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Donald Trump allies are dreading the backlash that will occur if the former president pushes the QAnon conspiracy theory that he will be reinstated in August.

The August reinstatement conspiracy theory has been derided as delusional because the United States Constitution does not provide a mechanism to reinstate the former reality TV actor. Although it only requires an elementary understanding of civics to know it is impossible, Trump reportedly fell for the conspiracy theory after talking with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Progressives are continuing to rack up wins under President Joe Biden.

"The Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it removed Trump-era appointee William Duhnke as chair of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, in a victory for Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) days after they called for the audit watchdog's leadership to be fired," Politico reported Friday.

An Ohio supporter of Donald Trump told police that he defecated in a neighbor's yard "multiple times" because they are Democrats.

"A 70-year-old Ohio man who told cops he was a "Trump man" confessed to repeatedly urinating and defecating in front of a neighbor's home because the residents "are Democrats and support Joe Biden," according to a police report. Jerry Detrick, the accused septuagenarian serial pooper, was cited Sunday for littering after the homeowner caught him in the act around 3:15 AM in Greenville, a western Ohio city," The Smoking Gun reports.

On Thursday, controversial MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell filed a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic.

Lindell hyped the case as having the potential to overturn the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won, and reinstate Trump in office.

In a column for the New Republic, political observer Timothy Noah claimed Donald Trump has no one else to blame but himself for his 2020 re-election loss to Joe Biden due to his war on mail-in voting that could have helped him out in key states he lost.

Using Census data, Noah claimed it was all too apparent that the former president's war on mail-in voting was a crippling factor in his loss based on the profiles of voters who are most likely to take advantage of not having to leave the house on election day.

In a press release this Friday, Facebook announced that Donald Trump's account on the platform will remain suspended for two years, and will only be reinstated "if conditions permit" after a review.

"We are today announcing new enforcement protocols to be applied in exceptional cases such as this, and we are confirming the time-bound penalty consistent with those protocols which we are applying to Mr. Trump's accounts," the press release stated. "Given the gravity of the circumstances that led to Mr. Trump's suspension, we believe his actions constituted a severe violation of our rules which merit the highest penalty available under the new enforcement protocols. We are suspending his accounts for two years, effective from the date of the initial suspension on January 7 this year."

Biden "can't expect us to vote for an infrastructure deal dictated by the Republican Party."

A New York Democratic U.S. Congressman is warning President Joe Biden that Republicans should not be dictating the infrastructure bill and he is giving away too much.

The Republican Party of New Mexico believes there is a legitimate reason for the low voter turnout they saw during the state's special election on Tuesday, June 1. According to HuffPost, they are attributing the lack of voter morale to "'angry' Republican voters who 'questioned election integrity.'"

The publication reports: "The voter turnout drop-off for Republicans was more pronounced than the drop-off for Democrats. Stansbury received 42% of the vote total that Haaland received in 2020, while Moores got 34% of the votes of 2020 GOP candidate Michelle Garcia Holmes."

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is attacking a highly-respected attorney over comments she made via Twitter that he sees as "partisan" criticism of Republicans, but the examples he cites are at best massaged if not false readings of facts.

Susan Hennessey until her recent appointment to the National Security Division of the Dept. of Justice, was a Georgetown adjunct professor in Science, Technology and International Affairs. Her bio there says she "is a Fellow of National Security Law in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and Managing Editor of Lawfare."

Top US scientist Anthony Fauci has urged China to release the medical records of nine people who fell sick with a coronavirus-like illness prior to the outbreak, saying they could provide insights into whether the pandemic came from a lab.

The "lab leak" theory has gained increasing traction, fueled by reports that six miners fell ill in 2012 and three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick in 2019 after visiting a bat cave in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan.

Earlier this week, the New York Times' Maggie Haberman reported that Donald Trump expects to be "reinstated" as president by August — inspiring some Republicans to accuse her of making it up. But conservative journalist Charles C.W. Cooke, in an article for the National Review, reported that Haberman was not fear-mongering and that Trump really does believe he will be returning to the Oval Office this summer.

"Haberman's reporting was correct," Cooke writes. "I can attest, from speaking to an array of different sources, that Donald Trump does indeed believe quite genuinely that he — along with former Senators David Perdue and Martha McSally — will be 'reinstated' to office this summer after 'audits' of the 2020 elections in Arizona, Georgia and a handful of other states have been completed. I can attest, too, that Trump is trying hard to recruit journalists, politicians and other influential figures to promulgate this belief — not as a fundraising tool or an infantile bit of trolling or a trial balloon, but as a fact."