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Marjorie Taylor Greene berates reporter because Jan. 6 riot only happened 'one time'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Sunday shared video of herself berating a reporter who asked about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The reporter was NBC's Scott Wong, who quoted Greene in an article about Jan. 6.

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Herschel Walker cites Michael Jackson's 'Man in the Mirror' to call for more oil drilling

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker used Michael Jackson's "Man in the Mirror" anthem on Sunday to call for more oil drilling in the United States.

A day after skipping the first Republican debate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, Walker spoke about energy prices during an appearance on Fox News with host Maria Bartiromo.

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ABC host slaps down Chris Christie after he says Liz Cheney 'wanted' to be kicked out of GOP leadership

ABC host Jonathan Karl clashed with former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) over the conspiracy theory that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) opposes former President Donald Trump because she "wanted" to be removed from GOP leadership.

Christie presented the conspiracy theory during a panel discussion on ABC's This Week program.

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'We all pay our debts': Mitch McConnell attacks student loan moratorium despite his tax cuts for the rich

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested over the weekend that he would oppose student loan reform despite doling out tax breaks for the most wealthy Americans.

During an interview on Fox News Sunday, guest host Dana Perino noted that President Joe Biden has extended a moratorium on student loans due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She also pointed out that some Democrats want to cancel student debt completely.

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Rupert Murdoch's son Lachlan serves notice on the direction of their media empire

According to a report from the Washington Post's Sarah Ellison and Josh Dawsey, any suggestion that the son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch will rein in the far-right extremism of the family's media empire went up in a puff of smoke during a recent speech -- describes as "fiery" -- in Sydney, Australia last week.

The report notes that Lachlan Murdoch has become the heir-apparent after having stepped aside from family dealings in 2005, with the report stating, "even as he made his way back to family business, nearly a decade later, and rose again through the ranks, the image remained of a passive Gen-Xer who kept his politics quiet and his ambitions subservient to those of the swaggering conservative billionaire dad who aspired to influence power at the highest global levels."

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McConnell stuns reporter after he can't name one crime that would nullify 'obligation' to vote for Trump

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) suggested on Thursday that there is no crime that would cancel out his "obligation" to vote for former President Donald Trump in the next general election.

During an interview with Axios, host Jonathan Swan asked McConnell about his "moral red lines."

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'Crimes against humanity': Mike Lindell smears ex-Dominion official in explosive rant over new lawsuit

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell responded to a new defamation lawsuit on Wednesday by declaring that the plaintiff is guilty of crimes against humanity.

Eric Coomer, a former employee of Dominion Voting Systems, served Lindell with the court complaint on Tuesday while the pillow executive was speaking about claims that the 2020 election was "stolen" from then-President Donald Trump.

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Liberal derails Fox News host's Biden smear: 'His poll right now is the highest Donald Trump ever reached'

Left-leaning Fox News contributor Nomiki Konst deflated host Harris Faulkner's attack on President Joe Biden on Wednesday by reminding her that former President Donald Trump's poll numbers were generally worse than the current president.

During a segment about former President Barack Obama's Tuesday visit to the White House, Faulkner suggested that the Democratic icon had returned because of Biden's falling poll numbers.

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Josh Hawley backpedals after suggesting people who have hysterectomies are no longer women

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) was one of several Republican senators who either refused to define the word "woman" or struggled to come up with a definition.

HuffPost posed the question to a number of GOP senators after Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) demanded that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson define "what a woman is."

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'It's a brilliant move': Marjorie Taylor Greene explains why she wants to make Kamala Harris president

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) explained this week that Vice President Kamala Harris would be an "illegitimate" first woman president if Republicans follow her plan to remove President Joe Biden from office.

During a Monday interview with OAN, Greene praised Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after he entered the purported contents of Hunter Biden's laptop into the congressional record.

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Lindsey Graham claims Brett Kavanaugh's life was 'destroyed' by Democrats despite lifetime job

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Monday claimed that then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh's life was destroyed by confirmation hearings despite the fact that he received a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

During the final day of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Graham suggested that he is still angry that Democrats questioned Kavanaugh about sexual misconduct allegations.

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Roger Stone flips out on Trump's 'Truth Social' with complaint he's being censored: report

According to a report from the Daily Beast, former Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone grew angry with his former boss's new social media endeavor because they put up a warning on one of his posts.

As the Beast's Zachary Petrizzo reported, Stone took to his "Truth Social" account to post "about 'radical Islam,' including a picture of an old Trump campaign button and the comment, 'Trump also warns again a growing threat of terrorism by radical Islam mix in the predicted the 9/11 attack.'"

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'I hate to do this': Ron Johnson shamelessly turns Fox News interview into desperate plea for donations

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) made a desperate plea for donations over the weekend because he claimed that "the media is trying to take me out."

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Johnson told host Maria Bartiromo that media outlets are "complicit" in what he said was wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.

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