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President Joe Biden will award the top US civilian honor Friday to a host of Democratic allies some six months before elections, including former House speaker Nancy Pelosi, secretary of state John Kerry and vice president Al Gore.

The 19 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom also include Oscar-winning Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, Olympic swimming champion Katie Ledecky and, posthumously, a Black civil rights leader who was murdered in 1963.

During the lunch break that interrupted testimony by former White House aide Hope Hicks, Donald Trump launched into a full-throated tirade aimed at Judge Juan Merchan — and declared the Manhattan hush money trial is "an insult to American justice!"

Bypassing waiting reporters, the former president took to his Truth Social platform to hammer out an all-caps attack on the hush money trial by repeating the usual assortment of complaints that he is being subjected to a "witch hunt."

Over the weekend independent 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. spoke at a fundraiser for a far-right anti-government group in Erie County, New York – a slice of the country that had a large proportion of residents arrested and charged for crimes related to the January 6 insurrection. Kennedy, a conspiracy theorist and vaccine denialist, increasingly is embracing the far-right.

"That group, Constitutional Coalition of New York State, has founders who not only have ties to Donald Trump but are also connected to the stop-the-steal movement through their activist network, which includes groups that had a presence at the Capitol on Jan. 6," The Daily Beast reported Friday. "It’s yet another instance of Kennedy—who is mounting one of the most well-funded third-party presidential threats in decades—serving as a peculiar bridge between his own anti-establishment movement and Trump’s."

Back in 1984, President Ronald Reagan's reelection campaign famously posed the question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

Most U.S. voters believed the answer was "yes"; Reagan was reelected by a landslide, picking up 525 electoral votes and defeating his Democratic challenger, former Vice President Walter Mondale, by 18 percent in the popular vote.

As a marching band played and the crowd chanted "four more years," US Vice President Kamala Harris looked like she was enjoying being out of Joe Biden's shadow.

From condemning abortion bans to wooing Black voters, the 59-year-old Harris is taking a starring role in Biden's campaign to win a second term by again defeating Donald Trump.

Since at least 2012 Donald Trump has been engaging in election denialism. Now, a tenet of the Republican Party, the refusal to accept official election results they don't like is ingrained in a large number of his followers.

“I think that the powers that be on the Democratic side have figured out a way to circumvent democracy,” Darlene Anastas, 69, of Middleborough, Massachusetts, told NBC News. The network "spoke to more than 50 Trump supporters, most of whom said they don't believe Biden can win legitimately in November."

Mississippi's lieutenant governor wants to pump the brakes on plans to expand Medicaid in the state until former President Donald Trump can be re-elected to the White House.

According to the Mississippi Free Press, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann wants to do this for one simple reason: he wants to be able to apply to add work requirements to the program, which the Biden administration hasn't authorized.

The national spokesperson for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign may have violated a judge's gag order by suggesting the jury in the former president's hush money trial was not "fair and impartial."

Karoline Leavitt made the remarks while speaking to Real America's Voice on Thursday.