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‘Idiots and traitors’: Jim Jordan under fire for mocking DOJ photo of top secret docs at Mar-a-Lago

U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee and the Republicans he leads are under fire after posting a tweet mocking the damning photo published by the Dept. of Justice late Tuesday night showing a large number of documents marked "TOP SECRET" spread across the carpet at Mar-a-Lago.

On the far right side of the photo is a box with gold frames, and one revealing a TIME magazine cover.

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'Astounding — I was floored': Former FBI official shocked by photos of documents Trump stashed at Mar-a-Lago

On CNN Wednesday, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe reacted to the explosive Justice Department filing in former President Donald Trump's lawsuit against the investigation into him, revealing for the first time a picture of large stacks of classified information that were recovered from the former president's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida.

During an interview on CNN, McCabe broke down the significance of the FBI's findings.

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How Biden's student-debt relief is helping these borrowers: 'I can pay rent and utilities'

For some of the 43 million federal student loan borrowers, President Joe Biden's cancellation of $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt, announced Wednesday, could be life-changing. "By itself, this will not fix a failed system. But this cancellation is an immediate step, the biggest single step we can take" to help student loan debtors, said Persis Yu, policy director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, based in Washington, D.C. And she added that the program might have trouble reaching the potential chief beneficiaries of the forgiveness program: those who took o...

Trump was 'incredibly depressed' by losing Twitter account and 'put on a lot of weight': Filmmaker

Documentary filmmaker Alex Holder revealed this week that former President Donald Trump went through a severe "withdrawal" after losing access to his Twitter account after he incited a deadly riot at the United States Capitol building.

Huffington Post flags an interview that Holder conducted with The Bulwark Podcast in which he talks about meeting Trump in March 2021, weeks after his attempt to illegally stay in power had failed.

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'Negative, bile-filled performance artists': Adam Schiff laments the Republican 'crackpot caucus'

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California) appeared on MSNBC's Tuesday edition of The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell and reflected upon Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-South Carolina) radioactive prediction that there would be "riots in the streets" if former President Donald Trump is criminally indicted.

"I think with Lindsey Graham you see some signs of conscience flare up from time to time that are quickly extinguished," Schiff quipped to host Lawrence O'Donnell.

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Georgia subpoenas media texts and emails from critic of state's electronic voting system

A plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state’s electronic voting system is being subpoenaed by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board for information that would include her communication with reporters.

A subpoena filed Monday in U.S. District Court of Northern Georgia requests Marilyn Marks, executive director of Coalition for Good Governance, to provide every email, text message, details of conversation and any other documents about the unauthorized access of Coffee County’s voting system, including communication she’s had with the media. Marks and a First Amendment advocacy organization accused the state of trying to intimidate reporters and sources from reporting on potentially serious misconduct of some local Coffee election officials scheming with a team of computer forensic experts and Donald Trump loyalists to gain access to sensitive election files in attempt to discredit President Joe Biden’s narrow 2020 election victory in Georgia.

Marks said she believes she is being targeted by the state because she was on the March 2021 call that led to the news breaking this year of a breach of the Coffee County voting system and has been outspoken in her criticism of the state’s handling of the investigation. Marks is a critic of the state’s use of Dominion Voting Systems ballot-marking machines that critics say are less secure than hand-marked paper ballots.

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‘He’s spreading QAnon conspiracies!’ Morning Joe says Trump instantly proved Biden correct on GOP extremism

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Donald Trump proved President Joe Biden correct on Republican extremism.

The current president has in recent days called out Republican extremism, which he described as "semi-fascism," and the "Morning Joe" host pointed out that the former president was spreading violent conspiracy theories the same day that Biden condemned GOP attacks on law enforcement.

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Trump documents were 'likely concealed' to obstruct investigation: DOJ

Documents at former US president Donald Trump's Florida home were "likely concealed" to obstruct an FBI probe into his potential mishandling of classified materials, the Justice Department said in a court filing Tuesday.

The filing provides the most detailed account yet of the motivation for the FBI raid this month on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, which was triggered by a review of records he previously surrendered to authorities that contained top secret information.

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Trump special master stunt backfires as DOJ deploys 'legal battering ram' in late-night filing

Legal and political experts said Donald Trump made a self-inflicted blunder when he pushed for a special master to review the documents seized at Mar-a-Lago, which allowed the Department of Justice to address his claims in a 36-page document filed shortly before midnight on Tuesday, which included 18 pages of exhibits including a photo of documents with highly classified control labels.

"I have read the entire Government filing. I spend all day, every day, litigating against the Government, so some of this is familiar stuff to see. This particular brief is very well-done," attorney Bradley Moss tweeted.

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How Biden’s student-debt relief is helping these borrowers: ‘I can pay rent and utilities’

PHILADELPHIA -- For some of the 43 million federal student loan borrowers, President Joe Biden’s cancellation of $10,000 to $20,000 in student loan debt, announced last week, could be life-changing. “By itself, this will not fix a failed system. But this cancellation is an immediate step, the biggest single step we can take” to help student loan debtors, said Persis Yu, policy director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, based in Washington, D.C. And she added that the program might have trouble reaching the potential chief beneficiaries of the forgiveness program: ...

Trump freaks out over brutal new editorial from Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post

Former President Donald Trump complained on his Truth Social website after the NY Post posted a harsh editorial online on Tuesday evening.

"Attorney General Merrick Garland’s raid on Mar-a-Lago has ex-President Donald Trump back in the news. That’s a problem for Republicans, who need to move beyond him," argued the tabloid, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.

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'Trump is one with the fringe and crazy': Nicolle Wallace unloads on latest Truth Social rants

Donald Trump's social media website has been authorizing QAnon fanatics, but now Trump insiders on the site have taken the next step to promoting the QAnon world of conspiracy theories.

Speaking about the shocking morning of memes that Trump reposted, MSNBC reporter Ben Collins explained that Trump shared a meme referring to "The Storm," a QAnon conspiracy that says the so-called "deep state," Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden will be "rounded up and executed in public."

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Biden says he is 'determined' to ban assault weapons in the United States

During a speech in Philadelphia this Tuesday, President Joe Biden addressed what he sees as the "continued battle for the soul of the nation" and slammed former President Donald Trump and his supporters as hypocrites on the subject of law enforcement, specifically in their latest attacks on the FBI.

Biden also spent a significant portion of the speech talking about guns and reaffirmed his commitment to an assault weapons ban.

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