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Biden campaign plots to make Trump 'go haywire in public'

Axios is reporting that President Joe Biden and his campaign are zeroing in on a strategy of needling former President Donald Trump every day with the goal of getting him to have a narcissistic meltdown.

As one Biden adviser tells Axios, the hope is that Trump will "go haywire in public" after suffering narcissistic injuries from constant ridicule, and Biden strategists are also hoping that this shows the president still has some of the fight that he famously displayed during a 2012 vice presidential debate with former Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

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Mike Lindell-style conspiracy theories blow up Kansas GOP's own voter restriction bill

The Kansas Republican Party was set to pass a bill aimed at curbing the amount of time voters have to return mail-in ballots -- but it's being blown up thanks to a widespread belief in Mike Lindell-style conspiracy theories about voting machines.

According to ABC News, the bill in question would have ended the three-day post-election grace period for voters to get their mail-in ballots back to election offices and would have mandated that all ballots be returned by the time polls close on election day.

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'Panhandler' Trump insider draws ire with new super PAC to grift MAGA movement: report

The so-called "mayor of Mar-a-Lago" has alienated other insiders by starting his own super PAC supporting Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Other Trumpworld social climbers are suspicious of Sergio Gor, who has grown especially close to the former president and his family, after starting up the political action committee that has earned him a new, derogatory nickname: 'the patio panhandler," reported The Daily Beast.

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Jon Stewart to Donald Trump: Stop trying to make 'bigrant' happen

A silver-haired Jon Stewart began his show Monday evening by whipping glasses on his face and announcing a breaking news alert that simply could not wait: "Wolf Blitzer and I appear to be merging!"

Stewart kept the tempo up with a quick pivot to a Daily Show reporter with an update on responses to the latest Supreme Court decision on Trump: "Democrats are doing more shower crying than normal, Jon."

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Chances are 'slim to none' Trump can dodge $83.3M payout to E. Jean Carroll: expert

The chances are "slim to none" that former President Donald Trump can convince the judge overseeing his $83.3 defamation case that he doesn't plan "to stiff" E. Jean Carroll, a former federal prosecutor has said.

Andrew Weissmann made Lawrence O'Donnell burst into laughter on air Monday night as the pair discussed Trump's efforts to stay the ruling in Carroll's successful federal lawsuit, recently concluded in New York City.

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E. Jean Carroll lawyer scoffs at Trump's effort to dodge $83.3M ruling in new court filing

E. Jean Carroll's lawyer Monday slapped back after former President Donald Trump demanded a stay on the $83.3 million a federal court order him to pay the woman he was found liable for defaming, court records show.

Roberta Kaplan filed a letter to Manhattan federal court Judge Lewis Kaplan challenging Trump's motion on a stay of execution in no uncertain terms.

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Trump claims 'I don't need votes' and 'languages are from Mars' in rambling livestream

Former President Donald Trump held a streaming event on Monday to prepare for the Super Tuesday primaries the following day, where a huge number of delegates are set to be awarded and the Republican primary could effectively wrap up.

And as Trump spoke, the Biden HQ account on X — a sanctioned campaign account — tweeted out both fact checks of Trump's false claims and highlighted some of the more bizarre things he said. All were accompanied by short video clips of the former president.

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Trump wins Republican caucuses in North Dakota

Former President Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican caucuses Monday, according to projections from NBC News and the New York Times.

Trump defeated former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley in the last contest before Super Tuesday, the day with most delegates at stake as 15 states hold primaries and caucuses. A third of the delegates are up for grabs.

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Habba's smiling gaffe mocked: 'Sure looks happy after losing her client half a billion'

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba smiled when she remembered the hoards of liberal women who cried when they learned he'd won the White House... she just forgot that he lost.

Habba appeared on Fox News Monday evening to share her views on women who do not vote Republican with a smile on her face.

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Chesebro thought Jan. 6 would 'blow over' if Trump gave Biden coffee and told jokes

Former President Donald Trump legal strategist Kenneth Chesebro had an eyebrow-raising idea to help former President Donald Trump appease President Joe Biden after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol, legal analyst Lisa Rubin noted Monday.

The odd advice appears in about 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday amid the settling of a civil lawsuit filed against Chesebro, another attorney and 10 Wisconsin Republicans who posed as fake electors, the Associated Press reports.

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Trump lawyer rants about 'tyrannical' DA after ex-CFO Allen Weisselberg gets plea deal

Donald Trump's attorney accused a Manhattan District Attorney of "tyrannical conduct" by offering a plea deal to a former Trump Organization CFO who admitted he repeatedly lied to prosecutors.

Todd Blanche scribbled off an 11-page missive to Alvin Bragg — the prosecutor who accuses Trump of paying hush money to an adult film star before the 2016 election — condemning Allen Weisselberg's plea deal as a political conspiracy with New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully sued Trump for upwards of $450 million.

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Jack Smith vows to hand over 'favorable' evidence to Trump in classified documents case

Special counsel Jack Smith said in a filing Monday that he will follow a standard court rule in Donald Trump's classified documents case that says prosecutors must provide "material information that is favorable to a defendant and in their possession," Newsweek reports.

The Brady rule, if found to be "violated during a trial," could lead to "a mistrial or block the Justice Department from using unfavorable evidence."

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'Monday Massacre:' Florida Democratic Party chief suspends multiple county chairs

Florida Democratic Party chair Nikki Fried suspended multiple county chairs on Monday, with just eight months to go before the presidential election — a massive shakeup in a state where Democrats have seen a long string of losses in the previous decade.

Fried started by suspending Robert Dempster, the chair of the Miami-Dade County Democratic Party, reported the Miami Herald. Then, in what Florida-based Bulwark reporter Marc Caputo described as a "Monday Massacre," she followed up with a similar suspension of Palm Beach County chair Mindy Koch.

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