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Former President Donald Trump is increasingly embracing his crude side, but Washington Post coverage from his latest Iowa rally revealed that the Republicans there not only loving it, but they're also "relishing" it.

Trump has always been far from one of the prude elders in his generation, but his profanity, "crass" insults, and "vulgarities" are consistently growing. According to the report, however, it's now being promoted by the normally friendly and polite midwesterners of Iowa.

In a column for MSNBC, former U.S. House Judiciary Committee counsel Michael Conway implored Judge Arthur Engoron to be careful with the language he uses as he oversees the $250 million financial fraud civil suit filed against Donald Trump and his Trump Organization.

Using the trial of the so-called “Chicago 7" as a jumping-off point, the attorney reminded Engoron that the defendants in that notorious case went out of their way to antagonize Judge Julius Hoffman which seems to be Donald Trump's strategy in a case where Engoron has already found evidence of fraud.

Former President Donald Trump decided to lavish praise on "wheels and walls" at an event near the Texas border.

While speaking to a crowd in Edinburgh, Texas, on Sunday, Trump claimed that "our country is going to hell."

Speaking with MSNBC host Jen Psaki on Sunday afternoon, former Solicitor General Neal Katyal explained that a ruling by District Judge Sarah B. Wallace on Friday may have kept Donald Trump on the Colorado ballot for now but it could blow up on him at a later date.

Katyal was quick to note that Judge Wallace agreed with the petitioners that the former president took part in an insurrection at the end of his term but used a narrow interpretation to say he is not in violation of the 14th Amendment.

According to the legal analyst, the ruling was "the very worst decision Trump could get."

'If I were to put the headline on Friday, as an appeals lawyer, it would be this is the very worst decision Donald Trump could get from the trial court," he began. "Because it's going to go on appeal to the Colorado Supreme Court, perhaps the U.S. Supreme Court and there Trump is going to face extreme headwinds."

"And the reason for that is the fact — there's two parts," he continued. "There's a factual finding, that the judge said, which is Trump committed insurrection, and then there's a legal part that the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to the office of the presidency. On appeals, Jen, the factual findings get massive deference by the appeals court. It's almost impossible to overturn a trial judge's factual finding."

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"You can overturn the legal findings, because that's basically a fresh look at the legal thing and, here, this judge factually made devastating findings against Trump," he elaborated. "And then looked at this legal technicality, which is the 14th Amendment doesn't apply to the office of the president, which is so weak, even the judge themselves admitted that this would be preposterous."

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CBS host Margaret Brennan fact-checked Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) after he suggested President Joe Biden's possession of classified documents was more severe than former President Donald Trump's hoarding of national security secrets.

On Sunday's Face the Nation program, Brennan noted that CBS has reported that the special counsel's office is not expected to bring tax fraud charges against Biden's son Hunter.

CNN's "State of the Union" panel ended in laughter on Sunday after a former President Joe Biden official reminded a GOP operative that Donald Trump has a major problem gaining voters outside his rabid base.

Discussing the potential match-up between the current president and the four-time indicted former president, Republican party campaign adviser Scott Jennings asserted Trump has the advantage because he has a locked-in base.

That led former Biden White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield to point out that Trump can't count on any voters beyond his base because independents are strongly aligned against him.

"What is more likely?" Jennings asked, "That Donald Trump could hold his core base together, or that Joe Biden with his problems with African American voters, with his problems with young voters who think he hasn't kept his promises, could hold its base together?"

"I think it is far more likely that Trump could hold his base again," he asserted.

"But Trump can't speak to the middle like Joe Biden can," Bedingfield interrupted before adding, "So the numbers under your scenario, the numbers can't get Trump there," which led to the laughter from off-screen panelists.

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Right-wing election deniers are seeing the consequences of their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election by facing a slew of defamation lawsuits, The Guardian reports.

Per the report, "Defamation law has traditionally been sparingly used in the US, given the very high bar that plaintiffs have to meet. Under the 1964 Supreme Court ruling New York Times Co v Sullivan, they have to be able to show 'actual malice' on behalf of the accused.

Early voting and especially voting by mail have been a regular form of casting ballots in Florida for well more than a decade, among both Republicans and Democrats. But the concept was novel for many voters around the rest of the country when states began implementing it in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic made people wary of leaving their homes to vote in person.

That led to criticism by Trump and other Republicans that there was something nefarious about early voting.

Reacting to Donald Trump reposting a threat from one of his followers calling for the citizen's arrest of Judge Arthur Engoron and New York Attorney General Letitia James on his Truth Social account, former RNC chair Michael Steele told an MSNBC host the time has come to arrest and jail the former president.

Speaking with host Ayman Mohyeldin about yet another attack by the former president on the judge and AG, Steele bluntly stated, "Put his ass in jail," to send the former president a message.

In total, Steele exclaimed, "It's enormously dangerous. I just — I'm shocked that we have allowed this to get this far. I'm just going to use my best analysis that I can give you at this point on this situation with Trump, and the attacks on the judges: put his ass in jail. That's how you end it. That's how it stops."

"Now, yeah, people will be mad, they will be upset. But there is no other person on this planet, certainly not in this country, who would be given the kind of grace that Donald Trump has been given to run his mouth the way he has," he continued. "Attacking the clerks, attacking the judges, attacking the prosecutors, personally, threatening them."

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"We've shown the evidence when he does that how his base responds," he elaborated. "And so the system is getting pulverized from within by Trump, and is being pressed to the umpteenth corner that it can go in trying to appease him, and allow him to be free while he is still behaving this way."

"So, if he wants to continue in this vein, then use the system the way the system would be used against all of us on the show right now," he suggested. "Because you know damn well, any one of us, if we said half of what he said, we would not be on air tonight. We would be in a jail cell. We would be shut down."

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He mentioned the payments to farmers several times during his roughly hourlong address to a capacity crowd in the gymnasium of Fort Dodge High School. The gym’s scoreboard time was set to 20:24, with the team scores set to 45 and 47, to signify the upcoming election year, his status as the 45th president and his hope to be the 47th.

“We gave $28 billion to the farmers,” Trump said. “And just so you know, my people have said, ‘Sir, please don’t talk about that so much. It makes you sound very arrogant.’ I said, ‘Wait a minute, I got $28 billion for the farmers!’”