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Biden camp scoffs at Trump's bait: 'He's inviting fictional serial killers to dinner'

The Biden campaign issued a vicious counterpunch Tuesday night after former President Donald Trump challenged President Joe Biden to an 18-hole golf contest at his latest rally in South Florida.

Trump's goading appeared to be part of a dare for Biden to show that he is physically fit to campaign in the 2024 contest.

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'Con artist': Trump hit with brutal compilation of attacks his VP finalists once lobbed

Former President Donald Trump is down to a few finalists in his search for a vice presidential running mate for 2024. But once upon a time, most of these shortlisters opposed Trump — and weren't shy about it.

The Washington Post on Tuesday profiled just a few of the things said about him by his running mate contenders before he took office for his term.

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Trump's gambit to declare immunity in classified documents case is doomed: experts

Former President Donald Trump is hoping to leverage the Supreme Court's recent ruling that he has a presumption of immunity for official acts to not only block the federal election conspiracy case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, but also the classified documents case in South Florida.

But that is doomed to fail, wrote former White House ethics counsel Norm Eisen, former Trump attorney Tim Parlatore and former Senate Judiciary Committee counsel Josh Kolb in a joint article for CNN.

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Trump's civil fraud judge Engoron allows subpoena for lawyer he spoke with about trial

Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Donald Trump's criminal fraud trial, has granted a subpoena for a real estate attorney due to comments he made about the case.

The New York Supreme Court Justice discussed the Trump case in the hallway three weeks before he ruled against the Trump Organization and those linked to it. Law&Crime reported that Engoron granted the subpoena of Adam Leitman Bailey, who spoke to local station WNBC on Feb. 16, the day the judgment was issued.

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Trump gives back-handed defense of ex-NJ gov: 'Chris Christie is not fat!'

Former President Donald Trump appeared to rib his former New Jersey primary opponent during a rally Tuesday at Doral golf club in South Florida.

Trump started to share a story in which he said a waitress walked up to him — "a beautiful waitress" he noted, adding he "never like(s) talking about physical [appearance].

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Trump goads Biden to redeem himself: Debate this week — and beat me in 18 holes

At former President Donald Trump's rally on Tuesday at his Doral golf club in South Florida, he took another victory lap over the CNN debate with President Joe Biden last month — and laid down a new challenge: Accept another debate invitation for this week and prove he is capable of the job.

"This time it will be man to man, no moderators, no holds barred," Trump said.

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Mary Trump: America is in 'cognitive decline' if it can't remember 'horrors' of my uncle

The media should be profoundly concerned for the cognitive health of the American people if they are truly considering putting former President Donald Trump back in power, the former president's niece Mary Trump wrote in her latest email blast.

This comes amid ongoing worry among pundits and the Democratic congressional rank and file about President Joe Biden's health and fitness to campaign against Trump in the 2024 election — a fear Biden himself sought to put to rest today with a fiery and rousing NATO speech.

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'Yacht trip to Russia': Senators publish list of Clarence Thomas’ gifts from benefactors

Two Senate Democrats have published a list of roughly three dozen lavish gifts Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas received from right-wing billionaires during his time on the Court.

On the eve of the Independence Day holiday, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate Thomas for "possible violations of ethics and tax laws" in his "repeated and willful omissions" of gifts from wealthy benefactors.

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The $37 billion reason Marco Rubio could be Trump's VP pick

There's a key reason why Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) could be a tantalizing pick for former President Donald Trump's running mate: GOP megadonor Ken Griffin.

According to The Daily Mail, longtime Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski says that "If Sen. Rubio is the choice there are plenty of donors I'm sure will come along – including Ken Griffin, allegedly."

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'Lobsters in a boiling pot': Ex-GOP lawmaker warns MAGA plot for violence is taking shape

Former President Donald Trump's loyalists are laying out an agenda for violence, warned former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) on Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat" — and American voters need to wake up and wipe them out up and down the ballot.

This comes shortly after Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the overseer of Project 2025, proclaimed America is on the brink of a second revolution, which will be "bloodless" only if the left doesn't stand in their way.

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MSNBC shows a supercut of Republicans promising they’re ready to get violent

Republican loyalists to Donald Trump are encouraging violence ahead of the 2024 election, and MSNBC brought the receipts.

MSNBC's Katie Phang mentioned the "red light" of warning was flashing about American democracy.

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'Joke of a state': Texans relying on fast food app to track outages slam utility company

After the devastation left in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, millions of Texans were left without power. And once again, residents of the Lone Star State were unable to count on Texas' flagship utility company for either prompt service restoration or even reliable communication.

Some Texans frustrated with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas and main power company CenterPoint Energy (formerly Reliant Energy) not providing residents with an outage tracker found a better alternative — the app for Texas-based fast food chain Whataburger.

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Family outraged as Black man dies at the hands of security in Milwaukee ahead of RNC

A family is outraged after a Black man in Milwaukee died during an incident with security weeks ahead of the Republican National Convention in what some have compared to the murder of George Floyd.

Dvontaye Mitchell, 43, died after being held down by four security guards outside the Hyatt Regency Hotel hotel on June 30.

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