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'Stop your crying': Ex-GOP candidate slammed for blaming Biden for his $313 beef roast

A former Republican congressional candidate was burned by a journalist on Monday after the GOPer complained that “Bidenomics” was the reason his 17-pound beef ribeye roast cost more than $313.

Jason Nelson, who calls himself “storm chaser,” posted the picture of his roast on social media Sunday. Nelson, who lost his run for congress in Texas, is described on his old campaign site as “a recently retired U.S. Army Soldier, and former United States Marine.”

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'May they rot in Hell': Trump melts down in 'Merry Christmas to all' post about Jack Smith

Donald Trump on Monday wished a "merry Christmas to all," and then things went downhill.

Trump, who is currently battling two separate sets of criminal charges brought against the former president by Special Counsel Jack Smith, earlier attacked a DOJ official and claimed she was lying about whether Joe Biden pressured her or her colleagues to charge Trump.

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'Lie of the year!' Trump spends Christmas yelling about DOJ official's ABC News interview

Donald Trump on Christmas lashed out against a DOJ official, saying she lied in an interview with ABC News about President Joe Biden's lack of input on the Justice Department's prosecution of the former president and Hunter Biden.

Trump, who has previously attacked Lisa Monaco, the U.S. Deputy Attorney General, did so again on Christmas following the interview. ABC News reported that Monaco said claims that the DOJ is politicized do "a disservice to the men and women of the Justice Department."

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'How disgusting': MTG slammed for 'blasphemous' anti-Biden Christmas wrapping paper

Unable to set politics aside for the Christmas holiday, self-avowed Christian Marjorie Taylor Greene felt compelled to share a video of her Christmas tree which set off a wave of criticism because of the wrapping paper on some packages that she appears to be proud of.

The video, shared on X, by the Georgia Republican was accompanied by her boast, "I love my Impeach Biden wrapping paper! Merry Christmas Eve!"

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'You’d never get him out of office': Conservative voters balking at re-electing Trump

Despite Donald Trump's commanding lead in the polls, not all Republican and conservative voters are willing to send the ex-president back to the Oval Office if he ends up winning the battle for the 2024 Republican party nomination.

According to a report from the Guardian, doubts about giving the four-time indicted former president another crack at becoming the commander-in-chief have increased due to his recent comments about wanting to be a "dictator" for one day after being re-elected.

Although many observers have suggested Trump is using that kind of language to get a rise out of his detractors, some Republicans are a bit wary that he means it and are looking elsewhere at either one of Trump's GOP rivals for the nomination or contemplating holding their noses and voting for President Joe Biden.

In interviews with conservative voters in the key state of Pennsylvania, the Guardian's Chris Stein found more than a handful of former Trump voters who expressed growing alarm at the former president's increasingly authoritarian rhetoric.

While 67-year-old Roger Williams defended the Trump "dictator" comments by saying, "For one day – don’t get it twisted. He wanted to put his foot down and dictate some things that needed to get done. That’s what he meant,” others weren't so sure.

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Conservative Bob Capparell, 74, claimed he'd prefer former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie or ex-U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, and worried that Trump might make good on boast about being a dictator by telling the Guardian's Stein, "He would be, absolutely. You’d never get him out of office, never.”

Bob Buchman, 72, a Trump voter in 2016 because he “believed his baloney,” turned to Biden in 2020 and may vote that way again.

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Trump lashes out at DOJ and FBI in 'Merry Christmas to all' morning rant

Donald Trump kicked off his Christmas morning by lashing out in yet another all-caps rant aimed at the prosecutors, the DOJ and the FBI before offering his fans his "Merry Christmas" wishes.

Taking to Truth Social after a Christmas Eve spent lashing out at special counsel Jack Smith, the former president spread his attacks around and added a shot at President Joe Biden.

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Trump runs larger risk from the Supreme Court in Colorado ballot battle: columnist

With the battle between Donald Trump's lawyers and special counsel Jack Smith likely headed to the Supreme Court no matter which way an appeals court rules on his banning from Colorado's ballot, the former president runs the risk the nation's highest court may rule in such a way that the former president's political career will be ended.

In his column for CNN, SiriusXM radio host Dean Obeidallah suggested the court could step in and not just agree with the Colorado Supreme Court, but also disqualify the former president from ever running for office again.

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Michael Cohen recalls Trump's bizarre World War II cracks about Germans chasing Jews

Donald Trump has spent the better part of the last week trying to clean up his language after adopting some of Adolf Hitler's ideology about blood purity. According to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the ex-president knew exactly what he was doing.

Republicans struggled to try and dismiss the comments. Some claimed he was just "joking," a common refrain, and reframe, of whatever objectionable thing the ex-president had uttered. Other lawmakers went so far as to claim that it wasn't "real," and that Trump simply uses that kind of language to get Republican voters excited. Some outright embraced it while the Republican Party stayed silent.

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Trump goes off on another rambling rant 30 minutes after saying the same thing

Donald Trump spent Christmas Eve ranting on his personal social media site, but his engagement seemed low as normal people spent the evening with family, friends or caroling in church.

Instead, Trump posted one rambling rant, spraying conspiracy theories like Aqua Net across his hair. "Crooked Joe Biden," "Crazy Nancy Pelosi," "Derranged Jack Smith," and demanding the House Select Committee that investigated the 2020 election and Jan. 6 attack be prosecuted for "destroying and deleting all of their evidence."

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Supreme Court knows what Trump is doing, and can choose whether to be complicit: columnist

Last week, the Supreme Court turned down special counsel Jack Smith's plea to rush Donald Trump's appeal straight to the High Court so that it can be resolved quickly.

According to columnist Ron Brownstein, the Supreme Court isn't stupid, they know exactly what Trump is trying to do, they simply have to choose whether or not to be complicit.

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'Traitor!': MAGA fans flip out on Lindsey Graham after 2020 election confession

An attempt to support Donald Trump by Sen. Lindsey Graham went horribly wrong for the South Carolina Republican on Sunday because he admitted he voted to certify President Joe Biden's win despite believing there were "problems" with the 2020 presidential election.

On Truth Social Sunday morning, Trump wrote, "I wasn’t campaigning, the Election was over. I was doing my duty as President to expose and further investigate a Rigged and Stolen Election. It was my obligation to do so, and the proof found is voluminous and irrefutable. Therefore, among other reasons, of course I am entitled to IMMUNITY. ADDITIONALLY, I DID NOTHING WRONG. Stop the Witch Hunt NOW!"

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Biden comes out ahead whether SCOTUS leaves Trump on the ballot or not: GOP strategist

In a column for MSNBC, GOP political strategist Susan Del Percio suggested that the battle to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado — and likely other states — should benefit President Joe Biden no matter which way the predominately conservative Supreme Court eventually rules.

With the nation's highest court punting the former president's appeal of the Colorado ruling back to the Court of Appeals before considering it — which is expected no matter which way they rule — Del Perico claimed Trump's ballot problems will do little to bring much-needed new voters into his camp.

Put more simply, she wrote, "it isn’t so much that the Colorado ruling is good for Trump; it just doesn’t hurt him."

With that in mind, she notes that the wavering voters that both Biden and Trump will be courting will never vote for the four-time indicted former president.

"Whatever the Supreme Court rules, the decision will tear this country apart. If Trump is allowed to be on the ballot in Colorado, half of the country will be outraged, and if Trump is barred from being on the ballot, the other half of the country with be irate," she predicted. "Either way, millions of Americans will view this decision as an attack on democracy. Trump voters will remain just as loyal and motivated as before. However, with the issue of democracy front and center, Biden can once again run on protecting the republic."

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According to Del Percio, a Trump win at the Supreme Court will be a wake-up call to voters that they can't depend on the courts to keep Trump from being elected again and it will be up to them.

"The Biden campaign has been looking for an opportunity to engage and motivate his 2020 voters, and democracy is it," she wrote before adding, "The Supreme Court’s decision will reignite the voters that Biden so desperately needs. So which candidate are these decisions good for? In the long run, it is Biden."

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Frustrated GOPers fear Biden impeachment plans have them painted into a corner

With lawmakers slated to return to Washington, D.C. after the holidays, there is growing concern among some Republican House members that the Joe Biden impeachment inquiry being led by Reps. James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) has become a "trap" the party can't escape from now that hearings are being scheduled.

According to a report from Politico's Jordain Carney, there are more than a few GOP House members who feel there is nowhere near enough evidence to successfully send the Biden impeachment to the Democratic-controlled Senate for a trial and that Republicans will pay for their lack of success with voters.

With Politico's Carney writing, "A GOP failure to follow suit [impeaching Biden] this time would likely mean severe backlash from the right flank, former President Donald Trump and an increasingly restless base who, some Republicans acknowledge, treat impeachment as a fait accompli," Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) added that far-right members of the party have set expectations too high for conservatives who don't understand how impeachment works.

“I think there’s an expectation in the base now: ‘You voted for impeachment.’ … They look at this as an impeachment vote,” he explained.

"Leadership has a short window to find an off-ramp that would please both the impeachment skeptics and supporters within their own ranks," Carney wrote. "Investigators want to decide as early as late January on drafting impeachment articles, but whether the conference has the votes to recommend booting the president will likely factor into leaders’ decision to go further down that path."

With the report noting there is no hard evidence that can be used against Biden, some Republicans are already attempting to temper expectations.

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According to Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), "There’s not evidence to impeach” before cautioning, "We’re a long way from impeachment."

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