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Trump expects GOP candidates to keep pushing his 'big lie' to gain his endorsement: Report
February 25, 2021
Republican candidates covet the endorsement of former president Donald Trump -- but that backing comes with strings attached.
The defeated president has told several people he prefers candidates who never conceded that he lost the election to Joe Biden, two sources told The Daily Beast, but the Trump camp disputed the characterization.
<p>"No official criteria has been set yet for endorsements from President Trump," said senior adviser Jason Miller.</p><p>But the sources said Trump has made clear in recent weeks that he won't back any GOP candidates who ever said he lost the 2020 election or that the former president was wrong to try and overturn the results.</p><p>Trump has been remarkably quiet since leaving the White House on Inauguration Day, two weeks after the deadly Jan. 6 riot that got him permanently banned from Twitter, but he plans to use this weekend's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference to reassert his dominance over the GOP.</p><p>The twice-impeached one-term president will again falsely declare that he won the election, according to two sources who've discussed the address with Trump, and to push for crackdowns and restricts -- packaged as "reforms" -- that Republicans should enact before the 2022 and 2024 elections.</p><p>Other speakers are expected to push the <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/cpac-can-stop-trump-s-big-lie-here-s-why-n1258645" target="_blank">"big lie"</a> about election fraud costing Trump re-election -- which 73 percent of his voters believe, according to a recent poll -- and include multiple individuals linked to efforts to overturn the election results or plan the "Stop The Steal" rally that led to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection.</p><p>The annual conference will also give would-be Republican candidates a big stage to prove their loyalty to Trump by showing that election "fraud" is a top priority to them.</p>
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US intel report to blame Saudi Crown Prince for WaPo journalist Khashoggi's murder
February 25, 2021
A declassified report compiled by U.S. intelligence agencies will claim that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
Sources tell Reuters that the CIA-led report "assessed that the crown prince approved and likely ordered the murder of Khashoggi, whose Washington Post column had criticized the crown prince's policies."
<p>Khashoggi, a Saudi-born journalist who regularly wrote about international affairs for the Washington Post, was murdered in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul three years ago. </p><p>Even though his murder sparked widespread international condemnation, the administration of former President Donald Trump refused to confront the Saudi government about it and instead worked to forge closer ties with the Saudi Crown Prince.</p>
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Ron Johnson has made it 'very difficult' to win re-election by peddling conspiracy theories: McConnell ally
February 25, 2021
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) drew some criticism from an ally of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday for peddling baseless conspiracy theories about antifa instigating the January 6th Capitol riots.
Scott Jennings, a CNN political commentator who has also worked on McConnell's Senate campaigns, told the network on Thursday that Johnson had put himself into a bad position heading into a 2022 Senate race that is a must-win for Republicans.
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"I think as a political matter, in Wisconsin, Sen. Johnson has taken some positions and said some things that I think, if he runs again, are going to make it very difficult for him to get reelected up there," Jennings said. "So I don't know what the political future holds for this Senate race, but this is going to be one of those races in a 50/50 Senate that's going to determine control and I don't know if running a Senate race trying to revise what happened on January 6th is the best way forward."
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Jennings singled out Johnson's insinuations about left-wing agitators framing Trump supporters as violent fanatics as being particularly troublesome.
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"We've all watched television and seen the court filings and all seen the video [of the MAGA riots]," Jennings said. "We know who was at the Capitol and we should just accept it and try to prevent is from happening again."
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