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The Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help former President Donald Trump, a chain of events documented in detail by former special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Now, eight years later, Vladimir Putin and his strategists are just as eager for the former president to retake office in order to realize their geopolitical goals.

According to Vanity Fair, "From the moment Trump was elected, the word Yalta became one of the most popular among Kremlin officials" — a reference to how Joseph Stalin was able to convince his then-American and British allies in World War II to legitimize his sphere of influence. "They were confident that Trump was the right person to agree to such a spectacle. This did not mean that Russian authorities considered Trump 'their puppet' — the Kremlin never had any means to influence him. Putin simply believed that Trump was morally close and understandable to him: a fellow cynic who also thought that money solved everything."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire ripped Donald Trump's allies for pushing misleading videos to suggest president Joe Biden was feeble while also claiming he might be using drugs to boost his performance in the upcoming presidential debate.

The "Morning Joe" host wasn't surprised that Trump and his campaign aides were trying to manage expectations before Thursday's debate, but he lambasted the Wall Street Journal and New York Post for helping to boost those false claims about the president's mental fitness.

Conservative Matt Lewis is growing increasingly tired of former President Donald Trump's efforts to pre-spin a bad performance at Thursday's debate with President Joe Biden.

Writing in The Daily Beast, Lewis notes how Trump for years has portrayed himself as a victim of fraud committed by unseen nefarious forces, which gives him a ready-made excuse should he come up short in debates, elections or criminal trials.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough expressed outrage at Judge Aileen Cannon's latest maneuvering in Donald Trump's stalled Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

The federal judge reprimanded a prosecutor from special counsel Jack Smith's office who appeared to be frustrated by her skepticism over the need to modify Trump's conditions of release to limit his public statements about investigators, and the "Morning Joe" host said Cannon was willfully ignoring the violent attacks and threats the former president has already provoked.

President Joe Biden is hoping to get under Donald Trump's skin during their first debate and induce him to reveal the unhinged version of himself he shows to fans at rallies, in hopes of horrifying viewers who haven't seen much of him since his presidency ended.

The president's advisers are combing through Trump's recent remarks to help identify potential triggers that might knock him off balance and send him into an off-topic tirade, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that should be relatively easy to do.

A right-wing organization allied with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and funded by the group behind Project 2025 has reportedly begun assembling a list of federal employees deemed potentially disloyal to the former president, an effort that is drawing comparisons to the McCarthyite crusades of the 1950s.

The American Accountability Foundation (AAF), headed by former Republican Senate staffer Tom Jones, is "digging into the backgrounds, social media posts, and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security," The Associated Pressreported Monday.

16 Nobel Prize-winning economists have warned that former President Donald Trump's second-term agenda could create what Axios is describing as an "inflation bomb" that would rock the global economy.

In a letter, the economists argue that a combination of more tax cuts for corporations, a labor shortage caused by the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and looser monetary policy in the form of lower interest rates would cause prices to skyrocket yet again just as inflation has started to stabilize in the three percent range.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R), who remains on the vice presidential shortlist to join Donald Trump's 2024 presidential ticket, floated the prospect that President Joe Biden may have committed election interference in 2020.

Voters he's meeting in swing states want Biden to answer a few key questions when the 45th and 46th presidents face off June 27 in Atlanta, Burgam said.