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NY Knicks forced to demand fans show up two hours early for game thanks to Trump

The New York Knicks have to ask fans to show up two hours before the start of Game 3 of the NBA finals, all thanks to Trump.

In a social media post, the basketball team laid out security measures at its home court in Madison Square Garden to accommodate Trump, who plans to attend.

Attendees are "strongly encouraged to arrive at least two hours before tip-off" to get through "TSA-style screening procedures," the Knicks cautioned.

"Madison Square Garden and the United States Secret Service want to help ensure a safe and enjoyable experience," the Knicks wrote. "A strict no-bag policy will be in effect, and fans should make every effort to limit personal items to an absolute minimum."

The team warned, "There will be no storage available for prohibited items brought to the venue."

Former GOP insider and lawyer George Conway joked in a post that fans can still "bring your middle fingers."

The team currently has a two-game lead against the San Antonio Spurs.

Ex-GOP lawyer warns Trump of huge risk as president said to be driving MAGA 'off a cliff'

President Donald Trump risks losing the support of MAGA's most outspoken figureheads as his actions affect the GOP's future, a political analyst has claimed.

George Conway, a former lawyer who was at one time considered for a position in Trump's first term team, believes prominent MAGA figures are tiring of the president. He told Gregg Sargent of The New Republic, "I think they’re trying to communicate something to Trump, but he’s not listening. He no longer cares.

"He is off in his own reality now, and the Republicans are expressing concern because they know he’s driving them off a cliff. And you see it also in a lot of the Republican influencers—the Megyn Kellys, the Joe Rogans, and the Tucker Carlsons of the world.

"They’re basically talking about the 25th Amendment now. And what’s happened—and I think this is happening all up and down the MAGA food chain, from the electeds who realize they’re no longer getting any usefulness from Trump, to the influencers who realize that there’s nothing in it for them anymore.

"And they’re getting sick of having to do the split-brain thing, where they’re saying one thing and reality is hitting them in the face with the other—the cognitive dissonance, in other words, is breaking down.

"And the problem for them is there’s only one way out of it, and that’s to get rid of Donald Trump. He is not going to listen to them. He is not going to tone it down. If anything, he’s going to get worse because he is completely detached from reality."

MAGA outcry over Trump's recent decisions has seen the likes of Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene ridicule the president. The pair became prominently opposed to the Trump administration's war in Iran.

Greene strongly opposed Trump's military strikes on Iran, calling the war a betrayal of MAGA principles. Tucker Carlson emerged as a vocal critic of the Iran war, directly challenging GOP leaders for their lack of knowledge about Iran policy.

Carlson's criticism represented a significant break from Trump, positioning him as an Iran war opponent concerned about the conflict's lack of a clear strategy and justification.

Parkland shooting survivor drops out of key NY race in major shake-up

Democratic activist and shooting survivor Cameron Kasky has opted to leave the crowded race for New York's 12th District and shift his attention to civil rights in the West Bank, according to reports Wednesday.

Kasky, the March for Our Lives co-founder who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, announced that he would not continue his campaign to fill the Manhattan district seat for Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who announced his retirement in September, Politico reported.

“I am, in my heart, not a politician. I am an activist,” Kasky, who visited the occupied West Bank last month, told Politico.

“The reality that I experienced hiding from the shooter in Parkland, that sense that at any moment somebody can come in with an assault rifle and shoot me, that is the only reality that the Palestinian people know every moment of their lives,” Kasky said.

Multiple candidates are running for the vacancy, including vocal anti-Trump critic, former Republican and The Lincoln Project co-founder George Conway; John F. Kennedy's only grandson, Jack Schlossberg, Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher and LGBTQ+ advocate Mathew Shurka.

Councilmember Erik Bottcher was also set to run, but dropped out of the New York District 12 race. He announced in a social post on Instagram that he would instead run for New York State Senate.

Kasky was among several Gen Z and millennial candidates vying for the open seat.

“We launched our campaign pledging to abolish ICE, and this week both Micah Lasher and Alex Bores, my two viable opponents, committed to that as well,” Kasky said. “So I’m very confident that our West Bank human rights plan is going to resonate with those two candidates.”

Kasky has planned to advocate for human rights legislation in the West Bank that he plans to develop with a foreign policy expert and also expects to work with the office of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) as a "concerned citizen."

Vocal anti-Trump critic George Conway flips sides as he enters Congress race

George Conway, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, has entered the crowded race for the seat Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) is vacating in 2026, according to reports Monday.

The conservative lawyer, former Republican and co-founder of the Lincoln Project has filed as a Democrat for the Manhattan-based seat, Politico reported. He's also the ex-husband of Kellyanne Conway, a former counsellor to Trump.

Nadler announced in September he would not seek reelection after 34 years in Congress and would retire ahead of the midterm elections.

At least 10 other people are running for the seat, including John F. Kennedy's only grandson, Jack Schlossberg, March for Our Lives organizer Cameron Kasky, Assemblymen Alex Bores and Micah Lasher and LGBTQ+ advocate Mathew Shurka.

Councilmember Erik Bottcher was also set to run, but dropped out of the New York District 12 race early Monday. He announced in a social post on Instagram that he would instead run for New York State Senate.

'I want to fight these mothers': Conservative George Conway vows to hound Trump if elected

Conservative attorney George Conway is reportedly close to officially announcing his intent to run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2026, and is promising to be a major thorn in President Donald Trump's side if elected.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Conway, the former spouse of longtime senior Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, recently met with Democratic activists and hired prominent Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg as he entertains the idea of running for the seat vacated by Rep. Jerrold Nadler. (D-NY) He is also reportedly looking for an apartment within the Manhattan-area district to meet residency requirements, as he currently lives in the Washington D.C. suburb of Bethesda, Maryland (and is a neighbor of former National Security Advisor John Bolton).

During an event organized by liberal group Democracy Docket, Conway promised that he would use his time in elected office to hold Trump administration officials legally accountable — particularly those within the Department of Justice (DOJ). The longtime Trump critic noted that despite his past, he would run as a Democrat.

"This is crazy, but the crazy thing about it is it’s not so crazy," Conway told Democracy Docket members.

“We need to do things to make sure there is accountability. We need to undo the damage that he has done to the Justice Department," he said. "And then we have to create new safeguards that are going to make the Watergate safeguards look like child’s play.”

If Conway ran for Nadler's seat, he would have to survive a crowded Democratic primary. Progressive activist Cameron Kasky (a survivor of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida) is running, along with Jack Schlossberg, who is the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy. According to the Times, Conway said Democrats needed more candidates "who don't have any more effs to give."

"I want to fight these mothers," Conway said.

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Trump losses have hatched plan to 'sabotage' midterms: George Conway

Conservative lawyer George Conway issued a warning that Donald Trump may "sabotage" or even "ignore" the results of next year's midterm elections.

Conway, who left the Republican Party during the first Trump administration and became an outspoken critic, suggested there is an "increasing danger" that Trump may interfere with the outcome of the election or that he may even ignore the result. The midterm election will take place on November 3, 2026, and it may see Trump "double down" following election losses this year.

Speaking to MSNBC, Conway said, "A personality like his, a malignant narcissist, they don't go away. He's just not going to all of a sudden behave himself because he suffered an election loss. If anything, he's going to double down on everything he does.

"I think for 2026, we're going to see an increasing danger that he's going to try to, in some way, sabotage those elections or, at the end of the day, maybe even ignore them in some fashion."

Conway also warned Trump is "only going to get worse" for the remaining three years of his administration.

He added, "I think we're going to see more and more of the attempts to silence dissent and to use military forces throughout the country. I think we're going to see a lot of things that get a lot worse before they get better with Donald Trump."

Democratic Party victories in the New York mayoral election and governor races in Virginia and New Jersey may see some Republican candidates distance themselves from Trump, Conway suggested.

The former Republican Party member indicated former Trump allies could temporarily cool off on MAGA messaging and that new voices could decide "they don't want to play anymore."

He said, "It's never a losing bet to bet on the spinelessness of congressional Republicans. I do think we'll see a little more defiance here and there. I think Marjorie Taylor Green is an interesting case study. She's obviously separating herself from MAGA and the president for now.

"But on the other hand, I think what we're going to see is, I think we're going to see more of the less extreme people, to the extent that there are any left in the Republican Party in Congress, decide they don't want to play anymore."

'Where are the doctors?!' 'Nuts' Trump post raises fresh concerns that 'his brain is mush'

"Where are the doctors?!" yelled an exasperated MSNBC host after Donald Trump made a confusing and false claim on social media.

Conservative George Conway appeared Sunday on MSNBC with host Jonathan Capehart, who read a midnight post in which the president bizarrely claimed it was Biden's FBI who had agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6, despite the fact that Trump himself was the president at that time. California Governor Gavin Newsom flagged the post on social media, writing that Trump's "mental issues are very bad."

Conway responded to the midnight quote with a joke.

"Now sleepy Joe wasn't so sleepy. He was able to do things before he even became president," Conway said. Another MSNBC host then added, "He's a busy man."

That led Capehart to ask, "Why are we not talking about this man's mental acuity? I remember during the all of President Biden's term, all people talked about was his mental acuity. Is he all there? Is he capable of being president."

Capehart added, "This is this. This is nuts," and Conway responded, "He is nuts. We know this." Conway also said, "His brain is mush."

Capehart then noted, "As you said, Biden wasn't even president," before asking, "Where are the doctors?"

George Conway doubles down after comparing Nazi assassination to Charlie Kirk killing

George Conway, a former Trump associate and now vocal critic, is continuing to double down on comparisons to Charlie Kirk's killing with what happened in Nazi Germany — the assassination of Horst Wessel.

"They may not want to hear it, and it may incense them, but the parallels between what the Nazis did then, and what Trump and MAGA are doing today, are striking, chilling—and as any expert on authoritarianism will tell you, straight out of the same toxic, but dog-eared, playbook," Conway posted on X.

Conway shared an image and link to a Wikipedia page about Wessel, a 23-year-old member of the Nazi Party's paramilitary wing who was assassinated in 1930 by members of the Communist Party and hailed as a "martyr" in Nazi propaganda. Nazis used his death to mobilize others in their movement and target Communists, using the "Horst Wessel Song" as the co-national anthem of the Nazi Party and memorializing him during their reign of power.

Conservatives have attacked Conway, calling him a "sick f---" and "psychopath" in response to the comparison and attacking his statement.

Following Kirk's killing Wednesday, President Donald Trump blamed the "radical left" and those who “compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals," despite any confirmed information about the suspect from law enforcement or motive, the Atlantic reports.

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that an internal law enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation show that ammunition found in the weapon was engraved with what the newspaper described as expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology. The Trump administration has previously referred to opponents or challengers as "communists," among other names.

Picnicgate: Trump reinvites Rand Paul to party after fury over 'petty' snub

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who is vocally opposed to President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," has apparently been re-invited to the congressional picnic planned for the White House lawn.

On Wednesday, Paul said he tried to pick up his tickets to the much-anticipated event, only to be told, "You were not invited."

Paul told reporters on the Capitol steps Wednesday that whoever was behind his picnic rejection was acting in a "very petty way."

But on Thursday morning, Trump took to Truth Social to debunk picnicgate.

"Of course Senator Rand Paul and his beautiful wife and family are invited to the BIG White House Party tonight. He’s the toughest vote in the history of the U.S. Senate, but why wouldn’t he be?" Trump wrote.

"Besides, it gives me more time to get his Vote on the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, one of the greatest and most important pieces of legislation ever put before our Senators & Congressmen/women. It will help to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I look forward to seeing Rand. The Party will be Great!"

On Fox News Sunday, Paul said, "Somebody has to stand up and yell, the emperor has no clothes, and everybody's falling in lockstep on this, passed the big, beautiful bill, don't question anything. This is a problem we've been facing for decades now, and if we don't stand up on it, I really fear the direction the country is going."

Trump has lashed out at Paul's opposition to the funding bill, writing on social media, "Rand votes NO on everything, but never has any practical or constructive ideas," he added several minutes later. "His ideas are actually crazy (losers!). The people of Kentucky can't stand him."

Anti-Trump attorney George Conway made light of the invite debacle on X, writing, "Being uninvited from the White House caused Rand Paul to lose a lot of the respect he had for Donald Trump that Trump’s two impeachments, insurrection, four criminal indictments, criminal conviction, and sexual abuse damages verdict did not cause him to lose. Got it."