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  • Trump VP contender South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem defends shooting, killing her dog

    Donald Trump VP contender, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, is defending shooting and killing her family dog, which she describes in her upcoming book.

  • Fmr. Trump WH aide reveals why she 'has no choice but to support Biden'

    Former Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews and The Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins join Jen Psaki to discuss Donald Trump's hold on the Republican party despite his legal troubles.

  • Trump’s legal ‘hell month’ continues amid new state coup plot charges

    In this special report, MSNBC’s Ari Melber breaks down Donald Trump’s “legal hell month” on The Beat. (Bookmark The Beat’s YouTube playlist, updated daily: https://msnbc.com/ari. Connect with Ari on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AriMelber IG: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber Merch: msnbc.com/beat5)

  • The twisted purpose of Kristi Noem’s tale of shooting a dog

    It’s rare that the books written by politicians aspiring to higher office include anything interesting, so give South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem credit: She got people to pay attention to her soon-to-be-released entry in this sleep-inducing genre. And all it took was shooting a dog in the head. The Guardian was the first to get its hands on Noem’s account of the dog’s demise. The ill-fated wirehaired pointer, a puppy named Cricket, was difficult to control, it wasn’t taking well to being trained...

  • TikTok defenders miss chance to push for social media regulation amid ban backlash

    I’m a longtime social media critic, and I’m pretty indiscriminate in my criticism. I don’t trust any algorithm-based platforms or the executives who run them, be that X, Facebook or TikTok. And yet, while I’ve spent months deriding U.S. lawmakers’ laser focus on restricting access to TikTok, I’m starting to find the widespread fawning over the app — now that it might be banned in the U.S. — pretty disturbing. Last week, President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that included money for...

  • DeSantis is going to have to pay the price if he wants Trump to save him

    Almost immediately after dropping out of the Republican presidential primary in January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis bent the knee to his subduer by endorsing former President Donald Trump. It was a humiliating end to a campaign that saw the onetime golden child of the GOP completely dominated in a bitter race filled with a never-ending parade of mocking slights and belittling attacks from his would-be predecessor. His subjugation deepened Sunday with the news that DeSantis and Trump broke bread...

  • Trump supporters target Black voters with bigoted radio ads

    Donald Trump and his allies are trying to appeal to Black voters with overpriced sneakers, fried chicken, past-their-prime rappers and, now, some plain old bigotry to boot. In recent months, Trump-allied groups have begun running radio ads targeting voters in largely Black areas that push a raft of offensive claims as they seek to undermine support for President Joe Biden. The ads were highlighted by sports journalist Jemele Hill over the weekend during her coverage of the NFL draft in Detroit. ...

  • Why Trump’s lies about his ongoing criminal trial in N.Y. matter

    Donald Trump’s criminal trial is well underway in New York City, and inside the Manhattan courtroom, the former president’s lawyers are doing their best against overwhelming evidence. But just outside the courtroom, the defense attorneys are saying very little about the case, while their client seems eager to try parts of the case in public. The New York Times reported over the weekend: The Times highlighted several of the key claims the Republican has pushed over the last week or so, including:...

  • Kavanaugh draws the wrong lesson from Ford’s 1974 Nixon pardon

    Donald Trump’s immunity claims reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week, and during oral arguments, Justice Brett Kavanaugh — a Trump nominee — thought it’d be a good idea to bring up Gerald Ford’s decision to pardon Richard Nixon in 1974. The then-president’s decision, the conservative jurist said, was “very controversial in the moment.” Former Deputy Solicitor General Michael Dreeben, a member of special counsel Jack Smith’s team agreed. It was “hugely unpopular” and “probably why” Ford lost...

  • Peter Navarro’s prison release bid again rejected by Supreme Court

    Peter Navarro is staying locked up, after the Supreme Court rejected his bid to stay out while he appeals his contempt conviction. It’s the former Trump White House adviser’s second such rejection in as many months. How is that even possible, you might wonder? Recall that Navarro was sentenced in January to four months’ imprisonment for contempt of Congress after he refused to comply with a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. Trying to stay free pending appeal, he filed an application to...

  • 'Could lock him up': Merchan to hold Trump's second gag order hearing Thursday

    Testimony in former President Trump’s hush money trial resumes tomorrow with Gary Farro, Michael Cohen’s former banker at First Republic Bank, taking the stand. MSNBC’s Lisa Rubin and defense attorney Jeff Jacobovitz tell us what to expect and what could happen on Thursday, when the judge is expected to hold a hearing about whether Trump has violated the gag order.

  • Why in the world would Kristi Noem admit to shooting her dog?

    Gov. Kristi Noem has been at the center of some unfortunate controversies of late, but by any air measure, last week’s revelations were orders of magnitude worse for the ambitious South Dakota Republican. At first blush, the accusations sounded like scurrilous accusations floated by a former aide who was determined to destroy her political career. But that’s not what happened: Rather, it was Noem herself who wrote a memoir in which she described, among other things, killing her 14-month-old dog...