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Here's the video that could help Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss win a lawsuit against Trump

Former President Donald Trump's ally Rudy Giuliani faces a $148 million judgment for pushing lies and conspiracy theories about Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss after their lives and reputations were completely derailed by threats and harassment.

But Giuliani could be just the beginning, argued MSNBC's Ali Velshi on Monday β€” the former president himself could end up on the hook as well.

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Latest court ruling is 'very bad for Mark Meadows' and Trump: ex-prosecutors

Mark Meadows has two options after losing an appeal to move his Georgia election interference case to federal court, and neither of them are good, legal experts said Monday.

Former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade told MSNBC's Ana Cabrera that Meadows can either appeal the decision to the Supreme Court or negotiate a plea agreement.

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John Oliver picks a fight with Elon Musk

John Oliver's main story on Sunday's episode of "Last Week Tonight," did a deep dive into Elon Musk, who is more than the CEO of the social media site still known to many as Twitter, he also serves as the CEO of five other companies.

Oliver explained that there are a lot of people who hate Musk and a lot who love him, then warned that each side will probably find something to hate about the report. For Musk, however, anything about him that doesn't paint him in a positive light is generally criticized by him.

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John Oliver: Rudy Giuliani was like 'Weekend at Bernie's' for a living person

John Oliver summed up Rudy Giuliani's defamation trial this week by showing off the desperation of his own staff to get him away from reporters.

Outside his trial on Dec. 11, Giuliani defamed Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss again, despite already being found liable for defaming them the first time around.

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'We should hold an investigation into what James Comer is doing': Democratic lawmaker

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) was caught leaving some information off of his financial disclosure documents that is part of an LLC that he co-owns with a campaign donor.

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) called for an investigation into whether something untoward is going on with the small plot of land. It all comes at a time that Comer claims President Joe Biden's brother and son have their own LLCs.

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James Comer gets defensive when talking about an undisclosed land deal with a GOP donor

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) describes himself as a "simple farmer," but it was recently revealed he's using his own shell companies for business deals that he didn't report in his financial disclosure filings.

Associated Press reporter Brian Slodysko explained to NPR that Comer "owns about 16,000 acres of land, and all of those he painstakingly details on his congressional financial disclosures, which all members of Congress are required to submit. That is, except this six acres of land he co-owns with a donor and are held through a limited liability company called Farm Team Properties. That is the exception. And that property, because it is held by this company, he does not have to reveal what the assets held by it are on his financial disclosures."

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Trump no longer supports a big stock market after Biden sets new record

By Tim Reid (Reuters) -Donald Trump, who predicted three years ago that if Democratic President Joe Biden won the White House in 2020 markets would crash, said on Sunday that stock markets hitting record highs were just making "rich people richer." Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, often took credit for a rising stock market when he was president between 2017 and 2021. He was mocked by Biden last week for wrongly predicting a crash when they campaigned against each other in 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high last week, topping 37,000 and surpassin...


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Marjorie Taylor Greene flips out after top Republican says no 'smoking gun' on Biden

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is furious.

Speaking in Phoenix as part of "Amfest," Greene lambasted Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for saying the House GOP has nothing on President Joe Biden after they voted to launch an impeachment inquiry.

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Videos show record Nor’easter flooding β€” and it's only going to get worse

The Nor'easter storm that is crawling up the east coast brought in historic sea levels and flooding into Charleston Bay on Sunday, Fox Weather reported.

"The National Weather Service office in Charleston said the tide in the Charleston Harbor peaked at 9.86 feet (mean lower low water) just before noon local time," said the report. "Not only is that the highest tide on record not associated with a tropical cyclone, but it's topped only by Hurricane Hugo in 1989, an unnamed hurricane in 1940 and Hurricane Irma in 2017."

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Acosta hammers Republican claiming Trump is using Hitler language because he's from NYC

CNN host Jim Acosta pressed Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) on Donald Trump's Hitler-laden speech in New Hampshire over the weekend.

Burchett confessed that he didn't agree at all with Trump's language, but said he'd still be voting for Trump next November.

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Chasing Giuliani 'to his grave': Expert outlines ways to force Rudy to pay poll workers

Rudy Giuliani lost the lawsuit from election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman, and last week was ordered to pay nearly $150 million. The overall problem, however, is that due to his mounting legal troubles, Giuliani is quickly running out of cash and there's no way he can pay that sum.

It has prompted a question about whether the ladies can ever get anything for their suffering and even if they could go after Donald Trump.

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'Life is not going to be good': Ex-Trump lawyer warns Giuliani what to expect

A former White House lawyer for Donald Trump lamented Rudy Giuliani's long fall from grace Friday.

Jim Schultz, who served less than a year in the White House counsel's office, appeared Friday on CNN to discuss the defamation case against the former New York City mayor as a jury considered penalties for his defamation of Georgia election workers Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman.

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Unhinged teacher threatens to behead girl who asked about his Israeli flag: witnesses

A Georgia teacher allegedly threatened to behead a middle-school student for commenting on his Israeli flag.

Benjamin Reese, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at Warner Robins Middle School, allegedly became angry Dec. 7 when the girl asked about the flag as students were leaving after class and said she found it offensive.

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