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Trump spews antisemitic conspiracy theory: 'Israel literally owned Congress'

Donald Trump engaged in an antisemitic conspiracy theory on a conservative radio program.

The twice-impeached one-term president complained that Israel's influence over the U.S. government had waned, and indulged an old trope that suggests Jews conspired behind the scenes to control world events, reported Haaretz.

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‘What he said isn’t true’: NYT reporter busts Trump’s latest lie to ‘inch back’ into the spotlight

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed that Donald Trump lied about weaseling his way into a World Series game.

The twice-impeached one-term president took part in the controversial "tomahawk chop" Saturday night at the Atlanta Braves-Houston Astros game, which Trump claimed he'd been invited to attend by Major League Baseball -- but which he actually sought out himself.

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'Trump is not a factor': NYT reporter reveals multiple Republicans are secretly lining up plans to run in 2024

Former secretary of state Mike Pompeo is planning to challenge Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman revealed Monday morning on CNN that Pompeo has directly told the former president that he intends to run regardless of Trump's plans.

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‘More deplorable by the day’: MSNBC's Morning Joe blasts Trump lawyer John Eastman’s pressure campaign against Pence

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted Donald Trump legal adviser John Eastman for blaming former VP Mike Pence for the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The conservative attorney drafted a memo that laid out an unconstitutional strategy to overturn Trump's election loss, and the Washington Post reported that Eastman emailed a top Pence aid during the U.S. Capitol riot blaming the former vice president for the violence that ensued.

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Historian: Make no mistake — QAnon cultists are plotting a violent holy war

"Passion of the Christ" actor Jim Caviezel blurred the line between himself and his most famous role during a blood-soaked speech at a QAnon conference, and a historian signaled his alarm.

The once-prominent actor gave an 18-minute talk, titled "The Storm is Upon Us," last week at the right-wing conference "For God and County Patriot Double Down" in Las Vegas, where he called on "fellow Christian warriors" to martyr themselves against demonic forces, and historian Thomas Lecaque put the speech into context in a column published by The Bulwark.

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'This is bull!' MSNBC's Morning Joe and Mika bash WSJ's attempt to clean up Trump's 'never-ending whack-a-mole of lies'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped the Wall Street Journal for running a lie-filled letter from Donald Trump and then attempting to clean up the mess with a fact check one day later.

The right-leaning newspaper refuted some of the twice-impeached one-term president's claims Thursday after facing fierce criticism for running the letter in the first place, and both "Morning Joe" hosts bashed the Journal for taking shots in its fact-check at "media clerics" who pushed allegedly "false Russia collusion claims."

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This TikTok user infiltrated 'white lives matter' groups – and uncovered a wellspring of racism

A Black TikTok user who goes by "Aunt Karen" is exposing the blatant racism in "white lives matter" social media groups -- and they hate it.

Denise Bradley infiltrated the groups, sometimes with friends who she says spam the boards with messages of "unity and positivity," and found a barrage or racist messages stereotyping Black people as "lazy" and other white supremacist content, reported Daily Dot.

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MSNBC's Morning Joe rips 'insurrectionist' GOP senators for 'defending people who made death threats'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough bashed a pair of Republican senators for attacking attorney general Merrick Garland over a memo recommending prosecution for parents who threaten school board officials.

The attorney general appeared Wednesday for a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where one Republican after another made overheated complaints about the memo they claimed put a target on conservative parents, and the "Morning Joe" host singled out Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for defending a parent who made a Nazi salute toward school officials to protest mask mandates.

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'My god!' Merrick Garland shocked when GOP’s Marsha Blackburn asks if angry parents are like Timothy McVeigh

Attorney general Merrick Garland was shocked when Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked whether he considered conservative parents to be domestic terrorists like the white supremacists who blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The Tennessee Republican, like her GOP colleagues before her, questioned Garland over his Oct. 4 memo directing the Department of Justice to investigate threats against school officials over critical race theory and coronavirus safety measures, but her question surprised the attorney general.

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WATCH: Merrick Garland bursts into laughter at GOP senator's question

Attorney General Merrick Garland laughed at a Republican senator's question during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.

Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA), like every other GOP senator before him, used his allotted time to pepper Garland with questions about an Oct. 4 memo directing the Department of Justice to investigate threats against local school board members after a national organization asked President Joe Biden for federal intervention.

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Merrick Garland knocks down GOP conspiracy theories one after another in Senate hearing

Attorney General Merrick Garland knocked down one right-wing conspiracy theory after another as Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) questioned him during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

The Iowa Republican pressed the attorney general to explain a memo issued earlier this month explaining how the Justice Department would work with state and local authorities to investigate violent threats against school board officials, which Grassley compared to "something that will come out of some communist country."

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'Are we going to shoot someone?' cops ask while pointing guns at a baby during botched Florida raid

A video has been released showing a terrified mom and her 3-month-old baby as police pointed weapons at her while raiding her home. As it turns out, however, they went to the wrong house, Vice News said Tuesday citing a Fox 13 report.

It's a similar story that resulted in the murder of medical worker Breonna Taylor as Louisville police raided the wrong apartment. However, the white woman and her baby weren't fired on with a no-knock warrant. In this case, it was the U.S. Marshals who thought they were going to arrest a Florida man for homicide.

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New Jersey man flips out when questioned about apparent KKK figures in his Halloween display

Some neighbors are upset about a New Jersey man's Halloween decorations that resemble robed Ku Klux Klan members on his lawn.

The man's property has multiple "no trespassing" signs to go along with figures that might appear to be ghosts if not for the Confederate flags across the yard in rural Jackson Township, reported WNBC-TV.

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