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'Surprised it's not more': Ex-GOPer shrugs off Trump's $7.8M foreign profit report

A former Republican staffer for two House Speakers was shocked by Democrat's report accusing the Trump Organization of pulling in $7.8 million while former President Donald Trump was in office, but not for the reason one might expect.

"If you went down to the Trump hotel, it was the Star Wars bar of people trying to influence the Trump White House," Brendan Buck said on MSNBC Thursday. "I'm frankly surprised it's not more."

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Progressives say 'absolutely no reason' Dems should help GOP eviscerate key programs

As a U.S. government shutdown yet again looms, a progressive coalition on Thursday warned Democrats against allowing federal spending cuts beyond what was agreed to in the debt ceiling deal that President Joe Biden negotiated with Republicans last year.

"Congressional Republicans aren't hiding the ball. They want to eviscerate funding for programs working families rely on and they are willing to shut down the government to do it," said Groundwork Collaborative executive director Lindsay Owens, a member of the ProsperUS coalition, in a statement.

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South Florida sees bump in migrant landings. Is another seasonal surge coming?

Groups of desperate people fleeing Cuba have landed at least twice this week in the Florida Keys — the latest seasonal uptick of migrants willing to risk their lives in rickety vessels for a shot at freedom in the United States.

But, for now at least, arrivals in December and the first days of January are down dramatically from the previous holiday season when so many people poured in — often with several landings a day — that it overwhelmed local law enforcement agencies in the Florida Keys and forced both Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Joe Biden to send in emergency reinforcements.

James Comer searched for China link to Biden — but Oversight found Trump instead: reporter

The House Oversight and Reform Committee, under Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) leadership, has searched through the finances of President Joe Biden and the rest of his family looking for incriminating links to foreign entities.

Now it turns out it was Donald Trump who had international business dealings while sitting in the White House, according to a report released by Democrats on the committee.

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Experts fear pro-Trump radicals could spark 'mass casualty event' if he's jailed: report

Almost three years have passed since the January 6, 2021 insurrection, in which a mob of Donald Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol in the hope of stopping Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's victory.

A combination of Trump critics and national security experts have been fearing that the 2024 presidential election could also be accompanied by violence — a possibility that journalist Spencer Sunshine examines in a report published by The New Republic Thursday.

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Watch: Roger Stone's mysterious call with Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6

Trump ally Roger Stone was filmed taking a phone call from Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio in the leadup to the January 6th attack on the United States Capitol.

As Rolling Stone reports, the call was captured by filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen, who made a documentary on Stone called "A Storm Foretold" that is due to be released in select theaters Friday.

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Violent MAGA rioter gushes over Trump's 'beautiful' pardon pledge

A MAGA rioter who has been convicted of attacking law enforcement officials with a baseball bat at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021 is enthusiastic about the potential of being pardoned if former President Donald Trump wins the 2024 election.

In an interview with NPR, Jan. 6 convict Jacob Lang encouraged Trump to deliver a blanket pardon to all people convicted for taking part in the riots, including people like himself who assaulted police.

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Fear of MAGA backlash is threatening to make enforcing law 'merely optional': columnist

Letting Donald Trump remain on the ballot in Colorado and Maine will be a signal to Trump's followers that violence works — and they’re in charge, a columnist warned Thursday.

Salon’s Amanda Marcotte was reacting to “hand-wringing” commentators who worry that ruling that Trump is an insurrectionist who, under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, has no right to stand for public office will spark angry backlash from the former president’s rabid supporters.

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‘Official’ Trump calendar omits a critical detail

A “2024 Official Calendar” published by Donald Trump Jr. comes replete with “Incredible photographs from President Donald J. Trump's time in the White House.”

Trump-y historical facts accompany many of the dates.

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Trump's lawyers just helped Jack Smith prove his election interference case: Analyst

Donald Trump's attorneys inadvertently just helped Special Counsel Jack Smith prove a major part of his case against the former president, argued Aaron Blake in a column for the Washington Post on Wednesday.

Blake looks at a recent legal brief in Trump's appeal for presidential immunity in his federal election conspiracy case, which he argues contains a "remarkable" detail useful to Smith's team.

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Jake Tapper hammers Mike Johnson on border patrol funding: 'They don't want $14 billion?'

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) Wednesday went up against CNN's Jake Tapper who hammered the House Republican on his refusal to work with Democrats on border patrol policy.

Tapper demanded to know why Johnson didn't push forward President Joe Biden's proposed $14 billion package that would send emergency funding to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies that work on Mexico border security.

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Minnesota Republicans endorse Trump for president

The four Republican members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation endorsed former president Donald Trump for president Wednesday.

U.S. Reps. Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer — the House Majority Whip — released a joint statement on social media calling for fellow Republicans to rally behind Trump.

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Trump rewrites history in Iowa brag: I 'fought obstructionist left-wing judges — and won'

An editorial by Donald Trump published in the Des Moines Register on Wednesday attempts to rewrite history.

The former president and leading Republican primary candidate is spending the last two weeks before Iowa's caucuses talking about a policy that has nothing to do with his 2020 election conspiracies.

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