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Floyd Ray Roseberry, who appears to be the suspect sitting in his pickup truck outside the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with an alleged explosive device, posted several videos of his drive to the building Thursday on social media.

With Afghanistan having been taken over by the Taliban, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is slamming President Joe Biden for withdrawing U.S. troops from the country — neglecting to mention that Biden was essentially following the Pompeo/Donald Trump plan for withdrawal, although at a slower pace. The Kansas City Star's editorial board, in a scathing editorial published on August 18, slams Pompeo's total hypocrisy.

"That other Republicans are criticizing Biden's implementation of Trump's deal is one thing," the Star's editorial board explains. "But Pompeo personally oversaw the Trump Administration's Afghanistan withdrawal discussions with Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, whom the CIA had arrested in 2010. He'd been in a Pakistani prison until Trump got him out two years ago. So, it's a little bit stunning to watch Pompeo accuse Biden of 'leading with weakness' by finishing the troop withdrawal that Trump planned to accomplish even more quickly."

OpenSecrets, the non-profit campaign finance watchdog group, reported Thursday that foreign nationals and lobbyists spent an overwhelming $33.5 million during the 2020 election.

Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to elections in the United States as an effort to ensure other countries aren't trying to swing American elections.

Former National Security Director John Ratcliffe on Thursday revealed that former President Donald Trump knew that the Afghan military would fall to the Taliban within 48 hours but negotiated a deal to pull U.S. troops out of the country anyway.

Ratcliffe made the remarks during an appearance on Fox News.

According to The Washington Post, a group of former Trump national security and defense officials have formed a new advocacy group with the intent of promoting the former president's veteran care policy — and undermining President Joe Biden's.

"Veterans 4 America First Institute is modeled after the America First Policy Institute, the post-Trump group that launched in April with a multimillion-dollar budget and is one of several efforts by former Trump administration officials to push his priorities," reported Lisa Rein. "The new effort is led for now by volunteers who said they are committed to 'effective management and accountability' at VA and the Defense Department, with a particular focus on what they called an intransigent VA bureaucracy."

Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene came under fire yet again on Thursday — this time for an expletive-laden rant she posted on the MAGA social media platform Gettr.

In the video, recorded inside a gym, Greene says: "Joe Biden, you're not a president, you're a piece of sh*t. Thousands of American are stuck over there in Afghanistan, and you're letting the Taliban kick your ass, while you're lecturing governors about masks and vaccines. Do your job, bring these Americans home."

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may soon be fighting a war on two fronts — with local officials and the federal government — to stave off mandatory COVID-19 prevention efforts after the Biden administration announced Wednesday it was going after states like Texas that try to ban universal masking at schools.

According to a report from Politico, Republicans are united in their belief that President Joe Biden botched the military retreat from Afghanistan, leaving Afghanistanis who supported the occupation at the mercy of the Taliban, but are divided over how to help them.

With an eye on the 2022 midterms, some Republicans are concerned with how resettling possibly tens of thousands of Afghan citizens in the U.S. will play with their base as some conservative commentators ramp up suspicions about them.

Videos of Taliban fighters parading in US-made armored vehicles, wielding US-supplied firearms and climbing on American Black Hawk helicopters after the defeat of Afghan government forces have embarrassed the White House.

The Islamist insurgents, who easily captured control of the country after a months-long campaign, seized huge amounts of weaponry, equipment and munitions from the Afghan armed forces, most of it supplied over the past two decades by Washington.

A leading government ethics watchdog on Wednesday cheered a federal judge's ruling ordering the United States Postal Service to hand over documents concerning potential conflicts of interest involving embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.

U.S. District Judge John D. Bates on Tuesday granted Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) a full summary judgment (pdf) and ordered the United States Postal Service (USPS) to give the advocacy group seven documents it requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Writing in her new book, The Reckoning, Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, said that the lack of accountability to Donald Trump began decades ago, but it shouldn't continue.

She recalled former President Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon, claiming that "the tranquility to which this nation has been restored by the events of recent weeks could be irreparably lost." The decision effectively ended Ford's political career because it infuriated the country, demanding some kind of accountability.