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Donald Trump has adopted the language of fascists and defied the orders of judges to stop intimidating witnesses in his various civil and criminal cases — and now a columnist warns the "violence is coming to a boil just below the surface."

While Trump's rhetoric may not be that important in the grand scheme of things, Salon's Heather Digby Parton writes that there is a definite "effect on our culture and our politics from his crude behavior."

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell objected on Monday after psychologist Robert Epstein claimed "voter fraud is not the issue" when it comes to Republican election losses.

In an appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room program, Epstein explained the details of his $3 million initiative to monitor technology companies that push to increase voting participation.

A Black C-SPAN caller explained Monday that she owned a gun because she fears "racist" supporters of Donald Trump in Georgia.

The woman named Doris told C-SPAN host John McArdle that she got the gun even though she didn't believe in violence.

A supporter of former President Donald Trump said this week that there was a limit to her devotion — but said she need to see her idol do something incredibly extreme such as a wanton act of child abuse.

In an interview with journalist Ben Jacobs at Slate, Iowa Trump supporter Ashley Long said she would abandon Trump if he did "something super heinous."

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" to discuss a New York Times report on Donald Trump's questionable use of presidential pardons before he left office, the Times' Michael S. Schmidt revealed that the former president found the prospect of unfettered commutation of sentences and "attractive" perk that came with the job.

Discussing the deep dive into the Trump pardon — with the assistance of son-in-law Jared Kushner — of felon Jonathan Braun that "destroyed " a Department of Justice investigation into predatory lending, Schmidt explained that the former president found the ability to issue pardons a valuable tool when it came to securing the loyalty of others.

Far-right attorney John Eastman, one of former President Donald Trump's co-defendants in the Georgia election racketeering case, told conservative publication The Federalist his legal expenses in the case have left him in a dire financial situation.

Eastman, founder of the right-wing Claremont Institute-affiliated Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence and a former law professor at Chapman University, told Julie Kelly on her "Declassified" podcast that he is facing down $3 million to $3.5 million in legal fees to defend the case, brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis against the former president, Eastman, and over a dozen other accused co-conspirators.

After regular "Morning Joe" panelist Jonathan Lemire interrupted a discussion about Joe Biden's accomplishments as president to report that Donald Trump was defensively posting about accusations he is in mental decline, co-host Mika Brezinski smirked — and then shot it down.

In a rambling post early Monday morning, the former president claimed that when he mistook Barack Obama for Joe Biden, he was being sarcastic, writing, "No, I know both names very well, never mix them up, and know that they are destroying our Country. Also, and as reported, I just took a cognitive test as part of my Physical Exam, and ACED it. Also ACED (a perfect score!) one taken while in the White House."

Prosecutors and judges are increasingly warning about the potential for violence as people continue to go down "conspiracy theory rabbit holes" during the 2024 election cycle, CBS News reported.

During the sentencing hearing for Jan. 6 rioters Jamie and Jennifer Buteau in Florida last week, Judge Randolph Moss read a letter from the couple's daughter that pleaded for leniency, blaming the "rabbit holes" and the "constant IV drip of lies, misinformation" for radicalizing a couple that, previously, had not been political.

Following an extended diatribe by MSNBC "Morning Joe" Joe Scarborough aimed at Donald Trump's ugly rhetoric as he makes a third bid for the presidency, Atlantic writer Peter Wehner fired back at the former president, who flipped out on the Atlantic over a piece the former GOP speechwriter wrote about him.

On Saturday, Trump lashed out on Truth Social, writing, "It’s so good to see how badly the THIRD RATE MAGAZINE, The Atlantic, is doing. It’s failing at a level seldom seen before, even in the Publishing Business. False and Fake stories do it every time! They’ve got a rich person funding the ridiculous losses, but at some point, rich people get smart also. Steve Jobs would not be proud of his wife, Laurene, and the way she is spending his money. The Radical Left is destroying America!"

Former President Donald Trump has a "master plan" to use the office of the presidency to get revenge on everyone he believes has wronged him, warned Georgetown University public policy professor Donald Moynihan in The New York Times on Monday.

"A second Trump administration would be very different from the first," wrote Moynihan. "Mr. Trump’s blueprint for amassing power has been developed by a constellation of conservative organizations that surround him, led by the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025. This plan would elevate personal fealty to Mr. Trump as the central value in government employment, processes and institutions. It has three major parts."