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'Funeral for her own career': Lauren Boebert mocked for 'sad turn out' at Colorado event

Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert became the subject of mockery this weekend as social media users made jokes about the lawmaker's apparently sparse crowd at a speaking event in her state.

Boebert, who earlier in the month was ridiculed on social media as she sought to highlight an endorsement from Donald Trump, once again took to her X account to share some pictures.

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'Back against the wall': Trump Insider predicts 'stressed' ex-president's next move

Donald Trump is stressed, and is likely to deal with that by causing some form of chaos to distract from his upcoming hearing, former Trump White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman said.

Newman, a former "Apprentice" contestant who became a White House aide, spoke to MSNBC on Sunday and was asked about Trump's mindset going into the scheduled hearing in the hush money criminal case.

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'Looking like a loser': Expert accuses Trump of 'turning lead into gold' to pay bond

Legal commentator Harry Litman told CNN that Donald Trump would go to any lengths to pay a $464 million bond payment by Monday so he could appeal a New York fraud judgment.

Litman explained to CNN's Fredricka Whitfield why he believed Trump would pay the bond by the Monday deadline.

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'Don Poorleone': Trump nickname trends on social media as ex-president faces bond deadline

From legal analysts to political strategists, social media erupted on Sunday with people eager to pin Donald Trump with a new nickname.

Trump, who has long been considered the king of political nicknames, has previously dubbed President Joe Biden "Sleepy Joe" and then, ultimately, "Crooked Joe." Now, the internet would like to bestow a name upon the former president as he faces a crucial deadline to get a bond for hundreds of millions of dollars a court ordered him to pay for fraud. The name is Don "Poorleone."

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'He’s so close to getting it': Eric Trump buried for whining about being laughed at

If Eric Trump was looking for some sympathy over his family being unable to find anyone willing to back a half-billion-dollar appeal bond by Monday, he won't find too many shoulders to cry on if he checks out X, formerly known as Twitter.

During a Sunday morning appearance on Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump's middle son went on an extended rant about the unfairness of the penalty after the Trump Organization was found guilty of committing financial fraud by Judge Arthur Engoron.

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‘Chaos’: Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed after GOP left with ‘no real majority’ in House

Former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other fringe members of the GOP caucus for causing "chaos" for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Priebus reacted to Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-WI) decision to retire early.

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'Actually not true': Fox News destroys Trump claim that fraud bond is 'unprecedented'

Fox News host Eric Shawn pointed out that Donald Trump's claim that his New York fraud bond is unprecedented was simply "not true."

During an interview with former federal prosecutor Alex Little, Shawn noted that Trump had repeatedly made the claim about the $454 million bond.

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Chuck Todd blisters NBC brass on air for Ronna McDaniel hire following Welker interview

Former "Meet The Press" host Chuck Toidd dropped the hammer on his bosses on Sunday morning for not only hiring former RNC head Ronna McDaniel but also foisting her off on the current host Kristen Welker for an interview.

Following McDaniels' interview with the new host, where the new hire tap-danced around her history of claiming there was election fraud in the 2020 election, Todd took part in a panel where, as he put it, he needed to address the elephant in the room."

"I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd began.

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“She is now a paid contributor by NBC News and I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn’t want to mess up her contract," he continued. "She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for her. So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with. Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who’s paying her?”

“Look, there’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination," he elaborated. "That’s where you begin here. So, when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News’ credibility, you gotta ask yourself, 'What does she bring to NBC News?' And when we make deals like this — and I’ve been at this company a long time — you’re doing it for access, access to audience, sometimes it’s access to an individual. "

"We can have a journalistic ethics debate about it. I’m willing to have that debate," he added.

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Kevin McCarthy accuses Matt Gaetz of doing 'something illegally' to stifle ethics probe

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) accused Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) of breaking U.S. laws in an effort to quash a House ethics investigation.

During an interview on Face the Nation Sunday, McCarthy praised Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she filed a motion to have Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) removed.

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'Imagine being Trump's lawyers': Expert points to new trouble ahead in the courtroom

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance claimed Donald Trump is not making the lives of his attorneys any easier as they move into a critical week in the courts.

As the former president scrambles to come up with the nearly half billion dollars he needs for his financial fraud appeals bond and he is slated to be in a Manhattan court on Monday to see when his hush money trial will start up, the former prosecutor stated his recent antics are creating new problems.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, who noted the former president claimed on Truth Social that he is flush with cash while also pleading poverty to the appeals court he wants to lower his bond amount, Vance marveled at the chaos the former president is creating.

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"Imagine being one of his lawyers and saying one thing in your court papers and having your client undercut you publicly the next day on Truth Social," she began. "The judges are certainly entitled to take a look at Trump's posts in this vein and it would be fair to deny him any sort of measures for forgiveness of the full amount of the bond in the form of the surety bond he has asked for simply because he says he can afford it and he chooses not to."

"And I think we have reached a point with Trump where judges should hold him accountable for his words rather than letting him get away with having it one way in court and one way in public," she added. "We are past the point in time where the courts can afford to let that happen."

"To your point, there is a little bit more to executing the judgment than showing up with a sheriff," she added. "I think what [New York AG] Tish James has done, has made it clear she is serious, particularly by registering the judgments in Westchester County, New York where some of the Trump family favorite properties including the National Golf Course are located. So she is sending a signal if he does not get a bond in place she intends to go forward."

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'Complete catastrophe': Marjorie Taylor Greene melts down attacking Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after House Republicans passed a bipartisan government funding bill.

"Republicans and the House of Representatives, where we hold on to a razor-thin majority," Greene told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But yet this week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe."

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'They're going to start seizing assets': Eric Trump freaks out on eve of bond deadline

Eric Trump said top insurance executives laughed when he asked for more than $400 million in bond money for his father.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked Trump to clarify how much his father owes in bond payments to appeal his New York fraud case.

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'He dumb': MSNBC panel bursts into laughter as 'ignorant' Trump buried by biographer

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" had a hard time stopping laughing as one of Donald Trump's biographers explained how the former president found himself in the position of facing having his assets seized on Monday at the same time a court date will likely be set for his hush money trial.

Speaking with hosts Michael Steele, Alicia Menendez and Symone Sanders-Townsend, writer and biographer Tim O'Brien kicked off his explanation of Trump's legal travails by saying of the former president "He dumb" which set off the outburst of laughter.

O'Brien told the hosts, "You mentioned at the top of the show about Trump, that 'he broke.' He's also, he dumb, And what we found out over this past week, particularly this cash situation, under oath a year ago he said I have $400 million and I'm adding to it monthly and then suddenly you come up to this judgment and you say 'Actually, I don't have it' ... He then takes to social media and said 'Actually, I have $500 million.' That had to make his attorneys pull out their hair and that is because he is ignorant and unsophisticated and he is not a good person, now in a courtroom where he is going to be put on the stand and held accountable for the fact pattern."

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"In this particular case, there is a tape recording of him directing Michael Cohen to get the money from the CFO so they can pay hush money. When he's on the stand, he doesn't stick to the script that he tends to brag and bloviate," he added. "That is going to hound them during this court proceeding; they have to be worried about that."

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