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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.

Atlantic reporter Tim Alberta's new book "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory" points to evangelical Christianity as a threat to the United States, New York Magazine sums up in its review.

Alberta grew up in a Michigan mega-church, Cornerstone, where his father was the lead pastor until his death. Alberta tells how the congregation slowly devolved into chaos as the new pastor refused to attack Joe Biden and the state's Democratic governor.

Fake electors in Wisconsin have finally agreed that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, according to the Washington Post.

In a civil settlement Wednesday, 10 Republicans who signed paperwork falsely saying Trump had won Wisconsin revoked their challenge and promised not to commit any action like it again.

Democratic and GOP senators attended a closed-door briefing Tuesday in which President Joe Biden's request for military aid to Israel and Ukraine was discussed. But, according to NBC News, it did not go well.

The briefing's leaders included, among others, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas as well as Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Senators who attended were invited to ask questions about Biden's request.

Time magazine named US pop superstar Taylor Swift as its person of the year on Wednesday, calling the musical force of nature the "hero of her own story."

Swift has smashed industry records this year with both her tour and the film of the globetrotting musical cavalcade that is estimated to bring in almost $2 billion of revenue as her adoring fans flock to see her in the flesh.

Could a second Donald Trump presidency slide into dictatorship? A sudden spate of dystopian warnings has got America talking about the possibility less than a year before the US elections.

Dark scenarios about what could happen if the twice-impeached Republican former president wins in 2024 have appeared in the space of a few days in major US media outlets that include The Washington Post, The New York Times and the Atlantic.