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Trump welcomes 'nice young man' Kyle Rittenhouse to Mar-a-Lago in wake of murder trial

Kyle Rittenhouse reportedly visited former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in the wake of the Kenosha shooter's murder trial.

Trump revealed the visit during an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. Hannity displayed a photo of the meeting.

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Trump bungles attempt to slam Biden over supply chain -- and says 'every shelf was bare' on his watch

Former President Donald Trump appeared on Sean Hannity's show on Tuesday -- and he promptly bungled an attempt to attack President Joe Biden over supply-chain problems.

While talking with Hannity, Trump touted his own efforts at "supplying our country" during his presidency, despite the fact that there were shortages of toilet paper and other essential goods in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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'Call me again, I am suing you!' Mike Lindell erupts at reporter who asks question about his SCOTUS flop

On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell blew up at one of their reporters when he was asked why he hasn't filed his promised petition for the Supreme Court to overturn the results of the 2020 election and "reinstate" former President Donald Trump.

"As of Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court had no record of any filing," reported Zachary Petrizzo. "And reached for comment by The Daily Beast about his non-existent Supreme Court filing and why it hasn't been made public, the pillow mogul fumed. 'Are you out of your mind?' Lindell shouted. 'You call me again, I am suing you!'"

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MAGA rioter avoids jail time because she wore ‘a tutu' and not 'military gear’

A Capitol rioter avoided jail time on Tuesday after a Trump-appointed federal judge noted that she "showed up in a tutu, not—as many did—in military gear."

Rasha Abual-Ragheb declared that "civil war is coming" on social media days after the Jan. 6 insurrection, and prosecutors sought a punishment of one month in jail, Insider reports. However, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols instead sentenced Abual-Ragheb to two months of home confinement and 36 months of probation.

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Jen Psaki turns the tables on Peter Doocy after he asks if Biden will apologize to Kyle Rittenhouse

Fox News' Peter Doocy asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki if President Joe Biden would apologize to acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse -- and she didn't hesitate to turn the tables on him.

During Tuesday's press briefing, Doocy pointed out that Biden linked Rittenhouse to white supremacists in remarks he made during the 2020 presidential campaign and he asked if Biden would apologize to Rittenhouse.

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The Republican Party's Arizona 'audit' left Cyber Ninjas CEO $2 million in debt

The so-called "audit" of the 2020 election in Arizona uncovered more votes for President Joe Biden, but doing it also left the company doing the audit scrambling for money.

Vice News revealed Tuesday that Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan is $2 million in debt and they're not the only ones going broke.

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Trump goes after GOP Senate candidate: ‘People are very upset’

Donald Trump continues to complain about a leading Republican challenging Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) in the 2022 midterm elections.

Trump has pressured Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R-AZ) to investigate his debunked lies about voter fraud, even after the widely ridiculed Cyber Ninjas audit of Maricopa County confirmed he lost the election to Joe Biden.

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Trump issues stunningly false statement criticizing Biden for ‘attack’ on US oil reserves

Donald Trump, the disgraced, former president who is reportedly planning a third campaign, on Tuesday released an exceptionally false statement criticizing President Joe Biden for taking action to combat increasing gas and home heating oil prices.

President Biden Tuesday morning announced he has authorized 50 million barrels of oil to be sold from the U.S. Strategic Oil Reserves, a move that should help lower oil and gas prices that have risen because of OPEC+ policies. Biden is making the move in conjunction with similar moves by five other countries: China, India, Japan, South Korea and the U.K.

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U.S. House panel probing Capitol riot subpoenas Roger Stone, Alex Jones

By Patricia Zengerle and Jan Wolfe

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol said on Monday it issued subpoenas to Alex Jones, founder of the right-wing website Infowars, and Roger Stone, an ally of former President Donald Trump.

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Biden will travel to Nantucket on Tuesday to celebrate Thanksgiving with family

By Nandita Bose

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill will travel to Nantucket, an island off the coast of Massachusetts, on Tuesday to spend Thanksgiving with their family, resuming a decades-long tradition that was interrupted last year due to the pandemic.

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​Trump just became more likely to run in 2024: report

Donald Trump received good news about his chances of a 2024 political comeback as his team's political strategy appears to be paying off.

"As Donald Trump builds out a presidential-campaign-in-waiting, his team is focusing on an electoral strategy that relies on recapturing the five states that flipped to Joe Biden in 2020," Politico reported Tuesday. "The five states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — delivered a total of 73 electoral votes in 2020, enough to produce a decisive Electoral College victory for Biden. Since then, Trump has held four rallies, endorsed dozens of candidates and played a key role in shaping contests that could put his allies in top offices in those states in 2024."

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Trump drops new rant claiming America will 'never heal' unless his conspiracy theories are taken seriously

Donald Trump issued a statement on Tuesday demanding that his debunked conspiracy theories of election fraud be taken seriously.

"The Democrats are feasting on January 6th, with no Republicans on the Unselect Committee (Cheney and Kinzinger are not Republicans!) but they are refusing to even discuss the root cause of that protest, which was the insurrection that took place during the November 3rd Presidential Election," Trump said in a statement emailed to reporters.

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Biden orders release of 50 million barrels from US strategic oil reserves

President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he has ordered the release of 50 million barrels of oil from the US strategic reserves in a coordinated attempt with other countries to tamp down soaring fuel prices.

"This release will be taken in parallel with other major energy consuming nations including China, India, Japan, Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom," the White House said.

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