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Former President Donald Trump has gone off the deep end, warned former Tea Party lawmaker turned independent, anti-MAGA critic Rep. Joe Walsh on Friday.

"He’s lost his marbles, and he’s cruel. Just plain cruel," wrote Walsh, of Illinois. "But here’s the thing (and I always say this because I come from right wing media)…the cruelty sells. The cruelty right now sells to too many folks on the right."

A former FBI official and an ex-Justice Department official cautioned Fox News that Donald Trump won't help or save their network and pointed to a hefty lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems as a prime example.

The segment on Nicole Wallace's "Deadline White House" followed one about a racist conspiracy theory about Springfield, Ohio, experiencing pet disappearances due to Haitian immigrants. Trump has perpetuated the story by promoting it at the debate to an audience of over 70 million.

When Pope Francis said Friday that U.S. voters must choose between the "lesser of two evils," he didn't outwardly make a judgment between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, but said their rejection of immigrants and support of abortion rights, respectively, equally weighted down both.

But put in context, the statement represented a bigger swipe at Trump, argued Nayyera Haq, former President Barack Obama's senior director of cabinet affairs, in a panel on CNN.

Fresh off a spat with a fellow Trump ally, Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed the Georgia prosecutor who indicted the former president on racketeering charges related to the 2020 election after she failed to appear for a subpoena.

A GOP-led special Georgia state Senate committee subpoenaed Democratic Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and planned to quiz her Friday about possible "misconduct” related to her election case against Trump. They were unable to do so, however, because Willis didn’t show up, The Associated Press reported.

A key part of Donald Trump's speech from California on Friday was trashing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the state's fires. One comment he made is turning heads, however.

“And Gavin Newscum is gonna sign those papers, and if he doesn’t sign those papers, we won’t give him money to put out all his fires,” Trump said, deliberately mispronouncing the governor's name, as he's often done in the past.

As violent threats targeted schools in an Ohio town — where Donald Trump has falsely and repeatedly claimed Haitian immigrants are eating pets — the former president told followers in all caps that his reelection would assure peace in America.

Trump based this pledge on a seemingly baseless claim that Vice President Kamala Harris would reinstate a military draft should she win the presidential election in November.

Rob Rue, the Republican mayor of Springfield, Ohio, is begging former President Donald Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) to stop spreading lies about his town.

Trump and his running mate have promoted a baseless far-right conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants are stealing people's pets to eat them.

Pope Francis stated on Friday that voters will need to choose between the "lesser of two evils" in the U.S. presidential election between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, according to CNN.

“One must choose the lesser of two evils. Who is the lesser of two evils? That lady or that gentleman? I don’t know,” said Francis while speaking to reporters on the papal plane. “Everyone with a conscience should think on this and do it.” Specifically, in Francis' view, Harris' stance in favor of abortion and Trump's stance against immigrants are equally problematic to him.

A social media post by Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted on Friday appeared to joke about a racist conspiracy theory that continues to rock an Ohio community.

A day after a Springfield school and other public buildings were evacuated and closed due to bomb threats, and the same day that two other Springfield elementary schools were evacuated and one middle school closed due to a new, separate bomb threat, Husted posted a photo of two geese on X Friday morning with the comment, “Most Americans agree that these migrants should be deported.”

In the key battleground state of Arizona, voters from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are experiencing a deep divide and a political identity crisis as their historical loyalty to the Republican Party is tested, reported The New York Times on Friday.

Mormon voters have in recent years been defecting to the Democratic Party in small but increasing numbers, which took their population core state of Utah from a 42-point GOP rout in 2012 to just over 20 points in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump is "running away" from Vice President Kamala Harris as she manages to consolidate her voting base and the aftermath of the debate in Pennsylvania begins to come clear, Heather Digby Parton wrote for Salon.

The former president is widely considered to have bombed the debate by fighting with the moderators and coming off as hostile as Harris criticized his record and baited him into promoting a right-wing hoax about Haitian migrants eating pets in Ohio.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday refused to disavow racist commentary and Sept. 11 conspiracy theories shared by a controversial new member of his entourage.

Trump claimed ignorance during a California press conference when he was asked about Laura Loomer's appearances this week on Trump Force One and at a Sept. 11 memorial event — despite her recent racist remarks about Vice Kamala Harris.