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Former President Donald Trump has a "master plan" to use the office of the presidency to get revenge on everyone he believes has wronged him, warned Georgetown University public policy professor Donald Moynihan in The New York Times on Monday.

"A second Trump administration would be very different from the first," wrote Moynihan. "Mr. Trump’s blueprint for amassing power has been developed by a constellation of conservative organizations that surround him, led by the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025. This plan would elevate personal fealty to Mr. Trump as the central value in government employment, processes and institutions. It has three major parts."

Led by co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" panel on Monday ripped into Donald Trump for his 2 AM Thanksgiving morning rage-post on Truth Social, which was followed by a holiday weekend of more angry diatribes on the social media platform.

The segment kicked off with the two hosts alternately reading segments of the post that began, "Happy Thanksgiving to ALL, including the Racist & Incompetent Attorney General of New York State, Letitia 'Peekaboo' James, who has let Murder & Violent Crime FLOURISH, & Businesses FLEE; the Radical Left Trump Hating Judge, a 'Psycho,' Arthur Engoron, who Criminally Defrauded the State of New York, & ME, by purposely Valuing my Assets at a “tiny” Fraction of what they are really worth in order to convict me of Fraud before even a Trial," before the former president concluded with raging at, "all of the other Radical Left Lunatics, Communists, Fascists, Marxists, Democrats, & RINOS, who are seriously looking to DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. Have no fear, however, we will WIN the Presidential Election of 2024, & MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"

Noting the four-times indicted president's post wasn't exactly in the Thanksgiving spirit, host Scarborough summed it and other posts throughout the weekend as Trump stating unequivocally "America sucks."

"Talk about how sick it is to say that America is a rotten nation before you were president of the United States, American carnage, and then you become president of the United States and America has four of the most tumultuous years later, and the second he leaves and is blamed by the American people, he goes back to saying that America sucks again," said Scarborough. "How grotesque that Donald Trump only thinks America is great when Donald Trump is president."

"Yeah, because he doesn't care about America nearly as much as he cares about himself," replied former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO).

Prosecutors working out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office are asking the judge in the Stormy Daniels hush money case to intercede and force Donald Trump's lawyers to provide a list of their expert witnesses after stonewalling them for months.

That case has been lost in the shuffle as the former president battles a $250 million financial fraud lawsuit in another Manhattan courtroom, a racketeering case in Georgia, an obstruction of justice federal trial in Florida and a trial in Washington D.C. tied to his actions surrounding the Jan. 6 insurrection.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Manhattan prosecutors have taken the next step and asked Judge Juan Merchan to compel Trump's legal team to provide them with their proposed list of expert witnesses, with accusations they are trying to "sabotage" the trial and extend it out as long as possible.

As the report notes, the former president was charged with 34 felony counts related to paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels about an alleged affair at the time Trump was making his first bid for the presidency.

The Beast's Pagliery reports the pre-trial exchange of information between the prosecutors and the defense team is "not going well."

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Political, congressional and judicial leaders think that Donald Trump may try to overthrow the United States in 2025, but they're downplaying the seriousness that it can happen.

A report from "The Messenger" interviewed "more than 20 people ... from across the political spectrum, including Democratic and GOP lawmakers, former senior DOJ leaders, Trump critics and the former president’s first-term lawyers, aides and advisors." Each was asked about the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, which would make good on Trump's past efforts to fire anyone working in the government who doesn't support him. Each doesn't anticipate Trump will be able to accomplish his task of putting his foes in prison and making up the government his own personal fiefdom.

Donald Trump appears to be aware that his far-right policies aren't going to work in a general election against Joe Biden, so he is ready to begin moderating himself when it comes to women's rights.

Rolling Stone reporters Tessa Stuwart and Asawin Suebsaeng spoke to "people familiar" who say Trump has privately complained about anti-abortion leaders and said he should be able to do whatever he wants on the issue. He thinks they have no "leverage" to force him to do what they want.

If Donald Trump cared about his impact on the people he attacks, he would have stopped after seeing the 275 pages of single-spaced threats just one staffer in the New York court received.

Speaking to MSNBC about the matter on Sunday, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, who co-hosts the "Sisters In Law" podcast, explained that it's actions like these that will ultimately hurt Trump.

Donald Trump's lawyers claim that his First Amendment rights as a presidential candidate supersede the rules for criminal and civil court, explained former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade.

Calling it an "apples and oranges" situation, Trump's lawyers are working to frame their argument within the context of the general world in which Americans live. That's not where Trump is, however. He's in a criminal trial and a civil trial, both of which have their own court rules.

The heirs to Donald Trump's fortune have been forced to take out hefty loans to buy their Florida properties, the DailyMail reported Sunday.

After leaving the White House, Trump and his three eldest adult children all moved to Florida, a state where their properties cannot be seized due to a homestead exemption, which prevents a home as well as pensions and other 401k interests exempt from attachment.

Discussing an upcoming ruling on a gag order issued by Judge Tanya Chutkan, MSNBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos told host Alex Witt that judges on the D.C. Court of Appeals have to keep in mind that, when Donald Trump rants about court workers, their lives are endangered.

"Here's an indisputable fact," he told the host. "When Trump speaks, they [his followers] do stupid things – that is an undisputed fact."

"So the next step is, in this analysis, do we curtail Donald Trump's speech because of this behavior of other people that are not Donald Trump?" he suggested. "And the answer may be as simple as 'yes' because when he speaks it presents a clear and present danger. It needs that exacting standard."

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After some technical difficulties with his audio, he explained Trump is not like "some criminal defendant no one's ever heard of. If he doesn't like the judge or doesn't like the clerk, he can shout all he wants, he can yell out the window, tweet to his 30 followers, and it just won't have the effects. Maybe never in American history has one human being had this effect when they speak."

"That is why this is a unique situation," he added. "It may simply be the case that Donald Trump is entitled to less speech because of how dangerous the speech can be, unlike anybody else in American history."

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CBS host Margaret Brennan confronted Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) because he has had tough criticism for election deniers while supporting Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who helped lead efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Buck, who is retiring from Congress, has been vocal about calling out election "lies."

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning a former senior aide who worked for congressional Republicans lashed out at the direction the party is still taking and its continuing allegiance with the embattled Donald Trump.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Charles Coleman Jr., Rina Shah called out GOP lawmakers who "still bear responsibility for the monster that became Trump."

Explaining how Trump has taken over the party," she told the host, "He spoke to these Americans who were so frustrated with members of Congress that just didn't serve them. They had this anger, that visceral anger is still very much there. They feel like these members of Congress are fat cats serving themselves and there's all this evidence that shows that is true."

"You can't get out of that lane unless you do a hard pivot," she suggested. "So, yes, there's a lot of people within today's GOP that still bear responsibility for the monster that became Trump. But I think, at this point, it's the only way to save the party — and that's why I remain and I believe we need two healthy parties at least in the system in order for our democracy to thrive and that's why we still remain right-of-center."

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"Am I still anti-Trump? Absolutely," she added. "Am I still all about working to defeat him in every way possible? Yes. It's an exhausting task when you have so few people committed to that cause."

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A bid by Donald Trump's lead attorney in the Georgia racketeering case to force Department of Justice investigators pursuing the Trump election federal case in a D.C. courtroom to hand over their evidence was shot down by former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade.

In short, she told MSNBC host Katie Phang: " Zero chance."

During an appearance on MSNBC early Sunday morning, McQuade was asked about Trump attorney Steve Sadow asking for evidence the DOJ has compiled on Trump's actions surrounding the Jan 6 insurrection that will be used in Judge Tonya Chutkan's courtroom next year.

"His criminal defense lawyer has actually asked the Fulton County judge to have the federal prosecutors who are in the Judge Chutkan D.C. election interference case to turn over its list of evidence which is otherwise being held confidentially up in D.C. so that Sadow can determine if there is relevant evidence from that D.C. case to use for the defense down in Georgia," host Phang prompted. "How successful is Sadow going to be to obtain the evidence list that is otherwise not up for public consumption?"

"Yeah, I think there is zero chance of getting that," McQuade quickly replied. "These are separate sovereigns who are engaging in separate prosecutions. Although [Fulton County DA] Fani Willis has a duty to turn over any evidence she's going to use in the trial and any evidence that is exonerating for the defense and the right to a fair trial, she doesn't have access to what's going on in federal court and neither does the defense. "

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"They have absolutely no duty to turn this over," she added. "I think they play these strategies so often, even when they know there is zero chance of prevailing, to have another issue to complain about it in the press and show supporters how unfair the process is. That's absolutely not true; it's one more thing to complain about."

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