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President Donald Trump's speech to hundreds of the US' top generals on Tuesday hinted at plans to cancel the 2028 election, according to Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman of New York.

In an appearance on The Jim Acosta Show on Tuesday, Goldman said the speech appeared to be preparing the ground for an authoritarian power grab.

"It’s also, I think, really dangerous because it is trying to manufacture a crisis so that Donald Trump can continue to take more and more authoritarian actions and so that he can usurp more and power," said Goldman. ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom mocked JD Vance with an AI video showing the vice president praising couches and an old photograph of him wearing a blonde wig and makeup when he was a student.

Newsom's office's X account has recently leaned into pushing AI content mocking President Donald Trump and other MAGA figures.

Another AI-generated image from the account on Tuesday ridiculed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech criticising "fat" generals, with the fake picture showing Trump eating burgers delivered by drones in McDonald's bags. ...

Trump-loving activist Laura Loomer called former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan who is running for the Senate a "jerk" for spurning former President Donald Trump's endorsement, despite raking in fundraising support off of the 45th president's name, image, and likeness.

"If you look at the NRSC (National Republican Senatorial Committee) emails that are going out, Larry Hogan is actually raising money off of Donald Trump's image, name, and likeness," she said during an exchange with Americans for Limited Government's president Rick Manning.

"So if he's going to be jerk and reject Trump's endorsement and then also say 'I'm not going to support the GOP nominee!' — then maybe President Trump should send him a cease and desist so that he can't use his image, name, and likeness for his fundraising emails anymore."
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While former President Donald Trump has already been convicted on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan hush money case, he has one more card to play: submitting a motion asking Judge Juan Merchan to "set aside" the verdict, a maneuver used to try to convince judges that the jury's decision to convict was so egregious it should be disregarded.

But District Attorney Alvin Bragg came prepared to shut that down, legal expert Lisa Rubin explained in a new article for MSNBC's MaddowBlog.

This comes as House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) prepares for a congressional hearing with former Justice Department official and Manhattan prosecutor Matthew Colangelo for immediately after Trump's sentencing. Trump's allies have theorized that Colangelo was a sort of backchannel from Bragg's office to the Justice Department, allowing President Joe Biden to dictate the outcome of the trial — but the DOJ has rebuffed the idea....

A controversial GOP-endorsed senatorial candidate who notoriously opined women have become "too mouthy" came up with a novel defense of the divisive claim: James Carville thinks so too.

Royce White — a former basketball player with ties to conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and endorsed by the Republican party to challenge Sen. Amy Klobuchar — took to X Friday to share a video of Carville mouthing off to former MSNBC host Donny Deutsch about "preachy females."

"Did liberal icon and thought leader James Carville just say Democrat women have gotten too ‘mouthy’?" White wrote. "Hey New York Times, quick, misogyny!"...

A Slate legal analyst pointed to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' latest majority decision on Friday declaring the gun attachment bump stocks different from machine guns because the trigger must be depressed.

Speaking about the ruling on MSNBC, Dahlia Lithwick explained that there are two different stories. First there is the ruling. Second, she said, there is a determination of reality.

"I don't think there's any other way to read Clarence Thomas' page after page of, sort of, gun-fetish fan fiction," Lithwick explained. "He accompanied the [ruling] with photos and images and lots of substituting of his own understanding of how guns work for that of the ATF. It's their job to do this. It's his job to be a justice." ...