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CNN fact-checker busts Trump over 'truly bananas' claim to reporters

A CNN fact-checker called out President Donald Trump's false claims that the presidential elections in 2016, 2020 and 2024 were "rigged" against him in a rant to reporters on Wednesday.

Trump was speaking to press at Joint Base Andrews when a reporter asked him if he saw himself in Spencer Pratt, a MAGA-backed Los Angeles mayoral candidate. The president called elections in California "dishonest," which CNN Senior Reporter Daniel Dale pointed out was false.

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​Trump 'unwittingly' makes startling admission in scramble to prove election fraud: report

President Donald Trump has spent years dismissing claims that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, but after delivering a primetime address on supposed election security shortcomings and releasing a trove of government documents this week, the president may have "unwittingly" admitted to Russian interference after all, Zeteo reported Sunday.

Trump used his address to push for the passage of his controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act, and made a number of claims regarding the United States’ supposed election security shortcomings. Shortly after the address, Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, claimed that his agency identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in the United States, though experts have said such claims lacked supporting evidence.

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'Be your own man!' Trump nominee shamed by Dem after 'coward' answer

Democratic lawmakers were outraged when a Trump nominee refused to answer their questions during a confirmation hearing on Wednesday.

Adam Candeub, nominee to be assistant attorney general, and other judicial nominees testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill, where Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) had pressed the nominees to answer questions about the outcomes of the 2020 and 2016 elections.

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Trump's grip on crucial Senate race slips: 'I still don’t know who I’m voting for'

Republicans head to the polls in South Carolina on Tuesday for a special primary to fill the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's seat, and President Donald Trump is working hard to secure it for an ally.

But in a rare twist for a red-state primary in the Trump era, his preferred candidate is struggling to consolidate the field behind her — and his sway over the race looks shakier than usual, The Washington Post reported.

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'He's psychotic': George Conway comes unglued on MS NOW over Trump's election delusion

Conservative attorney turned anti-Trump activist George Conway unloaded on President Donald Trump on MS NOW amid his latest push after six years to try to delegitimize the 2020 presidential election — a gambit in which, at least for a time, he was preparing this week to "declare" Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff illegitimate due to fraud and foreign election interference, a power the president does not have.

This comes after new reporting that Todd Blanche, now in line to be Trump's new attorney general, has worked behind the scenes to assist in his campaign to investigate and punish everyone who has tried to rein him in from his conspiracy theories.

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Kash Patel's 'unusual and sensitive' trip draws scrutiny amid spending probe: report

FBI Director Kash Patel has planned a trip to Russia, making him the first FBI director to visit the country in 13 years, according to a Politico report on Monday.

The trip is slated for October 14-15, as Washington and Moscow have hit a deadlock over how to stop the war in Ukraine and as lawmakers have called for sanctions against the country, Politico reported.

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Conservative icon detonates on Trump over baffling new fixation as world slides to brink

Conservative columnist George Will unloaded on President Donald Trump in a scorching new Washington Post editorial published Friday, branding the president "frivolous" and "oblivious" as global tensions mount.

The column, headlined "Amid an August of mounting danger, a frivolous, oblivious president," opens with a searing indictment: "This August features a stunning divergence. The world becomes more dangerous as U.S. governance becomes more frivolous."

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CIA staffers secretly admit they're scared by Trump's impact on agency

CIA staffers warn that the agency has been undermined over the past year by political pressure from the top, The Atlantic reported on Friday.

Ever since President Donald Trump's second term began, wrote Shane Harris, "the number of CIA employees who said they are concerned that the objectivity of analysis is being undermined by political influence has gone up significantly," per a survey conducted by the CIA's ombudsman. "The results haven’t been made public, but they were described to me by several people familiar with them."

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