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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell said this week he is being audited by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, and he attributed the action to his crusade against voting machines.

Lindell broke the news of his audit during a Wednesday appearance on Steve Bannon's War Room podcast.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) laughed out loud after CNBC host Sara Eisen argued that banks were qualified to do their own stress testing.

During an interview on Wednesday, Eisen asked Warren about legislation she has sponsored following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. The bill would undo Trump-era regulation rollbacks.

Conservative podcaster Steve Bannon promised his audience on Tuesday that former President Donald Trump would create a new Jan. 6 Committee if he returns to the White House with a win in 2024.

"This is why we have to have an entirely rebooted January 6th committee that lets the Democrats have, even as bad as they are, and they leak depositions on the weaponization, we just got to run it tighter," Bannon told former Defense Department official Kash Patel on the War Room broadcast. "You have to have a real committee, like the Watergate Committee, like the Pearl Harbor Commissions, like the 9-11, like the financial meltdown of 2008."

An analysis by Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin found that House Republicans are already in jeopardy of failing in their investigation into President Joe Biden's family.

In her column Tuesday, Rubin observed that Republicans "reached the 'temper tantrum' stage of the Hunter Biden' scandal.'"

A defamation lawsuit against Fox News by voting machine company Smartmatic appears to be headed to trial after the New York Supreme Court gave the green light last week.

An analysis by The Guardian found that the $2.7 billion lawsuit could be "more dangerous" than the $1.6 billion lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems. In both cases, Fox News personalities are accused of claiming President Joe Biden falsely won the election because of a voting machine conspiracy.

As the 2024 presidential primary season begins to heat up, Donald Trump is going to need a larger platform to keep all the focus on himself and off of his rivals, which means his war with Fox News may need to be set aside because his options are severely limited.

According to a report from the Guardian's David Smith, the on-again, off-again love affair between the former president and the ratings-rich conservative news network is now complicated as Fox's hosts are increasingly showing signs of throwing their support behind Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani proposed a plan to "bomb the hell" out of parts of Mexico to set up a "safe zone" free of cartels.

On his Sunday WABC radio show, Giuliani explained how he would advise a president to deal with cartel violence in Mexico.

As Dominion Voting System's $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit heads to court, a former Donald Trump White House insider now working for Fox will be scrutinized over his role in keeping election conspiracy lies on-air despite knowing better.

According to a report from the Washington Post, former White House Deputy Press Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President, Raj Shah features prominently in the texts and emails exchanged between Fox executives as advocates for the former president were attacking Dominion and the Fox News on-air talent kept those lies alive.

The American Conservative (TAC) is cutting senior editor Rod Dreher's column after 12 years of success, Vanity Fair is reporting.

Per Vanity Fair, according to two sources familiar with the matter, the column's extensive stint — described as one of the most bizarre diatribes in opinion journalism — came to an end after "one particular reader" believed Dreher's posts "had simply gotten too weird."

Fox News management had a change of heart and allowed host Howard Kurtz to report on Dominion Voting Systems' lawsuit against the network.

On a broadcast weeks earlier, Kurtz revealed that he had been banned from covering Dominion's defamation allegations against the company for allegedly misleading viewers about Democrats stealing the 2020 election through voting machines.

ABC host Martha Raddatz noted that Trump-era regulation cuts may have contributed to the rapid collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last week.

While speaking to Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Raddatz wondered about the downfall of the go-to bank for tech startups.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) suggested that Fox News host Tucker Carlson proved there is a two-tier system of justice in the United States that discriminates against conservatives by airing deceptive coverage of the Jan. 6 attacks.

During an interview on Fox News, Bartiromo noted that McCarthy "gave" over 40,000 hours of Jan. 6 footage to Carlson. She said the coverage was "a question of honesty."

Fox News host Shannon Bream grilled Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) after Republicans criticized President Joe Biden's budget but failed to put forward their own.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, Bream noted that Biden said "he's going to reduce the deficit, shore up Medicaid and Social Security and make the rich pay their fair share."