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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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Watch: Dem lawmaker takes brutal shot at Matt Gaetz to debunk 'weaponized DOJ' claims

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Tuesday used a congressional hearing featuring testimony of Attorney General Merrick Garland to undermine claims from his Republican colleagues about the United States Department of Justice being "weaponized" against Republicans.

While questioning Garland, Cohen made the case that the current DOJ isn't only hitting former President Donald Trump with criminal charges and has not shied away from going after Democrats as well.

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‘Get the demons out’: Marjorie Taylor Greene demands ‘exorcism’ of Mike Johnson

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) demanded that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) shut down the federal government until the state of New York overturns former President Donald Trump's conviction.

During a Tuesday interview with convicted criminal Steve Bannon, Greene claimed Johnson wasn't doing enough to fight for Trump.

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Biden, in Time interview, hints Netanyahu prolonging Gaza war

US President Joe Biden swiped at Benjamin Netanyahu in an interview with Time magazine published Tuesday, saying there was "every reason" to conclude the Israeli prime minister was dragging out the Gaza war to save himself politically.

Biden added that he had a "major disagreement" with Netanyahu over the post-conflict future of Gaza, and said Israel had engaged in "inappropriate" conduct during the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack.

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'Full on dictatorship!' MTG demands GOP sabotage Trump prosecutions in new tantrum

A frustrated Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took to the X platform on Tuesday to attack her own party for failing to retaliate against former President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction in Manhattan.

This comes as the conspiracy-prone congresswoman, who was previously close to GOP leadership when former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was in control of the House, is experiencing a growing rift with leadership under House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

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'Garbage and gibberish': Dem strategist thrashes Trump's 'unhinged' response to conviction

Democratic strategist Maria Cardona on Tuesday didn't mince words when discussing the political impact of a guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial last week.

Although some Trump allies are reportedly convinced that being found guilty on 34 felony counts will benefit him politically, Cardona shot down such claims during an appearance on CNN.

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