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Fox News’ Harris Faulkner and Third Way cofounder Matt Bennett went at it over President Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s fitness for office on Wednesday, with the host cutting Bennett off to declare that the subject was not up for debate at one point. The segment began with Faulkner touting several polls in which voters expressed more concerns over Biden’s mental acuity than Trump’s before asking Bennett to weigh in. “I mean, these guys are functionally the same age,” he began. “Donald Trump is 78-years-old, and I think there can be all kinds of debates about who makes more gaffes. I mean, Trump confused Nancy Pelosi and Nikki Haley –”

CNN analysts Maria Cardona and Scott Jennings got into a bitter right-vs.-left fight over former President Donald Trump’s immigration plans and President Joe Biden’s latest move to protect undocumented people. The White House announced new actions Tuesday that will protect over half-a-million spouses and children of U.S. citizens and provide other benefits to DREAMers. Trump, meanwhile, has promised mass detention and deportation of migrants from the U.S. if he’s elected — which a recent poll showed a shocking amount of support for. On Tuesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, anchor Jim Acosta refereed a debate on the issue that got nasty when Jennings began to laugh at and deride Cardona, who disputed the quality of a CBS poll that showed majority Hispanic support for Trump’s mass deportations:

Axios political reporter Hans Nichols joined a CNN panel on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming Virginia primaries, in which House Freedom Caucus Chairman Bob Good (R-VA) is fending off a stiff challenge backed by both former President Donald Trump and ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). “Congressman Bob Good won his Virginia House district by 15 points in 2022. Just two years ago, he chairs the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. And yet, he may be on the verge of getting a pink slip from Republican constituents in his ruby red district. Now, why have they turned against him? It could have something to do with this,” began anchor Dana Bash before showing a clip of Goode’s floor speech voting to oust McCarthy last October. “That was Good speaking about Kevin McCarthy, just before he joined seven other Republicans in ousting the now former speaker. But it could go back even further to this decision from last spring,” Bash continued, introducing another clip. “Just want to congratulate and thank Governor Ron DeSantis. America is hungry for courageous conservative leadership, and that’s on display nowhere else like it is in the state of Florida,” Good says in the clip.

Fox News’ Harris Faulkner warned billionaire Mark Cuban on Outnumbered Tuesday that continuing to go after former President and presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump might hurt his bottom line. In a segment targeting Cuban for lecturing others about climate change while holding on to a private jet collection, Brian Kilmeade observed that Trump and Cuban used to be friendly before the January 6 Capitol riot, but that Cuban is now “going to work hard behind the scenes” to defeat Trump in the 2024 election. In March, Cuban described Trump as a “snake oil salesman” and announced his intention to vote for President Joe Biden in the fall. “One will tell you his snake oil will cure everything that ails you. The other will show you the details of his policies through charts, graphs and statements,” argued Cuban. “If they were having his last wake, and it was him [Biden] versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden”

MSNBC’s top-rated host Rachel Maddow roasted former President Donald Trump on Monday night for campaigning over the weekend with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk during a campaign swing aimed at Black voters. Kirks, as Maddow pointed out, has made headlines in recent months for rhetoric widely seen as racist and for crusading against Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act. Trump “goes to this Black church in Detroit, and his campaign does not take any steps to avoid the pews being completely filled with white people, with white Trump supporters,” Maddow began, adding:

Former President Donald Trump once again gaffed while mocking President Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. Speaking in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday, Trump addressed recent clips of Biden that have gone viral in right-wing media. One featured Biden at the G7 Summit in Italy, seemingly distracted by nothing in particular. However, the video turned out to be cropped to exclude a just-landed skydiver that Biden was talking to. Another clip of Biden to make the rounds was from a fundraiser in Los Angeles, where former President Barack Obama guided a seemingly distracted Biden off stage. The White House responded by denouncing the “cheap fakes” – a term for low-budget manipulated pieces of media. “Joe Biden is humiliating our country on the world stage,” Trump told the gathering in Wisconsin. “He’s actually humiliating us. You saw what happened this weekend. It’s turning the United States into a total joke all over the world. First, he wandered off the G7 in Europe on this stage. He looked like he didn’t know where the hell he was, but he didn’t know where he was. He’s blaming it now on AI. He’s saying– he doesn’t what [sic] AI is, but that’s ok.”

Former Trump campaign manager and White House advisor, Steve Bannon, raged at MSNBC on Tuesday for inaccurately describing his contempt of Congress conviction a felony when it is in fact a misdemeanor charge. Bannon also took aim at the network and mocked host Rachel Maddow for being concerned that Donald Trump would use the power of government to go after her should he get back into power. “By the way, MSNBC producers, you got to do better when you put up a TikTok that’s got me in there. I’m not a convicted felon. It’s a misdemeanor. Learn what actually happened. It’s a misdemeanor. It’s a misdemeanor. You guys spent all that money? You ought to get a staff that could do some checking for accuracy,” Bannon fumed about the MSNBC TikTok about his speech over the weekend. Bannon is set to begin serving his four-month jail sentence in early July. BANNON: “@MSNBC, when you put up a TikTok that’s got me in there, I’m not a convicted felon—it’s a misdemeanor. Learn what actually happened. You guys, Roberts spent all that money; you ought to get a staff that can do some checking for accuracy.” https://t.co/GFL74Wj7vr pic.twitter.com/w9VzFjLiEX — Grace Chong 🇺🇸 (@gc22gc) June 18, 2024

Rachel Maddow gushed that President Joe Biden has a “very, very strong record,” but he needs to “fight harder” in his campaign. During a Tuesday visit to The View, Maddow dismissed the idea that there could be a replacement nominee on the ticket for 81-year-old Biden. Alyssa Farah Griffin cited some of the president’s poor polling and asked Maddow if there could be a “backup plan” for the presumptive Democratic Party’s nominee. Maddow argued that America’s economy had made it the “envy of the world” and Biden’s campaign needs to sell that message better.

Rachel Maddow accused the Supreme Court of effectively giving Donald Trump “immunity” ahead of their actual ruling on arguments about his claims of presidential immunity. Maddow joined The View on Tuesday and primarily focused on the former president’s various legal woes following her coverage of his conviction of more than 30 felony counts in his Manhattan hush money trial. The MSNBC host called it “crazy” that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case about Trump’s claims of sweeping presidential immunity in the first place.

Jon Stewart roasted Donald Trump for getting one key detail wrong about his “cognitive test” when trying to “capitalize” on President Joe Biden’s age. On Monday’s The Daily Show, Stewart accused Trump, 78, of “tripping over his own dick” every time he tries to knock Biden, 81, over his age. The comedian first mocked a video of Biden watching paratroopers skydiving in which Stewart said the president appeared to be “seemingly staring at what can only be considered ghosts.” “I guess the election has basically boiled down to each candidate accusing the other of having soup where there should be brain,” he said.

Anderson Cooper Digs Up Supercut of Trump and Rubio Exchanging Brutal Insults as Former Rivals Prep for Debate CNN host Anderson Cooper ran a cut of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and former President Donald Trump slinging savage debate insults after Rubio was tapped to help his 2016 rival prepare for upcoming debates. The Hill reported that on his visit to Washington D.C. on Thursday Trump met with Rubio and Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) with the aim of running through policy and other topics ahead of the first presidential debate of the 2024 election cycle. Cooper began his segment on Monday pointing out that within the Republican Party, many on the current list of Trump supporters were “once harsh critics”: “Case in point, the Republican senator who was tapped to help his former rival and tormenter prepare for the upcoming CNN presidential debate.”

Fox News host Sean Hannity told RNC Co-Chair Lara Trump that President Joe Biden will be “hyped up” for the CNN debate with ex-President Donald Trump and even suggested he may be on drugs for the event. Trump and his supporters have baselessly attacked Biden by suggesting his energetic performances at events like the State of the Union must be due to drug use — and challenging him to a drug test before the debate. On Monday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, Hannity attacked CNN and their debate moderators, and renewed the suggestion in a conversation with Lara Trump, who insists the “deck is stacked” against Trump:

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre paused Tuesday’s press briefing when a woman standing in the back of the press room passed out. Jean-Pierre was in the middle of taking a question from a reporter when someone yelled, “We have an emergency.” She immediately left the podium to see what was going on and help the person in need. After a few fraught moments, Jean-Pierre returned to the podium to continue after getting the assurance that everyone was okay, commenting that it was “hot” in the briefing room. NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer, who was in the briefing room, posted a tweet about what happened and confirmed that it was “warm” in there:

Former Obama administration official Ashley Allison roasted Donald Trump for misnaming his White House doctor while demanding President Joe Biden take a cognitive test. While doing so, Trump bragged about his own cognitive abilities. On Monday’s edition of The Situation Room on CNN, Wolf Blitzer played a clip of Trump speaking at a rally over the weekend.

A video from a star-studded Democratic fundraiser in Los Angeles showing President Joe Biden being taken by the arm and led offstage by former president Barack Obama went viral on Sunday, mainly among conservatives and MAGA users on X. The fundraiser in Los Angeles drummed up over $30 million for the Biden-Harris campaign and brought in stars such as George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Barbara Streisand and others. Obama and Biden closed the event in a sit down with late night host Jimmy Kimmel, during which Biden trashed the United States Supreme Court over decisions that Democrats have not agreed with. It was at the end of that sit-down that the clip shared by senior staff writer at The Hollywood Reporter Chris Gardner took place. Gardner wrote that, “President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden offer final waves to Peacock Theater crowd as Obama then grabs Biden’s hand to lead him offstage following 40-minute conversation with Jimmy Kimmel.”

President Joe Biden attacked the Supreme Court at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles Saturday — arguing there has “never been a Court that’s so far out of step” in U.S. history. According to the pooled reporters (via Politico) covering the star-studded event, Biden sounded off about the court — warning that the potential replacement of Justices by former President Donald Trump, should he win the 2024 election, is “one of the scariest parts” about a second Trump term. “The idea that if he’s reelected he’s going to appoint two more flying flags upside down,” Biden said — in an apparent reference to Justice Samuel Alito.

MSNBC columnist and SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah called former president Donald Trump visiting congress last week “bring a terrorist to work day” and trashed the GOP as a “fascist movement” that’s violent and ideologically opposed to democracy. Along with author David Cay Johnston and former RNC chair and MSNBC host Michael Steele, Obeidallah joined host Joy Reid on Friday’s The ReidOut on MSNBC to discuss Trump’s visit to Congress last week. Reid asked Obeidallah to talk about his column on the meeting, “Trump went to Washington Thursday. He met with a bunch of cowards.”

Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he was not using a “great word” in a story after hearing from an evangelical preacher on the subject of cursing, even though “sometimes you need foul language.” Trump spoke at Turning Point USA‘s “The People’s Convention’ in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, along with a number of other conservative and MAGA speakers including Donald Trump Jr., Rep. Byron Donalds, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. Trump has used curse words in most of his recent speeches for effect and to cheers and chants from his MAGA audiences. Earlier in in his speech on Saturday, he did so again on the subject of environmentally-friendly military vehicles, saying, “They want to go in in a clean, environmental way as we bomb the shit out of a country, can you believe that?”

Former President Donald Trump once again bragged about how well he did on a cognitive test he took back in 2018. But while he was boasting about his success, he botched the name of the doctor who administered the exam. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit on Saturday, the former president recalled his past success on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment test — typically used to screen for mild cognitive issues — while challenging President Joe Biden to take the test. “I think he should take a cognitive test like I did,” Trump said. “I took a cognitive test and I aced it.”

Former Donald Trump adviser Steven Bannon has pledged that a second Trump term will bring “accountability” to those involved in the ex-president’s prosecutions. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Detroit on Saturday, Bannon singled out Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, and Special Counsel Jack Smith. Trump, who was convicted in New York last month of falsifying business records, is under federal indictment in two jurisdictions, where he faces charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election and retaining classified documents after leaving office. The former president has also been indicted in Georgia for trying to overturn the election results in the state. He has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he stands by his vote to certify the 2020 election, which former President Donald Trump falsely claims was rigged against him. Scott is reportedly on Trump’s shortlist of potential vice presidential running mates. Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Scott was asked by host Jonathan Karl about remarks Trump made about the Jan. 6 defendants. Karl noted the ex-president returned to Capitol Hill last week for the first time since the Capitol riot, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building to try to stop certification of the election won by Joe Biden. The host played a clip of Trump backing the Jan. 6 rioters.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) defended Donald Trump amid reports that the former president trashed Milwaukee, where Republicans are holding their convention next in July. During a meeting with congressional Republicans on Thursday, Trump said, “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city,” according to Punchbowl News. While several Republicans denied the ex-president said this, Trump himself admitted to disparaging the city.

A House Republican, appearing on Fox News, floated a bizarre plan to Attorney General Merrick Garland taken into custody by the House Sergeant at Arms. Appearing on Sunday Morning Futures, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told anchor Maria Bartiromo about her plan to use an obscure provision — which hasn’t been used in more than a century — to enforce the Contempt of Congress resolution it handed down Wednesday against the attorney general. (The DOJ has said it will not prosecute the attorney general.)

In a series of stunning interviews, fans of former President Donald Trump told CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan that the U.S. is “not a democracy” and predicted a “civil war” if Trump loses. O’Sullivan specializes in reporting on the fringes of the conservative and pro-Trump movement, and frequently finds himself on the receiving end of some stunning quotes. On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, O’Sullivan rolled out his latest parade of jaw-dropping MAGA sound bites — a gaggle of Trump supporters who were happy to tell him we’re not a democracy — but had a tough time explaining the difference: