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In the middle of the night, former President Donald Trump went on an extended tirade aimed at former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), as he took exception with her claim that he suffered from depression after his 2020 presidential loss.

In Cheney's new book, "Oath and Honor; A Memoir and a Warning," which she has been out promoting, she claimed that now ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was forced to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to console the former president after his loss to President Joe Biden.

In her book she claimed that McCarthy told her that former president was not eating due to sadness over his defeat, and that claim seems to have triggered Trump who singled out that allegation above all others.

"Crazy Liz Cheney, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome at a level rarely seen before, writes in her boring new book that Kevin McCarthy said he came to Mar-a-Lago after the RIGGED election because, 'the former president was depressed and not eating,'" Trump fumed. "That statement is not true. I was not depressed, I WAS ANGRY, and it was not that I was not eating, it was that I was eating too much."

Philadelphia City Commissioner Lisa Deeley on Sunday said former President Donald Trump was attempting to “sow doubt” about the 2024 elections when he told supporters to “guard the vote” in predominantly Democratic cities, including Philadelphia.

“This is nothing new, Trump says these things before every election,” Deeley said in a post to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, “and I expect we will hear more of this over the next year.”

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) attacked new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and others in the Republican leadership, like Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who are all being controlled by Donald Trump and an extension of his campaign for the presidency.

Speaking to MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday, Garcia explained that the facts constantly thwarted the ongoing attack against Hunter Biden, the president's last living son.

Reporter Molly Jong-Fast warned that the media can't stop allowing Donald Trump to operate unchallenged.

Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan on Sunday, Jong-Fast explained that journalists are so concerned about appearing biased that they ultimately end up downplaying the seriousness of Trump's pledge to bring down American democracy as we know it. In reality, regardless of what news outlets say, Trump will attack it as partisan or "fake news."

Former U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) flattened Donald Trump's recent attempt to deploy his "I know you are, but what am I" strategy.

Speaking at a recent rally, Trump claimed that President Joe Biden is the "destroyer of democracy." The idea of preserving democracy is an issue that has been at the heart of arguments against Trump from both parties that oppose another Trump term. Voters who supported Democratic candidates during the 2022 midterm election also indicated in surveys that they were concerned about the stability of democracy.

During a discussion on MSNBC on timing Donald Trump's multiple trials around his presidential campaign schedule, a former U.S. attorney suggested a Trump lawyer may have pushed his luck by suggesting the former president's upcoming racketeering trial might have to be rescheduled until 2029.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, ex-prosecutor Barbara McQuade pointed out that any average American facing charges like Trump currently is facing would not be granted the same consideration the embattled Trump appears to be receiving.

This past week Trump's Georgia attorney Steve Sadow asserted that taking his client to trial within the next year would constitute "election interference" in his eyes. That, in turn led Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee to ask if Trump's trial could proceed in 2025, with Sadow replying, "The answer to that is I believe that under the supremacy clause and his duties as president of the United States this trial would not take place at all until after he left his term in office.”

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According to McQuade, that would mean a court date sometime in 2029 which she claimed might lead Judge McAfee to speed the timeline.

Recalling for the host, "The lawyer said, well, because a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, he also can't sit trial for a crime where he's a sitting president, therefore, that case would not be tried until 2029," McQuade added, "I think that aspect might cause the judge to reconsider, and make sure that this trial gets done before the election, because by 2029, I think the public has lost its right to a fair trial."

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Fox News host Arthel Neville interrupted a speech by former President Donald Trump to point out his "many untruths" about the 2020 election.

As Trump gave a campaign speech in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday, Neville cut the former president off mid-sentence.

Rudy Giuliani expressed fear on Sunday that he could go to prison for the rest of his life after Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) suggested that data from Hunter Biden's laptop had been "manipulated" by the former New York mayor.

On his Sunday radio program, Giuliani said he deserved praise for exposing the contents of a laptop belonging to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki fired back at Donald Trump on Sunday, mocking his "crazy, unhinged," threat to go after her network in a Truth Social post.

On November 28, the former president raged, "MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Brian Roberts, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years. It is the world’s biggest political contribution to the Radical Left Democrats who, by the way, are destroying our Country. Our so-called 'government' should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity. Much more to come, watch!"

After noting it "sounded just like another one of those crazy, unhinged rants" that Americans have become accustomed to from the four-time indicted, twice impeached former president, she first joked, "He also talked about himself in the third person — always a red flag in my book, and he included his middle initial in that too."

Then she took him to school on how freedom of the press works in the United States.

"Trump is promising to resort to an authoritarian tactic should he become president again," she explained. "Does the federal government have any role in the oversight of a cable news network? No they actually don't. But that's not the point here. What's important is that he's threatening to use the power of the government against media he believes is being critical of him."

"Believe me, I know from experience from many days and hours at the briefing room, that the relationship between the U.S. government and the free press can be tense at times," she explained. "And even both of the presidents I worked for, they had their own moments of unleashing their media critiques when they didn't like a story. And when I think about the role of the free press and how essential it is for our democracy. I also think about my time as a spokesperson for the State Department."

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After recalling her experiences with one critic of the administration's policies, she added, "It's actually a threat to the free press. A threat to democracy. And that threat comes at a time when a record total of 533 journalists are currently detained worldwide ; that's according to Reporters Without Borders. A large number of them are being held by the sorts of authoritarian regimes that Trump envisions creating here at home."

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During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Republican Party strategist Brad Todd got an earful from both liberal and conservatives sitting on the panel with him when he attempted to defend plans by the GOP-controlled House to impeach President Joe Biden.

Talking about the impeachment inquiry which got the go-ahead from House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), Todd was lectured that it was "dead on arrival" because multiple Republican House members in swing districts don't want it hanging over their heads as they run for re-election.

"The reality is it is dead on arrival," former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin explained. "There is a slim House Republican majority... If you're [Republican Rep.] Mike Lawler in New York, you're talking about losing seats in D+2 districts."

When Todd tried to compare the inquiry to the impeachments of Donald Trump, and said it would not impact the 2024 election, former Biden White House communications official Kate Bedingfield smirked and pounced.

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"That in and of itself is a hyperpartisan, hyperpolarized argument," she argued. "Just because we impeached Donald Trump for demonstrable crimes against the Constitution doesn't mean that Republicans will in turn impeach Joe Biden. This not just about scoring points."

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Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he is ready to throw his support behind Donald Trump for president even if he is convicted of any of the 91 felony charges he is facing.

During a Sunday panel discussion, ABC host George Stephanopoulos seemed surprised at Priebus' willingness to support Trump despite his criminal problems.

During a CNN panel discussion on Donald Trump's twin rallies in Iowa on Saturday, former Trump White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin changed the subject from the former president's attacks on President Joe Biden to admit she was "stunned" by his delivery that lacked "sharpness."

Speaking with CNN "State of the Union" host Dana Bash, Farah Griffin agreed that Trump often uses projection to flip his faults onto others, but then turned to his demeanor as he spoke to the crowd.

After watching a clip of the former president in Iowa, she told the host, "It's kind of remarkable, I've been watching the clips from Trump's visit to Iowa and I'm stunned having spent a lot of time with him in 2020 and years before — he is slowing down."

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"There's a lack of sharpness in what he's saying and a lack of kind of clarity," she elaborated. "There's clip where he basically says he's going to overturn Obamacare, but also says that he'll fix it — complete inconsistencies."

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Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, in a Sunday interview with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart, insisted the Republican Party, as she has known it, no longer exists.

"Governor, in this Washington Post op-ed, [Robert Kagan] writes this," Capehart said. "'As perilous as it is for Republicans to say a negative word about Trump today, it will be impossible once he has sewed up the nomination.