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Constitutional lawyer John Eastman warned of a "tyrannical government" Thursday after a judge recommended that he be disbarred.

In an interview with Charlie Kirk, Eastman was defiant about being disbarred for repeating false information while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell explained his eviction from a Minnesota warehouse by suggesting he didn't pay rent as a favor to his landlord.

A judge this week said Lindell would be evicted for owing First Industrial, L.P. more than $217,000.

Right-wing figures reacted to a Georgia hearing involving Donald Trump's effort to dismiss his RICO case with outrage over the way the legal system was treating former president.

At a Thursday hearing in Fulton County, Trump's attorney, Steve Sadow, claimed that Trump should not be prosecuted for an election interference conspiracy because of his First Amendment free speech rights. Georgia prosecutors, however, said the case was about more than free speech.

Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark's lawyer argued that his client should not be forced to testify at a disciplinary hearing because he would be shamed on MSNBC.

Attorney Harry MacDougald made the argument at a bar hearing Wednesday that could see Clark disbarred for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn suggested that a bridge collapse in Baltimore was connected to a terrorist attack in Russia.

Flynn joined conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his Tuesday broadcast to talk about the tragedy that was caused by a ship hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell this week said God could initiate the End Times if he is unable to abolish voting machines.

On his FrankSpeech platform, Lindell referred to a Georgia court case about voting machines.

On Monday morning's edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski questioned the value assigned to Donald Trump's Truth Social following a merger that was put to bed last Friday.

Noting the meager traffic the social media platform has drawn from users in its three years of existence, the hosts, along with MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire, were highly skeptical of its valuation north of $3 billion.

Scarborough kicked off the questioning by cutting to the chase and saying the publicly traded stock has the makings of being part of a scam that will leave some new investors holding the bag while Trump walks away with their cash.

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"I'm not exactly sure how his Truth Social deal is going the way it is, but it looks like a Ponzi scheme to me," Scarborough began. "But I don't understand it. This is, though, a social media network that doesn't appear to be successful. Yet people are throwing around $5 billion here, $5 billion there. Does that provide Donald Trump an economic lifeline in the short term?"

"You're right about Truth Social," Lemire agreed. "It is a website that, frankly, no one uses. It has very little traction outside of the extreme MAGA right. It is where Trump continues to post since he was kicked off of Twitter after January 6th. I believe he's only posted one thing [on Twitter] since, which was his mugshot when he was indicted in Georgia last summer."

"He's still trying to drive interest to Truth Social," he continued. "It's not really working; there have been, you know, merger deals rumored for a couple of years now. It all fell apart."

"Where does this massive valuation come from?" Scarborough interjected.

"In a free and open and fair market, I mean, if you're just talking about economic considerations, who would invest in this company unless you were trying to curry favor with somebody who you think will be the next president of the United States," he added.

Lemire replied, "You hit it there. Someone trying to curry favor with who they believe will be the next president of the United States. We've seen people do that of late. With Truth Social, it is not a success by any measure."

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Former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus blamed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and other fringe members of the GOP caucus for causing "chaos" for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

During a Sunday panel discussion on ABC's This Week program, Priebus reacted to Rep. Mike Gallagher's (R-WI) decision to retire early.

Fox News host Eric Shawn pointed out that Donald Trump's claim that his New York fraud bond is unprecedented was simply "not true."

During an interview with former federal prosecutor Alex Little, Shawn noted that Trump had repeatedly made the claim about the $454 million bond.

Former "Meet The Press" host Chuck Toidd dropped the hammer on his bosses on Sunday morning for not only hiring former RNC head Ronna McDaniel but also foisting her off on the current host Kristen Welker for an interview.

Following McDaniels' interview with the new host, where the new hire tap-danced around her history of claiming there was election fraud in the 2020 election, Todd took part in a panel where, as he put it, he needed to address the elephant in the room."

"I think our bosses owe you an apology for putting you in this situation,” Todd began.

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“She is now a paid contributor by NBC News and I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was because she didn’t want to mess up her contract," he continued. "She wants us to believe that she was speaking for the RNC when the RNC was paying for her. So she has credibility issues that she still has to deal with. Is she speaking for herself or is she speaking on behalf of who’s paying her?”

“Look, there’s a reason why there’s a lot of journalists at NBC News uncomfortable with this because many of our professional dealings with the RNC over the last six years have been met with gaslighting, have been met with character assassination," he elaborated. "That’s where you begin here. So, when NBC made the decision to give her NBC News’ credibility, you gotta ask yourself, 'What does she bring to NBC News?' And when we make deals like this — and I’ve been at this company a long time — you’re doing it for access, access to audience, sometimes it’s access to an individual. "

"We can have a journalistic ethics debate about it. I’m willing to have that debate," he added.

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