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'Complete catastrophe': Marjorie Taylor Greene melts down attacking Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after House Republicans passed a bipartisan government funding bill.

"Republicans and the House of Representatives, where we hold on to a razor-thin majority," Greene told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday. "But yet this week, Speaker Johnson, who has barely been a speaker for six months, led us to a complete catastrophe."

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'I'm gonna push back': Ronna McDaniel debuts on NBC with epic clash over 2020 election

NBC host Kristen Welker pressed former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel about her past statements suggesting the 2020 presidential election was not legitimate.

"Ronna, ultimately, there were 250 audits," Welker said Sunday on Meet the Press. "They never found any corruption."

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Judge in Spain orders Telegram messaging service to be blocked

A court in Madrid ordered the temporary blocking of the short message service Telegram in Spain on Sunday, citing a lawsuit from several companies claiming that Telegram was being used to violate copyright protections.

Several media companies had brought the lawsuit involving Telegram. Consumer advocates in Spain, where there are several million Telegram users, criticized the measure as disproportionate.

'Maybe I'm showing my ignorance': Fox News host doubts cancer unless patient loses hair

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy expressed doubt about Kate Middleton's cancer because she still has "luscious" hair.

"You know, one thing, just as a layperson," Campos-Duffy told Dr. Mark Siegel on Sunday. "I'm not a doctor like you, Dr. Siegel, but, you know, she said that she's undergoing some preventative chemotherapy."

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'Ugly in the extreme': Truth Social stock can be easily 'cratered' by cash-hungry Trump

With the merger between Digital World Acquisition Corp. and the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Donald Trump's Truth Social, completed on Friday, one Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist suggested there are several red flags investors should consider before taking a leap of faith into another Trump venture.

In a piece for the LA Times, noted business columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote that there is a better than even chance that the cash-strapped Trump will be given a waiver to sell off a substantial portion of the reported $3 billion in stock he now controls by a board of handpicked Trump loyalists.

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'Hemorrhaging users': Trump's Truth Social's longtime 'viability' questioned after merger

The merger on Friday between Digital World Acquisition Corp. and the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Donald Trump's Truth Social, may have resulted in a temporary $3 billion windfall for the former president, but technology experts are more than skeptical that the merged company will survive in the long term.

According to a report from CNN, the social media platform is barely scraping by and is solely dependent on Trump posting on it to have any value as users abandon it in droves.

CNN is reporting, "Outside of his MAGA movement, though, the social media site is struggling to find a wider audience. It is hemorrhaging users, and its traffic has plummeted. There were roughly 860,000 accounts active on the site as of November – a tiny blip compared with more mainstream platforms."

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The report notes that after three years of existence, Truth Social lacks appeal to new users with the app "not among the 100 most downloaded social media applications in the Apple App store."

According to tech experts, that should be concerning to investors hoping to make a killing.

With CNN reporting, "Trump Media’s management warned last year that the company was at risk of insolvency without a merger, and most analysts are skeptical of its current valuation above $6 billion," Jay Ritter, a finance professor at the University of Florida indicated he was less than impressed.

"It’s grossly overvalued. It qualifies as a meme stock for which the price is divorced from fundamental value,” he explained.

As noted, the platform will live or die with Trump's fortunes and participation.

According to Josephine Lukito of the University of Texas at Austin, "Truth Social’s clout is driven very much if not entirely by Donald Trump’s popularity. Without him, I don’t think there’s a viable path forward for it.”

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Trump's Truth Social merger sends stock into immediate free fall: report

Moments after Digital World Acquisition Corporation voted to merge with Trump Media, the parent company for Donald Trump's Truth Social platform, its stock took a quick drop — losing 12 percent of its value at one point.

According to a report from CNBC, stock for the company which will be listed as DJT starting next week, began the day at $44.20 before taking a quick nosedive to below $38, before a bounceback to 3.5 percent below opening.

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Fani Willis to request summer trial date for Trump: report

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will reportedly request a summer trial date for her election conspiracy case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants.

Two sources familiar with Willis' decision told CNN she was expected to take the request to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.

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'Mike Johnson blew it!' Chip Roy lashes out over his party's government funding bill

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) lashed out at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Thursday over a bill to avert a government shutdown.

Roy told conservative podcast host Steve Bannon that Johnson had made too many concessions to Democrats in the bill.

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Alina Habba won't say if Trump has begged Russia and Saudi Arabia to pay his bond

Alina Habba, an attorney for Donald Trump, declined to say Wednesday if the former president has asked Saudi Arabia or Russia to pay his legal debts.

During an interview on Fox News, host Martha MacCallum asked Habba to respond to the "glee" among some after Trump failed to come up with a $464 million bond required to appeal a New York fraud ruling. In particular, hosts of ABC's The View said they couldn't wait to see the Trump Tower sale.

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‘Stay tuned’: Melania Trump makes rare campaign appearance — but won’t promise more

Former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare appearance alongside her husband Tuesday — but declined to say whether she would be seen more as his presidential campaign heats up.

Following voting in the Florida Republican primary, former President Donald Trump addressed reporters. However, it was Melania Trump who received one of the first questions.

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'No women are being condemned today': MTG holds 'graphic and horrific' abortion hearing

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) held a hearing Tuesday on the alleged "black market of baby harvesting" through abortions.

In her opening statement, Greene said she was using her power as a United States representative "to conduct oversight and explore potential legislative action that could be pursued in light of these illegal practices."

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Tommy Tuberville calls liberalism 'a satanic cult' that has 'ruined' American schools

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) asserted Tuesday that a liberal "satanic cult" had "ruined" sex education in schools.

During an interview with right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, Tuberville said that he had first declared schools a satanic cult while campaigning in Utah.

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