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Fulton County court quickly deletes docket report showing Trump charges for racketeering and conspiracy

Reuters is reporting that a two-page docket posted apparently accidentally on the Fulton County court's website showed multiple charges that could be filed against former President Donald Trump this week.

According to Reuters, the docket report, which was quickly deleted shortly after being posted, showed Trump indictments for charges including racketeering, conspiracy, and making false statements.

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Pro-Trump Republicans aiding Georgia company seeking to 'aggressively cancel voter registrations': report

A private company aided by Republican "election integrity activists" is "attempting to sell software to Georgia election officials and residents that would enable them to aggressively cancel voter registrations," Mark Niesse reports in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.

EagleAI's "software could be used by local governments as well as individuals who have challenged the eligibility of tens of thousands of voters since the 2020 presidential election," Niesse explains. "EagleAI's sales pitch has alarmed voting rights organizations that say it could be abused to attempt to disenfranchise legitimate voters."

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'Keep making fools of themselves': Morning Joe bashes GOP attacks on Hunter Biden's special counsel

On Monday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough blasted Republican lawmakers who wanted a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's son Hunter, and then proceeded to flip out on Attorney General Merrick Garland for bestowing that status on the U.S. attorney who has already been investigating Hunter Biden.

On Friday Garland announced he was granting a request from David Weiss -- a Donald Trump appointee -- to be given special counsel status in an effort to continue his investigation.

That created a growing uproar among some vocal Republican critics who are still angry with Weiss for agreeing to a plea deal with the younger Biden.

As "Morning Joe" host Scarborough explained, there appears to be nothing that will please Republicans who want to make Hunter Biden a campaign issue in the 2024 election.

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He then noted that all of their investigations under House Chairs James Comer (R-KY) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) have gone nowhere and they "keep making fools of themselves."

"So they have to keep that issue alive even though they keep making fools of themselves," he ranted. "Even though they say 'We don't care whether Hunter Biden is guilty or not, We don't care if there is anything on the tape that we are raising hell about or not. We've got a secret informant who ends up being an agent of China who ends up being an international fugitive -- who ended up being the guy who tried to illegally smuggle Iranian oil to the Communist Chinese party. An illegal arms trafficker.'"

"But they keep making fools of themselves and they ask for a special counsel and so they finally get what they want, they get their special counsel and they go, 'Oh no no, now we don't want that. I think the special counsel is a great idea."'

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McConnell colleagues have 'grown more alarmed' about his health: report

Colleagues of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have become concerned about his increasing health issues, reported POLITICO on Monday.

This comes after McConnell, 81, has had at least three slip-and-fall accidents this year alone — he is a survivor of childhood polio and has dealt with minor mobility issues all his life — and after a peculiar incident in which he froze up for 20 seconds during a statement to reporters and needed to be escorted away from the podium temporarily by his fellow senators.

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'She wants me behind bars': Trump lashes out at Judge Chutkan after old Jan. 6-related quote resurfaces

Donald Trump tested a federal judge's boundaries by issuing a late-night attack drawn from a quote that circulated over the weekend on right-wing media websites.

The former president lashed out at U.S. District Court judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over his case in the District of Columbia, and claimed she had already determined he belonged "behind bars" by citing her comments during the sentencing of a Jan. 6 rioter last year.

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Republicans on Capitol Hill fiddle while Americans broil or burn

WASHINGTON — It may be so hot out West that President Joe Biden recently forgot whether he had actually declared a national climate emergency (he hasn’t, officially).

But this summer’s record-breaking heat wave has nevertheless had Republicans at the Capitol deflecting and dodging all things climate change related.

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Republican senators ridiculed by MSNBC hosts for complaining about Garland doing exactly what they asked

Two MSNBC hosts couldn't help but laugh at Republicans for anger over Attorney General Merrick Garland agreeing to their demands.

This week, Garland agreed to GOP lawmakers who demanded that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be granted the same powers of a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden's son, Hunter.

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RFK Jr. says he would sign abortion ban at 15 weeks — but still supports other 'medical freedom'

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. indicated that he believes life begins at conception and said he opposes all abortions after 90 days.

“I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life,” Kennedy told NBC News, referring to those three months as "life."

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'Maui is my home — you don't speak for me': Lauren Boebert slammed over Hawaii fires attack on Biden

Social media users slammed Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) over the far-right congresswoman’s suggestion that President Joe Biden isn’t giving adequate attention to the Maui fires.

Authorities on Sunday confirmed that the Lahaina, Hawaii blaze has killed 93 people and left at least 2,200 buildings damaged or destroyed, The Associated Press reports. The blaze has caused an estimated $6 billion in property damage.

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Jamie Raskin promises full report on the millions Trump and his family 'pocketed' while he was president

Appearing on ABC's "This Week" with host Jonathan Karl, Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) interrupted the host's questions about Hunter Biden's legal problems to announce a forthcoming report on all the outside money Donald Trump and his family raked in while he was in office.

With Karl asking about a special counsel being appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to look into President Joe Biden's son's business deals, the Maryland Democrat changed things up by bringing up the Trumps.

“We’re going to release a report about all of the foreign government emoluments and millions of dollars we can document that Donald Trump pocketed at the hotels, at the golf courses and through business deals when he was president and that his family got," he told the ABC host.

He then added that attacks on President Biden have come up empty, explaining, "They haven’t shown any criminal corruption on his part."

POLL: Should Trump be allowed to run for office.

"What they’ve got is Hunter Biden," he elaborated. "And we’ve all seen that this guy was addicted to drugs and did a lot of really unlawful and wrong things. And we have said: let the justice system run its course."

Turning to the avalanche of legal problems the former president is facing, including two federal indictments, he took a shot at his Republican colleagues.

"They’re not saying that about Donald Trump," he accused. "Any time Donald Trump actually gets indicted, after a grand jury has already determined that there’s probable cause, they attack the prosecutors, they attack the judges.”

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'Talk is cheap': Conservative buries Trump for having 'no plan' other than 'a rerun of his failed 2020 campaign'

A staunchly conservative columnist slammed Donald Trump in a sobering assessment of the former president and his continued preoccupation with baseless claims of election fraud in 2020.

Brady Leonard writes for The Washington Examiner that Trump is offering no new ideas for “What exactly would be different in a second matchup against President Joe Biden?”

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Georgia voting systems breach a 'top-down push by Trump’s team': report

Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis and her team of prosecutors have proof that allies of twice-impeached thrice-indicted former President Donald Trump "attempted to access voting systems after the 2020 election as part of the broader push to produce evidence that could back up the former president's baseless claims of widespread fraud," sources familiar with the investigation told CNN's Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray over the weekend.

Willis' office has collected "text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump's legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County," Cohen and Murray wrote on Sunday. "Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump's team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation."

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Biden fights for political gain a year after ambitious climate law

Washington (AFP) - If he had it to do over, he would probably choose another name: A year on, Joe Biden is struggling to sell Americans on the benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act. The hugely ambitious project is aimed at speeding America's transition to clean energy, rebuilding its industrial might and increasing social justice. On August 16, 2022, when the US president signed the $750 billion plan into law, the country was in the midst of a dramatic surge in prices that was battering the Democratic leader's popularity.  So "the Inflation Reduction Act" seemed a logical name, even though t...