'I'm ready to go': Fani Willis makes shocking entrance at disqualification hearing

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Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis interrupted a hearing and volunteered to testify on Thursday.

During a hearing to determine if she would be disqualified in an election interference case, attorneys for the defense argued that Willis should testify.

"She needs to go on the record," one attorney demanded.

Seconds later, the camera panned to Willis entering the courtroom. She tried to interrupt, but the judge initially shut her down.

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"Just a moment, Ms. Willis," Judge Scott McAfee said, adding, "Does Ms. Willis want to take the lead here?"

"I'm ready to go," Willis said before taking the stand.

The judge, however, called a recess after the court could not find a clean copy of a document requested by the district attorney.

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MAGA infighting erupts after losing candidate blames 'selfish' colleague for rout

New York Republican gubernatorial nominee Bruce Blakeman erupted in anger on Thursday, spilling a fight among New York MAGA out into the open.

Blakeman, the executive of Nassau County on Long Island, was given President Donald Trump's endorsement after his actual preference for the seat, Upstate New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, dropped her own bid for governor. Ultimately, Blakeman lost so badly that he isn't even on track to win his own county.

In a rant on X, Blakeman appeared to blame the shellacking the broader New York GOP got on Stefanik's decision to give up.

"Elise Stefanik is a selfish, do nothing (sic) politician that didn’t lift a finger to help Republican candidates in New York this year. She had one moment of glory in what was otherwise an unremarkable career," wrote Blakeman — presumably referring to either Stefanik's high-profile tirade against the first Trump impeachment, or her stint as House Republican Conference Chair after MAGA leadership forced former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) out of the role.

But other Republicans in New York didn't take this attack on Stefanik lying down — including Inna Vernikov, the Republican Whip of the New York City Council.

"Elise Stefanic [sic] was and is a star in the Republican Party," wrote Vernikov on X. "You should have never primaried her. Nassau County ran a grift, pushed out a very competent & worthy candidate in Elise, and lied to voters and donors about your prospects via fake polling."

"No elected Republican with half of a brain ever believed you had a shot of winning governor and beating Hochul," she continued. "Nassau thought they were smarter than everyone else ... At her young age, Elise did more for our country and party, and accomplished more for New York, especially for its Jewish community and college students, than you and the entire Nassau County boys' club can ever imagine possible. She has got more intelligence, charisma, political acumen, courage and grit than all of you combined and you have some chutzpah to attack her after your failed grift of a campaign."

Vernikov ended by calling Blakeman's post "petty and childish" and adding, "Don’t be bitter. Reflect on your own missteps."

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Trump mocked for shielding his ‘gold-plated midlife crisis’ with post-election order

President Donald Trump's newest effort to cement his White House makeover drew a wave of ridicule from critics who say it reeks of hypocrisy.

Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation aimed at locking the Oval Office and Cabinet Room into their redesigned states, the Associated Press reported. During the signing, Trump said the document would make both rooms "a landmark for the ages" and that any major future alterations would need Congress to sign off.

Critics were quick to note that Trump never sought lawmakers' blessing before tearing down the White House's East Wing to make way for his ballroom.

"The same man who tore down the East Wing now wants to lecture America about historic preservation," progressive commentator Alex Cole posted on X. "The hypocrisy is spectacular."

Cole went further in a separate post, arguing that Trump was guarding "his gold-plated midlife crisis" after Republicans "got demolished at the ballot box."

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) seized on the same contrast, declaring that voters had handed Republicans "a clear and massive repudiation of the harmful MAGA agenda."

"And this is what trump is focused on?" the congressman asked. "His furniture?"

Political scientist Norman Ornstein, who was a consultant for the show Veep, dismissed the move outright. "Of course it is bulls—," he wrote. "Any executive order can be altered by another executive order."

Attorney Jeffrey Evan Gold acknowledged the legal question remains unsettled but argued the next president has the implied power to undo it unless the Supreme Court steps in. "There is no way even this Court will save Trump's decor, which every new pres changes," he added.

University of California San Diego political science professor Branislav Slantchev mocked Trump for thinking he could protect his handiwork forever when he "bulldozes half of the White House without congressional permission."

Others reacted with disbelief. Author and activist Amy Siskind declared that Trump "has lost his natural mind," while progressive commentator Brian Tyler Cohen sarcastically thanked God that "someone is protecting the White House from being destroyed."

Trump rages over election night market plunge: ‘Such a sad thing to watch!’

President Donald Trump took to his social media platform with a gloomy tantrum about the stock market and insults for his political opponents.

In a Truth Social post on Thursday, Trump blamed the election results for what he called one of the worst days in stock market history, lamenting that it was "such a sad thing to watch!" He claimed it had taken "so much work" to push the market to record heights, and he told followers their 401(k)s had dropped as a result.

"Remember, it wasn't Republicans, it was Dumocrats," Trump insisted. He closed with a vague vow that the country would "soon, one way or the other" be "BIGGER AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE."

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