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'Wouldn't let her name a post office': House Dem bashes MTG as 'most unproductive member'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) chaotic insult-lobbing in the House of Representatives Thursday night led to additional insult-lobbing by a Democratic colleague on Friday morning.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) joined the fray during a CNN interview in which he bashed Greene for her behavior in the House and her headline-making campaign tactics outside of it.

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'Appreciate Scott lecturing me on Black voters': Bakari Sellers smokes GOP insider on CNN

Republican operative Scott Jennings on Friday went on CNN to accuse Democrats of taking Black voters for granted, but former Democratic South Carolina State Rep. Bakari Sellers was quick to slap him down.

During a discussion on President Joe Biden's newly planned outreach to Black voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Jennings claimed that Black voters were flocking to former President Donald Trump despite his long history of racist rhetoric.

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'Moment of reckoning': Senator calls for big change to force SCOTUS to play by the rules

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for a major change to force U.S. Supreme Court justices to follow their own rules in response to Justice Samuel Alito displaying a MAGA symbol outside his home while the court was considering 2020 election cases.

The conservative justice blames his wife for flying the upside-down American flag outside their Virginia home, which he said was in response to a neighbor's "personally insulting" sign, but the Connecticut Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the court needed an inspector general to force the justices to play by the rules.

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'Alito is the worst': WaPo columnist tees off on 'intellectually dishonest' justice

U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito is blaming his wife for an upside-down American flag displayed outside his home after the 2020 election, and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson called the scandal another example of why he's one of the worst in history.

The inverted flag is considered a signal of distress, and some of Donald Trump's supporters adopted the symbol to protest Joe Biden's election win -- and even carried them during the U.S. Capitol riot -- and Robinson agreed with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough that his explanation was bogus.

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'Nobody believes him': Morning Joe rips Alito's excuse for 'disgusting' MAGA flag

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough condemned U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito as "disgusting" for displaying an upside-down American flag outside his home in the days between the Jan. 6 insurrection and president Joe Biden's inauguration.

The New York Times published photos of the inverted flag taken Jan. 17, 2021, and Alito told the newspaper that his wife placed it briefly outside their Alexandria, Virginia, home in response to a neighbor's sign that used "objectionable and personally insulting language," and the "Morning Joe" host called his explanation laughable.

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​'Showing support for insurrectionists': CNN panel trashes Sam Alito for upside-down flag

The New York Times reported on Thursday that an upside-down American flag was seen flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house after President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and a CNN panel on Friday bashed him for a total lack of professionalism.

In the wake of Biden's victory, many Trump supporters flew American flags upside down to signal distress in the United States, and panelist David Frum argued that having an upside down flag at the house of a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice is "going to raise a lot of doubts about the legitimacy of the court," especially when it comes to the upcoming case on presidential immunity.

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Will Trump testify at trial? ‘Absolutely’ is now ‘no decision’ yet'

The State of New York's prosecution of Donald Trump is nearing it end, as Judge Juan Merchan announced late Thursday afternoon final arguments could begin on Tuesday. But one question remains: Will the ex-president who is facing 34 felony charges in the election interference, falsification of business records, and hush money cover-up case, testify in his defense?

Just over one month ago Trump was asked that question. He quickly responded, "Yeah I would testify, absolutely."

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Watch: Chaos erupts after MTG lobs insult at Dem lawmaker's 'fake eyelashes'

A House Oversight Committee hearing erupted into a war of words on Thursday when Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) exchanged slights as they discussed contempt proceedings for Attorney General Merrick Garland for blocking the release of audio tapes related to an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

In this case, their furious exchange was prompted by Greene's decision to personally insult Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX).

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'That's the whole point': CNN's Kaitlan Collins shuts down Trump lawyer on hush money case

Kaitlan Collins jousted with former Donald Trump attorney William Brennan over the specifics over how prosecution star witness Michael Cohen was repaid by his future commander-in-chief boss for buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Collins confronted Brennan, who served as an esquire for Trump's payroll corporation tax fraud case, about the circumstances involving Cohen's payback.

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'Telepomp proply': Lauren Boebert mocked after comment on Trump's 'cognitive dissonance'

Colorado Republican Lauren Boebert on Thursday was ridiculed on social media after proudly proclaiming that Donald Trump has undergone "testing for his cognitive dissonance," while making a slip-up of her own.

Boebert, who earlier in the day made an appearance at a criminal court in New York in support of the former president, said during a hearing that, "President Trump, when he was in office, underwent testing for his cognitive dissonance, for his ability to function as president of the United States." The lawmaker then went on to attempt to say a line about Joe Biden, but stumbled on the word "teleprompter."

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Trump tries to 'throw a bomb' by 'daring' judge to put him in jail as trial ends: expert

Former President Donald Trump is trying a last-ditch attempt to throw his criminal hush money trial in Manhattan into chaos, legal expert Lisa Rubin argued on MSNBC Thursday evening.

Specifically, she said, he is trying to put Judge Juan Merchan in a position where he has to put him in jail.

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'Clown show': Historian slams Trump for inviting 'surrogates' to violate gag order for him

Former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in Manhattan has been increasingly marked by his Republican allies making trips into New York City to give speeches outside the courthouse, condemning everyone from the prosecutors to the judge to the judge's family — often attacking people who are off limits for Trump himself to attack due to the gag order in place against him. A few of them, like Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), have even admitted they are there to attack witnesses and court officers' families because Trump cannot.

This whole spectacle, which features the lawmakers and Trump allies decrying the trial as a "sham" and politically motivated, is an embarrassment for the Republican Party, historian Douglas Brinkley told MSNBC's Ari Melber on Thursday evening — a political theater moment with the participants vying for attention.

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'Biggest failure': Expert reveals how Trump's lawyers are ignoring an obvious defense

Michael Cohen endured a new barrage of questioning under cross-examination at former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial in Manhattan on Thursday — and Trump defense counsel Todd Blanche manage to land one hit by establishing one of Cohen's recalled calls to Trump in 2016 wasn't actually to Trump, and wasn't necessarily about adult film star Stormy Daniels.

But for all of that, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told MSNBC's Ari Melber that evening, the defense has actually dropped the ball in a big way, by failing to bring up one of the most important lines of questioning that could put doubt in the minds of the jurors.

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