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Internet lampoons ​Trumpworld’s Georgia mugshots: 'You will never be David Bowie'​

Mugshots of nine of former President Donald Trump's indicted co-defendants are now circulating following their surrender to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia to face the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act charges filed by District Attorney Fani Willis for their alleged attempted theft of the 2020 election.

Ex-Georgia Republican Party Chair Cathy Latham, bail bondsman Scott Hall, and conservative lawyer John Eastman — author of the infamous "coup memo" instructing then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College votes — had their booking photos released on Tuesday. On Wednesday, ex-Georgia State Senator David Shafer (R-48th District), Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro, Ray Smith, Jenna Ellis, "Kraken" Sidney Powell, and Rudy Giuliani — New York City's erstwhile mayor — turned themselves in.

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Biden unsurprised by report of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin's death

By Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he was not surprised by reports that Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin had died in a plane crash, adding that not much happens in the country that President Vladimir Putin is not behind. Analysts said the incident could be a way for Putin to warn others who might betray him or to show his support to the Russian military, whom Prigozhin undermined with an abortive armed mutiny in June. Prigozhin was listed as a passenger on a private jet that crashed on Wednesday eveni...

How 'King' Trump and 'court jester' Giuliani think they will get through this: analyst

CNN political analyst Gloria Borger on Wednesday likened Rudy Giuliani to a “court jester” for Donald Trump in what she described as a “Shakespearean” episode.

Borger's comment came during an appearance on “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” that followed the former Trump lawyer’s release on $150,000 bond after he was booked on 13 charges in connection with the 2020 election interference case in Fulton County, Georgia.

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Trump says indictments are 'campaign contributions' to Biden in pre-debate rant

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform to proclaim the indictments against him are an in-kind campaign contribution to his opponent in an all-caps rant on Wednesday.

"THE INDICTMENTS AGAINST ME SHOULD BE VIEWED AS A CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION TO CROOKED JOE BIDEN AND HIS RADICAL LEFT THUGS," said Trump, who has also claimed the indictments are helping him politically. "THIS WILL BE THEIR UPDATED FORM OF CHEATING & ELECTION INTERFERENCE. REMEMBER, THESE ARE BIDEN INDICTMENTS, PURE & SIMPLE!"

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Tommy Tuberville turns his battle on Pentagon abortion policy into waging war against individual U.S. military officers

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), the far-right hard-core conservative who since February has been single-handedly holding up the promotions of over 300 U.S. Military officers, has now expanded his fight from a battle against the Pentagon's policy supporting service members needing to travel out-of-state to obtain abortion services into a war whose targets are individuals: career U.S. Military officers awaiting promotions.

Among the reasons for the attacks: one officer allegedly "joined a 'Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion panel,'" and one "celebrated Ruth Bader Ginsburg."

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Why Tim Scott — yes, Tim Scott! — is Trump’s biggest threat at tonight’s debate

There may yet come a day — in a month, in a year, on Ronald Reagan’s birthday — when Donald Trump, for any of several reasons, involuntarily crashes or flames out of the 2024 Republican primary as his party’s all-but-presumptive presidential nominee.

And that’s why in tonight’s first Republican presidential debate, pay acute attention — amid Chris Christie’s bellowing and Ron DeSantis’ parrying and Mike Pence’s contortionism — to a man who’s polling around 3 percent nationally.

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Trump campaign taunts GOP debate participants – he's 'already won'

Donald Trump's campaign issued a taunting statement Wednesday declaring that the former president had "already won" the Republican presidential debate that he has no intention of taking part in.

The ex-president is skipping the GOP debate, scheduled for Wednesday evening in Milwaukee, on the eve of his negotiated surrender to authorities in Fulton County, Georgia, following his fourth indictment.

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Hunter Biden investigations are a growing threat to President Biden's reelection: analysis

As President Joe Biden seeks another presidential term, the Justice Department and Republicans are grinding away at investigating his son's foreign business dealings – and the suggested implications with the president keep circling.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, prosecutors have said that Hunter Biden could possibly be prosecuted under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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Indicted Michigan fake electors face furious backlash: report

The indicted fake electors in the Michigan 2020 coup scheme are facing fury around the state, reported The Guardian on Tuesday.

State Attorney General Dana Nessel first announced the charges last month against the plotters, including former Michigan GOP co-chair Meshawn Maddock, Michigan GOP National Committeewoman Kathy Berden, Wyoming Mayor Kent Vanderwood, and Shelby Township Trustee and Clerk Stanley Grot. Some have already faced administrative punishment; Grot, for example, has had his power to administer elections suspended ahead of trial.

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'Little people' charged with Trump are 'on their own' because Georgia GOP already exposed them as 'liars': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough identified one key difference between former President Donald Trump and his indicted allies in the Georgia scheme to overturn the 2020 election result.

The former president pressured state officials to take part in the scheme to reverse his loss to Joe Biden, but those Republican elected leaders refused, recorded evidence against him and publicly disputed his claims of fraud -- which the "Morning Joe" host said has left local GOP officials who have been charged in the case with little political protection.

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Mugshots start dropping as Trump allies surrender in Georgia racketeering case

The Fulton County sheriff's office released mugshots for two Donald Trump allies charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, as two more defendants surrendered to authorities overnight.

Atlanta bail bondsman Scott Hall and Trump campaign attorney John Eastman were booked Tuesday at the Fulton County Jail and released hours later on bond, $10,000 for Hall and $100,000 for Eastman, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and former Republican Party officials Cathy Latham and David Shafer each surrendered overnight.

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Daughter pleads with U.S., Germany to help father on Iran death row

The daughter of a German citizen of Iranian descent who was sentenced to death by Tehran pleaded Tuesday for the United States and Germany to act urgently to save him.

Jamshid Sharmahd's daughter met in Washington with US officials after holding a sit-in outside of the State Department, on the heels of a deal by President Joe Biden's administration to free five American citizens who were imprisoned in Iran.

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'As successful as his tenure': Mark Meadows roasted after his self-surrender extension is denied

Legal experts are reacting to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' Tuesday smackdown of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' request for an extension to the August 25th noon self-surrender deadline.

Seventeen co-defendants were indicted along with Meadows and ex-President Donald Trump for their suspected Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act conspiracy to steal Georgia's sixteen Electoral College votes following Trump's landslide loss to President Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

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