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Trump challenges Kamala Harris to debate against his V.P. pick who he has 'not yet chosen'

Former President Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris to a debate with his as-yet-not-chosen running mate in a post on Truth Social Friday afternoon.

"On behalf of the future Vice President of the United States, who I have not yet chosen, we hereby accept the Fox Vice Presidential Debate, hopefully at Virginia State University, the first Historically Black College or University to host a Debate - Date to be determined," Trump wrote. "I urge Vice President Kamala Harris to agree to this. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

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'Not reassuring': Reporter drops new Samuel Alito details that put his story into question

A damning new report from The New York Times this week revealed that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house displayed an upside-down flag — a popular symbol used by MAGA election conspiracy theorists — right around the time that the Supreme Court decided against taking up a Pennsylvania-based challenge to the 2020 presidential election, over Alito's own objections.

Now, a Fox News reporter who spoke to Alito is revealing new details, that have triggered even more questions.

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'A weak joke': Bush speechwriter skewers James Comer as 'not respected' by Republicans

Recent Republican chaos in the House of Representatives is the result of a failed plan to prop up former President Donald Trump executed by lawmakers without the talent to carry it out, according to a former speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush.

Now, according to David Frum, those Republicans are trapped in a political reality gameshow as they vie to escape the chaos and land on Trump's presidential ticket.

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'Pretty as he sleeps': Lauren Boebert's odd take on Trump's sleepy courtroom look

Rep. Lauren Boebert isn't sure if former President Donald Trump is napping or communicating with his maker during his criminal hush money trial, but after her visit to the New York City courtroom Thursday, there is one thing the Colorado Republican knows for sure.

“If he is sleeping, [Trump] certainly looks pretty as he sleeps,” Boebert reportedly said. But she hedged, "I think he’s praying."

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'John Grisham moment' that Trump supporters say buries court case pulled apart by expert

Trump supporters believe Michael Cohen dropped a bombshell on the stand that could get Donald Trump off the hook in his hush money trial — but some experts aren't so sure.

Trump stands accused of 34 felonies for creating false business records to conceal hush money spent to keep an affair quiet.

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'Admit you're a coward': Trump taunted as new viral ad drops

A new ad from the center-left Third Way group pokes fun at Donald Trump's legal travails and tries to prod him into taking the stand at his hush money trial.

The group is spending five figures on digital ads that will air in New York City, south Florida and Dallas, where the former president will speak at a National Rifle Association meeting this weekend. It highlights Trump's past comments on the Fifth Amendment, reported the New York Times.

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'When Lauren Boebert is embarrassed': The View weighs in after MTG sparks chaos

The chaos that erupted in the House Oversight Committee on Thursday evening left the co-hosts at "The View" debating whether Republicans in Congress have finally gone too far.

On the agenda was passing a contempt vote for Attorney General Merrick Garland, who refused to turn over a recording of Joe Biden speaking to Special Counsel David Weiss.

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Sam Alito tells Fox host that neighbor verbally harassed wife before MAGA flag went up

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito told a Fox News host that his wife displayed an upside-down American flag outside their home following a January 2021 confrontation with a neighbor.

The conservative justice had told the New York Times, which revealed the flag and published a photo of it, that his wife flew the MAGA symbol "in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs," but Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream says Alito told her that his wife had been verbally harassed by the man.

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Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy attorney demands he be paid and asks to withdraw from counsel

Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy after being told he must pay a judgment of $148 million after he was found to have defamed two election workers in Georgia.

But now his lawyer in that bankruptcy case is arguing he should be paid for the legal fees, so he can withdraw from the suit. The fees total $250,000.

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Trump masters 'horror politics' after hiring spree of 'human psychology' experts: analyst

Former President Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to motivate his supporters to the polls this fall, wrote Chauncey DeVega for Salon on Friday — and to do that he is trying to horrify them.

"The consultants and strategists who are using fear and horror to mobilize and engage Donald Trump’s followers (and to demobilize and exhaust those Americans who oppose the corrupt ex-president and the fascist MAGA movement) appear to possess an expert understanding of human psychology," wrote DeVega.

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'Synchronized sycophants': Columnist torches Trump 'mini-mes' for courthouse theatrics

Republican lawmakers traveling to former President Donald Trump's trial in Manhattan were slammed as "synchronized sycophants" by Dana Milbank in a blistering editorial for The Washington Post released on Friday.

Several days of the trial have now seen these Trump allies, all the way up to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), delivering manifestos against the prosecution and against court officers and their families. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) even proudly admitted they were there to attack people Trump was barred from going after under his gag order.

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​'Showing support for insurrectionists': CNN panel trashes Sam Alito for upside-down flag

The New York Times reported on Thursday that an upside-down American flag was seen flying at Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's house after President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and a CNN panel on Friday bashed him for a total lack of professionalism.

In the wake of Biden's victory, many Trump supporters flew American flags upside down to signal distress in the United States, and panelist David Frum argued that having an upside down flag at the house of a Republican-appointed Supreme Court justice is "going to raise a lot of doubts about the legitimacy of the court," especially when it comes to the upcoming case on presidential immunity.

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'That's the whole point': CNN's Kaitlan Collins shuts down Trump lawyer on hush money case

Kaitlan Collins jousted with former Donald Trump attorney William Brennan over the specifics over how prosecution star witness Michael Cohen was repaid by his future commander-in-chief boss for buying the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.

Collins confronted Brennan, who served as an esquire for Trump's payroll corporation tax fraud case, about the circumstances involving Cohen's payback.

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