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Biden 'shouldn't take any crap' from felon Trump over Hunter's conviction: Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged president Joe Biden to take on Donald Trump directly over his son's felony conviction on firearms charges.

The president and his Republican challenger are scheduled to face off June 27 in a debate, and the "Morning Joe" host encouraged Biden not to back down if Trump attacked his son Hunter Biden's conviction for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form and possessing a gun while addicted to, or using, illegal drugs.

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Attention Lincoln and Reagan: GOP senators scramble history with Trump greatness claim

Seismologists report that the chunks of granite falling from the Mount Rushmore National Memorial come from the laughter of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt after they read a recent email blast from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Donald Trump is “the greatest president in American history,” the NRSC’s fundraising missive declared.

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'Invoices said legal retainer': Trump highlights key evidence in late-night rage post

Donald Trump raged about his own conviction on 34 felony counts hours after Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony gun charges.

The former president was found guilty himself last month for falsifying business records to cover up other crimes, including violations of campaign finance laws, and he lashed out once again late Tuesday against the prosecutor who brought the charges.

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'Lunacy': Dem lawmaker slams GOP's 'out of touch' crusade to weaponize Biden's family

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) took his Republican colleagues to the woodshed Tuesday on MSNBC, over their years-long quest to tear down President Joe Biden by investigating and pushing conspiracy theories about his family.

This comes as his surviving son Hunter Biden was found guilty of improperly purchasing a firearm while addicted to drugs — and as Republicans, many of whom demanded he be prosecuted, now admit this was a silly issue to prosecute. Still others claimed there was some sort of conspiracy behind Biden allowing his own son's conviction to happen.

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GOP leaders may scrap vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt: report

House Republicans' planned vote to refer Attorney General Merrick Garland for criminal contempt of Congress may be on the brink of being pulled, Axios reported Tuesday evening.

"Canceling the vote would be a letdown for conservatives who have pounded the table for the vote — and showcases the weakness of Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-La.) thin House majority," reported Juliegrace Brufke, Stephen Neukam, and Andrew Solender. "The vote is in danger of being pulled off the schedule because Republican sponsors don't have the votes, two House GOP lawmakers and multiple sources told Axios. A vote was expected this week."

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'Pornographically violent': Rachel Maddow unleashes no-holds-barred attack on Trump

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attacked the former president in a brief commentary on Tuesday, addressing comments he had made over the weekend.

The MSNBC host joined colleague Nicolle Wallace to discuss the speech Donald Trump gave in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the weekend that left even Republicans scratching their head.

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Even 'MAGA morons' couldn't make heads or tails of Trump's Vegas rant: ex-lawyer

Former President Donald Trump's estranged one-time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is amused by his former boss' bizarre rant at his latest rally in Las Vegas, where Trump launched into a confusing tangent about sharks while attacking President Joe Biden's electric vehicle initiatives.

"By the way, a lot of shark attacks lately," Trump said. "Do I get electrocuted or do I jump over by the shark?"

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'Waste of taxpayer dollars': Hunter Biden jurors doubt case should’ve even been brought

Some of the 12 jurors who convicted Hunter Biden on three gun-related felony counts are now publicly speaking out — not only about their decision to find him guilty, but about the necessity of the case itself.

On Tuesday, the jury of six men and six women delivered its unanimous verdict finding President Joe Biden's son guilty after just three hours of deliberations. Jurors were instructed to base their decision on whether Hunter Biden lied on a federal form when purchasing a handgun in 2018 while he was addicted to crack cocaine.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Biden 'threatened American citizens with F-15s'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused President Joe Biden of wanting to attack American citizens with F-15 fighter jets.

In a post on X Tuesday, Greene highlighted an 11-second video clip from the Republican National Committee that showed Biden stuttering while speaking at an Everytown for Gun Safety event.

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'Completely wacko': George Conway smacks down ex-Trump aide's take on Hunter Biden

Conservative attorney George Conway just ripped apart the argument made by Stephen Miller – former President Donald Trump's top immigration adviser — that Hunter Biden's guilty verdict was somehow orchestrated by his father as "election interference."

On Tuesday, a Delaware jury found President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, guilty on all three counts in Department of Justice special counsel David Weiss' indictment.

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'Alarming': Conservative caught pumping dark money into swing states via surprising source

Conservatives have been caught pumping dark money into key swing states that political experts are calling "alarming" — via a source commonly called "pink slime."

Dark-money funded websites designed to look like nonpartisan news outlets have choked out legitimate journalism sources in former President Donald Trump's primary battle grounds in the upcoming presidential election, Axios reported Tuesday.

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Trump campaign scrubs well wishes for Hunter Biden from official conviction response

Former President Donald Trump's campaign rescinded and reissued its response to Hunter Biden's criminal conviction to scrub well wishes for President Joe Biden's son, according to a new report.

Trump's campaign sent CNN two statements regarding the guilty verdict in Hunter Biden's Delaware federal court case on felony gun charges linked to his admitted drug addiction, the news outlet reported Tuesday.

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'You are in a cult': House Dem smokes GOP conspiracy theories on Hunter Biden conviction

Many conservatives are now claiming that President Joe Biden either orchestrated or quietly sanctioned the criminal conviction of his own son by the United States Department of Justice as a ruse to add legitimacy to the purported political prosecutions of former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) tore this conspiracy theory to pieces on Tuesday and expressed incredulity that Republicans could really think Biden would sacrifice his own son just to put Trump in jail.

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