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Trump advisers scramble to block 'crazies' from latching onto his 2024 campaign

Former President Donald Trump's campaign is reportedly working to bat away some of his most toxic supporters from being hired to help his 2024 run.

Sources tell Axios that the campaign has been trying to work around Trump's desire to bring back several controversial figures, including convicted felon Paul Manafort and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who is despised even by many MAGA diehards.

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GOP legislator horrifies colleagues by inserting their names into graphic account of rape

A Nebraska Republican legislator horrified colleagues by substituting in some of their names into a graphic account of a rape from a novel.

State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings) read an excerpt from the novel "Lucky," by Alice Seabold, during a debate over an obscenity bill but apparently tried to make a point by substituting in the name of state Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) to graphic scenes of sexual violence, reported the Nebraska Examiner.

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Boebert brags about scoring $20 million in earmarks that came from bill she opposed

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) voted against the government funding bill, but reveled in the largess it delivered to her current Colorado district.

On March 6, Boebert cast a vote opposing a bill to keep the government open, according to Business Insider.

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Judge smacks down Trump's 'presence-of-counsel' defense in hush money trial

New York state Supreme Court Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump cannot use a "presence-of-counsel" defense at his upcoming hush money trial.

Trump has asked the court for permission to claim he committed 34 felony counts during the "presence" of lawyers and believed the actions were legal. However, Trump did not intend to relinquish attorney-client privilege as required in a traditional advice-of-counsel defense.

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'Can't even go to a theater': Boebert complains that Beetlejuice scandal was made public

Lauren Boebert launched into a pity party during a radio interview in Colorado, complaining that her antics during a performance of Beetlejuice were shared with the public.

“As far as [opposition] research, I am very clearly an open book,” she told KHOW’s Dan Caplis Show in Denver. The interview was also reported in the Colorado Times Recorder.

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'Outmaneuvered' Lauren Boebert's path to election now 'strewn with obstacles': analysis

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was thrown for a loop last week when Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) announced that he would be retiring, thus boxing her in to remaining in her current congressional district until this fall.

A report in The Guardian, which describes Boebert as being "outmaneuvered," explains that Buck's resignation triggered a special election that meant Boebert would have had to resign her current seat in order to compete in Buck's former district.

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'Trump and Putin are natural bedfellows': retired CIA officer

The Guardian has interviewed multiple intelligence experts who are predicting that a second Trump presidency would be a disaster for the United States.

Included among them was retired CIA Operations Officer Douglas London, who told the publication that former President Donald Trump's affinity for Russian President Vladimir Putin was particularly troubling.

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'The fix is in': Expert breaks down 'very strange' Judge Cannon hearing on Trump docs

A recent hearing in Donald Trump's criminal case over stashed classified documents was "very strange," according to one legal expert.

Lawfare's Roger Parloff, who recently reported that Judge Cannon had created a "secret docket" in the process of overseeing the Trump case, Sunday broke down the findings of Thursday's hearing before Cannon, after he had time to "decompress."

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Democracy expert points to 'red flag signaling imminent danger' with Trump's rhetoric

Those high-profile Republicans who are twisting Donald Trump's "bloodbath" comments to be more palatable are part of the problem, a democracy expert said on Sunday.

Trygve Olson, the author of the Lincoln Democracy Institute's research project, the "Democracy Index," responded to ex-GOP governor Scott Walker's attempt to paint Trump's use of "bloodbath" as using an alternative definition about "economic disasters."

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'The reddest district in Ohio' might be 'electing an anti-Trumper': former GOP lawmaker

The reddest district in the state of Ohio could be poised to elect a non-MAGA candidate, former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said on Sunday.

Kinzinger, a frequent critic of Trump who is also known to blow up right-wing conspiracy theories on social media, said in his Substack that there are "some very important primary elections on Tuesday."

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Trump just sent 'a call to his supporters' to repeat Jan. 6: former GOP governor

Donald Trump and his allies may say that the former president was taken out of context in his warning of a "bloodbath" for the country if he loses the election, but a former Republican governor says that argument is nonsense.

Former New Jersey Republican Gov. Christine Todd Whitman appeared on MSNBC's The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart, where she was asked about Trump saying there would be a "bloodbath for the whole country." Earlier in the day, a White House correspondent argued that it was clear Trump's comments referred to more than just the auto industry.

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'Flummoxed' White House reporter says Trump's 'bloodbath' warning was about more than cars

A White House correspondent is confused about the pushback related to Donald Trump's recent "bloodbath" comments.

Trump, at a rally in Ohio, was speaking about the auto industry when he said there would be a bloodbath if he isn't elected for another term as president. He then said that would be "the least" of it, and warned that it'd be a bloodbath "for the whole... country."

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'Bring a case': Trump's biographer says ex-president's taxes warrant a new criminal charge

Former president Donald J. Trump could face yet another criminal prosecution if his biographer has anything to say about it.

Trump biographer David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump's taxes and financial matters for years, appeared on MSNBC's Alex Witt Reports Sunday. The host asked him about Trump's tax records.

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