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'Bigger losses for the GOP': Ex-official says Trump's new plan will 'bankrupt' Republicans

Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor is sounding the alarm against Donald Trump's plans for taking over the Republican Party and installing his own family member, Lara Trump, as head.

Speaking to the press, Lara Trump said that the Republican Party should be paying the former president's legal bills as evidenced by the enthusiasm of a GoFundMe started for the self-described billionaire after he was handed a $355 million judgment in the fraud trial.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene blames 'menopause' for Nikki Haley's refusal to drop out of race

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) suggested Thursday that Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley won't drop out of the race for her party's presidential race because she's going through menopause.

Greene made the remarks while campaigning for Donald Trump in South Carolina.

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Watch: Conservative lawyer whacks MAGA C-SPAN caller for comparing Trump to Navalny

Conservative attorney Heath Mayo on Thursday took exception to a MAGA caller on C-SPAN who compared former President Donald Trump's legal travails to those suffered by the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny.

Toward the end of the call, the Trump supporter said that indicting Trump for trying to illegally remain in power after the 2020 election and for refusing to return top-secret government documents was much like what Russian President Vladimir Putin did to his political opponents.

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Lara Trump’s bedtime ‘tradition’ requires her kids say Pledge of Allegiance every night

Lara Trump, a candidate for Republican National Committee co-chair, revealed Thursday that she makes her children pledge allegiance to the United States flag every night before they can go to bed.

Trump offered the biographical information to a crowd at Thursday's Conservative Political Action Conference.

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'I don't see any smoking guns': Alan Dershowitz slams GOP's 'tit-for-tat' impeachment

Law professor Alan Dershowitz blasted House Republicans for pursuing the impeachment of President Joe Biden without a "smoking gun."

During a Thursday interview on Newsmax, Dershowitz was asked if the depositions of Biden's brother and son would produce significant evidence.

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Smirnov scandal: Experts call for investigations, warn GOP of possible conspiracy charges

Legal and national security experts including former prosecutors are calling for the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the U.S. Senate to conduct investigations into the Alexander Smirnov scandal to determine how a trusted FBI informant was able to allegedly plant false Kremlin propaganda attacking Joe Biden and Hunter Biden into the Republican House of Representatives in an effort to take down the President of the United States.

Other legal experts are warning House Republicans if they continue to assert what Special Counsel David Weiss stated in a court document are false claims, including that Joe Biden and Hunter Biden each took $5 million bribes, they could be subject to conspiracy charges.

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Republican at CPAC: More people 'have died from wind turbines than nuclear power'

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) asserted without evidence that more people had died from wind turbines than nuclear power.

Donalds made the remarks Thursday during a speech at CPAC.

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Experts ask if Trump disclosed classified intel after nuclear weapons talk at town hall

Donald Trump's remarks during Wednesday night's Fox News town hall in Greenville, South Carolina drew concern from several experts who are wondering if he once again revealed U.S. government classified information or was merely attempting to scare Americans into voting for him.

The 34-second exchange moved quickly from talk of religion and prayer to possible nuclear annihilation.

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'He vomits lies!' MSNBC guest rains hell on the NYT going soft on Trump falsehoods

Using a Joe Scarborough rant about Donald Trump lying about the state of the economy and the US military's readiness as a leaping-off point, former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) snapped at the press — and the New York Times in particular — for their laziness in not calling out the Trump falsehoods.

During Thursday's "Morning Joe," Scarborough complained about Republicans, led by the disgraced former president, bashing the country in an attempt to undermine President Joe Biden.

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Morning Joe hosts gang up on Lindsey Graham over his latest 'flip-flop' for Trump

On Thursday morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough and his co-hosts dropped the hammer on Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for bowing to Donald Trump and withdrawing his support for a Ukraine aid package because the disgraced former president told him to.

Noting that Graham has made a career out of being a hawk when it comes to foreign aggression, he has now "flip-flopped" by voting against an aid package for the country that is being subjected to an unprovoked invasion by President Vladimir Putin."

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Bill Barr has 'questions to answer' after GOP witness linked to Russian spies: reporter

The unmasking of the Republicans' star witness as a potential conduit for Russian disinformation raises questions for the FBI and William Barr's Justice Department.

House impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov was arrested for lying to FBI agents and then admitted to working with officials associated with Russian intelligence, and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said federal investigators should explain why they relied on him as a confidential informant for a decade.

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Trump 'freaked out' by more than just the collapse of rally crowd size: Morning Joe

While discussing the problems Donald Trump is having attracting fans to attend his campaign rallies, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough pointed out an even bigger problem for the embattled former president.

During the Thursday morning segment about Trump's "cash crunch," contributor Sam Stein claimed he was struck by the lack of enthusiasm for Trump compared to his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

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'Republicans know' impeachment 'falling apart': WH reporter

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire revealed a nugget of reporting on the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden that shows "Republicans know it's falling apart."

Lemire, the host of "Way Too Early" and White House bureau chief for Politico, spoke to a White House staffer who told him about subpoena letters sent before – and then after – the GOP's star witness Alexander Smirnov told investigators he had been working with Russian spies to smear Hunter Biden.

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