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'Shrug': Analyst says loyal red state voters unimpressed by Trump's unusual campaign stop

Former President Donald Trump's appearance at a major college football game in Alabama Saturday night didn't inspire as much excitement as it would have in the past, according to a new analysis.

Trump's reception at the Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa — where he was joined by rap-rocker Kid Rock and country singer Hank Williams Jr. were with him — surprised NOTUS reporter Ben T.N. Mause, he wrote Tuesday.

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Trump complains about crowd size before mentioning NC flood victims or attack on Israel

Former President Donald Trump gave a speech Tuesday where he again complained about the size of a crowd at one of his recent rallies even before mentioning the victims of Hurricane Helene or Iran's missile attack on Israel.

Trump began his speech in Waunakee, Wisconsin, by noting he had spoken in the state just days earlier.

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J.D. Vance's pledge to kill landmark Biden policy would 'devastate his hometown': analyses

A key campaign pledge from Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) would have disastrous consequences on the southwest Ohio community where Vance grew up and the state he represents, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Vance and former President Donald Trump have repeatedly set their sights on repealing the Inflation Reduction Act, a landmark piece of legislation signed by President Joe Biden that reforms energy production and fixes some holes in health care coverage, investing in climate response while simultaneously bringing down the federal deficit.

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'Get the hell off the stage': MAGA rally speaker claims Trump booted him mid-speech

Former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R-WI) announced mid-speech Tuesday that he had gotten a call from former President Donald Trump telling him to "get the hell off the stage."

During a rally in Waunakee, Thompson gave a fiery speech about how Trump could win the state.

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'Recoiled in fear': Ex-Trump official shoots down boasts about 'big man' Iran tactics

The bombs had barely even begun to fall in Iran's escalatory missile strike on Israeli cities, when former President Donald Trump proclaimed that he could have prevented the whole thing by projecting a tough guy attitude in the White House.

"[ Iran] should not do it. It would be a big mistake if they do," Trump told NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Garret Haake. "They have no respect for the administration. This would have never happened if I was president.”

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'Buckle up': Experts say Trump just filed pivotal objection in election interference case

Donald Trump just delivered a slew of objections over new evidence special counsel Jack Smith wants to appear on the public docket and that the former president's attorneys hope to hide, according to court records and legal analyses.

Trump filed to Washington D.C. federal court Tuesday a seven-page response to a new 180 page document that could contain new evidence from his federal election interference case prosecutor, court records show.

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'Ridiculous': Indicted Dem mayor  courts Trump's support — and is immediately slammed

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) welcomed Thursday the support of former Republican President Donald Trump after he was indicted for allegedly taking bribes from foreign governments — then faced almost immediate criticism.

Following Adams' indictment, Trump blamed the charges on the mayor's criticism of undocumented immigrants in the city.

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'Trumpian emotional trifecta': Op-ed warns Vance will ape shouty SCOTUS 'bully' at debate

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) has to impress an audience of one as much as he needs to win over voters in Tuesday's vice presidential debate, and a columnist suspects he'll imitate another "shouty" Yale Law School graduate who once faced a similar task.

The Ohio Republican will face off against Democratic rival Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) in the debate, and Daily Beast columnist Nell Scovell expects him to "go for the Trumpian emotional trifecta: playing the victim, spewing anger, and attacking women" – much like Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh did during his confirmation hearings.

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'Extreme self-centeredness': NYT flooded with angry letters about Trump's fitness to serve

The New York Times has been flooded with angry letters from readers warning former President Donald Trump's rhetoric and behavior render him unfit to serve as commander in chief, a new editorial shows.

The Times published Tuesday a slew of letters to the editor in which readers condemn Trump's description of Vice President Kamala Harris as "mentally disabled" as both racist and unhinged.

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'I was President': Trump's response to Iranian missile attack puts the focus on himself

Donald Trump responded to the worsening crisis in the Middle East with a lengthy comment about himself minutes before Iran launched missiles into Israel.

The former president's campaign issued a statement Tuesday that he shared on Truth Social blaming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the ballistic missile attack, which U.S. officials had warned was imminent, and insisted that his Democratic rivals were responsible for Israel's war in Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon.

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DOJ pressed to reopen alleged $10 million to Trump from Egypt probe: report

High -ranking Democratic members of Senate Judiciary Committee have asked the Department of Justice to investigate whether members of Donald Trump's administration derailed a probe into an alleged transfer of $10 million to the former president when he first ran for office.

Using a "bombshell" report from the Washington Post in early August as a springboard, the Senate Democrats asked the DOJ's inspector general to open a new probe that could answer why Trump DOJ shut down an investigation despite DOJ agents' request for permission to dig deeper.

At issue, the Washington Post is reporting on Tuesday, are reports that "five days before Trump took office, an amount nearly identical to the $10 million described in the intelligence about Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi was withdrawn at a bank in Cairo, in U.S. $100 bills, from an account linked to the Egyptian General Intelligence Service."

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Noting that Trump-appointed Attorney General William Barr had a hand in ending the probe by asking FBI higher-ups to impose “adult supervision” on investigators wanting to look at Trump's bank records, Democrats are suggesting it warrants a new investigation.

In their letter to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Democratic Senators Sens. Richard Blumenthal (CT), Mazie Hirono (HI), Alex Padilla (CA) and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) pointed to a “a pattern of conduct that includes improper political interference, ignoring standards for recusal, and abrogating Attorney General guidelines, among other improper considerations.”

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'Shocking factual backdrop': Michael Cohen takes long shot Trump case to Supreme Court

Michael Cohen on Monday took his "unusual" case against former President Donald Trump to the nation's highest court, according to court records and reports.

Trump's former fixer demands the Supreme Court take up his appeal of his civil case contending the then-president had him thrown in jail because he had begun to write an unflattering book about his onetime client, court records show.

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'It wasn't a joke': Anti-Trump conservative slams press for downplaying violent rhetoric

Anti-Trump conservative Charlie Sykes is taking the media to task for downplaying former President Donald Trump's violent rhetoric.

Writing in his Substack page, Sykes argued that Trump's call for "one real rough, nasty day" to purportedly solve America's crime problem was not just a one-off or a piece of rhetorical excess.

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