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Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) stood in front of the federal court of appeals and stood up to Trump and Pete Hegseth, and their efforts to silence criticism, and MAGA flipped out.
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This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.
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A family friend was detained for 3 hours. They didn't think she was a citizen because she had a lot of stamps on her passport.
Dressed in business attire, travels a lot for work.
She is a Black woman.
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Michelle Wolf destroys Sarah Huckabee Sanders at #WHCD
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Telling the President to f*@k off on a Santa Christmas call with kids isn’t the own conservatives think it is. It’s juvenile, small and petulant, much like the entire Trump movement.
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Lawrence O'Donnell tears into the media, "The very same news media that ignored all the times Trump has called American citizens and American voters scum and garbage and actually tried to turn Joe Biden's use of the word garbage into a controversial new story today."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "We have never had a more decent person than Joe Biden serve as President Of The United States. We have never had a more indecent person in that job than Donald Trump."
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Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump, "He is the laziest person currently practicing politics in America and he is by far, the stupidest president this country or any country has ever seen."
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Rachel #Maddow calls Elon Musk a national security disaster and says, "The U.S. Government is going to have to either unwind from all of those contracts or Elon Musk's companies are going to have to unwind from him."
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After PBS reported that Donald Trump has been talking to Netanyahu to kill a Gaza ceasefire deal, a request for investigation into Trump violating the Logan Act was filed with the DOJ.
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90,000 documents for a Democrat lying about a sex act.
0 documents for a Republican bribing a foreign country to cheat in *another* election.
#GOPCoverup
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.@AOC says Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Thomas committed impeachable offenses, " I believe lying under oath is an impeachable offense and violating federal law and not disclosing income from political organizations as Clarence Thomas did is also potentially an impeachable offense."
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A federal court is requiring Trump to appear for an emergency hearing over his alleged copyright infringement against the estate of Isaac Hayes.
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Biden gets a double question on two different topics, remembers each question, keeps them separate, and doubles back to answer. This is not a president in decline.
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Why is it that Democrats are being more respectful and honoring of Sen John McCain than many Republicans?
Maybe it's not that we are so partisan and divided, but rather that the GOP has been taken over by hate and ignorance.
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Hillary Clinton tells #Maddow "I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is."
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Penzeys being bombarded w/ hate after @VP was seen hugging people, which got Fox to read from their website: "Going forward, we would still be glad to have you as customers, but we're done pretending the Republican Party's embrace of cruelty, racism, COVID lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "Three full years of stupid press coverage of Kamala Harris has finally come to an end. After three years of Washington reporters turning over the question of what's wrong with Kamala Harris, last night they finally got their answer. Nothing."
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One day Republicans will realize Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney offered them a chance to save their party from extremists.
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Jamie Raskin makes a big announcement, "We're going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments. Millions of dollars that Donald Trump pocketed from the hotels, at the golf courses, through business deals when he was president, and that his family got."
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Al Franken tells @Acosta on the legitimacy of SCOTUS, "They've stolen two seats. The one that Merrick Garland wasn't given a hearing for. And the one that Coney Barrett, where she was seated a week before the election. That destroyed the legitimacy of the court. "
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Clarence Thomas cannot sit on the court after his wife’s text messages show that he voted to protect his own interests when he opposed releasing Jan 6th docs.
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Trevor Noah with an amazingly powerful close reminding journalists in the United States, some of whom seem to take for granted what they have, of how lucky they are to have the freedom to speak truth to power.
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MSNBC puts the actual crime statistics on the screen, and Trump lies and invents imaginary stats about crime surging.
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "The cover of The Economist now describes the American economy as the envy of the world. To put that in political terms The Economist is saying that the Biden economy is the envy of the world."
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This is a disaster. Vance was asked for specific policies that would help the lives of truckers in Erie, PA.
His answer, "Fire Kamala Harris."
In other words, Trump and Vance have no policies to help people.
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This clip of a conservative mother and daughter explaining why they can't vote for Trump in Iowa should have Republicans scared.
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Lawrence O'Donnell on Bret Baier, "Bret Baier was functioning as a Trump campaign operative in that interview by literally playing a Trump commercial in the middle of it. Using precious minutes of an interview with a presidential candidate to run the opponents commercial."
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Roy Wood Jr, "Do you understand how rich you have to be to buy a supreme court -- a black one, on top of that! There's only two in stock. And he owns half the inventory. We can all see Clarence Thomas, but he belongs to billionaire Harlan Crowe. And that's what an NFT is."
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Hakeem Jeffries shreds Jim Jordan "House Republicans have just elected a speaker nominee who in 16 years in congress hasn't passed a single bill, because his focus has not been on the American people, his focus has been on peddling lies and conspiracy theories and division."
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Unprovoked In Pennsylvania, Trump attacks John Deere, "I'm notifying John Deere right now. If you do that, we're putting a 200% tariff on everything that you want to sell into the United States. So that if I win, John Deere is going to be paying a 200%."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "Donald Trump was the stupidest major party nominee when he first ran for president eight years ago and now at 78 he is demonstrably even stupider, his proposals about tariffs have gone from childishly naive to crazily deranged now."
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Oprah Winfrey tells Independent and undecided voters, "This is the moment for all decent people. All caring people. Who want the best for yourself and you want the best for other people.. People who are exhausted by the craziness and the made up stories and the conspiracies."
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Obama didn’t hold rallies after Trump got elected. This isn’t normal, it’s an attack on the peaceful transfer of power and it’s dangerous.
#TrumpRally
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60 Minutes has released a statement calling Trump’s claims that the Kamala Harris interview was edited false, and reminded voters that Trump backed out of the same interview.
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Republicans flipped out as Rep. Eric Swalwell ran through a list of racist Trump statements and positions on the House floor.
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Donna Brazile nails it, "The American people don't want this anymore. They don't want a president who basically divides us. They don't want a president who calls us names. Who cannot even pronounce the name of the Vice President of the United States. It's Kamala Harris."
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Nicolle Wallace, " I think what she did tonight was disqualified Donald Trump from ever being the country's commander-in-chief."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "Because history is sometimes perfect, the federal prosecutor now in charge of investigating what he calls and attempted possible assassination of Donald Trump yesterday is an immigrant to this country from Haiti."
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Rand Paul tried to claim that Trump is anti-corruption, so Jake Tapper listed all of the Trump associates convicted of federal crimes.
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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer tell Oprah that Trump won Michigan in 2016 by 2 votes per precinct, so everyone must do the hard work to get Kamala Harris elected.
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Mary Trump, "He (Trump) is trapped in grievance, rage, and fear of humiliation, and for almost nine years, he forced most of us to exist there with him. She (Harris) opened the door to the dungeon and showed us that we can exist in the sunshine again."
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Stoneman Douglas student shooting survivor Sam Zeif was asked if he felt like he was heard at the White House. He answered, “I know I was heard because I saw it on Trump’s little card.”
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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel to investigate Jared Kushner for being an unregistered foreign agent.
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "Donald Trump is the only presidential nominee of a major party in the history of this country who has admired Adolf Hitler. The only one."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "Without the Electoral College, Donald Trump would have vanished from our politics in November of 2016."
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Lawrence O'Donnell on Trump's mental capacity and 60 Minutes, "Donald Trump is afraid of debating Kamala Harris again and he's afraid of 60 Minutes. And that could be because he simply does not have the mental capacity to survive a 60 Minutes interview now."
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Katie Porter’s whiteboard got factchecked, and guess what. She is correct that corporate profits are behind inflation.
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Jake Tapper takes Mike Johnson to the woodshed after Johnson tries to claim that Trump never said he would use the military of US citizens, and concludes the interview with, "It's like you were answering questions from a completely different interviewer." Here is the full segment
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Biden names names of Republicans who voted against infrastructure and then asked for money. The President said, "I was surprised to see so many socialists in the Republican caucus."
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Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said that if Democrats win back the House Trump's presidency will be over after two years.
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Rachel #Maddow with bombshell reporting that Trump tried to launder a new hush money payment to Stormy Daniels to silence her weeks before the 2024 election. Daniels did not make a deal with Trump.
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Lawrence O'Donnell sums Biden's press conference as only he can, "President Biden submitted to a televised cognitive test tonight by taking questions in a press conference."
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Needs to be charged: PA Lancaster Chief Deputy Clerk Lisa Dart
Dart has been denying students the right to register to vote.
Up to 30% of 260 students had their registrations (often from September) not acted on. Furthermore, this clerk lied about the requirements.
These registrations need to be remedied and she needs to be charged.
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Biden literally reads Rick Scott's plan to get rid of Social Security and Medicare to the audience in Florida, and after talking about Scott and Sen. Ron Johnson says, "Who in the hell do they think they are?"
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.@AOC calls out the source of the political violence in America, "There is absolutely no doubt that the data shows that the vast majority of incidents of domestic terror come from white nationalism. And that we are really, truly facing the environment of fascism."
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What has gotten into Chuck Todd? Todd stops Jim Jordan with facts about Trump defying the law. "You paint it as a picture of the FBI did this, this, and this within hours of each other when it was actually a year and a half of Donald Trump not complying with any of the requests."
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Vice President JD Vance set up an account on Bluesky and started posting. He lasted 12 minutes before his account was banned.
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Hillary Clinton on Kamala Harris, "What I am seeing is a person who has the character, values, temperament, the discipline to be an absolutely first class president."
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Lawrence O'Donnell, "No one working at Fox knows what a tariff is or who pays it, and those buffoons prove that every single time Donald mentions tariffs to them on Fox."
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International Electrical Workers President Kenneth Cooper: "When the Senate was all tied up on the rescue of Americans' pension plans, it was only tied up for one reason. We could not find a Republican senator who would vote for American workers."
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I wish someone would explain why Big Oil isn’t expected to sacrifice for the country that subsidizes them while they make record profits.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, "These two men are in contempt of Congress, and we must cite them both for their brazen disregard of their duties and for our laws and institutions. "
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Trump was struggling to get into Arlington National Cemetery until Speaker of the House Mike Johnson intervened to get Trump in for his illegal campaign stunt.
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Trump claims he fired 9,000 people from the VA for being sadists, and Biden-Harris brought them back or gave them a settlement.
The Facts: The VA was ordered to rehire the employees because Trump violated the Federal Labor Relations Act.
Link: afge.org/article/flra-tells-…
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Rachel #Maddow , "If you're going to tell people they need to release their long-form birth certificates, seems like maybe you ought to release your bank records, especially when you're credibly accused of potentially taking a $10 million prize from your favorite dictator
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Chris Rock tells Oprah Winfrey at the Unity For America rally that he wants to bring his daughters to the White House to meet the black woman president.
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Harris calls out Bret Baier and Fox for showing a deceptive clip of Trump that isn't actually what the ex-president said.
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Don't underestimate how big this is. Tim Walz says, "Here's a fact they shared with me as I came here to make this opportunity to say thank you. I happen to be the first union member on a presidential ticket since Ronald Reagan."
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Dear Jack,
I'm tired of being told references to raping journalists are not a vio.
I am tired of being called a baby killer and worse.
I'm tired of seeing the hate aimed at Jewish, Muslim and POC.
This isn't hard: Ban Nazis, or you become one.
#JackStopTheHate
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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls Biden a liar as he accurately states that some Republicans want to sunset Social Security and Medicare. Republicans say no, so Biden responds, "So we all agree, Social Security and Medicare are off the books."
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Andrew Cuomo brings it and destroys federal welfare queen #MitchMcConnell
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Bradley Whitford on Trump, "He stands before his cultish supporters, slathered in more makeup and more hairspray than a drag queen, dancing incoherently to YMCA and finding a way to weave his love for dictators into a bizarre admiration for Arnold Palmer's junk."
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Sen. Fetterman tells Erie, "You showed up for me in 2022, I am a senator now. You, you sent that weirdo back to New Jersey. And you are all going to show up for Bob Casey, and send the weirdo back to Connecticut."
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Lawrence O’Donnell “The most important thing to know about Robert Kennedy Jr. Is that there are probably people dead tonight because of him. Thousands of people who followed his medical advise on vaccines in the middle of a deadly pandemic.”
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75 doctors in South Florida walkout in protest as their hospital is flooded with unvaccinated people who got COVID. #MorningJoe
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Peter Strzok calls out GOP FBI hypocrites, "I spent a year and a half working on Hillary Clinton's e-mail server. Where we executed multiple
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Jen Psaki stops Rep. Mike Lawler while he is using an inaccurate characterization of $6 billion, "What you just stated is inaccurate, the funding, congressman, the funding does not go to Iranian hands. It goes to approved third-party vendors who provide humanitarian support."
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Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) has called for House leadership to sanction and not seat the 126 House Republicans who have joined the Texas lawsuit.
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Rachel #Maddow on the Georgia election board, " It's one thing to say falsely there is something wrong in the elections. Another thing to actually monkeywrench the works so that Georgia really can't count its vote."
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Biden reminds the press that he laid out his medical records, but Trump hasn't, "I laid every bit of the record out. Have not hid a thing. You should ask Trump for his." #bidenpressconference
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Gretchen Whitmer on Trump claiming women will be happy with abortion after he wins, “This guy just doesn't understand what the average woman is confronting in her life in this country and how could he, he's not lived a normal life…he's just deranged.”
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Bernie Sanders explains to Chuck Todd that Biden isn't responsible for inflation, "Inflation I'm sure you know, Chuck, is an international problem. In Germany it is 10%, U.K. It is 10%, Canada it is 7% inflation globally is caused by the pandemic and the break in supply chains."
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Just a tip for Republicans: If lying about a blow job matters, you better believe lying about contacts with Russia matters.
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Cory Booker knocks down the idea that Harris hasn't been specific on policy, "I don't understand where this so-called vagary comes from. She released a pretty specific detailed plan on a lot of her economic agenda."
*This criticism comes from the media echoing Trump's campaign.
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Killing people so you can confirm your “pro-life” justice might not be a great look.
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Biden presses Lester Holt on why the media has covered all of Trump's debate lies. Holt doesn't answer, so Biden points out he's not answering the question. After Holt says we've covered a lot of the issues involved with that debate, Biden says, "No you haven't."
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ABC News offered Trump a one-on-one, just like Biden did, and he declined, which says a lot about which candidate is hiding something about their ability to serve.
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Walz nails Republicans, "In Minnesota we respect our neighbors and their personal choices that they make. Even if we wouldn't make the same choice for ourselves, there's a golden rule, mind your own damn business."
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Rep. Plaskett is wrecking RFK Jr. "The fact that he has famously sent a request to a party guest that they had to be vaccinated to come to his party. And I'd like to introduce into the record a letter from Louis Sill that he has stated repeatedly, he vaccinated all his children."
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Harris makes a devastatingly simple argument that Trump wants to end preschool for kids to pay for tax cuts to billionaires, "They even want to eliminate the Department of Education and Head Start...He intends to give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations."
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Republican Ana Navarro gets emotional about hosting night two of the DNC, "I am beyond myself to have this role today because I'm a little refugee, girl who fled communism and Nicaragua, I just wish my mom was here to see it."
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Barrett just used her religion to interfere in U.S. law and domestic security. Her vote justifies need for Democrats to expand the court. #AmyCovidBarrett
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Rachel #Maddow on the Trump's family's turning the campaign into a personal cash grab, "Imagine if Kamala Harris was rolling out a mortgage scam and
some commemorative trinkets right now. Not for the campaign but just to get her and Doug some money."
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This is a total mental collapse by Trump, who shows that at 80 years old, he can't travel as he goes off on a babbling, lie-filled rant about windmills and whales while meeting with the president of the European Commission.
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Here is the full segment of Lawrence O'Donnell shredding the media performance at Trump's news conference, "Anyone who tells you that Donald
Trump answered reporters' questions is lying to you and anyone who tells you that is not smart enough to know what an answer is."
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Katie Phang drops some reality, "Trump couldn't do the interview because at this point, he requires the safety of his MAGA security blanket. Yes, Trump may have done a number of interviews but they're almost always with conservative outlets and Trump supporters."
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