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Trump again attacks hush money judge's 'rabid' daughter — this time by name

Thumbing his nose at an imposed gag order — defendant Donald Trump unloaded more insults against the judge in his hush-money criminal case and also took aim at his daughter.

"Judge Juan Merchan is totally compromised, and should be removed from this TRUMP Non-Case immediately," former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social. "His Daughter, Loren, is a Rabid Trump Hater, who has admitted to having conversations with her father about me, and yet he gagged me."

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'Why are you yelling?' Fox News MAGA pundit loses it after he's called out by Dem

Fox News pundit Leo Terrell was enraged Thursday after left-leaning contributor Jessica Tarlov pointed out that she was the only Jewish American on the panel.

During a segment about President Joe Biden's fundraiser in New York City, Terrell ranted that there was a lack of support for Israel.

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'I don't show remorse': John Eastman doubles down after judge rules for disbarment

Constitutional lawyer John Eastman warned of a "tyrannical government" Thursday after a judge recommended that he be disbarred.

In an interview with Charlie Kirk, Eastman was defiant about being disbarred for repeating false information while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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James Comer accuses the media of conspiring with the 'deep state' to protect Joe Biden

Rep. James Comer accused the press of “working with the Deep State" by reporting his impeachment efforts against President Joe Biden were failing due to the lack of a smoking gun.

Comer spoke about his media coverage Monday with Fox Across America host Jimmy Failla, who claimed Democrats had launched a counter-effort "to try to sell the American public on the idea that you guys haven’t found anything."

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‘Hunger Games at NBC News’: New McDaniel revelations have ‘enraged’ staffers, report says

The backlash from NBC News' hiring of Ronna McDaniel is not over. New reporting from Puck, CNN, and The Washington Post reveals the considerable efforts from top NBC and MSNBC brass to recruit, hire, and support the former RNC chair who promoted false election claims, was allegedly involved in helping Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, and refused to say Joe Biden had been elected fairly.

Staffers at NBC News and MSNBC were outraged at McDaniel's hiring, but new details about behind-the-scenes efforts reportedly have increased that outrage.

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'Egregious violation': Bridge collapse company fired worker who raised safety concerns

Maersk — the company that chartered the cargo ship involved in the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that killed six people and injured several others — was sanctioned by the Department of Labor last year, according to a new report.

Lever News reported that cargo giant Maersk was hit with a violation in July of 2023 when it illegally fired a worker who reported safety concerns to the U.S. Coast Guard. The employee reported numerous safety concerns aboard a Maersk vessel that included leaks in a starboard-side tunnel, alcohol use by crew members and leaving a trainee unsupervised aboard the ship Safmarine Mafadi.

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'Why didn’t he do it?' Columnist calls out Trump for being 'ridiculous braggart'

Donald Trump is bragging again that he will improve the Affordable Care Act — but a New York Times columnist reminded the public he's already passed on a chance to do so.

In a Truth Social post this week, the former president denied President Joe Biden's claim that he intends to end Obamacare, and instead insisted he would make the health care law "much, much, much better for far less money."

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Lawyers panic after under-oath statement by ex-Trump DOJ official

Jeffrey Clark — a senior official at former President Donald Trump's Department of Justice — may have committed a major verbal error while testifying under oath at his disbarment hearing.

The Associated Press reported that Clark, who was acting head of the DOJ's civil division in the waning days of the Trump administration, reportedly had inappropriate and unsanctioned contact with Trump behind the backs of his superiors.

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MTG lobs 'completely backward' new excuse for Trump's 'find me the votes' call

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Thursday pushed a new excuse for former President Donald Trump's infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in which he demanded Raffensperger "find" him the votes he needed to overtake President Joe Biden.

Appearing on Steve Bannon's "War Room" podcast, Greene claimed that Trump simply believed that a large batch of ballots had been lost in the mail and that he wanted Georgia's top election official to seek them out.

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'The usefulness of lies': Prosecutor shreds Trump's First Amendment argument in Georgia

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney argued Thursday his Georgia election racketeering case should be dismissed because, as the prosecutors summarized it, “he lied over and over and over again.”

It was a flabbergasted state attorney Donald Wakeford who spoke out against the First Amendment challenge brought by Trump lawyer Steve Sadow, who argued that the case should be dropped because it attempted to criminalize free speech, and cited the false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen as proof.

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'Just why?' CNN hosts blow up 'absurd' conspiracy theories about Baltimore bridge collapse

An onslaught of conspiracy theories that followed the Baltimore bridge collapse Tuesday was seen by tens of millions of people — many of whom heard the “absurd” claims before they even heard the facts of what happened, CNN reported Thursday.

“Why? Just why?” anchor John Berman asked. “The absurd, not to mention offensive, alternative reality, devoid of facts, was created as search and rescue efforts were underway.”

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Kari Lake has created a 'recipe for disaster' in her own state: report

Arizona has become a hotbed of election conspiracy theories as it has become a hotly contested swing state thanks to a confluence of factors.

Donald Trump falsely blamed fraud for his loss to Joe Biden in the former Republican stronghold, and so did his ally Kari Lake when she lost her race for governor, and the state's changing political demographics, combined with persistent misinformation that gets little pushback from prominent Republicans, has turned Arizona into a hub of debunked election fraud claims, reported the New York Times.

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Trump's shameless golf cheating is 'microcosm' of his whole life: Morning Joe panel

Donald Trump notoriously cheats at golf, and panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" mocked his skullduggery on the links as emblematic of all of his other moral failings.

The former president boasted over the weekend that he’d “WON BOTH” the Club Championship Trophy and Senior Club Championship Trophy at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, which drew a sarcastic "Congratulations, Donald" from President Joe Biden, and Joe Scarborough laughed about a mutual friend who revealed the secret to his so-called success.

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