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'Stuff a sock in his mouth': George Conway on what he'd do if he was Trump's lawyer

Former President Donald Trump's attorneys desperately need to get him to stop talking about the federal election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, conservative lawyer George Conway told CNN's Kate Bolduan on Tuesday — because his latest comments are actually undermining the defense the right-wing Supreme Court justices handed him earlier this summer.

"I want to play something that Donald Trump said himself this weekend in a new Fox interview, kind of about the case against him," said Bolduan, playing a clip of Trump appearing on "Life, Liberty & Levin."

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'Likely to be brutal': CNN expert expects vicious onslaught from 'frustrated' Trump

Former President Donald Trump is frustrated that his attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t hit their target, a CNN analyst wrote Tuesday.

And it’s expected that he'll unleash a ‘brutal’ onslaught of vitriol over the next two months on a level that has not yet been seen.

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Trump's biggest brag is target of new Republican Voters Against Trump ad

Donald Trump prides himself on his ability to entertain — bragging about huge crowds lapping up his every word. Now, one anti-Trump group sees that as a prime target to hit.

Republican Voters Against Trump is launching a multi-million-dollar ad campaign showcasing those who abandoned Trump after supporting him. Some cite Jan. 6 as a contributing factor while others cite his treatment of women. But there's one area where most agree — they're bored with him.

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Nearly half of Trump supporters expect 2024 election will not have accurate vote counts

Nearly half of former President Donald Trump supporters do not think the results of the November election will be fairly reported, according to a new poll.

A USA Today/Suffolk poll reported that 42% of Trump supporters said they were "not confident" the count will be accurate.

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Convicted murderer set free by Trump beat his wife after release: report

Former President Donald Trump made a number of controversial pardons and commutations on his way out the door in 2021, but one that has flown under the radar has been the sentence commutation of Jaime A. Davidson, a New York man who spent decades behind bars after being convicted of murdering a federal law enforcement officer in the early 1990s.

Since his pardon, however, it seems that Davidson has not kept his nose clean.

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Arizona's GOP mayor warns Trump's already planning to 'foment insurrection if he loses'

Several of the speakers who endorsed presidential nominee Kamala Harris at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago were conservative Republicans, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), former Trump White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, ex-Mike Pence national security aide Olivia Troye, and Mesa, Arizona Mayor John Giles.

Like other pro-Harris Republicans, Giles believes that former President Donald Trump is fundamentally anti-democracy. And the Mesa mayor is warning that Trump and his MAGA allies will fight the election results if Harris wins in November.

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'Doom and gloom' message has 'exhausted' some ex-Trump supporters: Former GOP pollster

Former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell on Tuesday told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Vice President Kamala Harris has one distinct advantage in her quest to peel one-time GOP voters away from former President Donald Trump.

Longwell, who has been working to convince ex-Trump voters to back Harris in this fall's election, told host Mika Brzezinski that she's seen a "tremendous openness" to Harris's candidacy from some Trump voters who are now intrigued by what she stands for.

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'Chaos': Expert warns Trump disciples are tearing apart communities even before election

Former president Donald Trump has yet to win a return to the White House, yet he's already caused damage around the country, author Sasha Abramsky told Salon's Amanda Marcotte in a far-reaching interview published Tuesday.

That's because many of Trump's disciples have been elected to local government around the country, and have been executing his ideas at that level — often with catastrophic consequences for locals' day-to-day life.

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'Not a likable guy': Paul Begala tells CNN Harris plans for Trump to be himself in debate

Vice President Kamala Harris is hoping to parade Donald Trump in front of millions of TV viewers at next week’s debate in his natural state, Democratic strategist Paul Begala told CNN Tuesday.

The Democratic Party’s presidential nominee hopes to unleash Trump by insisting that microphones are left on throughout the ABC News' Sept. 10 broadcast — and she’s betting on Trump himself convincing voters not to back him.

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'Genuinely chilling': Analyst sounds alarm over Trump's latest bizarre speeches

Donald Trump’s recent speeches have lapsed into an incoherence that’s striking even for him — and it’s causing a whole new level of panic over his possible return to the White House, an MSNBC columnist wrote Tuesday.

Using a recent address in Potterville, Michigan to illustrate his point, writer Zeeshan Aleem commented that Trump had always been rambling — but he seems to have reached a new level of confusion.

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Trump's flip-flops show 'contempt for voters' as campaign panics: Morning Joe panel

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday did little to hide their disgust after watching former President Donald Trump once again push false claims about blue states allowing for the "execution" of babies at nine months of pregnancy.

The comments came as the panelists dissected Trump's frequent contradictory statements on his abortion policy as he indicated last Friday that he would vote in favor of overturning Florida's six-week abortion ban, only to reverse course on the issue over the weekend and say he'd vote against it.

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'Will this be front-page news?' Old Donald Trump post spurs new outrage on social media

An old Donald Trump post suggesting that baseless voter fraud could be grounds for suspending the Constitution spurred new outrage on Monday night.

In December 2022, Trump took to his social media site Truth Social to promote the "Big Lie" — and used it as justification for the "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."

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Legal expert lays out what September could hold for Trump’s criminal cases

MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin briefly broke down what's next for Donald Trump this month as he continues to face significant legal battles less than two months ahead of possible reelection.

In a post published to X, Rubin wrote:

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