election was fine – he lost."

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When Finney added, "There are dangerous consequences because the president lied. People died on Jan. 6," Urban fired back.

"The only person who died on Jan. 6 was Ashli Babbitt who was murdered," he accused. "That's the only person who died, let's be straight, Karen, on Jan. 6."

When both Finney and Acosta attempted to push back, Urban shouted, "I'm not trying to minimize it," as Acosta said, "C'mon, let's not do that one."

"Jim, Jim!" the conservative guest yelled. "It's terrible, right?"

"David, David, none of that would have happened if Donald Trump had just been a man and accepted the election results in 2020," Acosta explained as Urban talked over him. "Just man up, that's it – that's the whole ballgame."

"Do you accept personal responsibility is the key in life?" Urban asked as Finney looked on in puzzlement. "When you were a kid and your mom said when you were out with your friends and you did something, you said, 'Well, Billy made me do it, mom,' she would. have said, 'I don't care what Billy did.' You know better and your mom taught you better."

"The people who broke into the Capitol, they're responsible for their activities, not Donald Trump, not my dog made me do it," he ranted as Acosta tried to reply.

"Okay," Finney interceded as she reached out for Urban's arm. "We don't have to yell, we don't have to yell."

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'Causing heads to explode': Alarms sound as pro-Trump union leader accused of 'sabotage'

Political observers and experts are raising alarms about the International Longshoreman's Association union strike, which has seen dockworkers suspend their duties unloading cargo at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts — speculating whether the head of the union is attempting economic sabotage in favor of former President Donald Trump.

USMX, the key guild of maritime employers, offered the ILA upwards of 60 percent salary increases in their new contracts. The ILA, however, is demanding even higher increases, as well as the continuation of exorbitant fees to handle shipping containers — a practice so expensive, according to maritime journalist John Konrad, that U.S. ports frequently ship freight over roads hundreds of miles at ten times the expense to consumers rather than transport containers onto secondary barges at a fraction of the price to consumers — as well as a total ban on any new technology to automate ports, which industry experts have warned could destroy the competitiveness of U.S. shipping.

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Trump's 'latest attempt to trick voters' raked over the coals in new analysis

Donald Trump posted an all-caps response on Truth Social to a debate question asked of his running mate J.D. Vance, but a columnist warned that was an attempt to mislead voters.

The former president insisted he would veto a federal abortion ban, which he claimed "everybody knows" he would not support, saying the issue should be left up to voters to decide in individual states, but The Cut's Andrea González-Ramírez dismissed his pledge as meaningless.

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'Not one scintilla': Arizona judge smacks down Rudy Giuliani's indictment claim

An Arizona judge slapped down a document demand from former President Donald Trump's onetime lawyer Rudy Giuliani, whom he accused of relying on guesswork instead of evidence or fact, court records show.

Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen in a ruling issued Monday shredded Giuliani's demand for grand jury documents in his Arizona fake elector case.

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'Buckle up': Experts say Trump just filed pivotal objection in election interference case

Donald Trump just delivered a slew of objections over new evidence special counsel Jack Smith wants to appear on the public docket and that the former president's attorneys hope to hide, according to court records and legal analyses.

Trump filed to Washington D.C. federal court Tuesday a seven-page response to a new 180 page document that could contain new evidence from his federal election interference case prosecutor, court records show.

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Kamala Harris rally prompted thousands of Georgia voters to get off the sidelines: report

Tens of thousands of Georgia voters updated their registration after Kamala Harris took over the Democratic campaign from president Joe Biden.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had removed thousands of voter registrations for a variety of reasons, but 40,000 voters have already updated their registration ahead of the Oct. 7 deadline – and about a fourth of those did so on the day Harris rallied in Atlanta, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of the voter roll.

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'A disgrace!' Trump pushes new conspiracy theory in rant about small weekend rally crowd

Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of deliberately understaffing the U.S. Secret Service to prevent him from holding an outdoor rally in Wisconsin.

The former president was forced to move his campaign event in Prairie du Chien from outdoors at an airport to a smaller indoor arena, and he complained that Harris and president Joe Biden had prioritized the security of world leaders – including Iran's president – at annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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'Chills me': Experts horrified by Trump’s call for 'really violent day' of policing

2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump openly advocated police brutality when, during a campaign speech in Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday, September 29, he called for "one really violent day" of policing.

This "extraordinarily rough" approach, Trump promised, would dramatically reduce crime in major U.S. cities. And he proposed putting Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania) in charge of this effort.

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'Unreal': Massive pushback after Trump 'admitted he stiffed his workers' at latest rally

Donald Trump on Sunday admitted that he refused to pay his workers overtime, leading to a massive pushback.

Trump, who made a similar comment recently about how he "hated" paying overtime to his employees, went even further over the weekend at a rally in Pennsylvania. At that same rally, the former president put forth a policy idea that many critics compared to legalizing "The Purge."

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Former Trump lawyer punches major hole in plan to contest the 2024 election

In a deep dive into plans by pro-Donald Trump lawyers to flood the courts with lawsuits and challenges should their man lose to Vice President Kamala Harris in November, one former White House and Trump lawyer claimed there is a major flaw they will have to deal with.

As the New York Times is reporting, conservative lawyers have already filed a wave of lawsuits designed to exclude voters under the guise of potential election fraud, primarily focusing their efforts of key battleground states that will likely decide who is victorious.

According to the report, there is very little evidence that there has been wide-scale voter fraud. Nonetheless, conservative lawyers have unleashed an "onslaught of litigation, much of it landing in recent weeks, includes nearly 90 lawsuits filed across the country by Republican groups this year. The legal push is already more than three times the number of lawsuits filed before Election Day in 2020, according to Democracy Docket, a Democratically aligned group that tracks election cases."

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As the report notes, the roadmap for contesting a potential GOP loss will hinge on proving fraud which is where pro-Trump forces may run into the same problems they encountered when challenging the 2020 election results that led to a series of court defeats.

As former Trump attorney Ty Cobb sees it, he expects the same in 2024 despite all the preparation.

“The one thing they need in court is evidence,” Cobb explained. “They didn’t have any last time, and they’re unlikely to have any this time.”

The Times report adds, "Election experts, including some Republicans, say a vast majority of the cases are destined to fail, either because they were filed too late or because they are based on unfounded, or outright false, claims."

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'It sucks. But yeah, he lost': Trump rallygoers exhausted by his election 'cheating' rants

In a speech in tiny Walker Michigan on Friday night, Donald Trump once again attempted to prime his supporters with talk of what he believes will be another stolen election by claiming his opponents "cheat."

However, as the Detroit Free Press is reporting, some of his MAGA supporters are tired of hearing about the 2020 election and are willing to accept the fact that he may well lose again in November.

According to the report, Trump told the assembled rallygoers, "Keep your eyes open, because these people want to cheat and they do cheat and frankly, it's the only thing they do well."

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One attendee, when asked about Trump's claims, said it was time for the former president to move on to what he will do for voters if he is re-elected.

Jordan Walton, 24, explained that he has made his peace with Trump losing in 2020, and then stated, "It sucks. But yeah, he lost," before adding, "Well, I think he kind of screwed himself to be honest, because he wasn't promoting among his voters vote-by-mail."

Walton admitted he would accept another Trump loss, saying, "Ain't going to be happy, but you know, it is what it is."

Thomas Van Overloop, a 19-year-old student, echoed Walton on moving on from the 2020 loss, explaining, "I wasn’t a big fan of (Jan. 6) and the stolen election thing. I think we've got to look to the future instead of looking back."

According to the report, David Ortez, 28, "... said he would accept another Trump loss and doesn't think the election was stolen four years ago. He said he's had conversations with other Trump supporters who disagree, but he said when that happens, he nods his head and tries to avoid an argument."

Ortez also claimed he doesn't want to see a repeat of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

“No crazy s**t. We don’t need that. We have too much nonsense in the world right now, and we don’t need more violence. That’s the last thing we need,” he lamented.

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'You've done nothing for 11 years!' Shouting erupts on CNN after Harris' speech

Two CNN panelists tried to talk over each other Friday night during a passionate discussion over Vice President Kamala Harris' speech at the Arizona border.

Harris delivered the speech in Douglas, Arizona, and focused on border security and illegal immigration. Despite indicating in the past that unlawful border crossing ought to be a civil offense, Harris vowed to push for harsher criminal penalties for repeat border crossers and give the Justice Department more resources to target transnational gangs. She also pledged to revive a bipartisan border security bill once torpedoed by former President Donald Trump.

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