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Tucker Carlson's decision to cast former President Donald Trump as an angry "daddy" who spanks the bad girls when he gets home spurred a dire directive Thursday from a Democratic strategist: "Call 911."

Maria Cardona appeared on CNN Thursday afternoon to unpack Carlson's riff on Trump as the violent father to a nation of young women deserving of punishment.

Fox News host and media analyst Howard Kurtz argued that former President Donald Trump was "just letting off steam" by openly wishing that he had Adolf Hitler's generals.

Retired four-star general John Kelly revealed in a recent interview that Trump allegedly made the remark while president. Kurtz said Thursday that he did not doubt Kelly's story.

A classicist said she saw "all kinds of ironies" after an NBC News profile on Usha Vance, the successful lawyer married to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), observed a literary opus she was reading about "male rage."

Vanity Fair spoke with classicist Emily Wilson, who did a new translation of Homer's Iliad, published in 2023. The profile talks about Vance as a member of a "slow pace" book club and that she began reading it when her 7-year-old son became interested in mythology.

Former President Donald Trump will allow a cadre of "nihilists, destructionists and even criminals" to take over every level of the federal government if he is allowed back into power, Frank Bruni wrote for The New York Times Thursday.

In Trump's first administration, the government was rocked by scandal after scandal, with a long series of resignations by various high-ranking officials for abuse of public office.

A super PAC founded by billionaire Elon Musk, a Donald Trump supporter, declined to move forward with its daily $1 million giveaway to a registered voter Wednesday after receiving a warning from the Department of Justice.

Musk had promised that America PAC would give $1 million daily to a registered voter who signed the organization's petition in favor of the First and Second Amendments.

Former President Donald Trump has one key factor to thank for remaining a viable presidential candidate, Steven Greenhouse wrote for Slate — a large chunk of the billionaire class has decided to back him.

"There’s no denying that billionaires are trying to bend society to their will," wrote Greenhouse. "America’s 800-plus billionaires hold over $6 trillion in wealth, more wealth than the bottom half of U.S. households" — indeed, they own a larger percent of America's wealth than in the Gilded Age. "And they will do whatever they have to do to keep things that way."

Less than two weeks before voters head to the polls to choose between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, a concerned group of mental health experts issued a new warning about the former president.

Operating under "Duty to Warn," 233 mental health professionals signed off on a letter to be published in the New York Times, calling Trump an "imminent catastrophic public danger" to the world should he be re-elected based upon recent evidence on display in his public appearances.

Two onetime campaign officials tied to former President Donald Trump's 2020 fake electors plot have been hired by House Republicans to oversee national elections, according to a new report.

The Committee on House Administration, which will play a key role when Congress certifies the election on Jan. 6, has hired former Trump campaign lawyer Joshua Findlay and operative Thomas Lane, CNN reported Thursday.

A CNN host was reluctant to discuss MAGA's latest celebration Thursday because she compared it to "rewarding a flasher."

Brianna Keilar was talking about a video starring Tucker Carlson that went viral after it was shown at a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday — and was loved by the crowd.

Donald Trump is mercilessly mocked in a new ad that takes aim at a report that his senior adviser is raking in a fortune from the campaign.

The Daily Beast reported earlier this month that Chris LaCivita, the co-chief of Trump’s campaign, had made deals that had paid him $22 million in just two years.

The U.S. Naval Academy is under fire after it invited — then uninvited — a distinguished expert on authoritarianism and fascism to give a lecture.

Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian Studies at New York University, where her bio says she "writes about fascism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and the threats these present to democracies around the world." She is the author of books on fascism and serves as an advisor to the nonpartisan nonprofit organization Protect Democracy. She is also an MSNBC opinion columnist, where she appears as a commentator, as she does on other news networks.

Former President Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social was backed by a Wall Street firm whose partners are accused of blowing millions of company cash on private jets, hangover cures and a prostitute, according to court records and reports.

Partners at EF Hutton, a company that specializes in risky start-ups such as Truth Social, were the subject of dueling lawsuits and a securities fraud investigation revealed Thursday by the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast.

A voter with a Trump tattoo etched into his bicep told a columnist he’s voting for Harris.

The man, who the writer met at a truck stop in Nevada as he drove through 15 states in an effort to grasp at how grassroots voters are thinking, said he’d voted for the ex-president twice — but no more.