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Donald Trump compared life under President Joe Biden to a dystopian hell in a social media post dripping in dramatic imagery Friday.

The former president — who presided over the deaths of 425,000 Americans from COVID-19, nearly 20 percent of all worldwide deaths in his final 10 months in office — complained the world had become a grim and dismal place since he was replaced by Biden in January 2021.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer's (R-KY) investigation of President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden suffered a major blow Thursday when Alexander Smirnov — who Comer had been touting as a key witness — was charged with lying to the FBI.

In response, some Democrats in Congress are demanding answers and calling for Comer's probe to end immediately.

Sen. Joe Manchin (R-WV) will reportedly announce that he will not seek the presidency despite being courted by centrist organization No Labels to potentially serve as their nominee.

NBC News reports that Manchin will make his announcement on Friday, which has come after months of him testing the waters for a third-party bid.

Reacting to the indictment of an FBI source who provided Republicans with derogatory information being used against President Joe Biden which turned out to be false, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner expressed disgust with the House GOP members who made the man a central focus of the impeachment efforts.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the former prosecutor labeled House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) and his cohort of Biden-attacking members "irretrievably incompetent."

Addressing the revelation that 43-year-old Alexander Smirnov is facing two counts of allegedly handing the FBI false information about the president and his son, Hunter Biden, during the 2020 presidential campaign, Kirschner dryly explained how witnesses are supposed to be vetted for truthfulness.

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"Here's the thing," he told host Mika Brzezinski. "Any time you're dealing with a source, the three most important words are corroboration, corroboration, and corroboration. The fact that the Republicans would rely on somebody like this, who has now been criminally indicted for providing false information about Hunter Biden and potentially, by extension, President Biden, the fact that Republican members of Congress would rely on this raises the question, you know, are they sort of irretrievably incompetent, or do they just turn a blind eye to the credibility of the evidence that they're using in what is one of the most consequential moves: an impeachment hearing against a president of the United States."

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A New York judge is expected to issue a ruling Friday that could shatter Donald Trump's business empire and force him to pay up to $370 million over fraud allegations.

He is accused of unlawfully inflating his wealth and manipulating the value of his properties to obtain more favorable bank loans or insurance terms.

A new report from the Washington Post indicates that Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel's ouster was a long time coming.

In fact, it all began when McDaniel refused to get fully behind attorney Sidney Powell's claims that the late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez had engaged in a decade-spanning conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from former President Donald Trump.

The shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally that left one person dead and 22 injured, including several children, was a personal altercation and two juveniles were among those detained, police said Thursday.

Up to a million jubilant fans had gathered in unseasonably warm weather for the parade of NFL champions when shots rang out just before 2:00 pm Wednesday.