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'Antagonistic' Judge Cannon might accidentally speed up Trump's D.C. trial: ex-prosecutor

Judge Aileen Cannon has been asked to reconsider her ruling that would expose confidential witnesses to the public and other information about the documents case.

Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner explained that Cannon has clashed with special counsel Jack Smith throughout the course of the trial. He's already had her reversed twice by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, Donald Trump has a new filing asking for presidential immunity because he moved the documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago before he was officially out of office on Jan. 20, 2021.

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Republican warns of vaccines being slipped into vegetables: 'A polio vaccine in there'

A Tennessee Republican voiced concerns that vaccines could be slipped surreptitiously into vegetables or cigarettes.

State Rep. Scott Cepicky (R-Culleoka) claimed University of California Riverside had already perfected the ability to put vaccines into vegetables such as lettuce or tomatoes, just as he said RJ Reynolds had done for tobacco products, and he told a dubious chairman of the House Health Committee that the public had a right to know whether their food was also medicine.

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How Mike Johnson and House Republicans could deny their own election defeats to save Trump

Since becoming Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) has caused concern that if Republicans hold the House in 2024, he will refuse to certify a President Joe Biden victory.

Johnson was an avid supporter of the 2020 election overthrow attempt, shopping a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton around the House in an attempt to garner support from other GOP members. The suit accused Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin of making last-minute changes to their elections to skew the results.

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MSNBC's Mika slams Trump for being 'pathologically incapable of not being a fraud'

Donald Trump was hit by Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski Friday who exclaimed "this behavior is grotesque" as she discussed a column that highlighted the former president's efforts to be the "victim king."

Anand Giridharadas penned the column for The.Ink, writing how Trump compared himself this week to Alexei Navalny, the Russian freedom fighter and target of Vladimir Putin who mysteriously died in captivity.

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'Connect the dots': MSNBC's Mika suggests Trump under Russia's sway

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski condemned Republicans for continuing to side with Russia in its invasion of Ukraine despite the death of dissident Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison.

The White House has hammered House Republican leaders for taking a recess without approving aid for Ukraine, which they've shown little willingness to approve, and Donald Trump has stopped far short of condemning Vladimir Putin for Navalny's death and instead compared the dead activist to himself.

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'Red alarms starting to flash' as Trump runs low on cash and enthusiasm sags: analysis

Nikki Haley quite likely will lose her home state of South Carolina to Donald Trump in the Republican primary race, but she has one advantage over him besides not currently being under criminal indictment.

The state's former governor and Trump's former UN ambassador has vowed to remain in the race to provide an alternative to the quadruple-indicted, twice-impeached ex-president who's on the hook for more than a half billion dollars in penalties for fraud and defaming his sex abuse victim, and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said Haley's got plenty of cash on hand.

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'Bigger losses for the GOP': Ex-official says Trump's new plan will 'bankrupt' Republicans

Former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor is sounding the alarm against Donald Trump's plans for taking over the Republican Party and installing his own family member, Lara Trump, as head.

Speaking to the press, Lara Trump said that the Republican Party should be paying the former president's legal bills as evidenced by the enthusiasm of a GoFundMe started for the self-described billionaire after he was handed a $355 million judgment in the fraud trial.

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GOP governor skewers Republicans who attack electric cars — then charge their golf carts

A Republican governor mocked his colleagues Thursday for lashing out at electric vehicles — and then getting behind the wheels of them every weekend.

Politico hosted a Governor's Summit in which it interviewed, among others, Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA).

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Bill Barr has 'questions to answer' after GOP witness linked to Russian spies: reporter

The unmasking of the Republicans' star witness as a potential conduit for Russian disinformation raises questions for the FBI and William Barr's Justice Department.

House impeachment witness Alexander Smirnov was arrested for lying to FBI agents and then admitted to working with officials associated with Russian intelligence, and NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian said federal investigators should explain why they relied on him as a confidential informant for a decade.

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'Republicans know' impeachment 'falling apart': WH reporter

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire revealed a nugget of reporting on the House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden that shows "Republicans know it's falling apart."

Lemire, the host of "Way Too Early" and White House bureau chief for Politico, spoke to a White House staffer who told him about subpoena letters sent before – and then after – the GOP's star witness Alexander Smirnov told investigators he had been working with Russian spies to smear Hunter Biden.

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Judge Cannon could be yanked from Trump docs case without Jack Smith asking for it: expert

Former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explained that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals could remove Judge Aileen Cannon from the Donald Trump documents case without anyone asking for it.

Cannon has already been overturned by the higher court twice, and if special counsel Jack Smith appeals her decision on exposing classified information and exposing witnesses, Weissmann thinks they'd overturn her in this case as well. Smith has asked that Cannon reconsider her decision instead.

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'Cleaned out, rounded up and deported': GOP lawmaker delivers eerie defense of Trump plan

A Republican lawmaker's defense of former President Donald Trump's mass deportation proposal boasts that the number of immigrants who would be "rounded up" equals the population of several U.S. States.

Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) appeared Wednesday on the Fox Business Network to defend Trump and push back on host Stuart Varney's skepticism that ICE agents, along with the National Guard and federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, could deport as many as 9 million migrants.

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'Keep on losing': Morning Joe cheers Trump pushing more 'extreme MAGA stupidity'

Donald Trump spewed more false claims about mail-in voting this week, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said the former president would keep costing Republicans election wins.

The ex-president told Fox News host Laura Ingraham that allowing votes by mail would "automatically" invite fraud, which she disputed by reminding him that Florida did and he "won huge" anyway, and the "Morning Joe" host said that was just one more example of how Trump actually hurts the party that has fully surrendered to his leadership.

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