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Fox News host Martha MacCallum questioned Alina Habba, an aide and attorney for Donald Trump, after she claimed there were "babies floating in the water" under the vice presidency of Kamala Harris.

While appearing on Fox News, MacCallum told Habba that Trump had been criticized for allegedly spreading misinformation in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.

"You know, there's been criticism about former President Trump, ... and what he has said about the ability for the administration to respond to this issue," the Fox News host said.

"Let's talk about facts," Habba ranted. " ... Let's talk about information that is undisputable. While Helene was happening, Kamala decided it was more important to go on a podcast about sex, Call Her Daddy."

"So I'm talking facts," she continued. "This is not the time to politicize. This is not the time to try and get a point ahead of your other opponent. It's the time to get dirty and go help people."

Habba insisted that Trump "hasn't tried to make phony phone calls to look good to the media."

"And western North Carolina got hit really hard," she opined. "They need help. They need water. There are still people missing.

"There are babies floating in the water. And we're on podcasts. That's what the Harris team is doing."

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MacCallum seemed unconvinced, making the lawyer pause to explain.

"Where did you see that report of a baby floating in the water?" she asked.

"We have absolutely heard there are children floating," Habba repeated. "There's missing bodies, dead bodies."

Watch the video below from Fox News.

Former President Donald Trump is falling apart as he sees polls, like the latest New York Times/Siena College survey, showing Vice President Kamala Harris tempting Republican voters away from him, Democratic strategist Maria Cardona argued on CNN Tuesday.

Her assertion came after a heated back-and-forth between herself and former Trump administration official Matt Mowers over the former president's repeated lies about FEMA aid to states devastated by Hurricane Helene.

The latest Times/Siena poll, noted anchor Brianna Keilar, "shows Harris gaining ground with Republicans. Do you think the Trump campaign should be worried, Matt?"

"No, I wouldn't be too worried because I think he's still in a margin of error race," said Mowers, adding that in battleground states, "most polling shows a one to two-point race in either direction, depending on the poll, for Trump or for Harris. This is really tight."

Cardona, however, disagreed.

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"Here's why this really matters, and why Donald Trump and the Trump campaign are worried," said Cardona. "And in fact, you see, in Donald Trump's demented approaches to his rallies now, in his speeches with upping the lies and completely going off script, is because they are worried about what they are seeing.

"I think the critical piece in this New York Times poll is that voters are now seeing the vice president as the agent for change."

In other words, Cardona continued, "Voters are now seeing her, and I think Donald Trump is helping her do this. And her underscoring this every chance she gets is really important. Voters see her as the one who actually worries about issues that are important to them. They see her as the one representing their needs, and that is something that she's going to talk to every single day between now and the election."

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Former President Donald Trump appears to be getting into the cryptocurrency business, and the New York Times reports that the "serial entrepreneurs" he has brought in to helm his foray have checkered pasts.

According to the Times, Trump crypto business partners Chase Herro and Zachary Folkman have been "leaving behind a trail of lawsuits and unpaid debt and taxes" in their assorted ventures.

Herro, for one, describes himself as a "dirtbag of the internet" and an ace salesman, whereas Folkman once ran a pickup artist advice firm called Date Hotter Girls.

Despite the shadiness of their business histories, the two men have earned endorsements from Donald Trump Jr., who said recently that, "You could put them in a boardroom at Goldman Sachs, and they're going to smoke the people in the room."

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Some experts on the cryptocurrency industry who spoke with the Times, however, expressed skepticism that the two men could "smoke" anyone.

Eswar Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University, told the Times that Herro and Folkman "did not appear to have the technical or financial savvy to make the venture work."

And John Reed Stark, a former senior Securities and Exchange Commission official, told the Times that Herro and Folkman's pitch for their brand of cryptocurrency is "a bunch of nonsense, and a terrible opportunity for investors."

To back up this point, the Times noted that Herro and Folkman have "a history of jumping from project to project" and "together or separately, they have formed at least 17 companies, gravitating to the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, both tax havens."

Read the full report here.

A bombshell court filing by special counsel Jack Smith includes a key detail that shows Donald Trump is playing right into his prosecutor's hands, a legal expert argued Monday.

In their weekly "Jack" podcast, analyst Allison Gill and former Justice Department Assistant Director Andy McCabe cited a piece of the filing in which Smith points to Trump's "disregard for the truth."

"Jack Smith has all this proof. It's cited in redacted footnotes in this motion," Gill said. "The evidence includes [Mike] Pence, as his running mate, telling him they lost. To 'take a bow.'" He goes on to tell Trump they could run again in 2024."

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Smith also said in the filing that he "intends to show a huge pattern of false voter fraud claims," summarized Gill.

"The defendant and his co-conspirators also demonstrated their deliberate disregard for the truth and thus their knowledge of falsity when they repeatedly changed the numbers in their baseless fraud allegations from day to day," Smith wrote.

"At trial, the government will introduce several instances of this pattern in which the defendant and co-conspirators' lies were proved by the fact that they made up figures from whole cloth," the filing continued.

"It's about the totality of the evidence. The pattern, right?" said Gill.

McCabe wondered how Trump's defense can prepare for that when the case goes to trial.

"How do you defend against that? Do you just say, 'Oh, we were dumb. We didn't know. We were mistaken all six times,'" McCabe speculated.

"I had seen those numbers somewhere," Gill chimed in with her own mock defense. "But they kept changing the numbers."

"From 32,000 to 250,000. I mean, it's that blatant," said McCabe.

"Yeah, and he does it all the time," said Gill before slipping into her Trump impression: "'We have 3 million illegal immigrants. Ten million. Twenty-five million, 345,000 children.' Like, he makes these numbers up. 'I had 107,000 people at my rally in New Jersey.'"

"He just makes them up out of whole cloth and the fact pattern here is what is important," said Gill. "He has a history and a pattern of creating numbers out of whole cloth that Jack Smith says will prove that these allegations of fraud are baseless."

Listen to episode 97 of the podcast here.

An appeal brought by Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) social media platform over special counsel Jack Smith's request for former President Donald Trump's Twitter records without him being notified was denied Monday.

According to NBC News, the case is connected to Smith's investigation into Trump's alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election.

"X's lawyers said the Supreme Court should intervene so that prosecutors cannot take similar actions in the future without the person involved being made aware that their data is being handed over to the government," NBC News reported.

In January 2023, Smith's team got a warrant letting him seize records without notifying Trump or his representatives. Smith argued that evidence could be destroyed if the seizure was known about.

Musk's company resisted and was fined $350,000 before it complied.

Although Smith already had the evidence, Musk's appeal was designed to stop such action from happening again. X's lawyers argued that Trump did not have a chance to say that his records should be protected because of his role as president.

A beloved building belonging to former President Donald Trump appears to be drowning in debt as problematic financial deadlines loom, according to a new financial analysis.

Trump's 63-story high rise at 40 Wall St. in New York City is currently worth $2 million less than the $118 million Trump owes on his $160 million mortgage — and its income continues to plummet, according to a recent Forbes report.

"The building is simply not earning enough money to cover the loan," Forbes reported. "Adding to the headaches: Trump, who doesn’t own the land on which the building sits, has just nine years left until his ground rent escalates dramatically."

Trump, with $566 million of legal liabilities and just $413 million in cash, will reportedly have to pay his $118 million debt to Ladder Capital by July.

But the building's operating income has nearly halved from about $21 million in 2018 to $12.8 million in 2023, according to Forbes.

"That leaves the Republican presidential candidate in a tough spot as the November election approaches, short on funds to save one of his prized possessions," according to Forbes.

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Should Trump clear this hurdle, he'll face another in 2023, Forbes reported.

That's when the German company that owns the land underneath 40 Wall St. is scheduled to implement a near sixfold increase to the cost of Trump's lease, according to the report.

"That shift would cause Trump’s ground rent to soar from $2.8 million in 2032 to $16.3 million the following year," Forbes reported.

"If the rest of 40 Wall Street’s financial picture remained the same as it is today, that would leave Trump with a negative $5 million in net operating income in 2033."

Trump's options in July 2025 will be to seek another loan, use his own money or declare bankruptcy on the property, according to Forbes.

The Forbes analysis argued option one would represent a struggle, option two would be fiscally uncomfortable and option three would make history.

"It would be his seventh bankruptcy," Forbes reported, "although it’d break new ground for him by being his first not involving a hotel."