Alina Habba

'This is how communism starts': MTG suggests SCOTUS ruling will spark civil war

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) scolded the U.S. Supreme Court after justices ruled that President Joe Biden's administration could remove razor wire placed at the border by Texas officials.

During an interview on Tuesday, Real America's Voice correspondent Ben Bergquam asked Greene about the recent Supreme Court ruling.

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Morning Joe predicts doom for GOP: 'If Trump wins tonight Republicans lose in the fall'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Republican voters would seal their party's doom in November by essentially handing the nomination to Donald Trump.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis dropped out of the GOP primary after a poor showing in the Iowa caucus, and Trump has a chance to wrap up the Republican presidential nomination if Nikki Haley finishes a distant second in New Hampshire, but the "Morning Joe" host predicted the party would be toast in November if the former president was the nominee.

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'Ignorant and rude': MAGA supporter lays into Trump — but says he'll vote for him anyway

Several Republican voters in New Hampshire told CNN they have a lot of complaints about Donald Trump as a candidate — but they're backing him anyway, CNN reported.

Voter Andrew Konchek told the network Trump was "ignorant and rude," But he's supporting him because Trump "supports fishermen, you know, and obviously it’s my livelihood."

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'Complete lie on almost every metric': Nancy Mace fact-checked over Trump praise

Rep. Nancy Mace knows the economy was better under former President Donald Trump because that’s what voters tell her, she said on Fox News Monday.

“Everything was better under Trump by every measure, every barometer” the South Carolina Republican affirmed with a smile. “That is what I hear day in, day out.”

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Kentucky GOP bill paves the way for 'deadly physical force' against the homeless

Republicans in Kentucky are cooking up new legislation that would pave the way for property owners to deploy "deadly physical force" against homeless people.

Vice reports that the bill, known as the "Safer Kentucky Act," says that physical force against homeless people is "justifiable" if a property owner believes that criminal trespass, robbery or unlawful camping are occurring on their property.

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Laura Loomer accuses magazine of using 1950s stock photo to push for Trump assassination

Laura Loomer, the pro-Trump right-wing activist whose history of unhinged behavior even worries some of her fellow MAGA devotees, posted a bizarre new conspiracy theory accusing The Atlantic magazine of sending subliminal messages to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

In particular, Loomer says that a recent Atlantic article about the rapid decline of both inflation and crime over the last year is actually a call to murder Trump given that it features stock photos of a bullet hole shot through a piece of glass and a fistful of dollar bills that happen to contain the numbers 4 and 5, which Loomer believes is code for the 45th president.

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Trump lawyer slapped down as he tries to get ​testimony excluded from defamation trial

Donald Trump's attorney had a bid to exclude the testimony of a pivotal witness slapped down on Monday before the judge adjourned the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial for at least a day.

The trial, at which Trump was expected to testify before closing arguments began, was adjourned Monday after a juror called in sick and Trump attorney Alina Habba admitted she might have been exposed to Covid, although she chose to not wear a mask in court while accompanying her client.

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CNN's Paula Reid gives Elise Stefanik brutal fact-check over election interference tantrum

Rep. Elise Stefanik received a swift and brutal fact check from CNN reporter Paula Reid Monday after news broke of a delay in former President Donald Trump’s defamation trial.

Stefanik threw her social media tantrum shortly after federal Judge Lewis Kaplan, learning a juror reported COVID-like symptoms and Trump’s attorney Alina Habba had been potentially exposed to the virus, adjourned the New York City courtroom for the day.

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Trump blasts out E. Jean Carroll smears as final day of trial delayed by illness

Donald Trump blasted out a series of demeaning posts about author E. Jean Carroll on what should have been the last day of his defamation trial.

The former president posted dozens of screenshots of Carroll tweeting about sex-related topics or jokes, along with right-wing blog posts questioning her motives, character and sanity, during the time Monday morning when the trial was scheduled to resume with him on the stand.

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Sick juror in NYC defamation trial is bad news for Donald Trump: expert

A possible coronavirus outbreak in former President Donald Trump’s civil defamation hearing may have both foiled his campaign plans and spoiled his chances for a favorable outcome in the trial, former prosecutor Elie Honig said Monday.

Court was canceled Monday after one of nine jurors overseeing E. Jean Carroll's federal lawsuit against Trump reported feeling COVID-19 symptoms and was dismissed, reports show. Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, also reported feeling unwell.

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Trump asks judge in E. Jean Carroll case to delay trial for New Hampshire primary

Donald Trump's attorney has asked a federal judge to postpone the former president's defamation trial so her client can campaign for the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday.

The request came at a Monday hearing over allegations Trump defamed writer E. Jean Carroll after raping her. The judge had announced an adjournment of Monday's hearing for a day after a juror fell sick and the attorney, Alina Habba, complained of having a fever.

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E. Jean Carroll lawyer expected to slam Trump with new evidence after adjournment: expert

Asked about what to expect when Donald Trump does make an appearance at the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial — which was set to restart Monday before being adjourned for a day because of illnessMSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin explained that court attendees can expect Carroll's legal team to submit a barrage of new evidence against the former president.

"Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski, prompted Rubin, asking, "Where does this go after today? How much longer do you expect this to play out until they decide what the damages are?"

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Trump defamation trial postponed as juror falls sick and Alina Habba claims to have fever

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, convinced a federal judge to postpone her client's defamation trial on Monday.

Moments after Monday's hearing started, Habba asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to adjourn because her parents had been exposed to COVID-19, according to reports.

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