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Mark Meadows will singlehandedly convict Trump in D.C. Jan. 6 case: Chris Christie

Chris Christie explained why Mark Meadows could singlehandedly get Donald Trump convicted of inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The former White House chief of staff has been granted immunity by special counsel Jack Smith in the District of Columbia case, and Christie told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Meadows would be a compelling witness who could ultimately land Trump in prison and wipe him from the 2024 ballot.

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New Jack Smith filing shows he's ready to hammer Trump for inciting Jan. 6 riot

Although special counsel Jack Smith did not charge former President Donald Trump directly with inciting the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, a new court filing shows that the special counsel's team is preparing to use the riot as a central part of its case that Trump corruptly tried to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election.

As reported by Politico, the new filing written by senior assistant special counsel Molly Gaston argues that Trump's incitement of the mob was part of a last-ditch effort to intimidate members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify President Joe Biden's victory.

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James Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his own brother: report

House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-KY) has been investigating the allegedly "shady business practices" of President Joe Biden and his family, but he's engaged in similar practices with his own relatives.

The Kentucky Republican subpoenaed the president's brother James Biden and son Hunter Biden, and will no doubt ask about two personal loan payments between the siblings in 2017 and 2018 – when Joe Biden was neither in office or a candidate – but The Daily Beast reported that Comer may have conflicts of interest involving his brother.

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'Our brand is shot': Ex-Trump aide says GOP is having an 'incredibly hard time'

The Republican party is in trouble, according to a former Trump administration official.

Appearing on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 on Wednesday, the former president's ex-aide Alyssa Farah Griffin commented on the recent election results in which Republican candidates suffered more losses than many expected they would. Griffin, a former communications official in Trump's administration who renounced him following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, is also a co-host of "The View."

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President Joe Biden coming to Illinois, saying UAW agreement validates economic strategy

CHICAGO — President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Belvidere in Northern Illinois on Thursday, celebrating the United Auto Workers’ contract agreement with Stellantis that includes the company’s vow to invest millions of dollars and reopen its manufacturing plant in the northern Illinois town for electric vehicles and creating an EV battery assembly.

Underscoring the strike-ending UAW agreement, Biden’s visit is an effort to show his post-COVID economic strategy dubbed “Bidenomics” is working.

Can abortion rights buoy Biden's 2024 hopes?

Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden celebrated victory Wednesday after a series of votes centered on abortion rights -- but the big question now is whether the issue can help the Democrat overcome likely opponent Donald Trump in 2024. The wins for Democrats and abortion-rights campaigners in Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia on Tuesday were a boost for 80-year-old Biden after dismal recent polling numbers showed him trailing hard-right Republican Trump, 77, in next year's race. Stung by critical media coverage and growing doubts in the Democratic Party about his candidacy, Biden himself pointe...

GOP lawmaker asks for leniency for Jan. 6 rioter who attacked cops with pepper spray

A Republican lawmaker pleaded leniency this week for a Jan. 6 rioter who admits to arming himself with a crowbar, attacking police with pepper spray, and threatening to assault U.S. elected officials, court records show.

U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) wrote a letter of support for Ryan Nichols, the insurrectionist who pleaded guilty Tuesday to felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers in a Washington D.C. federal court, records show.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend begs man in rat suit not to vote for Joe Biden

RSBN host Brian Glenn, who is dating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), pleaded with a man in a rat suit not to vote for President Joe Biden.

While waiting with people attending a Donald Trump rally on Wednesday, Glenn confronted a Trump protester in a rat suit.

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U.S. abortion policies loom over Republican debate in Miami

Republican presidential candidates will meet in debate on Wednesday -- again snubbed by clear frontrunner Donald Trump -- as the party's increasingly hardline position on abortion faces scrutiny after disappointing state elections results a day earlier.

The ex-president will skip the Miami event and instead hold a rally 11 miles (18 kilometers) away, maintaining his strategy of refusing to debate challengers.

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Ex-governor questions Trump's brain: 'That elevator's not going to the top floor anymore'

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe got into a debate with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday as the two sparred over the 2023 election results and what it says about the future of the Democratic Party and Joe Biden.

Mitchell tried to argue that Tuesday's election that benefitted Democrats was still bad for President Joe Biden because he's still old. She said that the abortion issue might be unpopular for Donald Trump but that he can simply change his position as he's done so many times on so many issues.

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'Nothing's going to get fixed': Right-winger despairs as Trump crushes GOP election hopes

Conservative Erick Erickson found himself in a seeming state of despair on Wednesday after watching the Republican Party suffer a new round of stinging defeats in off-year elections, which are coming despite the fact that President Joe Biden suffers from continuously dismal approval ratings.

Writing on Twitter, Erickson pinned the party's biggest problem as its total reliance on Trump as its political champion despite the fact that the GOP lost the 2018 midterm elections and the 2020 presidential election, while also suffering from a massively disappointing 2022 midterm election that saw Republicans retake the House of Representatives by a very slim margin.

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'He has mental illness for gosh sake!' MSNBC analyst assails Trump's cognitive health

MSNBC's Claire McCaskill questioned Donald Trump's fitness to serve another term as president on multiple levels.

Recent polls have suggested Trump would beat President Joe Biden in a rematch of 2020, with many voters expressing concern over Biden's age, but the former Missouri senator told "Morning Joe" that Trump wasn't much younger and had already proved himself incapable of behaving himself in private life, business, court or the White House.

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Biden boosted by Ohio abortion vote and Kentucky win

The US state of Ohio voted Tuesday to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution, while the Democratic governor of Kentucky won reelection, in results that boosted President Joe Biden ahead of the 2024 White House race.

The "yes" vote victory in Ohio's referendum, known as Issue 1, inserts the right in the Republican-run state's constitution for residents to "make and carry out one's own reproductive decisions," including on abortion.

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