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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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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.”

According to a report from the Washington Post, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is increasingly being seen as ineffective as the combination of age and the rise of Donald Trump have made him a secondary figure within the Republican Party.

As the report notes, McConnell's health already has some of his GOP colleagues circling looking to take his top spot with the prospect that the GOP could take control of the Senate in 2024.

In a brutal column for the New York Times, the author of “The Trump Women: Part of the Deal,” buried Ivanka Trump for willingly covering for the crimes of her father and looking the other way in her drive for power and popularity.

According to author Nina Burleigh, Donald Trump's elder daughter has spent her life in "awe" of her father and, "Aware of her father’s expectations about women within camera frame of him, she styled herself to doll-like perfection."

However, as Burleigh notes, Ivanka walked away from her father since the Jan. 6 insurrection that she watched with him from inside a tent close by to the riot — only to return to the fold this past week when she testified in the $250 million financial fraud trial taking place in a Manhattan courtroom.

In an interview with the columnist, Alexandra Wrage, founder of business corruption watchdog Trace, said of Ivanka Trump, "I don’t think there is any way Ivanka could have operated in these circles for as long as she has, in the shadow of her father, with these thuggish characters, and not have had questions about the qualities of her business partners.”

Using that as a leaping off point, Burleigh wrote, "She was the female future of the Trump brand, raised in the gilded tower Dad built, with a taste for power and power chairs, and he gave her that, the West Wing office and the woman stuff as her charge. She offered him elegance and old money diction and bulletproof resistance to humiliation. And for cognitive dissonance, no one better: She tweeted support for Time’s Up when the time came. Sometimes he even listened to her. She — or her tears anyway — may very well have helped extract the public apology for the 'Access Hollywood' tape."

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Judge Aileen Cannon's latest ruling on the timeline for Donald Trump's classified documents case is written to appear neutral, but it's actually a really bad deal for the Justice Department, according to the all-star legal panel who joined MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace Friday night.

"The more you read it, the more it seems like a very pro-Trump order," said former federal prosecutor analyst Harry Litman, "camouflaged — which is a problem in and of itself — camouflaged as a neutral order."