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Kyle Rittenhouse complains Biden won't return his phone calls: 'Crickets — nothing!'

On an appearance on a show hosted by Trump campaign attorney and conspiracy theorist Jenna Ellis, Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse complained that President Joe Biden hasn't responded to his phone calls.

"I reached out to Joe Biden several times," said Rittenhouse. "Crickets. Nothing. He still hasn’t replied. So it just shows how much of a man he is to not sit down and talk."

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Trump calls on Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden

Former President Donald Trump is calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to help him damage his domestic political opponents -- again.

In an interview with right-wing Real America's Voice, Trump said that Putin should release any information he has on Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, and his international business dealings with Russian oligarch Yelena Baturina, who was once the wife of the mayor of Moscow.

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Matt Gaetz hijacks cyber security hearing to talk about Hunter Biden's laptop

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) derailed a cyber security hearing on Tuesday by demanding answers about Hunter Biden's laptop.

At a House Judiciary hearing, Gaetz asked FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran about reports that the laptop was turned over to the FBI. The device has been at the center of right-wing conspiracy theories about President Joe Biden.

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Dr. Oz faces backlash from 'furious' longtime staffers after laying them off without warning

Dr. Mehmet Oz has been a fixture on television for the past 13 years, ever since Oprah began featuring him as a guest on her talk show. But in November of last year the Donald Trump-supporting TV doctor - and New Jersey resident - apparently sensed political opportunity in Pennsylvania and declared himself a candidate in the Republican U.S. Senate primary.

In order to pursue his quest for the seat of retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, Oz had to shut down his TV show. The New York Post is reporting that longtime staffers are seething that he gave them no notice that his run for political office would put them out of work.

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U.S. Senate advances economist Cook's nomination to Fed to final vote

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday advanced President Joe Biden's nomination of economist Lisa Cook to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, clearing a key procedural hurdle after the Senate Banking Committee had deadlocked over her appointment.

The vote to discharge Cook's nomination from the hands of the Senate panel now allows a final confirmation vote to occur in the evenly divided Senate.

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Don Trump Jr.: China taking over world reserve currency could be 'good thing' to teach US a 'lesson'

Donald Trump Jr. suggested on Tuesday that it could be a "good thing" for China to take over as the world's reserve currency because it would teach Americans a "lesson."

While speaking to conservative host Steve Bannon, Trump attacked President Joe Biden over rising inflation.

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Handwritten notes may reveal 'unknown person' in last Trump call before mysterious seven-hour gap

Handwritten notes in a previously released document from the National Archives may reveal the identity of the "unknown person" who was the last reported call made by Donald Trump before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The National Archives turned over White call logs to the House select committee, which the Washington Post obtained and found a seven-hour, 37-minute gap in calls between 11:17 a.m., when the call was made to the unidentified individual, and 6:54 p.m., when Trump instructed the operator to call aide Dan Scavino.

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'Is this a joke?' CBS News ripped for hiring 'serial liar' Mick Mulvaney as analyst

CBS News caught a lot of flack this week for hiring former Donald Trump staffer Mick Mulvaney as an analyst.

Mulvaney, a former South Carolina congressman who led the Office of Budget Management and served as Trump's acting chief of staff, made his first appearance Tuesday on CBS's streaming service to discuss President Joe Biden's new budget proposal.

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Trump family tried to ink hotel deal with oligarch linked to Iranian group they now call terrorists: reporter

As part of efforts to restart nuclear inspections and prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the Biden administration has considered dropping the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from the U.S. terrorist organization list, although no decision has yet been made on this.

This group was only added to the terror list in 2019 by former President Donald Trump, a controversial decision at the time as it was the only foreign governmental agency classified as a terror group. Trump's decision wasn't entirely unfounded, as there is evidence IRGC has been a sponsor of terrorism — however, supporters of delisting IRGC note that there would still be a number of other sanctions barring U.S. entities doing business with them even without the terrorism designation, and it could be a way of getting Iran to cooperate on international inspections.

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Joe Scarborough destroys conservatives who love Trump 'vomiting out word salad' but slam Biden's 'gaffe'

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday expressed disgust at conservatives who accused President Joe Biden of a "gaffe" because he expressed moral outrage at Vladimir Putin's leadership in Russia.

During MSNBC's Morning Joe program, Scarborough defended Biden's assertion that Putin "cannot remain in power."

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Trump's coup looks 'darker and more dangerous' than ever — and the House is fighting the clock to expose it all: expert

On Tuesday, writing for CNN, White House reporter Stephen Collinson outlined how recent developments expose former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the election as "darker and more dangerous" than realized — and the challenges faced by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol to race against a likely time limit to uncover it all.

"It's extraordinary that, more than 14 months on, new details of efforts by Trump and those around him to subvert President Joe Biden's victory are still emerging," wrote Collinson. "Here at home, a flurry of new details in recent days about the ex-President's behavior justifies continued investigations into the worst attack on American democracy in decades ... And they inject a new political dimension into Trump's attempted comeback as he casts the 2022 midterm elections as a referendum on the lie that he won in 2020 and seeks to build a return to the White House on the same falsehoods that have drawn in millions of his supporters."

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Trump’s mysterious last recorded phone call before the Jan. 6 riot was to an ‘unidentified person’

The last phone call Donald Trump made before the Jan. 6 insurrection began was with an "unidentified person," according to White House call logs.

That call came at 11:17 a.m., before Trump addressed his supporters at a "Stop the Steal" rally at the White House Ellipse, and was the last official record of a phone conversation the then-president made until seven hours and 37 minutes later -- a gap that has fallen under investigation by the House select committee, reported the Washington Post.

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Over 7 hours of disappearing Trump phone records makes Nixon's tapes 'look like nothing': Harvard law professor

It was revealed by Robert Costa that Donald Trump's White House phone records had seemingly disappeared between 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. At a time when many leaders said that they were calling the White House, somehow there was no record of it from the White House. It was a tip-off to any investigators that something was being held back or intentionally hidden.

As Molly Jong-Fast recalled Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) both indicated that they spoke to Trump on Jan. 6.

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