Donald Trump on Saturday night positioned himself as a law-and-order hardliner who knew that the key to keeping the country safe was to direct the full might of the state at undocumented immigrants, potential criminals, and anyone else who did not storm the Capitol on Jan. 6. Near the end …
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In a ruling sure to infuriate former president Trump, the Supreme Court has shown rare unity in rejecting his claims of executive privilege — clearing the way for hundreds of pages presidential documents from his final days in office to be delivered to Congress’ January 6th committee. The records are …
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One day after Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account was suspended over Covid-19 misinformation, Rand Paul announced that he’s fed up with Big Tech. To emphasize his fist-shaking, he declared he’d be joining a Donald Trump-backed video-streaming platform called Rumble. Why Rumble? Adored by the far-right, Rumble is a …
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Correction: Trump’s request that law enforcement “bust some heads” of Black Lives Matter protesters was made as they demonstrated during a June 22, 2020 protest in Lafayette Square. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Trump made the remarks on June 1, the day he walked across Lafayette Square …
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Mere days after he denounced a story in his former chief of staff’s book as “fake news,” former President Donald Trump is back to promoting Mark Meadows‘ memoir from his time in the White House. “Mark Meadows’ new book, The Chief’s Chief, rightfully spends much time talking about the large-scale …
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Kyle Rittenhouse went after his former lawyers — one of whom is Trump ally and attorney Lin Wood — telling Tucker Carlson that they had “taken advantage” of him. Rittenhouse, who was acquitted after he shot three people, killing two of them, at a racial justice protest in Kenosha, Wis., …
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Lawyers for former President Donald Trump wrote multiple memos advising ways to overturn the 2020 election. Two previously unreported memos, uncovered by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl, show how heavily the administration pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject Biden’s victory. Reported for the first time in Karl’s upcoming book, Betrayal, …
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The following is an excerpt from Tim Mak’s new book “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA,” about the turmoil inside the country’s most powerful gun lobbying group. At the pinnacle of the National Rifle Association’s power, around the inauguration of President Donald Trump, it was good to be Susan …
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President Biden officially rejected former President Trump’s request to exert executive privilege to block documents from going to the Select Committee investigating January 6th. The move will allow the National Archives to share documents that the committee has requested as part of its investigation into the insurrection and Trump’s actions …
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation was at Jim Worthington’s house and, he says, his girlfriend answered the door with a weapon in hand. It was January 2021, and the Feds wanted to talk to Worthington, a fitness empresario in the Philadelphia suburbs, about his involvement in the Jan. 6 “Stop …
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