Trump desperately tries to lower expectations for ‘major fake’ NBC town hall

On Friday's edition of MSNBC's "The Beat," Washington Post editor Eugene Robinson laid out exactly how serious former President Donald Trump's alleged removal of classified information was.

This comes amid reporting that nuclear weapons secrets may have been among the documents the FBI was searching for when they executed a warrant at the former president's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida.

Michigan Judge Amy Gierhardt sentenced a member of the white supremacist organization The Base to probation after a plea deal allowed Tristan Webb to plead guilty to gang felonies, conspiracy to train with guns for a civil disorder, and felony firearm in return for a charge of larceny being dropped.

"The Base is a small militant neo-Nazi organization that formed in 2018," Fox 2 Detroit reported Friday. "Among the states that The Base was most interested in operating out of was Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The region's population is largely white and, according to a report from Vice News in October 2020, was considered a potential place that members could conduct paramilitary training."

On Friday, Christianity Today reported that the Justice Department has opened a federal investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention over allegations that leadership hushed up allegations of sexual abuse.

"The SBC Executive Committee confirmed on Friday that the Justice Department 'has initiated an investigation into the Southern Baptist Convention, and that the investigation will include multiple SBC entities,'" reported Kate Shellnutt. "The general counsel for the Executive Committee — which oversees day-to-day business for the convention and was the subject of the SBC’s own abuse investigation — said the EC has received a subpoena, but no individuals have been subpoenaed at this point."