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During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, Donald Trump's psychologist niece fumed at media outlets that have been accused of "sane-washing" her uncle's rambling speeches and answers to question to make it appear he was delivering a coherent message.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi and admitting she is suffering the effects of a bout with COVID, Trump claimed that the press covering for the former president and doing a disservice to the public and putting the country in danger.

Noting that she has previously written about "sane-washing" — a name given when journalists try and make Trump's point for him when he goes into one of his tirades — she explained, "The problem is that, it's not simply that many media outlets think that they need to translate Donald. First of all they are not telling us that is what they are doing but they are just pretending that he said these understandable coherent things."

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"But much worse than that they are imbuing his meaningless statements with meaning that is not there," she accused. "Making him seem more serious and less delusional than he actually is, as you just pointed out."

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Despite all the polling and commentary to the contrary, Donald Trump snarled at ABC on Saturday morning that he was the true winner of Tuesday's debate and then claimed the network is "under investigation."

Along the way, he claimed that the two moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, are "mentally challenged people" while he is a "genius."

According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, there is good reason for prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office to go to Judge Juan Merchan and make the case that Donald Trump is in violation of his gag order.

Earlier in the week New York's highest court rejected Donald Trump's most recent appeal of the gag order in his Manhattan criminal trial where he was found guilty on 34 felony charges.

At the end of a segment on MSNBC"s "The Weekend," co-host and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele suggested Donald Trump seek psychiatric help.

Discussing Trump's continuing attacks on Haitian immigrants who have legally taken up residence in Springfield, Ohio, which has now led the former president to boast he'll deport them if he's re-elected, co-host Symone Sanders Townsend pointed out that each week Trump has been picking on a different segment of American society.

"All his hate is wrapped up in the same ball of nastiness," she told her co-hosts. "And there is that, you know, I don't have the quote in front of me but this week it is the Haitian community. Last week it was the Jewish community. Next week it will be someone else."

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"He comes for one group of people, he coming for everyone and people should believe what he is saying. I believe what he said he is going to do," she asserted.

"Well dude needs to get on a couch and work out his daddy issues and not put all that stuff on us," Steele interjected, "Because I'm tired of it, quite honestly."

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On Saturday morning, one of the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" said it is time for Melania Trump to get more involved in her husband's presidential campaign that is currently being derailed by his attachment to a controversial far-right gadfly.

According to former RNC chair Michael Steele, Donald Trump's increasing interactions with controversial Laura Loomer is not only hurting him with fellow Republicans, it is also fueling rumors of an affair at a time when his campaign is reeling from his disastrous debate performance.

As Steele told his co-hosts, Trump's insistence on keeping up his attacks on legal immigrants in Springfield, Ohio is part and parcel of his links to Loomer who is notable for ginning up fake controversies.

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Steele also expressed dismay that the Springfield lies continue to get oxygen.

After admitting he didn't really want to get into gossip of a tryst between the former president and Loomer, he complained to his co-hosts, "What is it about us that makes us so stupid we believe this crap and we push it out and we elevate it up?"

"What is going on?" he continued. "Because, you know, the Loomers of the world, she's grifting, she is making her money, she's got access, she is all up on the president."

"We have seen the photo, she is all up on her chest, we know what her deal is," he added. "Why are we the people, yeah — that photo, that photo — where is Melania? Melania, check your man! I don't understand. I don't get why we are so susceptible to this kind of BS."

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With the November election less than 60 days away, there have been concerted efforts within Donald Trump's campaign to dial back any mention of the Jan. 6 insurrection over fears it could drive away mainstream Republicans and independents.

According to a report from the New York Times' Charles Homans and Alan Feuer, there is a divide among conservatives about any hot-button comments about the riot that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives even though it animates the former president's most ardent supporters.

Between attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris and haranguing the media for what he saw as a rigged primetime debate, former President Donald Trump used much of his Las Vegas rally on Friday night to stoke fears about immigrants.

The Republican nominee for president repeatedly claimed that under the Biden-Harris administration hyperbolic numbers of immigrants have poured into the United States to take American jobs, rape and murder women and children, get transgender surgery, vote in elections, take over whole apartment buildings to house their gangs, and “conquer our country.”

She thinks 9/11 was an "inside job," drops racist and homophobic bombs and has been denounced by the hard right of her Republican Party -- and now she's flying around the country with Donald Trump.

Meet Laura Loomer, the latest fringe figure to set up in the presidential candidate's inner circle, and who has managed to shock even Trump's most extreme allies as he seeks to reclaim the White House.

Fox News, Fox Business, and other right-wing media outlets have repeatedly attacked President Joe Biden for his age, often conflating his speech impediment with mental decline. But those outlets haven't applied that amount of scrutiny to 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump.

CNN, however, has aired a supercut video contrasting Trump in 2016 to Trump during his September 10, 2024 debate with Vice President Kamala Harris — a video that The New Republic's Hafiz Rashid describes as a "stark example of the convicted felon’s cognitive decline."

Donald Trump is on his fourth day of promoting his false claim that 20,000 undocumented Haitian migrants were dumped on Springfield, Ohio and have destroyed the townsfolk’s way of life, including by stealing people’s pet cats and dogs and eating them. Now, one U.S. Senator is suggesting the Republican presidential nominee is using “stochastic terrorism” to help his flailing presidential campaign.

A bomb threat and another, unspecified threat forced several Springfield elementary schools and one middle school to evacuate or not open Thursday and Friday. On Thursday, the Springfield city hall was evacuated and shut down, as were some state motor vehicle offices.

A prominent New York Times reporter disagreed with Pete Buttigieg on Friday after the transportation secretary theorized a day earlier that former President Donald Trump's repeated false claim that Haitian migrants are eating pets was a strategy to distract people from Trump's record.

Buttigieg told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins on Thursday night that there's "even more to it than demonizing immigrants" for Trump.

The woman who appears to have inadvertently sparked a viral far-right hoax that Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, are kidnapping and eating people's cats and dogs has come forward to say she regrets that her social media post caused so much confusion.

Former President Donald Trump even promoted the claim at the presidential debate on Tuesday, and had to be shut down by moderators. Meanwhile, schools in the area have had to be evacuated for bomb threats, including one that specifically mentioned the false claims.