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'A clear and present danger': former RNC head raises alarm over Trump's surge with voters

Reacting to new polling that shows Donald Trump surging with voters in a potential 2024 presidential match-up with President Joe Biden, the former leader of the Republican National Committee called him a "clear and present danger" to the country.

In an interview with the Guardian's David Smith, Michael Steele joined with noted historian Allan Lichtman in explaining the damage the former president will inflict on the country should he be returned to the Oval Office based upon his recent comments.

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SNL's Trump crashes GOP debate and trashes opponents and his 'horrible, horrible base'

On the latest episode of "Saturday Night Live," Donald Trump (played by cast member James Austin Johnson) crashed the GOP debate the real former president couldn't be bothered to attend and then proceeded to individually mock each of his GOP presidential nomination opponents while also taking a jab at his rabid MAGA base.

With the debate behind him stopping, Johnson's Trump spoke to the audience, telling them, "How adorable —They actually think they’ve got a chance. Sad in some ways, but in other ways ... funny.”

“Can you believe it, folks? Ninety-one indictments, four trials and I am still the best choice,” he explained before trashing each challenger.

Moving down the line, he singled out fading potential GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy (played by SNL's Ego Nwodin), dumping on the upstart candidate and his MAGA fans at the same time with, "He’s rich, he’s rude, he’s got weird hair. He is a lot like me except for one thing that matters a lot to my horrible, horrible base: White."

He added that it is "sad" none of them stands a chance of beating President Joe Biden, whom he called, "the worst president since, frankly, me.”

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Republicans will keep losing because they are running to the right: ex-GOP staffer

The Republican party is going to keep losing elections if those in power continue to pursue the same strategy of running toward Trump and the MAGA right, according to a former GOP staffer.

Kurt Bardella, a former staffer for Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe and Republican Congressman Darrell Issa, appeared on MSNBC's Ayman to discuss the recent elections in which GOPers suffered some devastating losses.

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Trump's strong fixation on 'revenge' is a 'fundamental character trait': analyst

Recent reports of Donald Trump's plan to exact revenge in his second term are both old news and incredibly important, according to a longtime analyst of American politics.

It was reported last week that Trump is formally plotting a vengeance campaign if he's re-elected to another term as president, and a Washington Post reporter explained how he's surrounding himself with authoritarian accomplices.

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Trump's Veteran's Day message draws comparisons to Hitler

Donald Trump has expressed anger at being compared to Adolf Hitler, but it's happening again after the ex-president's latest post honoring the Veteran's Day holiday.

On Saturday, Trump posted the following message to American veterans.

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'This liar': Marjorie Taylor Greene attacked by Trump's favorite activists

Donald Trump recently held a rally in Florida at which he name-checked one of his most loyal supporters. Now, that Trump activist is relentlessly attacking one of his allies, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Trump shouted out Laura Loomer at his rally, and has been seen in photos with the self-proclaimed journalist. But that doesn't mean Greene, also a vocal ally of Trump, is safe from the same types of attacks as anyone who contradicts the ex-president.

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'What's wrong with you?' Michael Cohen confronts woman tearing down Hamas hostage posters

Michael Cohen, known best as Donald Trump's former attorney and "fixer" who turned into a critic of the former president, made news on Saturday for his actions in confronting a woman who was taking down posters of hostages of Hamas.

Cohen, who made a splash at the ex-president's civil fraud trial, was reportedly walking around in New York when he saw the woman taking down the posters and even laughing.

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Trump's mental stability increasingly an issue in 2024 presidential campaign: report

Donald Trump's mental stability is being used against him more and more in the run-up to the 2024 election, including by his own fellow Republican rivals, according to a report.

Trump, who appeared to confuse Barack Obama for Joe Biden at a rally on Saturday in New Hampshire, is taking fire from all angles on the issue of whether he's mentally fit to take the president's office again. President Joe Biden has already been hammering Trump on this issue, despite Biden himself getting his own criticisms for purported age-related decline.

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'Trump does not really want cameras': Legal expert blows up ex-president's change of heart

Donald Trump first claimed he wouldn't file a motion regarding the potential for cameras in his D.C. criminal case, but then came out with a filing supporting the effort to broadcast his federal elections trial. That filing is a bluff, according to one legal expert.

Trump, who on Saturday gave a speech in which he lashed out against the prosecutor in that case, Jack Smith, is falsely claiming he wants cameras in his trial, according to former prosecutor Joyce Vance. She wrote about the issue on her Substack on Saturday.

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'He's a disgrace to America': Trump attacks 'deranged' Jack Smith at rally

Donald Trump on Saturday once again lashed out against special counsel Jack Smith, issuing comments that would likely be barred under a now-paused gag order.

Trump attacked Smith in connection with the indictment the prosecutor brought against the former president for purportedly attempting to subvert the 2020 election after his own electoral defeat. Trump noted that he's seeking a new judge in that case, as well as a move outside of Washington, D.C.

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Donald Trump flagged for possibly breaking the law with firearm sale: report

Donald Trump could have just broken the law with the sale of a firearm purportedly from Mar-a-Lago, according to a news report.

Trump, who was previously flagged for a similar incident in September when he said on camera he would buy a golden Glock with his face on it, is now under fire in connection with a separate gun auction.

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Ivanka's fraud trial memory lapse claims undercut by former Trump White House official

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday afternoon, Stephanie Grisham stated she was highly skeptical that Ivanka Trump suddenly has the memory lapses she kept invoking when she testified in Judge Arthur Engorons's courtroom last Wednesday.

According to the former Donald Trump communications official, that is not the Ivanka she knew when they both worked in the Trump White House.

Pressed by host Alex Witt, "I know that your work with Melania [Trump] puts you in really perhaps the best position of former staffers to understand the family dynamic. So would you say this went according to expectation?"

"Yeah, I mean obviously, she [Ivanka] tried to get out of doing it many, many times stating that it was the middle of a school week and that was an undue hardship for her," Grisham replied. "Once she got there, she was poised, she answered things, you know, in the way that she does."

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"I don't buy that she doesn't recall things," she then asserted. "Ivanka Trump is a very, very smart woman and has an amazing memory. I used to actually always marvel about that when I worked with her."

"So the talking about not recalling kind of rang a little not true to me," Grisham told the host. "But her behavior was exactly the opposite of her father's and that is what I saw the entire time I was with them."

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'An unserious person': Nancy Mace's GOP colleagues are furious over her 'flip-flops'

Rep. Nancey Mace (R-SC) who was elected to the House of Representatives as a mostly moderate conservative only to turn into a cheerleader for Donald Trump, is increasingly infuriating her GOP House colleagues who are growing fed up with her antics and her habit of publically taking one position only to cast it aside when it comes time to vote.

In interviews with the Washington Post, Mace was bashed by multiple GOP lawmakers with one telling reporters, "Let’s be clear, Nancy Mace, it’s been a long time since she’s done anything productive to move forward this broader team," and another stating, "Unserious people get found out here very quickly. She’s an unserious person.”

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