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Gen. John Kelly's comments about Donald Trump continue to echo through the political world, with 13 former Trump officials willing to verify some of the stories he revealed about the ex-president's treatment of soldiers and the military.

Among those is Kevin Carroll, a former senior counselor to John Kelly, who spoke to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Friday. He relayed the moment when Trump railed against the military at Arlington National Cemetery, recalling running into Kelly after the fact.

Former officials from Donald Trump's White House continue to come forward to speak out against him in the final days of the 2024 election cycle.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, Elizabeth Neumann, former assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security, tried to convey to Americans that their top issues won't matter if America loses its freedom.

Former President Donald Trump on Friday expressed his appreciation for the physical beauty of young girls who had been knifed to death, slammed President Joe Biden for refusing to discuss in 2020 the death of a woman killed in 2024, and suggested Vice President Kamala Harris had approached two children with a machete.

Trump delivered an anti-immigrant speech Friday in Texas that frequently veered away from detailing gruesome deaths at the hands of immigrants to throw questionable insults at political rivals.

A coalition of Islamic leaders in a must-win battleground state is now urging their respective communities to get behind Vice President Kamala Harris in November.

The New Republic reported that more than 100 progressive Democratic Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders in Arizona have now co-signed a letter in support of Harris' candidacy. The letter, which was posted to X by Arizona-based progressive activist Kai Newkirk, acknowledges that while many Muslim voters are understandably upset about how President Joe Biden's administration has handled Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza, affected communities cannot afford to have former President Donald Trump return to power.

Former President Donald Trump hurled a homophobic insult at CNN anchor Anderson Cooper at a Texas rally Friday and was met with cheers and laughter.

Trump slammed Vice President Kamala Harris' Pennsylvania town hall on Wednesday during which she addressed concerns about border control and policies controlling immigrants' entry into the country — then took a bigoted jab at Cooper.

A right-wing Republican wants North Carolina to hand its electoral votes to Donald Trump even before the population votes because the aftermath of Hurricane Helene is making it impossible for many to get to the polls.

Politico reported that Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, thinks the election is such a foregone conclusion that voting isn't needed.

Former President Donald Trump complained Friday a Virginia judge's ruling that Republicans could not yank ballots away from local voters days before the presidential election was a "travesty."

Trump bemoaned on Truth Social the ruling from U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin's executive order violated federal law by purging registered voters too close to the upcoming election.

Chinese hackers penetrated into U.S. telecommunications networks and targeted phones used by former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, reported The New York Times on Friday.

Investigators are currently trying to "determine what communications data, if any, was taken or observed by the sophisticated penetration of telecom systems, according to these people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe an active and highly sensitive national security case."

Former President Donald Trump's refusal to meet routine deadlines foreshadows his willingness to embrace an alarming aspect of Project 2025 should he be reelected in November, a new analysis contends.

Trump's slow-walking of the presidential transition process to vet potential staffers and appointees suggests he means to force federal workers to do his bidding by dismantling key protections, Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton argued Friday.

Officials in a key swing state launched an investigation Friday after discovering 2,500 voter registrations they suspect of being fraudulent.

Many of the registration forms were found to have incorrect addresses, false identification information, false names or names that didn't match Social Security details, the elections officials in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County said.

Jay Johnston, the former "Bob's Burgers" actor who pleaded guilty earlier this year to charges related to his participation in the January 6th Capitol riots, pleaded for leniency in court on Friday and argued he was being unfairly targeted.

CBS News' Scott MacFarlane reports that Johnston's attorneys argued that federal prosecutors have "persistently overstated Johnston’s participation at the Capitol" on the grounds that "he is an acclaimed Hollywood actor. The government is using his status to make a point to the public."

A Friday decision by the top management of the Washington Post to not make a 2024 presidential endorsement resulted in a flood of complaints, criticism and outrage on the media company's website after controversial publisher William Lewis issued an official statement.

On the heels of the LA Times following a similar path and not endorsing either Vice President Kamala Harris or ex-president Donald Trump at the direction of billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong who overruled his editorial board which led to a flood of resignations, Lewis announced a parallel move.

Donald Trump's "symptoms of severe, untreatable personality disorder—malignant narcissism—makes him deceitful, destructive, deluded, and dangerous,"and “grossly unfit for leadership,” a group of more than 200 mental health professional say in a rare open letter, published as a full-page ad in The New York Times.

"As mental health professionals, we have an ethical duty to warn the public that Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy," the 233 signatories say in the letter. It was organized by attorney George Conway's Anti-Psychopath PAC, which says it "is dedicated to highlighting Donald Trump’s mental instability, bringing it to the forefront of national discussion."