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The Biden White House is urging reporters to hold the GOP accountable for “claims that have been debunked for years” after U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Thursday afternoon published a years-old FBI form, essentially notes from an interview with an unnamed source relaying second-hand, even older allegations against President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.

That form, known as an FD-1023, “is the form our special agents use to record raw, unverified reporting from confidential human sources (CHSs),” the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI said in a statement when interest in the existence of the form grew earlier this year. “FD-1023s merely document that information; they do not reflect the conclusions of investigators based on a fuller context or understanding. Recording this information does not validate it, establish its credibility, or weigh it against other information known or developed by the FBI in our investigations.”

Sen. Chuck Grassley released this Thursday what's described to be a "bombshell" FBI file showing the Ukrainian owner of the natural gas company Burisma Holdings telling a government informant that he was “coerced” into paying a $10 million bribe to President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, the New York Post reported.

The file shows Mykola Zlochevsky telling the informant that “it cost 5 [million] to pay one Biden, and 5 [million] to another Biden."

An analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that House Republicans' proposed cuts to federal spending for the coming fiscal year would kill 500,000 jobs and hinder economic growth, findings that Democrats seized on as further evidence of the GOP's "willful disregard for the wellbeing of Americans."

The CBO examined the potential economic impacts of Republicans' Limit, Save, Grow Act (LSGA), legislation that the GOP-controlled House passed in late April amid a debt ceiling crisis that the party manufactured.

Donald Trump was the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice — first in response to his attempt to bully Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into helping him dig up dirt on now-President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, then because of the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Three U.S. presidents faced articles of impeachment before Trump (Republican Richard Nixon and Democrats Bill Clinton and Andrew Johnson), but only Trump was impeached a second time.

Trump, however, was acquitted by the U.S. Senate in both of his impeachment trials. And in June, two of his allies in the U.S. House of Representatives — House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-New York) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) — proposed that his two impeachments be "expunged."

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has promoted un-scientific, anti-vaccine, antisemitic, Sinophobic, and conspiracy theories, spoke before cameras in a televised, public Congressional hearing Thursday and declared he is "being censored here." He also used his platform to politicize his remarks, attacking his Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden.

The nephew of the late, assassinated President John F. Kennedy and son of the former U.S. Attorney General who was assassinated while running for President, was testifying under oath as a witness in the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday, July 19, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) went after a favorite target of MAGA Republicans — President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden — and displayed what seemed to be nude photos of him. The far-right MAGA conspiracy theorist claimed that women in the photos were sex workers.

In response, progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) seemed to take a shot at one of Greene's MAGA allies: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida.

President Joe Biden is keeping his lips sealed when it comes to talking about the criminal indictments of his prospective Republican rival, former President Donald Trump.

And the New York Times reports that's no accident, as Biden and his campaign are treating the criminal charges against Trump "like Voldemort — avoiding, at all costs, any mention of the indictments that must not be named."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) blasted Republicans on Thursday for giving a platform to Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

As Republicans were holding a hearing on government censorship, Jeffries spoke out at a press conference.

An aide who spent much of Jan. 6, 2021, with Donald Trump will testify again before a federal grand jury.

The grand jury considering charges against the former president will hear new testimony Thursday from former White House aide William Russell, who now works for Trump's presidential campaign, as part of an ongoing investigation of the U.S. Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, reported NBC News.

Jim Lamon was a big backer of former President Donald Trump in Arizona. He was even one of the fake "electors" signing forged paperwork claiming that Trump won the state and trying to fraudulently be counted by then-Vice President Mike Pence on January 6.

But times have changed. According to Newsweek, Lamon, who also ran unsuccessfully for the GOP Arizona Senate nomination in 2022, has now founded a right-wing organization attacking Trump — for not being MAGA enough.

On July 17, the New York Times published a disturbing article by Jonathan Swan, Charlie Savage and Maggie Haberman that details former President Donald Trump and his allies' plans to give the U.S. federal government a major makeover if he wins the 2024 election. The journalists reported that the Trump campaign envisions a "sweeping expansion of presidential power over the machinery of government" that would greatly undermine the United States' system of checks and balances in 2025.

The Times' report came at a time when Trump is facing two criminal indictments: a 37-count prosecution by special counsel Jack Smith and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and a 34-count New York State prosecution by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, Jr. And more indictments may be coming soon: Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results are the focus of criminal investigations by Smith for DOJ and Fulton County DA Fani Willis for the State of Georgia.