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'Mass memory loss' is Trump's best hope of winning in 2024: columnist

Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank has identified former President Donald Trump's biggest asset in the 2024 presidential race: Namely, the potential amnesia of American voters.

In his latest piece, Milbank zeroes in on Trump asking Americans if they're better off now than they were four years ago, which was a time when Americans couldn't leave their houses, businesses were shut down en masse, and thousands of Americans were dying every day from a virus that Trump sought to continuously downplay as a threat to public health.

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'They all say he's bad': Morning Joe astonished by number of Trump appointees who hate him

President Joe Biden was joined by two of his Democratic predecessors for a fundraiser that raked in more than $26 million, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough pointed out that Donald Trump would never be able to put together that sort of public display of support.

Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton joined Biden at the star-studded event moderated by late night host Stephen Colbert in New York City, and The Atlantic's Mark Leibowitz told the "Morning Joe" host that he was struck by that show of unity around the president.

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'Hoodwinked and ashamed': Man who brokered Trump's Scottish golf resort has deep regrets

The man who helped broker the deal for former President Donald Trump to set up a golf resort in Scotland now has deep regrets.

The BBC reports that Neil Hobday, the project director for Trump's golf resort in Aberdeenshire, has apologized for pushing through a deal that he says has not delivered on its promises to local residents.

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Fraud conspiracies already emerging to explain Trump's lackluster GOP primary results

A significant portion of Republican primary voters continue to reject Donald Trump despite there being no viable alternatives on the ballot, and his supporters are rationalizing that lackluster performance with election fraud conspiracy theories.

Trump secured just 75 percent of the vote in the Kansas primary on March 19, but Nikki Haley drew 16 percent of the vote despite dropping out nearly two weeks earlier and "none of the names shown" picked up 5 percent, and the numbers were similar that same day in Arizona and Ohio, reported The Daily Beast.

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Katie Britt faces new claim she's 'whipping up fear of sexual violence from brown people'

U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), who went viral for her misleading State of the Union response in which she implied President Joe Biden was responsible for sexual assaults that happened in Mexico years before he went to the White House, is now facing similar allegations once again.

Britt was initially criticized for her "over-the-top" delivery of her State of the Union response speech, which saw her at various times appearing to laugh as well as weep in despair as she talked about her two children and her husband. After that, an independent journalist uncovered the fact that one of the examples Britt used was from George W. Bush's presidency.

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MAGA outrage after federal judge appears on CNN to talk threats to him and his family

A federal judge's appearance on CNN to discuss threats he and his family have suffered in the recent past set off some in the MAGA universe.

U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, who presided over some Jan. 6 Capitol riot cases from the District of Columbia court, chatted with CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source."

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'Stirring an empty pot': Newt Gingrich hit for attacking Biden’s bridge rebuild promise

Newt Gingrich is getting torched online for trying to score political points by tearing down President Joe Biden's vow to "move heaven and earth" to rebuild Baltimore's toppled Francis Scott Key Bridge.

"Why would President Biden promise to pay to rebuild the Baltimore bridge when the insurance companies are responsible," the former House Speaker posted on Twitter/X. "Why add a billion dollars to U.S. debt when the big insurance companies exist for precisely this purpose?"

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'Gloves off': Biden campaign predicts how Trump likely spends his time

President Joe Biden campaigned in five cities last week, while his opponent, former President Donald Trump, has only had "a single public campaign event since he locked up the Republican presidential nomination on March 12," according to The Associated Press.

The Daily Beast's Jake Lahut reported earlier this week that since Biden's State of the Union address earlier this month, his reelection campaign "has seen a significant boost in both polling and fundraising." The president "is now leading Trump in the battleground state of Wisconsin, and tied with his predecessor in Michigan and Pennsylvania," all of which "were what secured the electoral college majority for Trump in 2016, and will likely play a significant role in deciding the winner this fall."

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Trump's Bible plan comes under new scrutiny as intended purpose for proceeds is murky

Former President Donald Trump is now promoting a $60 large-print edition of the Bible that includes America's founding documents and the lyrics to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" — a move that has drawn outrage from some Christians who find both the extra content added to the Bible and the attempt to monetize people's religious beliefs a form of sacrilege.

But there's one question that still needs answering, CNN reported on Thursday: where exactly is the money from all this going?

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Trump's 'volatile' Truth Social stock will tank until the company is bankrupt: expert

Trump Media and Technology Group, the company that handles the former president's Truth Social platform, went public this month, after a long-sought merger that creates billions in market cap. But already, the newly created stock is proving to be volatile.

According to USA TODAY, "Donald Trump’s namesake social media company burst out of the gate on its first day of trading Tuesday, opening at $70.90 and soaring as high as $79.38 as Trump fans and opportunistic traders bought up shares. But the price faded late in the session and has bounced along at lower levels ever since, ending Thursday down $4.26 at $61.96. Its market valuation, just over $8 billion, is still stunning for a social media fledgling with an unproven business model that has struggled to attract users and advertisers, burned through cash and wracked up losses."

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'Is there no depth?' Ex-prosecutor shreds Trump's personal attack on judge's daughter

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann took his time on MSNBC Wednesday to lay into former President Donald Trump for his mounting personal attacks on the family of Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump's New York hush money trial — including unsubstantiated allegations about his daughter.

"Andrew, I cease to be able to be surprised, except that Donald Trump is now literally making up a story about Judge Merchan's daughter, posting about it, railing about it, naming her by name," said anchor Joy Reid. "And there's still nothing anyone can do to stop it?"

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Mary Trump 'energized' as uncle 'Donald's campaign spirals into chaos'

Donald Trump's campaign is in chaos, and his niece says she's energized.

Mary Trump, the niece of the former president and a psychologist by trade, has previously been critical of her uncle.

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Legal expert exposes Judge Cannon's 'secret docket' in Trump's docs case

Unexplained filings are piling up in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom — and no one seems to know exactly what's going on.

The strange "secret docket" measures, relating to former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, were flagged on Thursday by Lawfare's Roger Parloff.

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