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Trump's just 'trying to please his daddy': laughing ex-GOP strategist explains new ad

The Lincoln Project, a group of former Republican strategists turned Donald Trump foes infamous for their ads goading him directly, took things a step further this month with a new ad featuring an AI recreation of the former president's deceased father, Fred Trump, proclaiming, "I'm ashamed of you!"

Speaking to MSNBC's Joy Reid on Tuesday evening, Lincoln Project strategist Tara Setmayer explained a bit of the thinking behind this stunt.

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Revealed: Trump campaign owes money to the New York Times and ABC News

Former President Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign owes money to the New York Times, ABC News, and the Secret Service, according to newly filed Federal Election Commission documents exclusively reviewed by Raw Story.

The Secret Service debt is by far the largest, totaling $485,824.78. The New York Times debt totals $3,668.61, while the ABC News debt totals $1,156.10.

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'So insane': Laura Ingraham forced to school Trump in his own town hall

A Fox News pundit was put in the awkward position Tuesday of having to correct former President Donald Trump in front a live audience and viewers across the nation who tuned into his town hall meeting.

Laura Ingraham quizzed the former president at the Greenville Convention Center in South Carolina about what he planned to do about voter fraud in the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

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'Faucet! Dishwasher! Water! Bad!': Trump ruthlessly mocked for town hall rant

Former President Donald Trump went into a rant about dishwashers at his Fox News town hall with Laura Ingraham on Tuesday evening — the latest in a long string of times he has complained about the low water pressure on newer, energy-saving fixtures and appliances.

"They come out with faucets where no water comes out," said Trump. "You know, if you go and buy a home, and they know what I mean, the showers, you stand under a shower and there's no water coming, and you end up standing there five times longer ... so in Ohio, you have this great company that came to me, a dishwasher company, one of the biggest and finest companies, but they were going out of business. They said, we're not allowed to use water."

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'Straight out of the Handmaid's Tale': Biden camp whacks Trump over report of extreme plan

The Biden campaign responded to a report from Politico detailing how Christian nationalism is intentionally being injected into the plans being drafted for a potential second Trump presidential term.

“Spearheading the effort is Russell Vought, who served as Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget during his first term and has remained close to him. Vought, who is frequently cited as a potential chief of staff in a second Trump White House, is president of The Center for Renewing America think tank, a leading group in a conservative consortium preparing for a second Trump term,” Politico reported Tuesday.

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Trump spokesman's lurid post sparks public fight with Haley's camp

Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley's declaration that she refuses to “kiss the ring" of Donald Trump spurred the former president's spokesperson to lash out on social media with curses and insults.

"She’s going to drop down to kiss --- when she quits," former President Donald Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung tweeted Tuesday. "Like she always does."

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Trump's 'sworn enemy' is witness in next trial — and he intends to destroy him: expert

Donald Trump's one-time fixer Michael Cohen is the former president's "sworn enemy" — and the former president "will stop at nothing" to destroy him, according to a MSNBC legal analyst.

Lisa Rubin appeared on MSNBC's "Deadline White House" on Tuesday to discuss Trump's upcoming criminal court case linked to accusations that he paid hush money to an adult film star to cover up an affair before the 2016 presidential election.

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Letitia James ready to seize Trump buildings if he can't pay $355M fine: report

New York Attorney General Letitia James is ready to seize former President Donald Trump's iconic New York City buildings if he can't come up with the cash to pay his $355 million civil fraud fine, a new report shows.

"If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets," James told ABC News.

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'Very, very dumb': Trump's foray into golden shoes has true sneaker fans dismayed

The "Never-Surrender High-Top Sneaker" isn't catching on with some shoe aficionados.

The $399 gold metallic kicks, all 1,000 pairs of which were purchased within hours of former President Donald Trump debuting them on Saturday on the stage of the Philadelphia Convention Center, don't have many admirers of kicks swooning.

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'Two strikes': Experts say Aileen Cannon is getting closer to being recused

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, a Donald Trump appointee whose decisions have raised concerns about bias toward the former president, might have finally gone too far, wrote legal experts Norm Eisen and Joshua Kolb for Slate on Tuesday.

What's more, special counsel Jack Smith might be gearing up to ask the appellate court to step in and get rid of her.

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Republicans cower 'like little bunny rabbits' as Trump pushes U.S. toward WWIII: analyst

Former President Donald Trump is on track to pull the U.S. into a global crisis with help from an unexpected source: "little bunny rabbits."

That's according to David J. Rothkopf, who Tuesday slammed the Republican Party for kowtowing to Trump as the former president himself kowtows to Russian President Vladimir Putin with threats to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization upon his return to the White House.

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Trump continues bragging about Trucker protest in NYC — despite it not happening

Donald Trump spent much of Tuesday sharing articles about a trucker boycott that reportedly aims to shut down New York City in protest of the $355 million fraud trial judgment the former president was hit with Friday.

But there's a problem with his brags of the direct action — it's not happening.

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MAGA faithful erupts in rage over Nikki Haley comment: 'Anti-Republican witch!'

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has no intention of leaving the race for president and in a speech on Tuesday, she proclaimed that former President Donald Trump — who is currently beating her overwhelmingly in polls for the nomination — is in cognitive decline.

This promptly led to attacks on her from the former president's supporters.

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