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'I was really in deep trouble': Giuliani claims Trump 'enormously supportive' financially

Rudy Giuliani claimed President-elect Donald Trump had been "enormously supportive personally" as the former mayor admitted to being in "really deep trouble" financially.

One America News Network host Matt Gaetz spoke to Giuliani this week after he was found to be in contempt on Monday related to the $148 million defamation judgment against him. The disgraced mayor was ordered to turn over his assets, including a Mercedes-Benz convertible and watches, for defaming former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. He was previously forced to give up his multi-million Manhattan apartment.

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'Dusty who?' Top House Dem thumbs nose at GOP colleague's antic

A top House Democrat took a shot at his Republican colleague on Wednesday when asked his feelings about the possibly insensitive timing of the lawmaker's proposed legislation.

Chad Pergram, senior congressional correspondent for Fox News, shared on Wednesday the response of Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) after he asked the minority leader if it was "impolitesse" for Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) to propose legislation that would authorize the acquisition of the Panama Canal as the late former President Jimmy Carter lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.

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'Incredible mischief': NC judge warns election challenge could undercut electoral system

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Richard Dietz went against his Republican colleagues this week in a case that could have vast implications for future elections in that state and beyond.

Dietz's dissent — in which he cautioned the justices were paving the way for "incredible mischief" that could undercut the electoral system — was aimed at the ruling that allowed Jefferson Griffin, a Republican vying for a spot on the court, to challenge the election victory of Democratic Justice Allison Riggs.

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MSNBC host tears up watching hometown burn

MSNBC host Katy Tur and long-time friend Jacob Soboroff grew up in the Pacific Palisades and she grew emotional after she revealed that the fires destroyed her school and grocery store on her Wednesday show.

The fire began in a residential area around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, as strong Santa Ana winds fueled sparks. This contradicted an assertion from President-elect Donald Trump that the fire was caused by forests not being raked.

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Capitol Police stop man carrying machete into visitor center as Jimmy Carter lies in state

U.S. Capitol Police arrested a man who allegedly tried to bring a machete and other knives into the Capitol Visitor Center as former President Jimmy Carter laid in state in the Rotunda.

In a notice on the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform, Capitol Police announced officers had stopped a man after spotting the machete.

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'Dangerous fallacy': Conservative hammers Trump's Greenland threats

President-elect Donald Trump has turned toward an obsession with acquiring various neighboring lands, from Greenland and Canada to the Panama Canal, with his ally Steve Bannon even fantasizing about conquering the entire continent of North America. But the irony, wrote conservative analyst Noah Rothman for the National Review, is that such conquests were made unnecessary by the modern international order of free trade and cooperation — which Trump is now seeking to tear down.

Specifically, Trump is pushing for massive trade wars against all of the U.S.' major trade partners, which economists have raised alarms would be devastating to U.S. consumers. But, wrote Rothman, it goes deeper than that.

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Trump throws new all-caps Truth Social tantrum blaming Democrats for California fires

President-elect Donald Trump continued his rants about the California wildfires on Wednesday afternoon by once again blaming the ordeal on Democrats.

Trump for years has claimed that California is suffering from fires because it does not properly "rake" its forests, which was a theme he continued when it comes to the current fire despite the fact that it started in a residential area.

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Watch: Fox News reporter fact checks Trump's uninformed rants about California fires

Fox News senior national correspondent William La Jeunesse on Wednesday pushed back when anchor John Roberts asked him about President-elect Donald Trump's comments about devastating fires consuming California.

As La Jeunesse was covering the fires live from Malibu, Roberts asked him about why California had supposedly left itself open to such a disaster by not following Trump's recommendations for "clearing underbrush to make sure that the forests' floors were clean."

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'Answer my question!' CNN anchor dogs Republican trying to parrot Trump talking points

CNN's Brianna Keilar wouldn't let up when freshman Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX) touted Donald Trump's new age of "Manifest Destiny" but failed to directly answer questions about how it would help the U.S. economy.

Gill was mid-sentence explaining why acquiring Greenland and the Panama Canal was vital to American interests when Keilar interrupted.

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'Openly disagree': Report claims closest aides privately doubt Trump can fulfill promises

President-elect Donald Trump has been calling for his GOP allies to pass "one powerful bill" that will tackle a variety of his legislative goals after he returns to the White House, from tax cuts to immigration and the U.S. Mexico border.

But some GOP senators, according to Politico, aren't as enthusiastic about the possibility of one big megabill as Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives. And Bloomberg News reports that some Trump allies believe there is too much "infighting" among Republicans in Congress for the president-elect to get everything he wants on taxes in 2025.

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Andy Biggs uses California wildfires to attack Democrats with migrant funding lies

As homes burned in California on Wednesday, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) used the raging wildfires to blast Democrats by falsely claiming they had diverted FEMA funds to migrants.

During an interview on Newsmax, host Bianca de la Garza asked Biggs if he was concerned about FEMA funding for wildfire relief after the agency was forced to respond to two major hurricanes last year.

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Trump nominee accused of committing voter fraud

Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human services has been accused by a watchdog group of committing voter fraud.

The left-leaning watchdog group Accountable.US filed a complaint Wednesday morning with the New York State Board of Elections alleging that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed felony election fraud when he cast a ballot in the 2024 election, reported Politico.

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$40 million Amazon documentary deal for Melania Trump slammed as corporate 'pandering'

In a move panned as kowtowing to the incoming Trump administration, Amazon confirmed Sunday that it will release a documentary about the life of incoming First Lady Melania Trump, which will premier in 2025 on its platform Prime Video and in theaters.

Puck news reported that Prime Video is paying $40 million to license the film, and the deal includes the documentary as well as a multiple episode follow-up docuseries. That's a "staggering amount of money for any figure, let alone one who commands relatively little public interest," wrote Hafiz Rashid at The New Republic.

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