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Trump under 'enormous financial strain' as new report reveals legal fees are 'staggering'

Former President Donald Trump’s super PACs blew through $50 million in legal fees as four criminal indictments crashed down on him last year, according to a new report.

“It is a staggering sum,” wrote New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Shane Goldmacher Tuesday. “Nikki Haley raised roughly the same amount of money across all her committees in the last year.”

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Ego-bruised Trump insists to aides he's 'more popular' than Taylor Swift: report

Donald Trump's allies are already preparing a "holy war" against pop superstar Taylor Swift if she endorses President Joe Biden.

Sources familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone the former president's loyalists and other allies assume the singer-songwriter will eventually endorse Biden, as she did in 2020, and that likely move infuriates Trump and has already prompted MAGA culture warriors to whip up conspiracy theories about Swift and her NFL star boyfriend Travis Kelce.

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House Dem taunts GOP: 'Look up Schoolhouse Rock and figure out how government works'

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) had some fun at the expense of his Republican colleagues on Tuesday when he mocked them for demanding that both the Joe Biden White House and the United States Senate accept every one of their demands on new immigration legislation.

While speaking on the House floor, McGovern pointed out to Republicans that they only controlled one-half of one branch of the federal government — and by a razor-thin majority.

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White House official sarcastically mocks Trump aide as a puppy eater

The Biden White House is working hard to press House Republicans to pass the border legislation they once demanded, but Speaker Mike Johnson has now rejected it as "dead on arrival" — and they're taking a variety of different steps to pound their points home.

Republicans downplayed President Barack Obama in the final years of his tenure by blasting his "I've got a pen, and I've got a phone," remarks he used to threaten executive orders if Congress did not give him what he needed.

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'Preposterous': Biden bookkeeper latest witness to shred James Comer's impeachment claims

President Joe Biden's business associate Eric Schwerin is answering questions about the former vice president's financial association with his son Hunter after the end of the administration but before he was president.

Capitol Hill CNN reporter Annie Grayer disclosed that House Republicans looking to impeach Biden for taking bribes from foreign countries, a long-time allegation that Donald Trump and his allies have claimed without evidence, yet again had their hopes dashed when they grilled Schwerin.

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Major cyberattack hits Fulton County amid Trump prosecution

The Georgia county whose district attorney is prosecuting former President Donald Trump and his allies on racketeering charges has experienced a major cyberattack Tuesday.

The Messenger reports that Fulton County this week got hit with an attack that has knocked out multiple online services, including access to court records and tax documents.

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Biden says he has decided Jordan strike response, doesn't want wider war

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he had decided on a response to a deadly drone strike on US forces in Jordan but said he did not seek a wider war in the Middle East.

Facing growing pressure in an election year, Biden said he held Iran responsible for supplying the weapons to the people who carried out the attack that killed three US troops.

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‘Slave trade’: House Republican makes wild allegations accusing Biden of ‘traitorous’ acts

U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) served up wild accusations against President Joe Biden and his administration on Monday during a House Republicans' press conference on the border. After making demands of the Biden Administration to send an ultra-conservative bill that includes funding and stringent policies for the U.S. border, and funding to support fighting in Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, Republicans are now rejecting what they requested after decrees from Donald Trump.

Back in October, after far-right House Republicans ousted Kevin McCarthy and were struggling to find a new Speaker, President Joe Biden requested a $105 billion aid package for the U.S. southern border, Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Of the $105 billion, $50 billion would go to U.S. defense industry manufacturers to "expand production lines, strengthen the American economy, keep us safe, and create new American jobs,” Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said, CNBC reported at the time.

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'They've come home': Billionaires who abandoned Trump rush back as he beats competition

Billionaire megadonors are lining up behind Donald Trump now that he's won the first two Republican primaries.

The former president will meet for dinner with two-dozen GOP donors Thursday at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire investor John Paulson, after meeting Saturday with several other megadonors, including aerospace tycoon Robert Bigelow, who had been the biggest contributor to Ron DeSantis, reported Politico.

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MAGA fans fear Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are agents of 'shadow forces': CNN reporter

CNN's Oliver Darcy reported on Tuesday morning detailed a new conspiracy theory being pushed by many Trump supporters about NFL star Travis Kelce and pop singer Taylor Swift being agents of "shadow forces" that secretly control the world.

This conspiracy theory, which was outlined over the weekend by failed GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, posits that the NFL rigged the AFC Championship Game for the Kansas City Chiefs so that Swift could travel to the Super Bowl and make a high-profile endorsement of President Joe Biden in front of a mass television audience.

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'Not a fight he wants': Historian predicts Trump will regret taking on UAW boss

United Autoworkers President Shawn Fain has been drawing former President Donald Trump's ire recently both with his endorsements of President Joe Biden and his criticism of Trump as a "scab."

Trump, meanwhile, has angrily fired back and called on autoworkers to "get rid of this dope" as their union leader.

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After UAW backs Biden, Trump calls Shawn Fain 'weapon of mass destruction'

In the wake of the United Auto Workers' recent endorsement of Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden over his likely Republican challenger former President Donald Trump, the latter has repeatedly taken aim at UAW president Shawn Fain.

Fain is a "weapon of mass destruction" on autoworkers and the U.S. auto manufacturing industry, Trump declared on his social media platform Monday afternoon, adding: "Is he under contract to China, because they will be getting almost all of our 'car making' business within a very short period of time. All autoworkers should VOTE FOR TRUMP. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defends using campaign donations to pay family members

Independent presidential candidate Robert. F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign is defending the use of donor funds to pay Kennedy family members’ salaries, according to a Raw Story review of federal election records.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Kennedy, and the nephew of his wife, Jackson Hines, have appeared on the campaign’s payroll in recent months.

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