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Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Behind-the-scenes video shows Trump's own people lying to his face to make him feel better

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'No no no no': Marco Rubio tap dances when confronted on CNN about Trump's 'tangents'
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Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tap-danced away from questions about Donald Trump's "tangents" and misogynist insults during a skirmish with CNN's Anderson Cooper.

The former president attacked Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as an "evil, sick, crazy b–," although he stopped himself from calling her a b---h but mouthed the word, during his last campaign rally before Election Day, and Cooper confronted Rubio over his closing message.

"Obviously, there were a lot of people in his campaign that had a very clear idea of what they wanted his closing argument to be, the economy or the border," Cooper said. "Are you concerned about some of the tangents he has been going off on the last few days?"

Rubio came out firing, saying that Trump had endured unfair attacks on the campaign trail.

"This is a man who has been called Adolf Hitler and his supporters have been called subhuman garbage and compared to Nazis by major media outlets," the senator said. "He has to punch back even harder."

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'Real sense of frustration' as Trump advisers fear 'he's trying to lose': reporter

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl spoke to "The View" on Tuesday as voters continued to cast ballots on the final day of the election and revealed some of his conversations with Donald Trump.

"I have to say that I am hearing from people close to Trump a real sense of frustration," Karl revealed. "They think that it's almost as if he is trying to lose an election that they thought he could have won. Usually, you close an election by trying to reach out to those precious few people out there that are still persuadable."

Instead, Karl, said he's done the opposite.

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"He's gone out, and you had Liz Cheney on and the guns in Liz Cheney's face," he recalled, talking about a comment Trump made to Tucker Carlson saying that because she was a "war hawk," she should have nine "guns trained at her face" to experience the realities of combat first hand.

"These are not exactly the kinds of messages that you usually see a candidate doing in the closing," remarked Karl.

Karl said that he believes Trump personally is at a crossroads.

"On the one hand, if he loses, Jack Smith is still there. The trials move up, and we have sentencing in New York and the federal cases," Karl continued. "He could really go to jail. If he wins, he arguably becomes the most powerful president of our lifetimes because you have the Supreme Court that has the immunity decision."

Karl said that in one of his conversations with Trump, the ex-president said the first time he came into office, he didn't know anything, and there were a lot of people "who tried to rein him in." Those "guardrails" won't be there in 2025.

Perhaps the most shocking detail that Karl revealed, however, is that Trump admitted that he could lose.

Karl said that Trump's voice has been raspy and he he'd been traveling to six states over two days.

"But he said something to me he's never said before," said Karl. "He was projecting confidence when he's saying he's winning everywhere a substantial lead, and I finally said to him, 'So, is there any way you could lose? Do you think there's any way you could lose?' And there was a long pause. You don't get a lot of long pauses with Trump, and he said, 'Yeah, I guess.'"

See the conversation below or at the link here.

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'Suck on this': Steve Bannon mocks Merrick Garland while recreating election-denial HQ

Freshly out of prison, right-wing strategist Steve Bannon announced he would assemble a "war room" at the Willard Hotel on election night just as he did on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2020.

The previous "war room" served as a command center for his plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

CBS News first reported Bannon would return to the Willard on Tuesday, and the right-wing host also spoke about it on his show.

"They only win if they cheat, like in 2020," he told his War Room show co-hosts.

"We're going to be back at the Willard Hotel tonight in a big FU to Jack Smith, Nancy Pelosi, and CNN and MSNBC suck on this," Bannon said. "And Merrick Garland, my boy, live from the roof of the Willard Hotel, overlooking the ellipse."

"Who'd have thunk it?"

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Bannon was released from prison last week after serving four months for refusing to honor a subpoena from a congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.

Watch the video below or at this link.