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After setting off a wave of new speculation that he is in the throes of mental decline as he makes his third bid to be president, Donald Trump corrected the record on his Truth Social platform after he confused former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) for Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in a speech Friday night.

Speaking to a crowd in Concord, New Hampshire on Friday night, the embattled former president claimed he had offered Haley "10,000 people" to protect the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

A viral clip of Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) telling a gaggle of reporters that she thinks that E. Jean Carroll lied about Donald Trump sexually assaulting her has unleashed a wave of outrage at the GOP lawmaker that has some critics wondering if the New York writer can sue Stefanik for defamation.

Under pressure on Friday night from NBC's Vaughan Hilyard who asked her, "Do you believe E. Jean Carroll?" Stefanik scarcely paused before replying, "No, of course not," before launching into a diatribe about the media.

Joe McQuaid — the publisher of Manchester, New Hampshire's Union Leader newspaper — is seen as one of the most influential conservatives in the Granite State. And it's a near certainty that former President Donald Trump will not win its coveted endorsement.

In a recent interview with Politico, McQuaid weighed in on the upcoming New Hampshire presidential primary on Tuesday. He didn't mince words when asked about his thoughts on the former president's bid for the 2024 Republican nomination, and his death grip on the Republican Party as a whole.

Appearing on MSNBC on Saturday morning, conservative attorney George Conway was asked how the jury in the E.Jean Carroll defamation trial is likely viewing Donald Trump in the flesh as opposed to just seeing clips of him on TV.

In a word, the attorney said they are being exposed to a "psychopath."

Getting right into it with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend,' Conway explained, "When you see little clips of him, you kind of think you know, it's reality TV. He's silly, he's harmless, it's just nonsense and he just does his thing, he does his schtick. But when you see him up close and in person you start to realize there's something seriously wrong with him."

"And that's what happens with his own people," he continued before recalling, "Remember how his chief of staff, General Kelly, brought in a book, like the psychiatrists had written about Donald Trump, saying he was completely out of his mind, and he [Kelly] is like, 'This is the key. We could figure this out!'"

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"People learn, there is something seriously wrong with this guy, and I think what this jury is going to learn, which is like you are in this solemn proceeding you are taking this seriously, and jurors generally don't look at scams and people behaving badly in the courtroom, and here, they have this psychopath sitting right there," he elaborated. "It's got to be off-putting and scary, and just appalling to them, because they were actually seeing him in the flesh, this real person, not this caricature on TV, this self-caricature on TV. They're seeing the face, the face literally, of evil right there."

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Donald Trump's attempt this week to tamp down speculation that he is suffering a precipitous mental decline suffered a blow after he, once again, boasted about passing a simple test designed to gauge the mental acuity of the elderly or stroke victims.

The former president has long bragged that he "aced" the test first administered before he lost the 2020 election, going so far as to appear on Fox News and bragging he took it and that he did "amazing."

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is purportedly ducking her alleged boyfriend's divorce subpoena and using Trump's sprawling RICO election interference case as a "shield."

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig was appalled by the moves made by Willis, who this week attempted to quash a subpoena requesting her testimony in the divorce proceedings of Nathan Wade, a personal injury attorney hired by Willis and with whom she's been accused of having a romantic affair.

Addressing Donald Trump's meltdowns and irrational behavior in his latest courtroom appearances, conservative attorney George Conway disabused any notion that the former president is engaging in an elaborate strategy to rally his supporters and plead his case in the court of public opinion.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend", a very animated Conway explained that the former president is nothing more than a petulant child who is unable to control himself.

"There is no strategy, it is just all emotional," he told the MSNBC hosts. "It's all — look, it is bragging and lying and intimidating and bullying. That is literally those are the things that he does. And there he is trying to bully. There he is just angry at being held accountable."

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At the behest of an anti-corruption watchdog group, the Judicial Conference of the United States (JCUS) has issued a report suggesting that it may be conducting a rare investigation into Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.

Earlier this week, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) issued an update on its request to the JCUS to publish its Report of the Proceedings from its September 2023 meeting, arguing that "public interest" necessitated information on efforts to have Justice Thomas referred to the Department of Justice for alleged violations of financial disclosure laws. The JCUS' report only said there was an "ongoing review of public written allegations of errors or omissions in a filer’s financial disclosure reports," but the CLC viewed that as a significant development.

During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, a member of the New Hampshire GOP Executive Committee smirked and blew off accusations from Donald Trump that the Republican primary vote in her state will be tainted.

Speaking with host Victor Blackwell, Juliana Bergeron made a point of stating that this is not the first time the former president has lied about election fraud.

"The former president has said several times that Democrats, in his characterization, are going to infiltrate the Republican primary," the CNN host prompted. "Of course registered Democrats cannot vote in the Republican primary, only the undeclared can. The breakdown here: 344,000 registered as undeclared, 270,000 registered as Republicans. The governor says that just before the deadline to switch party registration, about 4,000 Democrats moved to undeclared or Republican. Do they play any significant role here, considering those numbers?"

"They always play a significant role in New Hampshire," Bergeron dryly replied. "The Republicans — either the Republicans or the Democrats can't win an election without pulling the independents in the state, so they'll be the deciding factor here, I think."

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"You know, at this point there's not a real race on the Democrat's side, so more of them are going to be voting Republican this side, and I think more of them will be voting for Nikki [Haley]. I think she's picking up Chris Christie's people and I think she has a greater following here in New Hampshire than she had in Iowa."

"The 344,000 undeclared. When the former president says that Democrats are infiltrating the Republican primary, your reaction to that characterization?" host Blackwell pressed.

"Yeah, no,' she laughed before adding, "I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I think it's another made-up story. I don't know how much we can believe of what the former president says anyway, but this is just another exaggeration."

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Trump's financial ship is taking on a lot of water.

New York Times investigative reporter Susanne Craig appeared on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi and explained that the 45th president tipped his hand on his financial liquidity when the Trump Organization sold off its Trump International Hotel in D.C. in May of 2022.