Donald Trump Pushes Wild New Biden-Obama Theory ― But With An Ugly Nod To The Past

Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared to return to his “birther” conspiracy theory roots during a campaign event in West Palm Beach, Florida.

The former US president — one of the most prominent pushers of the false claim that former President Barack Obama was not born in America — claimed President Joe Biden’s administration was “inviting” terrorists into the country because his “boss” is secretly Obama.

“Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein, Barack Hussein Obama,” said Trump. Right-wingers have previously referenced Obama’s middle name as a short-hand to suggest he is not American (he was born in Hawaii).

Trump then recalled late right-wing talk radio host Rush Limbaugh’s penchant for calling Obama by his full name, with added emphasis on the “Hussein” part.

Trump, perhaps predictably, was a big fan. He hailed Limbaugh as “the greatest fighter and winner you will ever meet” when awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom during the 2020 State of the Union.

Trump has, in recent weeks, repeatedly hinted — without offering any evidence — that Obama is controlling Biden.

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Trump Bakes A Loaf Of Nonsense With Bizarre Remarks About Grocery Store Purchases

Former President Donald Trump declared that people need identification to purchase groceries as he repeated a wild claim he’s pushed at past rallies on Friday.

“You have voter ID to buy a loaf of bread, you have ID to buy a loaf of bread,” said Trump as he argued that Democrats are “desperate” to stop his movement in remarks at the Concerned Women for America Summit in Washington, D.C.

The former president also received pushback for another food market claim when he said grocery stores would “work along” with federal employees amid the 2019 partial government shutdown.

“Local people know who they are when they go for groceries and everything else… and that’s what happens in times like this – they know the people, they’ve been dealing with them for years and they work along,” he said at the time.

Social media users mocked the former president’s latest grocery remarks, quipping that they got “carded for pumpernickel” the other day.

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US News Anchor Gives Trump’s ‘Most Vile Lie’ About 9/11 A Blunt Fact-Check

“Donald Trump has been lying about 9/11 since 9/11,” O’Donnell said on Monday night. “Here is Donald Trump’s most vile lie about 9/11.”

He played a clip of Trump claiming during a Republican debate that he “lost hundreds of friends” on 9/11.

O’Donnell said it was a lie ― and noted that he called Trump out over it at the time.

Trump during a subsequent appearance altered it to losing “many, many friends,” but O’Donnell said that was a lie too.

“Donald Trump lost zero friends on 9/11,” he said. “Donald Trump attended zero funerals of 9/11 victims. Zero. But Donald Trump tried to steal the grief of all of the families who lost someone on 9/11.”

O’Donnell noted that United Airlines Flight 93 was potentially headed for the U.S. Capitol on that morning, but instead crashed in a Pennsylvania field after the passengers revolted.

Then, he played footage of January 6 attackers breaking into the Capitol just steps away from a plaque honouring those aboard that flight for stopping the attack.

“In the 21st century, only two groups have tried to attack the United States Capitol: al-Qaida, led by Osama bin Laden, and Trump supporters, led by Donald Trump,” he said. “Only the Trump attackers actually did damage to the Capitol.”

See more from his Monday night broadcast:

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Trump’s ‘Mental Acuity’ Challenge Gets Exactly The Response You’d Expect

Donald Trump threw another fit on his social media website on Sunday, this time challenging a host of rivals to a “mental acuity test.”

Trump, who is refusing to debate any of his Republican presidential rivals but instead offered to debate Meghan Markle, is demanding that US President Joe Biden, right-wing media mogul Rupert Murdoch and others take a test of his choosing, at a place of his choosing.

“It will be a tough one,” the former president wrote on Truth Social. “Nobody will come even close to me!”

Trump was triggered by a Wall Street Journal poll in which 49% said he was not mentally up for the job of president. (That number was 60% for Biden.)

“A few years ago I was the only one to agree to a mental acuity test, & ACED IT,” Trump wrote in response to the poll, which he claimed was “probably rigged.”

Trump hasn’t taken a “mental acuity test,” or at least hasn’t publicly revealed the results of such a test if he did. However, in 2020 he took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, or MoCA, which is used to check for signs of cognitive impairments that could be an indication of dementia.

Trump has often bragged of passing the assessment, and insisted that it was hard.

But it’s not supposed to be.

“It is supposed to be easy for someone who has no cognitive impairment,” Dr Ziad Nasreddine, who invented the test, told MarketWatch in 2020.

It asks the subject to complete tasks like identifying an elephant, or remembering and then repeating five words ― which, in Trump’s case, were infamously “Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.”

Now, however, he seems to think passing the MoCA means he can challenge Biden, Murdoch, Murdoch’s sons, and the heads of the Wall Street Journal to the test of his choosing.

Neither Biden nor Murdoch have responded to Trump’s “challenge,” but the former president’s critics had plenty to say:

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Chris Christie Taunts Trump With The ‘One Thing He Cannot Stand’

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie boasted that he’s living “rent-free” inside Donald Trump’s head after the former president launched another attack on him.

Trump on Tuesday fired off a rant on his Truth Social website saying Christie “SHOULD DROP OUT OF THE RACE.”

Christie, one of a number of candidates running against Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, said that won’t happen.

“He only wishes I was going away,” Christie said, saying Trump was “obviously” watching as he criticised the former president on TV when he posted that message.

“I was laying out the truth about him,” Christie said, saying the “one thing he cannot stand” is when someone credible calls him out.

“He knows I’m not just some politician talking about his problems. I’m someone who’s done it, and done it well,” Christie said, noting his 130 wins and zero losses in prosecuting political corruption cases when he was a U.S. attorney.

“I know how deep his problems are, and how much they’re damaging both the Republican Party and the country,” Christie said. “I’m not getting out this race. Maybe he should think about getting out of the race since he’ll be spending most of March and half of April in a courtroom in Washington, DC.”

That’s a reference to the March 4 start of Trump’s election interference trial, one of four criminal cases against the former president.

Christie is polling in the low-to-mid single digits, far behind Trump and behind a number of other candidates such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, political newcomer Vivek Ramaswamy and former United States Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Yet the former president seems to devote outsized attention to Christie, frequently responding to his TV appearances by attacking him on social media despite the fact that the two were once close allies.

In 2016, Christie became one of the first prominent Republicans to endorse Trump, and remained a loyal insider for the duration of Trump’s presidency, but turned into a critic afterward.

See his full conversation with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins below:

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Trump Legal Spokesperson Undercuts One Of His Defences, Live On Fox News

Critics mocked Donald Trump’s legal spokesperson Alina Habba on Sunday after she appeared to undermine a reason the former president’s lawyers have given in a bid to delay the ex-president from facing trial before the 2024 election.

Fox News’ Shannon Bream asked Habba how Trump’s legal team — from which Habba was dropped in July ― handled the logistics of “prepping a client for all of those different trials” while running for president.

Trump is currently the Republican frontrunner.

“Yeah. If it was a normal person, honestly, Shannon, I could understand the concern. President Trump is not your average person,” Habba replied. “He’s incredibly intelligent and he knows the ropes. He also knows the facts because he lived them.”

“What is going to have to be prepped for? The truth?” Habba added. ”You don’t have to prep much when you’ve done nothing wrong, so that I’m not concerned with.”

On X, aka Twitter, users suggested Habba had contradicted Trump’s lawyers’ attempts to delay any legal proceedings until after the 2024 election, citing the complexity of the various cases he faces.

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Joe Biden’s 4-Word Reaction To Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Is Dripping With Shade

Reporters in Lake Tahoe, California, where Biden is vacationing, asked him Friday if he’d seen the infamous ― and historic ― mug shot of the former president.

“I did see it on television,” Biden said with a chuckle.

A reporter then asked what the president thought about the pic.

“Handsome guy,” Biden deadpanned. “Wonderful guy.”

People on X, formerly known as Twitter, were amazed at the amount of shade Biden packed into four little words.

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Sarah Palin Calls For Trump Supporters To ‘Rise Up’ Over Arrest And Alludes To ‘Civil War’

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin apparently thinks only bad things can come from prosecuting Donald Trump for his many alleged crimes ― including a possible civil war.

Palin, who rose to national prominence as Republican John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, suggested that possibility on Newsmax soon after the former president surrendered to authorities on Thursday evening in Fulton County, Georgia, where he faces 13 felony charges related to his efforts to steal the 2020 election he lost to Joe Biden.

Trump faces 91 counts total across four criminal cases, including for his coup attempt, his alleged mishandling of classified documents, and a hush money scheme involving Stormy Daniels.

Although it’s typical for a person accused of a felony to be arrested, Newsmax host Eric Bolling felt compelled to ask Palin if Trump’s arrest was proof of a two-tiered justice system.

Palin responded to the Republican red meat with gusto: “I mean, I think those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice, I want to ask them: What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen.”

Palin vowed that “we’re not going to keep putting up with this,” and praised Bolling for suggesting that “we need to get angry.”

She added: “We do need to rise up and take our country back.”

Palin then griped that the Republican National Committee has “the funds” and “the platform” to stoke “collective anger” over the indictments, but that “they’re too timid, and a bunch of frickin’ RINOs [Republicans in name only] running the thing.”

She warned that the RNC “better get their stuff together, or I have to ask them, too: What do they want as an outcome of this, civil war?”

You can see the segment below, courtesy of Media Matters For America:

Not surprisingly, Palin’s suggestion that a civil war could be nigh garnered a strong reaction from social media users.

And she had a bone to pick with Ed Krassenstein, a prominent social media commentator with nearly 1 million followers on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“Stop calling for civil war,” Krassenstein wrote when sharing the clip of Palin’s Newsmax appearance. “Stop implying that we are on the brink of Civil War. We are not. Just Stop!”

Palin fired back with a long post that said she was unfamiliar with Krassenstein, but that she’d “address your dumbass comment about me” because “you have some followers.”

“WHEN DID I CALL FOR CIVIL WAR?? I ASKED if that’s what you Leftist whackos wanted to happen, with your lies & disruptions & division,” she wrote, using all-caps for portions of her diatribe.

Krassenstein responded that he never said she “called for a civil war,” but noted she “pushed the idea of a civil war, which you undeniably did.”

He then accused her of gaslighting.

Palin hadn’t responded to Krassenstein’s retort as of Friday afternoon, but she continued to make heated posts on X and Instagram.

Although the First Amendment does allow for fiery rhetoric, MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan recently noted that it’s increasingly been spilling into actual right-wing violence since January 6, 2021.

“Now you might say, again, ‘That’s just talk, talk is cheap.’ But it’s not just talk,” Hasan said. “Political violence is not just something abstract or something that might happen at some point in the future. It’s happening right now.”

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John Bolton Has A 4-Letter Word To Describe Trump’s Mug Shot

John Bolton didn’t hesitate when asked to describe Donald Trump’s glowering mug shot, released after the former president was booked on Thursday in the Georgia election interference case.

“He could’ve smiled. He could’ve looked benign,” Bolton said on CNN. “Instead he looks like a thug.”

Donald Trump's booking photo, taken at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Fulton County Sheriff's Office via Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s booking photo, taken at the Fulton County Jail on August 24, 2023. (Photo by Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty Images)

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Bolton, who served as national security advisor under Trump, said the image was likely carefully staged, as most things are around Trump.

“I think it’s intended to be a sign of intimidation against the prosecutors and the judges,” he said.

Bolton also had harsh words for most of the other Republicans seeking the presidential nomination after six of eight participants in Wednesday night’s debate said they would support Trump if he wins the primary even if he’s convicted.

“I think there were six wrong answers and two right answers,” Bolton said. “You cannot believe in a law-and-order philosophy and say it applies to everybody except Donald Trump.”

He added: “In any sane society, somebody who’s a convicted felon should step aside.”

Bolton said the Republican National Committee should have a rule forcing a convicted candidate off the ticket.

Like many who served under Trump, Bolton released a tell-all book bashing his former boss and has made regular appearances in the media speaking out against the ex-president.

Trump has fired back by calling him a “liar,” a “dope” and a “sick puppy.”

Bolton has said in the past that he voted for Trump in 2016, but not in 2020, when he wrote in the name of a conservative candidate instead. He added that he would do the same next year if Trump is the Republican nominee.

See the full conversation below:

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