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Appearing on MSNBC just moments after Donald Trump took to Truth Social to boast about his poll numbers, a former Republican member of the House laughed off the president's claims and called it "desperate."

During his spot on MSNBC's "The Weekend" ex-Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) was presented with Trump's post just moments before where the president claimed, "Poll Numbers within the Republican Party, and MAGA, have gone up, significantly, since the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax was exposed. They have hit 90%, 92%, 93%, and 95%, in various polls, and are all Republican Party records."

A laughing Riggleman wasn't buying it and stated the numbers likely came from controversial conservative polling organization Rasmussen.

As co-host Capehart noted Trump also complained about "troublemakers," an off-camera Riggleman interjected, "wrong," causing the host to laugh.

"This sounds desperate," Capehart stated.

"Is that the same Rasmussen poll over and over again?" Riggleman joked, causing the entire panel to burst into laughter.

"So I think that what we're looking at it is desperation," he continued. "They're flooding the zone which you know, Steve Bannon always said when things get bad –– this is simply flooding the zone. The Epstein thing is overwhelming the and I think that's why you're seeing all the crazy stuff coming out with Tulsi [Gabbard] and things like that."

"This is flooding the zone," he repeated and added, "This is crazy and I think right now you're seeing a little bit of desperation."

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According to NBC's Brandy Zadrozny while some MAGA influencers are tempering their criticism over how Donald Trump's administration is handling the Jeffrey Epstein files, he has a rough road ahead with his far-right supporters

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Zadrozny was asked if Trump's assertion that files on the accused pedophile are part of an elaborate hoax was working for him.

She noted it is with a few influencers, but the wounds are deeper with another segment.

"When I talked to a bunch of influencers after the Wall Street Journal posted their story, they were sort of really excited because this gave them an end to support the president so they could finally say, 'Oh, you know, that doesn't sound like him. what is he, a thespian now? We don't buy it,'" she told the hosts.

"That gave them a chance to sort of align themselves again with, you know, their, their leader," she added. "But again, I have a finger on the pulse of what everybody was saying in response to that and they were really not moved. These people are still on Truth Social on other far right MAGA forums are not buying it at all."

"Furthermore, they're really still very much smarting from the president's reaction to them, which is, again, to call them losers, to call them weaklings, to say they didn't want –– he didn't he no longer wanted their support," she elaborated. "And there is a feeling of, you know, methinks he doth protest too much, and they're sort of waiting for what's going to come out of this, you know, promised grand jury stuff."

'You know a lot of these people are conspiracy theorists, they're not stupid," she continued. "You know, they they do a good job of connecting all the dots. The problem is, the way that they connect them isn't always right or often is wrong and so they are waiting for more information. As of now, they are angry and they are expecting more."

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Donald Trump's scrambling to put down a revolt by his MAGA followers who are furious about the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files earned him laughter from the two co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend."

As host Eugene Daniels noted, the president is struggling to deal with the fall-out over his Department of Justice sitting on evidence against the accused child sex predator who died while in custody under mysterious circumstances.

As he explained, "He admitted, quote, 'nothing will be good enough for the troublemakers and radical left lunatics making the request. It will always be more, more, more.' And the troublemakers he's referring to could be among his own MAGA faithful."

"As Ashley Parker writes in The Atlantic, quote: 'In particular, Trump has raged against MAGA influencers who, in his estimation, have profited and grown famous off their association with him and his political movement.' That's according to a White House official and a close outside adviser."

"That adviser added that: quote, 'The president has bigger fish to fry, and he said what he wants to move on',"' he continued before joking, "But it ain't working," which led Daniels and co-host Jonathan Capehart to start laughing.

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Donald Trump's attempt to exact revenge on former advisor Elon Musk by hitting in him the pocketbook has come up short, according a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

Following the tech billionare's departure from being a daily presence in the Trump White House, the relationship between the two men soured to the point where Musk went so far as to post on his social media platform X that the president is in the Jeffrey Epstein files –– which has contributed to the president's latest problems.

As the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, not long after Musk's departure Trump fired a shot across his bow by using Truth Social to announce that he was contemplating pulling the plug on government contracts with the billionaire's business.

The Journal's Brian Schwartz, Shalini Ramachandran and Micah Maidenberg reported "Just days after President Trump in early June raised the prospect of cutting ties with Musk’s businesses, the Trump administration initiated a review of SpaceX’s contracts with the federal government," adding, "The review was intended to identify potential waste in the multibillion-dollar agreements the company has with the government, the people said."

The report goes on to note that the review revealed that a great many contracts couldn’t be eliminated "because they are critical to the Defense Department and NASA."

The Journal is reporting that spreadsheets labeled as "scorecards" were used to log the value of the contracts and whether Musk's competitors could step in as a replacement.

"Instead of terminating SpaceX contracts after reviewing the data, White House and agency officials, including those at the Pentagon, determined that most of the deals were vital to the missions of the Defense Department and NASA, according to some of the people familiar with the matter. One of the people said some SpaceX contracts could face continued scrutiny," the report notes.

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