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GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw spent almost $20K of campaign funds on 'promotional' eye patches

Buried deep in Rep. Dan Crenshaw's new Federal Election Commission filing is an expenditure for close to $20,000 on eye patches with a notation they were designated as "promotional items."

The Texas Republican, who started serving in Congress in 2019, lost his right eye in 2012 while serving in Afghanistan as a Navy SEAL and required surgery to save his left eye. During his service, he was awarded two Bronze Stars, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal before retiring as a lieutenant commander in 2016.

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Unusual circumstances in classified docs case makes outcome hard to predict: NYT

When a legal case fits neatly into a category, it’s much easier to predict the outcome.

But if what can be gleaned from charging documents is any indication, the case against Airman Jack Teixeira, who is accused of leaking highly sensitive classified documents, it will be difficult to predict the outcome, according to new reporting in The New York Times.

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'Bloated nothingburger': Andy Biggs shredded for threats to 'defund' Manhattan D.A.

Far-right Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) announced on Twitter that he would be "defunding" the Manhattan District Attorney's office in retaliation for the indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Writing for The Arizona Republic on Friday, opinion columnist E.J. Montini raked Biggs over the coals, blasting it as a stunt at taxpayer expense that will never go anywhere.

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'No chance' Trump's gambit to shut up witnesses in J6 case will work: legal expert

Former President Donald Trump is once again trying to stymie special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into the January 6 attack, asking a court to block former Vice President Mike Pence's testimony.

In a panel on MSNBC's "The Beat" on Friday with Ari Melber and former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance, former Solicitor General Neal Katyal outlined why Trump's options to block Pence are dead ends.

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Mike Pompeo rules out 2024 presidential run

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has decided, after prayer, that he will not run for president against former President Donald Trump in 2024.

Pompeo posted on Twitter than he and his wife, Susan Pompeo, had decided "after much consideration and prayer" that he "will not present" himself "as a candidate to become President of the United States in the 2024 election." Pompeo has been open about criticizing Trump, even saying in March that a "true conservative" wouldn't run up $6 trillion in debt.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene spent more than $65,000 in campaign funds on home fence

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spent more than $65,000 on fencing for her home this year using campaign funds, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission records.

The line-item from Greene's schedule B itemized disbursements list for her campaign shows she spent $65,257.49 on "additional security fence for residence" in March of this year. The funds appear to have gone to Bartow Fence Company Inc., which is based in Georgia.

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'Republicans need a new set of heroes': Critics slam GOP leaders’ support of 'racist' doc leaker

Right-wing leaders and voters are glorifying the recently arrested leaker of highly sensitive classified documents, calling him a "hero."

GOPers like U.S. Rep. Marjorie Tylor Greene (R-GA) and former President Donald Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr., both lauded Jack Teixeira following his Thursday arrest.

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‘Doomsday mom’ believed her children were zombies, her best friend says

The best friend of an Idaho woman accused of killing her two children in a bizarre religious ritual testified on Thursday that the “doomsday mom” believed her children were “zombies” and that her son, JJ, was possessed by a demonic spirt, ABC News reports.

Lori Vallow Daybell, 49, was charged with murder, conspiracy and grand theft. She faces life in prison if convicted.

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George Santos ridiculed for saying Biden 'lied'

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) hit out at what he called President Joe Biden's lies on Friday – and was hit by a tidal wave of mockery.

"Joe Biden has lied to the American people for 40+ years costing us lives & Tax payer dollars," the disgraced New York Republican tweeted. "Biden has FAILED to protect American interests here or abroad without accountability."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants us to focus on 'evidence of war crimes or treason' — not leak

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is doubling down on her defense of the man who has been charged under the Espionage Act for his alleged release of confidential military documents.

Just one day after complaining that Jack Douglas Teixeira was being treated as a “traitor and criminal” and crediting him for “exposing the truth," Greene posted on Twitter that the true focus should be on the content of the leak, and not on the 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard member who allegedly leaked government secrets in an online discord group.

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'Trump-induced idiocy' has completely infected the Tennessee GOP: former Bush speechwriter

Peter Wehner, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, has taken stock of the Tennessee Republican Party and has found that it has completely succumbed to the malign influence of former President Donald Trump.

Wehner begins his latest essay in The Atlantic by delivering a scathing assessment of the party's decision to ouster of Black Democratic State Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, taking particular exception to Republican House Speaker Cameron Sexton, who argued that what the two Democrats did to merit expulsion might have been worse than the violent riots that broke out at the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.

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Citizens have a 'right' to violently overthrow government: Influential gun lobbyist

One of Tennessee's most influential gun lobbyists has told News Channel 5 Nashville that citizens have the "right" to violently overthrow their government.

During the interview, journalist Phil Williams asked gun rights activist John Harris, who regularly lobbies state lawmakers against enacting any gun restrictions, about incendiary memes he had posted on Facebook, including one that suggested conservatives give up on voting and instead "take a road trip to Nashville" to fix problems with the Tennessee state government.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene buried by former colleague for 'really sick' defense of accused Ukraine doc leaker

Appearing on CNN on Friday morning, former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) hit out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for racing to Twitter to praise and defend Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who was accused of leaking classified military documents.

Just hours after Teixeira was taken into custody, Taylor Greene -- who opposes military aid to Ukraine -- blasted officials for arresting him, writing on Twitter: "Jack Teixeira is white, male, christian,[sic] and antiwar. That makes him an enemy to the Biden regime. And he told the truth about troops being on the ground in Ukraine and a lot more. Ask yourself who is the real enemy? A young low level national guardsmen? Or the administration that is waging war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, against nuclear Russia without war powers?"

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