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South Carolina Republicans Urge Death For Women Who Undergo Abortion
Members of South Carolina’s GOP-dominated House of Representatives are mulling a bill — introduced by a pro-Trump Republican and initially sponsored by 21 others — that would make women in South Carolina who undergo an abortion eligible for the death penalty. → Read More
GOP Rep. Ogles Admits He Was 'Mistaken' About His College Degree (VIDEO)
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), charged in recent bombshell reports with embellishing his credentials, released a statement on the discrepancy between the educational background he touted and what he actually studied: “When I pulled out my transcript to verify, I realized I was mistaken." → Read More
RNC Chair McDaniel Makes Delusional Promises On Trump's Behalf
Four-term chair of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDaniel, suggested over the weekend that all GOP 2024 presidential hopefuls will pledge to back whoever wins the party’s nomination to partake in primary debates. → Read More
Trump Defends Putin (Again) As Biden Visits Ukraine And Poland
Former President Donald Trump is still touting his relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and defended his past decision to trust the autocrat over the United States intelligence community. → Read More
Proud Boys Seek To Subpoena Trump's Testimony At Sedition Trial
Attorneys for leaders of the Proud Boys — the violent extremist group accused of conspiring to hinder the transfer of presidential power in January 2021 — said they plan to subpoena former President Donald Trump to appear as a witness in their ongoing sedition trial. → Read More
Trump Wants His Campaign To Promote Return Of Firing Squads, Beheadings
Former President Donald Trump has turned to the politics of capital punishment — specifically, bringing back death by firing squad, guillotine, and other banned methods of execution — to supercharge his moribund 2024 campaign, according to Rolling Stone. → Read More
Trump Attorney Offers Bizarre Excuse For Keeping 'Classified' Folder
A Trump attorney has described public discourse on a recently discovered “classified” folder at Mar-a-Lago as much ado over nothing — because Trump used the folder only to block a light that kept him up at night. → Read More
Secret DeSantis Bid To Ban Firearms At Party Enrages Gun Lobby
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a high-profile proponent of loosening firearm laws, tried to ban guns at an election event in downtown Tampa last year and blame the city officials for the prohibition, emails obtained by The Washington Post showed. → Read More
Greene Threw 'Screaming And Cursing' Tantrum In China Balloon Briefing
Two days after heckling President Biden at the 2023 State of the Union address, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) yelled profanities and sounded “irrational” in heated exchanges with administration officials during a classified House intelligence briefing on the China spy balloon incident. → Read More
Snubbed By Club For Growth, Trump Throws Truth Social Tantrum
The Club for Growth, an influential conservative anti-tax group, has drawn the ire of former President Donald Trump for leaving him off the guest list for its annual donor retreat next month despite inviting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other potential 2024 Republican presidential candidates. → Read More
Trump: Pentagon Disclosure About Earlier Chinese Balloons Is 'FAKE DISINFORMATION'
Former President Donald Trump called a new U.S. military disclosure that Chinese surveillance balloons traversed the continental United States several times during his presidency — and, worse, that his administration failed to detect them — “FAKE DISINFORMATION!” → Read More
Recriminations Explode As Ronna McDaniel's Bids To Hold RNC Chair
Heightened frustrations within the GOP, a party frustrated by a spate of disastrous elections, have devolved the Republican National Committee leadership (RNC) race into a contentious affair riddled with dirty politicking, finger-pointing and back-biting, and doxing allegations. → Read More
Elon Musk Booed Relentlessly During Cameo With Dave Chappelle (VIDEO)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk, whose early days as Twitter CEO can be described politely as controversial, got the shock of a lifetime Sunday night when his surprise appearance at Dave Chappelle’s comedy gig was met with a resounding chorus of boos. → Read More
Raskin Hints Fresh Revelations About Roger Stone In January 6 Hearing (VIDEO)
A member of the House Select Committee, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), suggested Friday that the congressional panel might have some shockers about convicted MAGA felon Roger Stone under wraps for the American public as the committee enters the last months of its investigation. → Read More
Former Trump Aide Testified That Gaetz Sought Sex Crime Pardon
A former White House aide told the House Select Committee probing the January 6, 2021, insurrection that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of former President Trump’s most vocal allies, sought something in return for his subservience: a pre-emptive presidential pardon. → Read More
Child Abuser, Neo-Nazi Among January 6 Defendants Who Keep Criming
It’s been over 20 months since the January 6 insurrection — an unprecedented breach by irate Trump supporters that caused $1.5 million in damages to the Capitol building and grounds — but the damage to American democracy is still being tallied. → Read More
Peter Navarro Excoriates Top Trump Aides In Grievance-Laden Memoir
Peter Navarro — former President Trump’s indicted ex-trade adviser — lambasts Trump’s chiefs of staff, from his “Cabinet of Clowns” to his “Motley Crue of Chiefs,” in his upcoming MAGA-themed book, titled Taking Back Trump’s America, as The Daily Beast reported Tuesday. → Read More
Senators Demand Probe Of Fake 'Rothschild' Heiress Who Infiltrated Trump Club
Senators are calling for an investigation into a Russian-speaking Ukrainian scammer who, posing as a member of the Rothschild banking family, infiltrated Mar-a-Lago and met top Republicans, including former President Trump. → Read More
Trump Demands Taxpayers Cover Costs Of Special Master Document Review
As the legal woes of former President Trump mount — the latest of which stem from his pillaging and stashing of classified government documents at his Florida home — his attorneys have demanded in court that another party cover half of their client’s legal fees: American taxpayers. → Read More
Top Republican Says 'A Different Set Of Rules' Apply To Trump's Purloined Papers
The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Michael McCaul (TX), has said he wouldn’t take classified documents to his house, but former President Trump, who is squaring off with the Justice Department in court for doing just that, lived by “a different set of rules.” → Read More