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Former President Donald Trump is being driven further and further into insanity by resentment over "public humiliation," psychiatrist Dr. Mark Goulston told Salon's Chauncey DeVega in an interview compilation released on Thursday.

This comes as the former president raises alarm from experts over his increasingly authoritarian-sounding schemes for the U.S., including reshaping the entire federal government in his image and using the DOJ to attack political enemies — to the point he was not even able to deny planning a dictatorship when asked by Fox News' Sean Hannity.

Frederick Frazier, a Trump-endorsed Republican state lawmaker in Texas who also serves as a Dallas Police officer, will not contest charges that he illegally impersonated a public official to have his opponent's yard signs removed, reported the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Wednesday.

Frazier, who will also plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal mischief and represents the city of McKinney, was charged over a 2022 incident in which he allegedly impersonated a town official and told a Walmart store manager to remove campaign signs for his opponent, Paul Chabot, because they were allegedly not in compliance. Chabot filed a complaint with Texas Rangers, who investigated the incident.

Fossil fuel industry-funded Republicans on the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee voted Wednesday to advance Rep. Lauren Boebert's bill that would saddle taxpayers with the massive cost of cleaning up oil and gas wells on federal lands.

"Corporations awarded a lease to drill on federal land must post a bond. If the leasing corporation abandons an exploration site, goes bankrupt, or fails to plug a well securely, the posted bond covers the cost of doing so," Public Citizen explained this week in a statement opposing the proposal.

Fake electors in Wisconsin agreed Wednesday that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election — and an expert predicts special counsel Jack Smith is already planning how to use their admission in his federal investigation.

Donald Trump has already been indicted for the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, and Just Security's Ryan Goodman explained the 10 fake electors, as part of their agreement in settling a civil trial, have pledged to aid in the federal probe of the former president.

Kash Patel, who was a counterterrorism official on former President Donald Trump's National Security Council, made a pledge to lead a "bench" of "all-America patriots" to prosecute journalists if his former boss wins a second term in the White House.

"We will go out and find the conspirators, not just in government but in the media," Patel said in a recent appearance on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon's podcast.

Court filings from prosecutors this week show Donald Trump has continued to target two Black election workers — even after they endured threats from his supporters — accusing them of being among the "monsters" who had stolen the 2020 election, Newsweek reported.

Ruby Freeman and Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, who are mother and daughter, were falsely accused by Trump and his allies of bringing in suitcases of ballots to an Atlanta voting center to ensure Joe Biden's win. Former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been found liable of defaming the pair by making the comments.