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'Insane': Rambling Trump interview stuns experts who say he was playing with legal fire

Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump did the near impossible Tuesday and shocked a nation already well accustomed to his unique rhetorical style.

"I’ve seen this before in folks who OD on Adderall," wrote national security attorney Bradley Moss.

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Trump unleashes epic whining tirade as stunned Newsmax host watches interview derail

Former President and convicted felon Donald Trump went off the rails rapidly in a rambling interview delivered on the far-right cable network Newsmax on Tuesday night, threatening to throw former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in jail.

The footage was first flagged by Public Notice's Aaron Rupar, and Meidas Touch's Acyn Torabi.

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Proud Boy's shocking words before storming U.S. Capitol revealed: 'Horrible'

Another Proud Boys member pleaded guilty to engaging in the deadly Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot this week in a case that revealed his disturbing words before mounting the attack.

Freedom Vy, 39, of Southwest Philadelphia pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally entering a restricted area — a misdemeanor, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Trump demands hush money judge end gag order after historic criminal conviction

Former President Donald Trump is demanding that Judge Juan Merchan terminate the gag order in his criminal hush money trials on the heels of his historic conviction, according to a new report.

CNN's Kara Scannell reports that Trump's attorneys argued in a letter delivered Monday, and made public Tuesday, that there was no longer any need to protect the jury from prejudice.

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Republican likens Trump conviction to the persecution of Black people in 1950s Alabama

A far-right North Carolina congressman and election denier — who's running to become the state's top law enforcement official — this week compared former President Donald Trump's prosecution in New York to the persecution Black Americans faced in 1950s Alabama.

Republican Rep. Dan Bishop, who represents the state's 9th congressional district near Charlotte, told The Pete Kaliner Show in Charlotte that Trump's criminal case "fundamentally rigged" because the case was brought in the Democratic leaning state.

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Adam Schiff shades House Republicans with epic Sam Alito diss

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) hit House Republicans with an epic diss Tuesday as they grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland over their claims that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Donald Trump.

Republicans at the House Judiciary hearing attacked Garland for everything from state charges against Donald Trump to ignoring GOP demands for the audio version of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden.

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GOP will defund DOJ in retaliation for Trump conviction: Speaker Mike Johnson

The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week.

In a Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with his House Republican conference members, Johnson said “he will do everything he can to go after the Department of Justice,” CNN reported, “and said the verdict has ignited support for the former president, two sources familiar with the comments told CNN.”

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Trump's ex-press team reveals how they browbeat surrogates to spread his message

Former Trump administration communications officials Alyssa Farah Griffin and Stephanie Grisham spilled the beans on how their former boss operates in a new article for CNN this week.

This comes as former President Donald Trump faces the new reality of being convicted of 34 felonies in New York — and tries to use everything in his playbook to make it go away.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene to force Biden impeachment vote: 'That’s what we should be doing'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said she planned to force the U.S. House of Representatives to vote on the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Greene criticized Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for not taking more action after Donald Trump's conviction in New York. And she said that she would defy the speaker by forcing a vote on Biden's impeachment.

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Hunter Biden's wife angrily rails against 'Nazi' Trump ally at husband's trial: report

Hunter Biden's wife confronted a former White House aide to Donald Trump outside the courtroom where the president's son is standing trial.

Melissa Cohen-Biden approached Garrett Ziegler, who worked on trade policy in the White House and was part of efforts to publicize the contents of a laptop to embarrass Joe Biden's son before the 2020 election.

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Merrick Garland fact-checks GOP lawmaker in real time on rules for releasing Biden tapes

Attorney General Merrick Garland fact-checked a Republican congressman on the rules of evidence during a House hearing.

Rep. Cliff Bentz (R-OR) questioned the attorney general Tuesday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing about the Department of Justice refusing to publicly release recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur and instead issue only a transcript.

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Watch: Ted Lieu demands apologies after GOP colleague seems to mock Biden's stutter

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) attacked his colleagues in the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, saying that they are endeavoring to humiliate President Joe Biden because he has a stutter.

Biden has long spoken about this stutter, explaining that he was able to overcome it by reading Irish poets aloud in the mirror for hours each day.

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'Deadly lethal force!' Trump triples down about lies that Biden tried to have him killed

In a new video posted to his Truth Social account on Tuesday, former President Donald Trump falsely claimed that President Joe Biden had put his life in jeopardy after the United States Department of Justice authorized agents to use deadly force while searching Mar-a-Lago if they encountered a life-threatening danger.

As multiple legal experts have explained, the authorization of deadly force in such searches is completely standard practice, and the FBI's authorization to search President Joe Biden's properties for classified documents used the same language as during the Trump search.

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