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Donald Trump and his Republican allies are encouraging violence against law enforcement with claims that his criminal prosecutions are politically motivated "scams," according to experts — including one of the former president's attorneys.

The presumptive GOP presidential nominee was convicted last month on 34 felony counts involving business fraud and has three other felony cases yet to come to trial.

Justice Department officials fired off a scathing letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) on Tuesday, debunking a key conspiracy theory House Republicans have been pushing about former President Donald Trump's criminal conviction in New York for the Stormy Daniels hush money scheme to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

Specifically, Assistant Attorney General Carlos Uriate addressed allegations that President Joe Biden or his top law enforcement officials were somehow coordinating the charges against Trump — a theory Trump himself has constantly been alleging as well.

Former Republican turned anti-Trump strategist Ana Navarro laid into the GOP on CNN Tuesday for their growing use of Jesus analogies to hold up former President Donald Trump as a martyr for the people.

This came in response to a discussion about Trump's speech this week to a radical absolutist anti-abortion group, and Rick Patrick, a senior pastor from a church in Alabama, saying of the speech, "He sounded more like a politician who wanted to be elected. I voted for him and I plan to vote for him again, but he was not like the other speakers who were here talking about religious things."

Democrats in Congress urged the U.S. Federal Reserve on Monday to begin cutting interest rates immediately, warning that the central bank's restrictive monetary policy is worsening the nation's housing crisis and threatening to derail a strong streak of job growth.

In a letter to Fed Chair Jerome Powell ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC) two-day policy meeting that begins Tuesday, a trio of Democratic senators led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote that the central bank's 11 rate hikes since March 2022 are "having the opposite of [their] intended effect" by "driving up housing and auto insurance costs, which are currently the main drivers of the overall inflation rate."

A recent ad from President Joe Biden's campaign highlights claims that former President Donald Trump described fallen American soldiers as "suckers" and "losers" and it got under Trump's skin so much that he demanded Biden take it down.

In interviews with The Daily Beast, current and former Trump insiders say that the ad does a good job of picking at some of Trump's own insecurities.

A leading labor advocate on Monday dismissed former U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to eliminate taxes on tips as "pandering" to working people and said the promise doesn't address the fact that low-wage workers need a living base wage to afford necessities—but warned that the Republican's comments reveal a shortcoming in the Democratic Party's economic justice record.

As Saru Jayaraman, president of One Fair Wage, told Common Dreams, Trump's pledge at a rally in Nevada on Sunday should be seen as "a call to Democrats who have yet to come out at any level, calling for what workers really do need this year: a living wage."

The crowning legislative achievement of Donald Trump's first term in the White House was the passage of an unpopular tax bill that gave big corporations a massive windfall, disproportionately rewarded wealthy individuals despite being pitched as a boon for workers, and contributed trillions to the national debt.

With Trump running for another four years in power this November, Republicans are gearing up for a repeat.

Behind metal fences topped with barbed wire, men play volleyball and basketball at a detention center in Texas, passing time as they wait to hear if they will be allowed to stay in the United States.

They are among more than 1,000 men housed at this former naval base in the US city of Los Fresnos, just a few miles from the Mexican border, which they all crossed illegally.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough profanely bashed conservative media for cooking up false evidence that President Joe Biden was suffering from age-related mental problems when Donald Trump publicly exhibited alarming behavior on a regular basis.

Conservative social media users circulated a video over the weekend that was edited to make it appear that Biden tried to sit in a chair that wasn't there at a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day, and the "Morning Joe" host pointed out that most of the alleged proof of the president's mental decline was fabricated or exaggerated while Trump exhibited signs right out in the open.

CNN host Kasie Hunt appeared visibly taken aback after listening to a recording of Martha-Ann Alito's rant about erecting a Christian-themed flag to counter the rainbow LGBTQ Pride flags she sees every June.

During a report on the recordings, which were made by progressive activist Lauren Windsor while posing undercover as a conservative Christian, Hunt played a section in which the wife of Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito fantasized about triggering her Pride flag-flying neighbors with a flag of her own.