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  Trump’s weaponized DOJ is flailing in court just to save his ego The election challenges, absurdly being resolved just as Election Day hits tomorrow, even, are spawning absurd and contradictory moves by Donald Trump’s Justice Department and being batted away by the courts. https://www.alternet.org/trump-doj-ego/

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  Panic sparked as Trump admin orders cyber agents to hack voting machines A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it. https://www.alternet.org/voting-machines-hack/

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  Trump Treasury secretary set off Wall St. revolt he can't control During a speech at Southern Methodist University in Texas on Tuesday, September 8, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had a message for the bond market: "I am the house now." But according to journalist Joseph Zeballos-Roig, "the house is getting a lot of egg on it." https://www.alternet.org/bessent-bond-market/

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  Trump family member mocks Melania for utterly failing to defend her husband It's a difficult time for the Republican Party as GOP candidates up for reelection back away slowly from their MAGA loyalty to President Donald Trump. It even appears the first lady is struggling to defend him, said the president's niece, Dr. Mary Trump. https://www.alternet.org/melania-trump-2677945851/

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  Cut and run: DC Republicans are abandoning Georgia to save other states U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune came to Atlanta to keep hope alive for the Mike Collins campaign as Collins challenges Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in the Nov. 3 midterm election. https://www.alternet.org/mike-collins-georgia-senate-bid/

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  Tapper nails news companies who caved to Trump and still got banned CNN anchor Jake Tapper took no kindess on Friday to President Donald Trump’s announcement that he was “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House, … effective immediately.” https://www.alternet.org/trump-bans-news/

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  GOP 'pressing the panic button' as MAGA senator warns 'we may lose' President Donald Trump often dismisses his low approval ratings as "fake news," continuing to insist that Republicans are in a strong position as the midterms draw closer and closer. But according to HuffPost reporters Arthur Delaney and Kevin Robillard, more and more Republicans are sounding the alarm about the midterms — including Sen. Jim Justice (R-West Virginia). https://www.alternet.org/trump-mi...

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  Trump’s going to hate his 'new normal': military veteran President Donald Trump has suffered a string of defeat in the last few weeks, but veteran, activist and “Independent Americans Podcast” host Paul Rieckhoff, told CNN Wednesday that he should get accustomed to that losing sensation in the weeks leading into November and the remaining two years of his term. https://www.alternet.org/trump-supreme-court-defeat-2677870586/

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  MAGA influencers turn on Kavanaugh: 'The death of America is on him' When it seemed as if the Supreme Court would help President Donald Trump use the post office to deny mail-in ballots to Democratic voters, Republicans were pleased. Now that America's highest bench on Monday ruled 7 to 2 that Trump cannot in fact legally do this — only Republican Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented — many MAGA supporters feel betrayed by the same bench that has oth... https://www.a...

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  Trump begged 'do more golfing' to spare world from 'terrible' policies American television host and conservative political commentator S.E. Cupp had an unexpected response to news that President Donald Trump spends an exorbitant amount of time on the golf course rather than manning the White House. https://www.alternet.org/trump-golfing-corruption/

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  Conservatives 'consider the unthinkable' as rural Texans turn on MAGA gov Democrats haven't won a statewide race in GOP-dominated Texas since the 1990s. But a U.S. Senate race in the Lone Star State, according to polls, is highly competitive. Centrist Democrat James Talarico, polls say, has a good shot against the controversial Republican nominee, far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. And according to Politico, angst among rural voters could give Democrats long-a... https://...

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  Bezos' Post blasts Trump for turning on Big Oil President Donald Trump has recently started blaming Big Oil rather than his war against Iran for rising oil prices — and the editorial page of The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is having none of it. https://www.alternet.org/bezos-washington/

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  Fact-checker struggles to defuse wild Mitch McConnell death rumors News of Sen. Mitch McConnell's “dead body” being transported to a Kentucky coroner continued to rage across social media this week, eventually forcing Snopes to step in and try to debunk the claims. https://www.alternet.org/mitch-mcconnell-2677663028/

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  McConnell’s Republican neighbor doesn’t 'know anything' about absence Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) on Wednesday said he’s still doesn’t “know anything” about Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) condition after the 84-year-old senator suffered a fall on June 14 that led to his hospitalization. Speaking with independent journalist Nicholas Ballasy, Tuberville said McConnell “lives next door to me, but he’s still in the hospi... https://www.alternet.org/send/mcconnell-tuberville/

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  Backfire: Leavitt’s attempt to deny report accidentally proves key detail White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an effort to “knock down” a Washington Post report about President Donald Trump’s heated meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, appeared to accidentally verify the reporting, according to one Washington Post journalist.The report in question claims Hegseth and Trump “clashed” during a Camp D... https://www.alternet.org/leavitt-trump-hegseth/

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  Trump hammered for wild claim that 'Melania' was No 1 movie this year President Donald Trump’s Wednesday speech in Law Vegas had no shortage of rambling and more than it’s fair share of broken chains of thought. More than enough to keep social media commenters and self-styled comedians busy when the monologue was done. https://www.alternet.org/hecklers-pommel-trumps-wild-claim-that-melania-was-no-1-movie-of-the-year/

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  Trump’s latest freak-out is a national emergency: security expert President Donald Trump’s seeming cognitive decline is so pronounced, it has been noticed by everyone from his relatives to his closest advisers. Yet according to a retired professor from the US Naval War College, Trump’s mental health problems are now the problem of all America — and his freak out over losing a politically-motivated prosecution ill... https://www.alternet.org/trump-trapped-2677657950/

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  No one's talking about the other nomination battle Trump's losing President Donald Trump has fired much of the military’s top personnel and replaced them with loyalists, as well as engaged in controversial practices like encouraging personnel to receive testosterone supplements. https://www.alternet.org/gen-christopher-laneve/

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  Moreno profanely tells reporters to stop asking him about Max Miller After Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) urged his son-in-law Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) to resign from office due to allegations that Miller brutally beat Moreno's daughter Emily on multiple occasions, and on at least one also beat Moreno's 2-year-old granddaughter, President Donald Trump's allies and allegedly Trump himself have started concurring in Moreno's... https://www.alternet.org/moreno-miller/

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  Republicans panic as Trump and party leader go radio silent at the worst time Republicans are beginning to panic, according to a new CNN report, as a major rift appears to be growing between President Donald Trump and a top party leader at a time when everyone needs to lock in for the midterms. https://www.alternet.org/trump-midterms-2677647723/

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  Critics maul Trump after DOJ drops its Reflecting Pool prosecution The Trump administration dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, late Friday after admitting their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn “don’t hold water,” as NBC reported. https://www.alternet.org/trump-reflecting-pool-prosecution/

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  CNN anchor stomps GOP lawmaker’s denial cold — to his face CNN guest anchor Pamela Brown could not let U.S. Rep. Michael Baumgartner (R-Wash.) try to blame former President Joe Biden for Trump’s bad economy more than a year into Trump’s second term. https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-polling-midterms-2677622114/

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  Trump’s final rope is 'snapping strand by strand': analysis Conservative Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says non-MAGA mutiny is finally burying President Donald Trump and his Republican machine, and of course Trump has only himself and his venal personal interest to blame. https://www.alternet.org/trump-corruption-slush-fund-2677645013/

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  Trump’s new economic plan defies logic: expert Editor's Note: This article was updated to include a reply from the White House. https://www.alternet.org/trump-tariffs-2677295037/

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  Anchor flattens top Trump economist’s claims about Americans CNN Anchor Pamela Brown was on a roll Thursday, taking a rare opportunity to correct President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett to his face on several falsities — eventually grinding Hassett down to an empty denial of facts. https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-polls-unhappy/

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  Trump pulling Blanche means he's expecting $100 million 'windfall': expert President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, acting attorney general Todd Blanche, had his nomination withdrawn on Thursday — and a legal expert argues this proves Trump plans on continuing an act of self-dealing that would net millions upon millions for Trump and his supporters. https://www.alternet.org/trump-blanche-2677295329/

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  The upside of Trump's betrayal of Senate Republicans President Donald Trump has betrayed a number of Senate Republicans by endorsing their primary rivals. His political victims include Sens. John Cornyn of Texas, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana. In so doing, he aimed to replace those lawmakers with alternatives he views as more loyal. Yet as one political journalist pointe... https://www.alternet.org/trump-cornyn/

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  Trump's 'Princess of Darkness' gets policies for cash: report President Donald Trump is well-known to have assembled a fundraising juggernaut, one so big that Republicans worry it is siphoning off money he could use to win the midterms. Yet a recent report reveals that, in addition to raising money for political purposes, Trump has a so-called “princess of darkness” who explicitly talks to these donors so the... https://www.alternet.org/trumps-princess/

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  'Exasperated' Trump 'yelling expletives' at officials as leakers reveal turmoil in West Wing President Donald Trump is “exasperated” by the ongoing war in Iran — and taking it out on his staff, according to an ally of the president who spoke with NBC News,“I don’t think he believed it was going to be this difficult to get the Iranians to agree to a deal,” the ally told NBC News. “There was not a real strategy for how long or what they shou... https://www.alternet.org/trump-leak...

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  'He was warned': Insiders say Trump knew consequences of disastrous scheme New York Times reporter and author Jonathan Swan says his sources inside the White House claim President Donald Trump was well aware of the consequences of attacking Iran but marched forth with missile strikes regardless. https://www.alternet.org/trump-iran-war-munitions/