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David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, has published a dire warning in The Atlantic about the end of freedom in the United States should former President Donald Trump win a second term.

To back up this thesis, Frum focuses on plans pushed by Trump allies such as former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark to invoke the Insurrection Act to put down opposition protests.

Far-right activists are fighting to purge voter registration rolls ahead of the 2024 presidential election — and eligible voters are getting caught in the crosshairs, reported CBS News on Monday.

"Fueled by doubts about the 2020 election, an army of conservative activists is poring over state voter lists, looking for registration errors that can be used to file what are known as voter challenges — questioning the registrations of thousands of Americans," reported Michael Kaplan, Major Garrett, and Sheena Samu. "The undertaking, which includes the involvement of a lawyer tied to former President Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, tends to affect minority or younger voters who may be statistically more likely to vote Democrat, according to local election officials."

A federal judge peevishly shot down Rudy Giuliani's last-ditch effort to avoid a jury trial in a libel suit brought by a mother-daughter pair of Georgia poll workers.

District judge Beryl Howell denied the former Donald Trump lawyer's request by repeatedly noting that his attorney had missed deadlines in the case filed by Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, and she rejected his argument that mistakes by the pair's counsel justified a shift from a jury trial to a bench trial.

On Monday morning, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" expressed their outrage at comments made by Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday where she downplayed the rape of Jewish women by Hamas terrorists after they invaded Israel on Oct. 7.

During the interview, the Democrat from Washington was asked by CNN host Dana Bash, "With respect, I was just asking about the women, and you turned it back to Israel. I’m asking you about Hamas," to which Jayapal replied, "...we have to be balanced about bringing in the outrages against Palestinians. Fifteen thousand Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes, three-quarters of whom are women and children."

"And it’s horrible," Bash replied before pointing out, "But you don’t see Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women."

"I don’t want this to be the hierarchies of oppressions," Jayapal dismissively shot back.

After watching the clip, a clearly stunned and fuming "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski stated, "My lord, was she equivocating?"

Co-host Joe Scarborough, added, "I think what's remarkable is that you have many people, international organizations on the left, that just can't condemn Hamas raping and abusing and raping to the point of death and then parading them."

"She kind of sort of did," Brzezinski interjected.

"But it was never, like, we can condemn Hamas," Scarborough continued. "It always has to be— there's always moral equivocation. There's always moral equivocation. You can never say that what Hamas did to Jewish women was absolutely savage and beyond the pale. It always has to be, 'yeah, but Israel.'"

Morning Joe contributor Elise Jordan tersely chimed in, "I mean, you would think there is a huge outcry anytime rape is being used as a weapon of war. Period, that's wrong. It's a crime against humanity. It is a war crime. End of discussion. You don't have to do the other side here."

After showing the clip a second time, Scarborough added, "We have to remember, she's asked about rape and goes, 'But we have to remember.' She's asked about Jewish women being savaged and she goes, 'It happens, it happens in wartime.' She's asked again about it, and goes, 'Yes, it's terrible, it's bad, I'm against it ... however,' acting as if nobody has talked about the civilian death toll in Gaza."

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"She can't just condemn Jewish women being brutalized and it being videotaped and people seeing it, she just can't," he continued. "It's always a "But, we have to remember, it happens in war.'"

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Republicans are secretly dreading a second Donald Trump presidency almost as much as Democrats.

The twice-impeached former president has been the clear GOP frontrunner for months and has led President Joe Biden in some recent polls, and Republican lawmakers are bracing for a potential leadership shakeup if Trump wins another term, reported Politico.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg promoted a special edition of the Atlantic where analysts predicted the dangers of a second Donald Trump term, with the editor issuing his own alarm that there will be no "adults" to keep the former president from destroying the U.S. government as it is currently known.

Speaking with the hosts, Goldberg also noted that controversial former Trump advisor Stephen Miller — notable for his racist and authoritarian leanings —could return in a role that would make him one of the most powerful members in a second Trump administration.

"Look, as president of the United States, you are the de facto chief law enforcement officer of the United States, right?" the editor told the hosts. "You appoint the attorney general and the idea of Donald Trump, who is under 91 felony counts right now at this moment, returning to a role as chief law enforcement officer is absurd obviously, but here we are."

Addressing what a second Trump administration might look like, he added, "So the number one goal, the first goal, before immigration, before everything else, right? The first goal is to make sure the mechanisms of government can't be used to prosecute Trump or his allies, right? It is going to be a direct frontal assault on the independence of the Justice Department and, by extension, the independence of the entire judicial process. "

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"This is not going to be a situation where, as in the first round, he brought in people like Jim Mattis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly —adults. No more adults, right?" he elaborated. "Stephen Miller could be the chief of staff of the White House, we don't know. So the point is, they have been working for years to plot their revenge."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough raised alarms about Donald Trump's health and behavior as he seeks a second term as president.

The "Morning Joe" host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg discussed Trump's autocratic plans for another term in the White House, and they agreed that threat to democracy had not been covered properly.

In the middle of the night, former President Donald Trump went on an extended tirade aimed at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), as he took exception with her claim that he suffered from depression after his 2020 presidential loss.

In Cheney's new book, "Oath and Honor; A Memoir and a Warning," which she has been out promoting, she claimed that now ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was forced to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to console the former president after his loss to President Joe Biden.

In her book she claimed that McCarthy told her that former president was not eating due to sadness over his defeat, and that claim seems to have triggered Trump who singled out that allegation above all others.

"Crazy Liz Cheney, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level rarely seen before, writes in her boring new book that Kevin McCarthy said he came to Mar-a-Lago after the RIGGED election because, 'the former president was depressed and not eating,'" Trump fumed. "That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much."

Philadelphia City Commissioner Lisa Deeley on Sunday said former President Donald Trump was attempting to “sow doubt” about the 2024 elections when he told supporters to “guard the vote” in predominantly Democratic cities, including Philadelphia.

“This is nothing new, Trump says these things before every election,” Deeley said in a post to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, “and I expect we will hear more of this over the next year.”

"Last Week Tonight" delivered a kind of political eulogy for recently expelled Rep. George Santos (R-NY), with a personal request from John Oliver that he be given the reality show he so richly deserves.

While the Santos political career might rest in peace, Oliver remembered some of the greatest hits of the Republican's time in office. Citing the recently released House Ethics Committee report that detailed campaign spending on Ferragamo shoes, Botox injections and OnlyFans, Oliver said, "If you're going to do something you're not supposed to do, that is the way to f---ing do it. Looking good. Going out. And getting off on gig economy porn. How am I supposed to be mad about him spending campaign funds vibing out on diva sh-t?"

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others in the Republican leadership, like Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who are all being controlled by Donald Trump and an extension of his campaign for the presidency.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday, Garcia explained that the facts constantly thwarted the ongoing attack against Hunter Biden, the president's last living son.

A Philadelphia software engineer posted a video of protesters circling a falafel restaurant run by a James Beard Award winner who is Jewish. The protesters associated the chef and owner with Israel's bombing of Gaza.

Taking to social media on Sunday, a man identifying himself as Jordan, who works for Bloomberg, posted the video and some details about what he observed.