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Harris just triggered Trump's 'lizard brain' with big campaign rally: analysis

Former President Donald Trump thought he scored a win with his Madison Square Garden rally — then Vice President Kamala Harris put him in his place, wrote former conservative pundit Jonathan Last in a lengthy Threads post.

Trump was already on the defense over the racist optics of one of his rally speakers attacking the island of Puerto Rico, then Harris showed Trump she could beat him at his own game — and that "scared the crap out of him," argued Last.

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'I'm not Hitler': Trump denies he's a Nazi in closing arguments for campaign

Former President Donald Trump insisted that he was "not Hitler" during closing arguments for his 2024 campaign.

At a Wednesday rally in North Carolina, Trump complained that he had been called names by Vice President Kamala Harris and her supporters.

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'These are all lies': Analyst unpacks Trump's dark obsession with Harris' intelligence

A political analyst Wednesday revealed why he believes former President Donald Trump can't stop obsessing with Vice President Kamala Harris' intelligence.

Salon writer Chauncey DeVega dug through decades of rhetorical history to reveal a disturbing pattern that ends with Trump's attacks on the Black woman challenging his right to return to the White House in 2025.

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Trump presents 'far more fundamental threat to conservatism' than Harris: GOP speechwriter

A former speechwriter for multiple Republican presidents said this week former President Donald Trump presents a greater risk to his party than Vice President Kamala Harris.

Peter Wehner, who served as a speechwriter under three Republican presidents — Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush — made no secret of his total disdain for Trump and the far-right MAGA movement in an Atlantic opinion piece released Tuesday night.

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'Crippled cognitively': Swing-state paper eviscerates Trump in major editorial

Donald Trump's mental and physical decline have become as disqualifying as his bigotry and corruption, according to a new editorial in a swing-state newspaper.

The Las Vegas Sun published an editorial Wednesday, less than a week before Election Day, calling attention to the "unsettling and undeniable shift" that suggests he's not healthy enough to become the oldest president ever inaugurated after canceling numerous public appearances due to exhaustion and struggling to complete sentences when he does show up.

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'Wild week': Analysis finds Trump Media stock plummeting amid NYC rally fallout

Former President Donald Trump's eponymous media company saw stock prices plummet Wednesday amid blowback from the racist rhetoric at his New York City rally, a new analysis found.

Trump Media stocks are on track for their largest daily decrease since April — when news broke its main asset Truth Social had lost about $58 million in 2023, Barron's reported.

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'Don't be clever': GOP lawmaker snaps at CNN host mid-fact check

CNN International host Christiane Amanpour clashed with Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after the Republican lawmaker suggested Americans did not support the right to have an abortion.

During a Wednesday interview, Crenshaw argued that many European countries did not permit abortions past 12 weeks of pregnancy.

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GOP plot to steal election for Trump 'could be even worse than you think': expert

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Donald Trump are already at work on an effort to attempt to steal the 2024 election from voters, says legal columnist Elie Mystal from "The Nation."

At a recent rally, Trump teased a "little secret" that he had between himself and Johnson that he predicted will ultimately have a “big impact."

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'Get right with history': Analyst demands George W. Bush apologize for Trump — now

Former President George W. Bush owes America an apology for former President Donald Trump — and he'd better deliver it before Election Day, a Washington Post columnist argues.

Political commentator Matt Bai on Wednesday demanded Bush end his silence on the Republican presidential nominee and echo the warnings of conservatives coming from his own daughter and that of his vice president, Dick Cheney (R-WY).

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'Sounds about right': Billionaire Trump backer agrees 'markets will tumble' if he wins

In a post on the social media site X, a user identified only as @FischerKing64 described an economic collapse he said must be endured if Donald Trump becomes president and begins to remake the country.

The post itself was innocuous, despite it being shared to the account's 173,000 followers. What alarmed onlookers was the reaction it got from Trump's biggest financial supporter who is widely seen as a possible central figure in his administration.

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Trump's 'huge lie' shows 'he’s taking everyone for an idiot': analysis

Donald Trump has convinced many Americans that the economy is terrible, but a new analysis shows that's just as false as his election fraud claims that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Many Americans are struggling economically, and inflation was indeed high two years ago, but the unemployment rate is low, inflation has dropped significantly, economic growth is strong and median household income is higher than in Trump's last year in office, wrote journalist and author Steven Greenhouse for The Guardian.

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'Fat cats getting theirs': Conservative raises alarm at billionaires cashing in on Trump

In a column for the Bulwark, longtime conservative journalist Mona Charen stated all the warning signs are there that a return of Donald Trump to the White House will come hand-in-hand with some of his billionaire supporters getting unprecedented access to the levers of power in Washington, D.C.

According to Charen, the former president has gained overt support from billionaire Elon Musk, who is campaigning for him, and covert support from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who used his power as owner of the Washington Post to overrule an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

As she explained, a Trump win would usher in a golden age for oligarchs who placed their bets on Trump.

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"This is what a second Trump term would bring: fat cats getting theirs," she argued. "Trump is the most corrupt figure ever to disgrace the White House and has made no secret of his intention to reward friends and punish enemies if he regains power. The would-be oligarchs recognize the new game and are preparing to operate in a world where government impartiality and above-board decision making are relegated to the dustbin of history."

Charen added that the conservative Supreme Court greased the wheels for all involved by essentially making the former president above the law.

As she put it: "Put those things together, and you have a perfect recipe for massive official corruption."

The columnist focused in on Musk's international entanglements which she believes make him most dangerous to American democracy.

"Whom does Musk support—the United States, Russia, China, or whoever is best for business at the moment?" she asked. "It’s a measure of how dangerous this moment is that we need to ask."

"Even if Kamala Harris wins the election, the unprecedented global power of private oligarchs like Musk will be difficult to rein in," she predicted. "If Trump wins, we’re entering uncharted territory where private actors with vast wealth and power join with a corrupt president to pursue their own ends and not those of the people of the United States."

"Welcome to oligarchy, American style," she darkly warned.

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'Are you actually offended?' Dem hurls Trump's words in Republican's face during CNN clash

A Democratic strategist laughed in a Republican's face Wednesday morning as he tried to cast President Joe Biden's rhetoric as offensive and inappropriate — and received a swift fact check from the CNN anchor serving as referee.

Julie Roginsky did not try to hide her disdain for Lance Trover, former spokesperson for Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), and his argument that Biden's "garbage" comment was equivalent to former President Donald Trump's rhetoric casting foes as "the enemy within."

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