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'He can't deliver a coherent message': Fox Business host rips Trump after Musk interview

Fox Business host Stuart Varney blasted Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump the morning after his rambling two-hour interview with billionaire Elon Musk.

"There's a rising tide of criticism of Donald Trump from his own supporters and from some of his fellow Republicans," Varney said on Tuesday morning. "It reminds me of the quiet, low-voice criticisms of President Biden's cognitive ability before he was pushed out of his re-election campaign."

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'I absolutely hate' them: Trump aims tirade at media over coverage of X livestream

Donald Trump threw a social media tirade Tuesday because the media did not seem significantly impressed with the amount of clicks he gets.

Trump, who has become increasingly outraged that Vice President Kamala Harris is drawing tens of thousands of spectators to political rallies, complained on Truth Social he wasn't getting the credit he deserved for a glitchy X livestream with Elon Musk.

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'No reason to loosen grip:' N.Y. Times writer says GOP won't shed Trump — even if he loses

The Republican Party will be trapped in Trumpworld even if the former president loses his reelection bid in November, a New York Times columnist argued Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump's political hold will not be loosened even as he trails in swing states, treads water on the Sun Belt and transforms his party into a personal vehicle for "vendettas and fantasies," Jamelle Bouie writes.

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Report names '35 rogue election officials' already refusing to certify the election

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) released a report Monday night identifying 35 "rogue election officials" who are refusing to certify the November election.

The report, available at this link, first addresses the eight states where officials refused to certify the 2020 election, identified in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

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Trump-loving Georgia election official suggested himself for federal appointment

One of the election conspiracists who oversees voting in Georgia floated himself for a possible federal position if Donald Trump is re-elected.

The former president hailed Georgia state election board members Janelle King, Rick Jeffares and Janice Johnston from the stage of his rally this month in Atlanta, praising them for voting in favor of rules that could sow chaos and invite election challenges in a state where Trump and his allies have already been indicted for trying to overturn his 2020 loss, reported The Guardian.

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Trump’s ‘Venezuela’ invitation to Musk raises ‘flight risk’ fears among legal experts

During Donald Trump's "marathon" Monday night conversation with Elon Musk on the social media platform X, the convicted ex-president who faces criminal sentencing next month acknowledged the fact he could lose the presidential election, and invited his billionaire benefactor if he were again defeated, to "meet" with him in Venezuela, considered a "safe haven" as it has no extradition treaty with the United States.

It's not the first time the ex-president, who is again running for re-election, has talked about traveling to Venezuela.

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Trump's X interview comes back to haunt him as United Auto Workers file labor complaint

Former President Donald Trump's interview with X CEO Elon Musk is coming back to haunt him.

The United Auto Workers on Tuesday said that they were filing a formal complaint against Trump after he heaped praise on Musk for crushing his employees' efforts to form a union at his companies.

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UAW hits Trump and Musk with federal labor charges over effort to 'intimidate workers'

The United Auto Workers announced Tuesday that it filed federal labor charges against Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk after the former president heaped praise on the world's richest man for firing striking workers.

During a rambling and lie-filled conversation on X—the social media platform owned by Musk—Trump hailed the Tesla CEO as "the greatest cutter."

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'Kill me or put me in prison': Convicted election denier vows to keep smearing Dominion

The former clerk of Colorado's Mesa County vowed to continue attacking Dominion Voting Systems until she was killed or imprisoned after being convicted on charges related to election tampering earlier this week.

In a Tuesday interview on Real America's Voice, War Room guest host Ben Harnwell asked Peters if she expected to be imprisoned while she appeals her conviction on seven counts, including three counts of attempting to influence a public servant and one count of first-degree official misconduct, violation of duty and failure to comply with an order from the Secretary of State.

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Billionaire pushes oil barons to fund Trump campaign in return for wishlist deal: WaPo

A billionaire energy tycoon is driving the push for Big Oil executives to fund former President Donald Trump's campaign, expecting a windfall in more favorable regulation in return, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

Harold Hamm, the 78-year-old founder of Continental Holdings, "has emerged as a central figure in cajoling the oil industry to finance Trump’s reelection bid, and in communicating to the ex-president what the oil industry wants to improve its fortunes in a second Trump term," according to the report.

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'Holy smoke!' GOP strategist reveals controversial ballot bid has party in panic

Former President Donald Trump has a massive obstacle to getting re-elected, GOP strategist Shermichael Singleton said on CNN Tuesday morning — the proliferation of abortion rights ballot measures being put to voters in key battleground states.

The most recent state to add such a measure to the ballot is Arizona, where just a few months ago Republicans had to furiously backpedal to get a 19th century total abortion ban removed from the ballot after a state court they appointed commanded it to be enforced.

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Supreme Court ruling could force Trump to backtrack on key attack line: legal expert

The Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling could force Donald Trump to backtrack on one of his most controversial campaign talking points, a legal expert says.

The ruling has thrown a wrench in the works of Trump's promised $100 million lawsuit against the Justice Department, which can now only succeed if he contradicts one of his most prevalent "lawfare" claims, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Tuesday.

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'Aggrieved, ignorant, tedious': Ex-GOP insider gives Trump's X interview a brutal review

David Frum, a former Republican insider and speechwriter for President George W. Bush, did not think much of former President Donald Trump's interview with X CEO Elon Musk on Monday.

Writing in The Atlantic, Frum contended that Trump did nothing to help his chances in the 2024 presidential campaign and instead only gave a tired rehash of grievances and attacks he'd leveled countless times in previous interviews.

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