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Trump's attack on children of immigrants and 'poisoned blood' flipped back on his kids

Donald Trump's weekend threat of a "bloodbath" if he is not re-elected in November received the bulk of attention from the press and critics, but on Monday morning the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" also made note of his attacks on immigrants and their children.

Speaking in Ohio before a crowd of his rabid fans, the former president ranted about immigrants, stating, "I don’t know if you call them people. In some cases, they’re not people in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say.”

Noting the former president previously claimed, "They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country,” Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough pointedly remarked that four out of five of Trump's children are the product of his marriages to immigrants Ivana Trump (Don Trump Jr., Ivanka and Eric) and Melania Trump (Barron).

Trump's fifth child, Tiffany, came from his union with Marla Maples. She recently married Lebanese businessman Michael Boulos.

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Warren says Trump will 'try to ban abortion nationwide' if he regains power

Sen. Elizabeth Warren warned Sunday that Donald Trump will aggressively pursue a national abortion ban if elected to another term after the former president and presumptive 2024 GOP nominee boasted about the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade—a move that opened the floodgates for draconian attacks on reproductive rights across the country.

Trump nominated three of the five Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe in 2022, and he stacked lower federal courts with far-right extremists.

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A Trump Manhattan hush money conviction would punch a hole in his election hopes: report

With Donald Trump's so-called "hush money" trial in Manhattan likely to be the only one of many he is facing that might be decided before November, there is compelling evidence that a guilty verdict would cripple any chance that the former president has of being re-elected.

That is the takeaway from a poll commissioned by Politico that shows a tight race between the multi-indicted former president and President Joe Biden would strongly tilt to a win for the Democrats.

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'Trump and Putin are natural bedfellows': retired CIA officer

The Guardian has interviewed multiple intelligence experts who are predicting that a second Trump presidency would be a disaster for the United States.

Included among them was retired CIA Operations Officer Douglas London, who told the publication that former President Donald Trump's affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly troubling.

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Trump busted by Morning Joe for frightening threat he made after 'bloodbath' rant

The hosts and panelists of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" were among the many Americans disturbed by Donald Trump's prediction of a "bloodbath" should he lose re-election in November made while speaking to rabid supporters in Ohio over the weekend.

Added to that, as co-host Joe Scarborough noted, was Trump's follow-up comment which got little notice but that should be seen as equally alarming.

With the entire panel dismissing pushback from the Trump campaign claiming the former president was only talking about the auto industry, Scarborough cut to the chase and called the Trump response "bull---t."

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After showing a clip of the now-infamous rally speech, where Trump threatened, "Now if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath," Scarborough focused on what came next.

"It was a distinction without a difference, talking about the auto industry, then it'll be a bloodbath," the MSNBC host began. "Maybe you can connect that to the auto industry — maybe you can, okay. Again, I've never really heard people discuss macroeconomics in terms of bloodbaths, but maybe so, for argument's sake."

"But then he says, '...and that's going to be the least of it,'" he pointed out. "If you think there's going to be a bloodbath in the auto industry, even if you take that argument at face value, which, again, given the tone of the rest of the speech, bloodbath, I'm not sure he's talking about the niceties of international trade; let's take that argument as is. Then he goes on and says, 'That's going to be the least of it,' repeats it, 'it's going to be the least of it.'"

"Folks obviously, he's talking about a bloodbath for America," he elaborated. "It's laid out in the terms of it. These idiots on Twitter, these idiots on cable news, idiots on Sunday shows going, 'He was only talking about the industry...' That's bull----t. I'll say that at 6:15 a.m. it was bull---t."

"He knew what he was doing — we're not stupid. Americans aren't stupid," he added. "He was talking about a bloodbath. Sometimes a bloodbath means a bloodbath. When he finishes by saying, 'And that's just going to be the least of it,' seriously? These people may be stupid, we're not."

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'The fix is in': Expert breaks down 'very strange' Judge Cannon hearing on Trump docs

A recent hearing in Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed classified documents was "very strange," according to one legal expert.

Lawfare's Roger Parloff, who recently reported that Judge Cannon had created a "secret docket" in the process of overseeing the Trump case, Sunday broke down the findings of Thursday's hearing before Cannon, after he had time to "decompress."

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Democracy expert points to 'red flag signaling imminent danger' with Trump's rhetoric

Those high-profile Republicans who are twisting Donald Trump's "bloodbath" comments to be more palatable are part of the problem, a democracy expert said on Sunday.

Trygve Olson, the author of the Lincoln Democracy Institute's research project, the "Democracy Index," responded to ex-GOP governor Scott Walker's attempt to paint Trump's use of "bloodbath" as using an alternative definition about "economic disasters."

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'The reddest district in Ohio' might be 'electing an anti-Trumper': former GOP lawmaker

The reddest district in the state of Ohio could be poised to elect a non-MAGA candidate, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said on Sunday.

Kinzinger, a frequent critic of Trump who is also known to blow up right-wing conspiracy theories on social media, said in his Substack that there are "some very important primary elections on Tuesday."

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Trump just sent 'a call to his supporters' to repeat Jan. 6: former GOP governor

Donald Trump and his allies may say that the former president was taken out of context in his warning of a "bloodbath" for the country if he loses the election, but a former Republican governor says that argument is nonsense.

Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman appeared on MSNBC's The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, where she was asked about Trump saying there would be a "bloodbath for the whole country." Earlier in the day, a White House correspondent argued that it was clear Trump's comments referred to more than just the auto industry.

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'Flummoxed' White House reporter says Trump's 'bloodbath' warning was about more than cars

A White House correspondent is confused about the pushback related to Donald Trump's recent "bloodbath" comments.

Trump, at a rally in Ohio, was speaking about the auto industry when he said there would be a bloodbath if he isn't elected for another term as president. He then said that would be "the least" of it, and warned that it'd be a bloodbath "for the whole... country."

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'Bring a case': Trump's biographer says ex-president's taxes warrant a new criminal charge

Former president Donald J. Trump could face yet another criminal prosecution if his biographer has anything to say about it.

Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump's taxes and financial matters for years, appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports Sunday. The host asked him about Trump's tax records.

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'Judge Cannon took the bait': Legal expert shows how Trump tricked jurist in docs case

Donald Trump got one over on Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the ex-president's criminal case involving stashed confidential documents, according to a legal expert.

Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg, who recently spoke on the prospect of Trump seeing "prison time," appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports on Sunday, and was asked about a motion by Trump seeking to have Judge Cannon dismiss the suit.

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Trump's praise of Jan. 6 convicts gives 'a dangerous clue' about his plans: conservative

Will Donald Trump pardon the January 6 defendants who sprayed police with mace, or the ones who broke windows at the Capitol and threatened to kill Mike Pence? That's the question on the mind of conservative Charlie Sykes.

Sykes, the right-wing commentator who earlier this month traded pointed barbs with Donald Trump co-defendant Jeff Clark, called out Trump's habit of calling the Jan. 6 convicts "hostages" in a piece published by MSNBC.

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