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'I'm calling it a lie': MSNBC host rips Fox News' 'weak' apology for Harris clip
MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski ramped up her attacks on Fox News and the network's Bret Baier Friday for running what she said was a deceptive clip during an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. It led her to sharply accuse the network for efforts to protect Donald Trump. Baier has been criticized for running a clip of the former president dismissing accusations that he has threatened his political enemies if he is re-elected. During his back-and-forth with Harris, the topic came up and Baier ran a clip — which was not of Trump's threat but of his dismissal. That led Harris to exclaim, "Th...
Trump overcharged Secret Service 300% for staying at his D.C. hotel: report
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the second part of their report about Donald Trump's use of his Washington, D.C., hotel while in office. Among the findings was that he overcharged Secret Service agents, NBC News cited from the report. The first part of the report detailed the way foreign countries used the hotel to curry favor with the then-president. The committee ultimately uncovered at least $7.8 million from foreign entities Trump's private businesses received while he was in office. Part two, released on Friday, says that the Trump Corporation increased the price of ho...
'You don't get to do that!' Ex-Trump adviser scolded as he talks over CNN host
An ex-adviser to Donald Trump felt the wrath of a CNN host Friday as he defied her instructions and refused to stop talking. David Urban, who still a staunch Trump supporter, had been deep in discussion with Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha about the presidential election when host Erica Hill tried to cut it off. “We’re going to have to leave it there because we’re out of time,” she said. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. But Urban, afrequent guest on the network, refused to listen. “Just one quick one, one quick, one quick point,” he said before ...
Trump admits he's demanding Rupert Murdoch stop running 'negative ads' on Fox News
Donald Trump ended his interview with "The Fox & Friends" by admitting he was about to issue some demands for the network's founder Rupert Murdoch. Trump was in the studio on Friday morning for the show he typically calls into. He revealed it was because he was meeting with the media mogul, who Trump said he was demanding do more to help the campaign in the final 18 days. "I have a very big event," Trump told the hosts. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest headlines at Raw Story. Read Also: The week Fox News finally faces its reckoning "I'm going to tell him something very s...
'Lying with staggering frequency': Trump's latest speeches leave CNN fact checker floored
Tireless CNN fact checker Daniel Dale on Friday published an analysis of what he described as former President Donald Trump's "lying spree" about immigration in the closing weeks of the 2024 presidential campaign. In promoting the piece on his X account, Dale commented that "Trump is lying about immigration with staggering frequency and variety" and he has tabulated at least 28 false claims about immigration in just the last two weeks alone. As for the analysis itself, Dale walks through a dizzying level of false claims Trump has made, ranging from a claim that Vice President Kamala Harris has...
'It's inappropriate': Trump blasted for admission about who wrote his charity dinner jokes
Donald Trump revealed that some Fox News employees helped him write jokes for his speech at the Al Smith Dinner. The former president appeared in person Friday morning on "Fox & Friends," where he told the hosts that some of their colleagues helped him write some of the jokes he delivered at the white-tie charity dinner, although he complained about their quality. "I've had a lot of people helping, a lot of people – a couple people from Fox actually," Trump said. "I shouldn't say that, but they wrote some jokes and, for the most part, I didn't like any of them." Want more breaking political ne...
Jack Smith is releasing something Trump doesn't want 'voting public to know about': expert
On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," NBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin questioned why Donald Trump's lawyers are fighting "tooth and nail" to block the release of documents submitted to Judge Tanya Chutkan by special counsel Jack Smith in the 2020 election interference case. With the document dump expected on Friday, Rubin said she'd be surprised if there would be any new bombshells dropped and found it curious why Trump lawyers are in such a panic. As CNN reported, Trump's legal team argued to Judge Chutkan, “the asymmetric release of charged allegations and related documents during early voting creates a co...
'It came out of his mouth!' CNN conservative faces furious fact check on Trump claims
A pair of political strategists faced off over Donald Trump's economic record in a contentious debate on CNN. Democratic strategist Maria Cardona argued Friday morning that the former president's mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic had cost millions of jobs and hundreds of thousands of lives, and she said that president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris had rebuilt the economy. "Under Republican rule, with Donald Trump at the helm, he absolutely put our economy in the toilet when he refused to understand how to be the leader during a global pandemic, refusing to accept the science ...
'I beat her in her own state!' Trump mocks Nikki Haley after Fox asks if he wants her help
"Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade on Friday seemed to push former President Donald Trump to take up former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley on her offer to help him in the final stretch of the campaign. However, Trump seemed more interested in rubbing Haley's face in the fact that he defeated her in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. After being asked by Kilmeade if he'd have Haley campaign with him, Trump indicated a willingness to have the former South Carolina governor stump for him in battleground states over the next two-and-a-half weeks. Want more breaking political news? C...
Revealed: Mark Robinson’s deeper ties to 'one of America's most dangerous cults'
Embroiled Republican candidate for North Carolina governor, Mark Robinson, took in more than $27,000 in donations and had visitors to his lieutenant governor's office associated with the controversial Word of Faith Fellowship, according to a Raw Story review of financial and government records. The Word of Faith Christian School, associated with the church in Spindale, N.C., visited Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina, at his office at least twice in 2023, according to visitor logs obtained by Raw Story through a North Carolina public records request. On June 6, 2023, at least 27 p...
'Circling the drain': Ex-GOP lawmaker warns Trump's brain is 'decomposing by the hour'
Former Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA), who earlier on Friday gave a withering review of former President Donald Trump's appearance at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, took to Twitter shortly afterward to speculate on whether his performance was a sign of cognitive decline. In her post, Comstock linked to a video of Trump "slurring" his way through his speech at the dinner and then wondered whether performances such as this were the reason he has been canceling interviews constantly over the last several weeks. "At a Catholic Charities event last night, a slurring confused Trump wa...
'Something is off' with Trump after new report that he's 'exhausted': former associate
Reacting to an early morning report from Politico Playbook that Donald Trump is nixing interviews because he is "exhausted," one of the former president's longtime associates dating back to his days as a Manhattan real estate developer told an MSNBC panel that something is up. Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," branding expert Donnie Deutsch called the news alarming for the Trump campaign. According to Politico, the former president's people alerted the hosts of The Shade Room podcast that, Trump is “exhausted and refusing [some] interviews but that could change.” In lieu of Trump, the hosts ...
'Oh stop': CNN host shuts down GOP strategist for defending Trump's attack on Detroit
A conservative commentator faced pushback after insisting that Donald Trump had not bashed Detroit while visiting the city earlier this month. Kamala Harris poked fun at the former president for making insulting remarks about the city while campaigning in Michigan, but Republican strategist Scott Jennings claimed her joke was unfair. "Harris is heading to Grand Rapids, Lansing and Oakland County, which is a suburb of Detroit," said CNN host Kate Bolduan. "Donald Trump is going to be an Oakland County, as well, I don't think there's going to be a joint appearance. This will be the first time th...
'Dangerous news': Ducked events leads to 'a new sense of unease in Trump's inner circle'
Donald Trump's sudden disinterest in making appearances before friendly crowds or interviewers has made his closest advisers worried about his re-election prospects, reports MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire. Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Lemire noted that Trump has been blanket canceling public appearances at an alarming rate, which is curious since there is so little time before voters head to the polls. During a discussion with branding expert Donnie Deutsch, Lemire stated, "Let's talk about where things stand right now, up front, the race is close. It is basically a tie, but there does seem...
'Who does that?' Trump condemned for 'swearing in front of priests' at Catholic dinner
Donald Trump took off-color and occasionally profane shots at Kamala Harris and her husband at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, where political leaders have traded jabs for decades — but a former Republican lawmaker said this speech felt different. The Republican presidential nominee made several transphobic jokes about Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), insulted the intelligence of Harris and President Joe Biden, and passed on the opportunity to make self-deprecating jokes — and instead wallowed in self-pity. “Nope, I’ve got nothing – I’ve got nothing," he said...
No one has ever been as dangerous to America as Trump — it can happen here | Opinion
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was the American predecessor to the CIA and was formed during World War II. They hired a psychoanalyst, Dr. Walter C. Langer, to undertake an exhaustive, nearly-year-long analysis of the personality of Adolf Hitler, from his earliest influences through his later years as then-Führer and mass murderer. Langer’s profile of Hitler wasn’t declassified until 1972, when much of it was published in a book titled The Mind of Adolf Hitler. As The New York Times explained that year: “[Langer] saw Hitler as a weakling who masqueraded as a bully, Hitler the failure c...
Trump's struggles to speak alarm allies who worry he's handing election to Harris: report
There is growing concern among Donald Trump's allies that his meandering speeches, combined with his multiple gaffes, are taking a toll on his presidential campaign with little time left to repair the damage. According to a report from the New York Times' Michael Bender, Trump has "struggled" to speak and the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris is cashing in on his problems as they highlight their theory that he is "unfit" to be president. According to Bender, Trump allies "worry that Mr. Trump’s impetuousness and scattershot style on the campaign trail needlessly risk victory in battlegr...
Kamala Harris' team explains logic behind podcast interview blitz
Vice President Kamala Harris has sat down for interviews in recent weeks with popular podcasters and gossip sites, and her team explained the reasoning behind her blitz of less traditional media outlets. The vice president has appeared on late-night and daytime TV programs, along with widely watched interviews with Bill Whitaker of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” and Fox News’ Bret Baier, but Harris has also joined podcasts like Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” and “All the Smoke,” which is hosted by a former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, that are widely popular with Black listeners, repor...
Trump family member flags 'the best example so far' of ex-president's 'cognitive decline'
Donald Trump's own family member says the former president is no longer "tethered to reality," and says it's "getting worse." Psychologist Mary Trump, the niece of the ex-president Trump, stated on Thursday night that she doesn't understand how people don't see how he's declined. "Between cutting his Pennsylvania town hall short to listen to songs from Cats and Shrek for 39 minutes, to his rambling, incoherent performance at the Economic Club of Chicago, it’s hard to see how anybody thinks my uncle is still tethered to reality," she said. Want more breaking political news? Click for the latest...
Ex-GOP rival may launch 11th-hour stump for Trump effort amid ‘yawning gender gap’
Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) – a one-time bitter political rival of Donald Trump – could soon join the former president at a last-minute campaign event with just weeks to go before Election Day. A former U.N. ambassador under the Trump administration who sought the Republican nomination this year, Haley is said to be in talks to appear alongside the ex-president to win over disaffected Republicans, according to The Bulwark, which cited sources familiar with the discussions. The most likely scenario for a possible joint campaign event, the publication noted, is a town hall situation in the cl...
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