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'Trends won’t save Trump': Analyst says 3 core MAGA claims against Harris are crumbling

Former President Donald Trump's attempts to slow Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign momentum rely on three political attacks that are all falling apart, MSNBC columnist James Downie wrote Monday.

Trump's three political grenades — crime, immigration and inflation — have each exploded in his hands as the U.S. continues its recovery from the global pandemic that hit the nation under his administration, Downie reports.

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Truth Social sinks to near-record low after Trump returns to posting on X

Former President Donald Trump began posting on the platform formally known as Twitter again on Monday, just hours before he was scheduled to do an interview with X CEO Elon Musk.

However, Trump's return to the social media website that propelled his 2016 presidential campaign did not do any favors to the share price of the parent company of his own Truth Social media platform.

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Father laments ‘losing’ his autistic son to Trump cult: He ‘was a sweet kid'

A special education teacher described Monday how his son became "lost" in the MAGA movement and "toxic masculinity" as a result of right-wing message boards.

Speaking to The Guardian, the dad told how he didn't get a call this year for Father's Day. He admitted he's a progressive who protested the Iraq war with his son, who was then in a stroller.

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'Looking like a loser again': Brutal WSJ editorial slams Trump's 'lunatic' antics

Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Gerard Baker on Monday delivered a brutal assessment of former President Donald Trump's recent performances on the campaign trail headlined, "Trump is looking like a loser again."

After giving Trump some credit for doing a press conference last week at Mar-a-Lago while also slamming Vice President Kamala Harris for avoiding such interactions with the media, Baker dove into the substance of Trump's remarks — and determined it was not good.

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'She's all talk!' Trump lashes out after Harris blames him for border deal's collapse

Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris for pledging to improve border security and blaming Republican lawmakers for the failure of a bipartisan immigration bill.

The vice president promised to sign similar legislation into law if elected to succeed President Joe Biden and touted her own record as California attorney general, saying she had prosecuted "transnational gangs, the drug cartels and the human traffickers," but Trump lashed out on social media.

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'Get him off Truth Social': GOP strategist hints Trump campaign intervention needed

Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton on Monday suggested that some kind of intervention is needed when it comes to former President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.

During an appearance on CNN, Singleton was asked by host Jim Acosta about Trump's behavior in recent days, which has included lengthy rants falsely claiming that Vice President Kamala Harris used artificial intelligence to inflate the size of her crowds at rallies.

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GOP official killed by neighbor after dispute over daughter playing with mulch: report

A Republican official in Michigan's Canton Township reportedly died from a gunshot wound after being confronted about his daughter touching a neighbor's mulch.

The Detroit News reported that 35-year-old Nathan Morris was identified by a press release from the Michigan GOP.

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Kevin McCarthy implores Trump to change tactics: 'Stop questioning the size of her crowds'

Kevin McCarthy went on Fox News and urged Donald Trump to quit obsessing over the size of Kamala Harris' crowds — and instead start focusing on the issues.

The former president falsely claimed the vice president had used artificial intelligence to generate a photo showing thousands of supporters greeting her last week at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. Trump has reportedly been lashing out at campaign aides over the enthusiastic crowds at Harris' campaign events.

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Trump’s Harris rally size attack ‘precisely’ mirrors fraud case conviction: legal expert

The former head of the U.S. Dept. of Justice's fraud division says Donald Trump's false claim Vice President Kamala Harris used artificial intelligence to create the false impression there were thousands of supporters at her rally inside a hanger at the Detroit Metro airport last week is "precisely" the type of action Trump was convicted for in the New York business fraud/hush money case. Multiple media outlets have documented there were thousands in attendance at the rally, despite the ex-president's claim his Democratic presidential opponent "cheated."

"Taking the stage before a rollicking crowd gathered at a hot Detroit Metro Airport hangar on Wednesday night, Vice President Kamala Harris made her first appearance as the Democratic presidential nominee in Michigan," the Pulitzer-prize winning Detroit Free Press reported that night.

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Donald Trump returns to X with grievance-filled campaign ad

After months of silence on X, the social media platform that was formerly known as Twitter, Donald Trump returned Monday with a political advertisement filled with grievances.

In the first post since his 2023 arrest in Georgia, Trump sought to counter Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' surge.

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'He cheats at golf': George Conway hits Trump with new Bedminster billboards

An announcement targeting those who tee off at Donald Trump's golf course will likely tick off the former president who frequently boasts of his A-Game.

The billboards arriving in Doral and Bedminster come courtesy of Trump critic George Conway and his political fundraising group Anti-Psychopath PAC, which shared news of the new ad campaign on X Monday morning.

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'Catastrophic error': Peter Navarro begs Trump to 'reset' campaign after Harris takes lead

Disgraced former White House adviser Peter Navarro called on Donald Trump to "reset" his presidential campaign after making the "catastrophic error" of debating President Joe Biden before he was officially the Democratic nominee.

In a rant on the War Room podcast on Monday, Navarro questioned whether Trump advisers were telling the former president that polls were sliding in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.

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'Ain't happening': Legal experts call Trump's latest court fight doomed 'publicity stunt'

Former President Donald Trump's new plan to sue the Justice Department over its raid of Mar-a-Lago is ridiculous and doomed to failure, legal experts argued Monday.

The former president said he is filing a $100 million lawsuit against the DOJ over the search warrant executed at his estate in 2022 as part of the classified documents investigation, which led to federal charges filed against him in South Florida. He argues that the search was politically motivated and an attack on his rights.

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