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'Running as a dictator': Rhetorician flags alarming change in Trump's speeches

Former President Donald Trump has made a disturbing shift in his 2024 presidential campaign stump speeches, according to a rhetorician raising the alarm about authoritarianism.

“He's running as a dictator," Professor Jennifer Mercieca told progressive commentator Aaron Rupar, "He's determined to destroy the Constitution.”

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'It's over!' Mike Lindell hedges on Supreme Court evidence that will 'shock the world'

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell declined on Thursday to reveal evidence that he said would "shock the world" by proving voting machines were used to rig Kari Lake's (R) failed election for governor in Arizona.

Lindell initially promised to reveal the evidence on the Supreme Court's steps but backed off, saying it was "too dangerous."

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'There's money involved': Ex-Trump aide suspicious of his TikTok flip-flop

Former White House communications director for Donald Trump, Alysssa Farah Griffin, called out her ex-boss' desperate effort to trash the ban of TikTok while also taking credit for it at the same time. All the while, Trump tells his flock that he was the hardest on China.

"I agree with Nancy Pelosi on this," the Republican told her co-hosts on "The View" Thursday.

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Fani Willis 'has a habit of swinging back hard' and will refile Trump charges: professor

After three of the charges she leveled against Donald Trump in his Georgia election interference case were thrown out by a judge, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is likely to update and refile them, according to a legal expert.

Earlier this week, Judge Scott McAfee dropped a total of six charges in the case, including three accusing Trump of soliciting Georgia's former House Speaker David Ralston and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to tip the 2020 presidential election in his favor. Trump was charged along with 18 co-defendants and has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts.

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Trump campaign blames faulty 'algorithms' for placing ads on Nazi videos

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign blamed the "algorithm" of video platform Rumble for running fundraising ads that monetizes pro-Nazi content, according to a new report.

The former president's campaign Wednesday argued Rumble was to blame for placing their ads before a video broadcast by failed rapper and conspiracy theorist Stew Peters, during which he touted Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler as a "hero," Rolling Stone reports.

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SpaceX's Starship 'lost' upon re-entry on third test flight

SpaceX's massive Starship rocket successfully blasted off into the atmosphere for its third unmanned test flight but was then destroyed while returning to Earth on Thursday, the company said.

A test flight of around one hour was planned, after which both rocket stages were to land in the sea.

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'Borderline frivolous' Trump motions in classified docs case carved up by legal expert

Former Obama White House ethics czar Norm Eisen was disgusted by former President Donald Trump's latest claims to protect himself from being held accountable for taking documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago resort and then refusing to turn them over when given a lawful subpoena for their return.

Speaking to CNN, Eisen explained that Judge Aileen Cannon "has had a history of really outrageous partiality to Donald Trump."

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Democrats meddle in Ohio's GOP primary to elevate their preferred challenger

Democrats have tipped their hand as to which Ohio Republican challenger to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) they think is weakest.

Duty and Country PAC, a group affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), will begin airing TV ads that highlights GOP candidate Bernie Moreno's endorsement from Donald Trump and calls him “too conservative for Ohio," which appears intended to boost his profile with Republican primary voters, reported Politico.

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'Are these the best people we can get?' GOP operative questions Trump RNC hires

To the amusement of his Democratic co-panelist, GOP campaign strategist Scott Jennings questioned the Republican National Committee hiring election denier Christina Bobb as counsel overseeing election integrity.

Bobb, a former Donald Trump attorney and anchor on the right-wing One America News, is the latest hire by the RNC that is undergoing turmoil with firings after Trump loyalists were installed after the purge of former head Ronna McDaniel.

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'Out and out lie': Rand Paul spars with Fox & Friends over TikTok ban

Things got heated between Fox News host Brian Kilmeade and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) during a segment on Fox & Friends this Thursday as the two discussed the potential ban of the social media platform TikTok in the United States and whether or not the app is controlled by the Chinese government.

According to Kilmeade, the app's alleged link to China is “national security issue" since its algorithm is controlled by the Chinese. But Paul countered that the app's alleged ties to China are not as straightforward as lawmakers and some in the media are suggesting. The conversation then turned tense as the two argued who the actual owners of TikTok are.

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'This is insane': Legal experts take wrecking ball to latest Trump classified docs defense

Former President Donald Trump is in a Florida courtroom Thursday as he continues to get criminal charges involving retaining top-secret government documents dismissed.

Trump doesn't deny that he was in possession of the documents — in fact, he has doubled down on the accusations that he took them. But he defends himself by saying that they were "mine." It has been a point of contention between Trump and his lawyers.

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Revealed: Trump allies' ties to indicted Biden impeachment witness

An American company that paid an indicted FBI informant who testified in the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry has ties to a British company owned by associates of Donald Trump in Dubai, according to a new report.

The Guardian reported that business filings and court documents show Smirnov, who has been accused of lying to investigators about the president and his son Hunter Biden, was paid $600,000 in 2020 by a company called Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT), and the indictment shows that same year he started lying to the FBI about the Bidens.

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'I am a bona fide sexist': MAGA host says 'women need to stop whining' about pay gap

Dr. Gina Loudon, a television host who supports Donald Trump, said that women are at fault for the gender pay gap.

Axios reported this week that female White House workers made less than men on average.

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