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'Too old for the job' Trump nailed on MSNBC for letting Elon Musk fight his battles

As part of a discussion on MSNBC on Saturday morning, the former head of the Republican National Committee suggested that Donald Trump is letting billionaire adviser Elon Musk call the shots because he's not the man he used to be. During a spirited debate over Musk leaning on GOP lawmakers to pass a budget bill to his and Trump's liking …

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1 week ago

Michael Steele Slams What GOP Senators Are Doing Right Now: ‘Such A Farce’

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Michael Steele slammed the visits of Donald Trump’s more controversial Cabinet picks to GOP senators ― purportedly to butter them up or assuage their concerns ahead of confirmation hearings ― as “such a farce” as he suggested the nominees will end up getting confirmed anyway due to the lawmakers’ subservience to the president-elect. “All this drama right …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

MAGA diehard Kash Patel's list of 'Government Gangsters' who could be targeted under Trump 2.0 govt

Hindustan Times

Donald Trump named Kash Patel to be the next director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Trump and Patel vowed to ‘go after’ political rivals Charles Kupperman, who served under the first Trump administration as deputy national security adviser, said that Patel's views would be incompatible with the FBI's mission. Brian Auten: FBI official who oversaw the agency's inquiry into …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over his new team have allies worried, experts say

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “There is trepidation about Mr Trump in the …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Sell the paper!' Michael Steele flattens WaPo owner Bezos for spiking Harris endorsement

Raw Story

Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele went off on a brutal attack on Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos for his part in spiking a Washington Post endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, telling the owner of paper to sell it if he's afraid of Donald Trump. Reacting to the furor of the venerable paper which broke the Watergate break-in story …

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3 months ago

GOP is 'hook, line and sinker all in' on Mark Robinson: former RNC official

Raw Story

Despite deleting any pictures they may have taken with embattled North Carolina GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, Republican lawmakers are doing as little as they can to disavow their Republican Party colleague who has described himself as a "Black Nazi." That is the opinion of former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele who claimed that Robinson embodies everything Donald Trump's …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

'Stop faking it!' Ex-RNC chair snaps as MAGA rails against anti-Trump 'RINOs'

Raw Story

Former Rep. Liz Cheney delivered a major election bombshell when she announced that her father — former Vice President Dick Cheney — was planning to join her in voting for Vice President Kamala Harris in November. Asked to weigh in on the Liz and Dick Cheney endorsements, Steele — a Never Trump conservative who is also supporting Harris — told …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Agitated,' 'rude' and 'racist': Ex-GOP chairman tears into Trump's NABJ fiasco

Raw Story

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele laid into former President Donald Trump for his contentious Q&A session with the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday. Read also: 'Bending themselves into pretzels': Internet shreds Fox News' defense of Trump NABJ Q&A Specifically, Trump went on to claim that Harris isn't really Black because her mother is Indian — a …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Watch: Michael Steele busts out laughing as strategist explains Trump's new voter problem

Raw Story

MSNBC host and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele couldn't control his mirth on Sunday morning after a noted conservative campaign strategist explained Donald Trump's voter woes. Pressing Stuart Stevens about his comments in a Politico article regarding Vice President Kamala Harris' path to victory, the consultant was asked about the changed landscape for Trump. "Trump did better with …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

'You want to walk into that buzzsaw?' Trump taunted by ex-GOP official over Harris debate

Raw Story

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele laughed at the possibility that Donald Trump may be forced to debate Vice President Kamala Harris as her candidacy as his 2024 presidential opponent appears to have him on the defensive. On Thursday, Trump seemed to reject the idea of locking in previously agreed-upon dates for …

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8 months, 1 week ago

The right tried to rain on South Carolina's NCAA victory with transphobia. Dawn Staley won't let up

Salon

As a second consecutive record year for women’s college basketball reached another landmark conclusion this weekend, South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley displayed to hardcore fans and casual viewers alike why she is one of sports preeminent ambassadors — and it wasn't solely because of what her players accomplished on the court, but how she acted off of it. Then …

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9 months ago

Ex-RNC Chair Warns Why ‘All Hell’s About To Break Loose’ With Trump Campaign

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, on Wednesday issued a bleak prediction on what to expect from Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign amid reports that a cast of controversial figures is set to return to his fold. Presumptive GOP nominee Trump is reportedly in talks with his 2016 campaign advisers Corey Lewandowski and Paul …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Trump warned his 'hostile takeover' of the RNC will blow up in his face

Raw Story

Setting aside for the moment his contempt for Donald Trump, former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele claimed the former president will come to regret his "hostile takeover" of the RNC because it will lead to his loss in the 2024 presidential election. Noting that Trump put in place daughter-in-law Lara Trump to lead the way as co-chairman, he wrote, …

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10 months ago

'Wrong answer': MSNBC's Michael Steele schools Lara Trump over her plans for RNC cash

Raw Story

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele blasted Donald Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump on Sunday morning over her plans for the RNC's cash if she is added as co-chair. Lara Trump stated: "The RNC needs to be the cleanest, most lethal political fighting machine we've ever seen in American history. The number one responsibility is to elect every candidate on …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Ex-RNC Chair Hits Republicans Not Denouncing Dangerous Rhetoric With A Harsh Truth

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele on Tuesday warned Republicans who are failing to denounce violent rhetoric that they’ll eventually become targets, too. “The flipside of this coin is it comes for you too at some point,” Steele told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace. It’s going to come for you too.” Steele and Wallace talked about the escalation …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Fox News' Laura Ingraham Contradicted By Own On-Screen Graphic

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Fox News’ Laura Ingraham raised eyebrows on Thursday when she said one thing about leading anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on her prime-time show, but the graphic that appeared on-screen at the same time suggested the opposite. Ingraham claimed Kennedy, a Democratic longshot presidential candidate who this month was condemned even by his family for …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Names Only Truly ‘Unprecedented' Part Of Trump Case

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee, on Thursday argued there is only one real “unprecedented” thing about Donald Trump’s classified documents case. Steele agreed with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace, who said prosecutors had trodden extremely carefully and given Trump “a million chances” to avoid indictment by handing back the documents taken from the White …

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1 year, 8 months ago

'Two-bit televangelist' Lindsey Graham ruthlessly ridiculed by Morning Joe panel

Raw Story

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele heaped mockery on Sen. Lindsey Graham's tearful pleas for donations to help Donald Trump's legal defense. The South Carolina Republican appeared Tuesday night on Fox News host Sean Hannity's program to beg Trump supporters to donate through his website to pay the former president's legal fees following his arraignment …

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2 years, 5 months ago

GOP's Josh Hawley suffered a 'complete and utter political emasculation' during Jan. 6 hearing: former RNC head

Raw Story

During an appearance on MSNBC on Friday morning, former Republican National Committee head Michael Steele claimed that Sen. Josh Hawley was the recipient of a "political emasculation" courtesy of the House Jan. 6 committee investigating the Capitol insurrection. "Katy, that was just absolute political gold last night," Steele claimed. "It was -- it was a complete and utter political emasculation …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Looking out at a sea of faces at a Texas fairground, most of them white, former President Donald Trump seethed about his legal troubles and blamed them on malicious prosecutors. That’s among the fears stoking the white supremacy movement, the so-called “white replacement theory” that people of color will supplant whites in the country’s power dynamics and …

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3 years, 1 month ago

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI

NPR

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI Enlarge this image toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP Jose Luis Magana/AP A Russian national who was a key source of information used in the 2016 dossier of allegations about Donald Trump's alleged ties to Russia has been arrested and indicted on accusations that he lied …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Ex-Republican National Committee chair fact-checks Lindsey Graham's claim that guns are a deterrent

Salon

South Carolina's "castle doctrine" and "stand your ground" laws provide legal protection to shoot people in many situations. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., praised the state relying on armed citizens to self-police during a Monday evening appearance on Fox News. Former Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele fact-checked the GOP senator. "Umm Senator perhaps you should speak with your state Law …

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4 years ago

Ex-RNC Chair Has 1 Damning Word For People Still Donating To Donald Trump

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, could barely contain his contempt on Wednesday as he talked about people who are donating to President Donald Trump’s futile bid to overturn the 2020 election results. Steele used one word to describe the donors ― “suckers” ― as he warned them that the reported $170 million …

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4 years, 1 month ago

Trump puts loyalist previously sent to investigate MI6’s Christopher Steele in key Pentagon position

The Independent

A Republican congressman’s staffer who was sent to London to “investigate” MI6 officer Christopher Steele over his dossier on Donald Trump has been appointed to a key role in an unprecedented takeover of the Pentagon by the president’s team. Patel, who joined from the National Security Council, had worked for congressman Devin Nunes, who had to step down at one …

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'Too old for the job' Trump nailed on MSNBC for letting Elon Musk fight his battles

Michael Steele Slams What GOP Senators Are Doing Right Now: ‘Such A Farce’

MAGA diehard Kash Patel's list of 'Government Gangsters' who could be targeted under Trump 2.0 govt

Trump’s record of leaking intelligence and doubts over his new team have allies worried, experts say

'Sell the paper!' Michael Steele flattens WaPo owner Bezos for spiking Harris endorsement

GOP is 'hook, line and sinker all in' on Mark Robinson: former RNC official

'Stop faking it!' Ex-RNC chair snaps as MAGA rails against anti-Trump 'RINOs'

'Agitated,' 'rude' and 'racist': Ex-GOP chairman tears into Trump's NABJ fiasco

Watch: Michael Steele busts out laughing as strategist explains Trump's new voter problem

'You want to walk into that buzzsaw?' Trump taunted by ex-GOP official over Harris debate

The right tried to rain on South Carolina's NCAA victory with transphobia. Dawn Staley won't let up

Ex-RNC Chair Warns Why ‘All Hell’s About To Break Loose’ With Trump Campaign

Trump warned his 'hostile takeover' of the RNC will blow up in his face

'Wrong answer': MSNBC's Michael Steele schools Lara Trump over her plans for RNC cash

Ex-RNC Chair Hits Republicans Not Denouncing Dangerous Rhetoric With A Harsh Truth

Fox News' Laura Ingraham Contradicted By Own On-Screen Graphic

Ex-RNC Chair Michael Steele Names Only Truly ‘Unprecedented' Part Of Trump Case

'Two-bit televangelist' Lindsey Graham ruthlessly ridiculed by Morning Joe panel

GOP's Josh Hawley suffered a 'complete and utter political emasculation' during Jan. 6 hearing: former RNC head

Trump tirade on ‘racist’ DAs echoes other racist tropes

A key source for the infamous Trump-Russia dossier is charged with lying to the FBI

Ex-Republican National Committee chair fact-checks Lindsey Graham's claim that guns are a deterrent

Ex-RNC Chair Has 1 Damning Word For People Still Donating To Donald Trump

Trump puts loyalist previously sent to investigate MI6’s Christopher Steele in key Pentagon position