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President Donald Trump tried to intimidate the financial system into giving him all the services he wants, but MSNBC's Ari Melber was left stunned by the result.

Specifically, when Trump sued Capital One, alleging he was being discriminated against for his political views, the institution hit back, revealing that it had actually had to exclude him due to suspicious patterns that could indicate money laundering.

"Capital One had to close basically 300 bank accounts linked to the Trump Org" in 2021, Melber, himself an attorney by trade, noted. "And that was because of the idea that there were money laundering rules violated. This is a serious process. The bank's financial crimes team, with decades of law enforcement experience, made that call."...

President Donald Trump is running into a big problem as he tries to campaign for midterm candidates, MS NOW's Ari Melber said on Wednesday: a problem that was laid out all too clearly in the classic film "Mean Girls."

"Trump [is] trying to go to red states like Ohio and Nebraska," said Melber. But at the moment, he's in Texas, "where the Republican governor has been avoiding even being seen with Donald Trump at that planned rally. You know it's bad when the Texas governor doesn't want to be seen with Trump in his home state" — after all, he said, Gov. Greg Abbott kept close to Trump in 2020.

"In a telling rebuke to Trump for tonight's rally in San Antonio, Abbott is blowing off that midterm rally and saying he has a scheduling conflict, an excuse so vague and obvious it's kind of a red state version of Trump being turned into Regina George, the once allegedly popular it girl who is later exposed in the story as a toxic mean girl who turns out to be perhaps the worst sin. Unpopular."...

President Donald Trump's pitch to voters to cut $5,000 checks for every adult if Republicans win the midterms shows how truly out of options he is, political analyst Juanita Tolliver told MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday.

In essence, she argued, the president is starting to realize he's in trouble — but has deluded himself that he has a path out of it.

"The empty claim that the benefits, the ones I mentioned, whatever they may be, would only come after the midterms — I'm curious where you view that on the desperation meter tonight," said Melber....

The leaks dribbling out daily from Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton's campaign aren't an accident, political strategist Chai Komanduri speculated to MS NOW's Ari Melber on Friday's edition of "The Beat."

Rather, he said, they're part of a concerted effort to sink his campaign — for a very roundabout reason.

"I know this is not the Joe Rogan Show, so I don't want to do conspiracy theory, but we seem to get a lot of leaked audio about Ken Paxton," said Komanduri. And as to why, "I kind of have a theory that part of it has to do with the fact that Texas is an extremely expensive state."...

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville had a blunt message for MS NOW's Ari Melber on Monday: Democrats are starting to run more and more competitive Senate races, far beyond what anyone thought was possible a year ago.

His opinion came amid discussion about Republican strategist Karl Rove, who has increasingly become outspoken against President Donald Trump and even announced he'll be backing the Democrat in the Texas Railroad Commissioner race.

"I have some personal affection for Karl, and I have a lot of respect for him as a political operative," said Carville, noting that he is "in a position that he can be utterly truthful because he's not dependent on anybody and he's telling the truth."...

Knives are coming out for top Trump aide Natalie Harp among the president's other aides, The Nation correspondent Joan Walsh told MS NOW's Ari Melber.

National attention has flooded onto Harp, sometimes called the "human printer" for her tendency to give Trump favorable printouts on cue, after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) highlighted the bizarrely close relationship she has with Trump during a campaign speech.

"It touches off so much ... it's a real story because she is this person feeding him undigested garbage that he puts out on social media," said Walsh, pointing out that the infamous racist meme Trump posted depicting the Obamas as apes allegedly came from her. "She's responsible for a lot of the garbage."...