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'Hateful' Lauren Boebert slammed for tweeting unprovoked attack on migrants

United States Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) launched an unprovoked and vacuously shallow attack on undocumented immigrants on Sunday afternoon, firing off a quartet of prejudicial tropes.

"Illegals have more rights than citizens. Squatters have more rights than homeowners," tweeted Boebert. "Deport the illegals. Evict the squatters."

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Trump's 'whining' Waco 'pity party' buried by former GOP adviser

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Sunday Show," former Republican adviser Tara Setmayer went off on Donald Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for their defense of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists at a Waco rally on Saturday night, saying it made her "stomach turn over."

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart about Trump's first major gathering as he makes a third run for the presidency, Setmayer dismissed the speeches she heard as "whining"' and "yawning."

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'Whoever she is': Marjorie Taylor Greene disses Nikki Haley in Trump-loving rant

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene used an interview on right-wing media today to “trash-talk” former South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as a non-entity, Mediate reported.

After speaking from the stage at Trump’s ominously timed 2024 campaign rally in Waco, Texas, Greene joined attorney and fellow MAGA zealot Christina Bobb on a Right Side Broadcasting livestream.

Here’s how it was reported by Mediate:

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Trump's Waco rally leaves El Paso officials seething

When former President Donald Trump rallies today in Waco, Texas, under a cloud of legal scandal, he'll do so after his campaign reportedly paid the central Texas city's government more than $60,000 to cover various municipal services, such as public safety costs.

But across the state, in El Paso, city officials there tell Raw Story that they're still waiting for Trump's campaign committee to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bills stemming from the former president's February 2019 visit to their border town.

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Trump's executive privilege gambit is useless as Jack Smith 'zeroes in' on his aides: former prosecutor

Former President Donald Trump's former aides and advisers, former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Homeland Security official Ken Cuccinelli, and former strategist Stephen Miller, are being ordered by a judge to testify to special counsel Jack Smith's federal grand jury investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — a complete rebuke of Trump and his allies' claims they are shielded by executive privilege.

None of this should be a surprise, former federal prosecutor Shan Wu told MSNBC's Alex Wagner on Friday.

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Trump-loving congressman brutally fact-checked on sedition claim

Far-right Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) tried to claim, during a call-in session for C-SPAN on Friday, that none of the January 6 insurrectionists were prosecuted for sedition — and was quickly slapped down by the Washington Journal host, reported The Daily Beast.

"Taking calls from viewers during an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a rite of passage for guests of the program, the MAGA lawmaker was soon grilled by callers over former President Donald Trump’s promise to pardon Capitol rioters," reported Justin Baragona. "'Trump wants to pardon the traitors that have been convicted of seditious conspiracy? Come on! What the hell’s wrong with you Republicans?!' one caller from Oregon exclaimed. 'I appreciate the call, and I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying, but I think you’re talking about the former president saying if he gets elected he’d issue some pardons or clemency to some of the people arrested and prosecuted on Jan. 6,' Biggs answered."

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Ron DeSantis slammed for hiring speechwriter with ties to infamous neo-Nazi

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hired a new speechwriter with ties to a notorious neo-Nazi activist — much to the alarm of former Republican strategist Tim Miller, who laid out the implications in an article for The Bulwark on Friday.

"I perked up when I heard scuttlebutt a few weeks ago that Ron DeSantis had chosen a speechwriter not from the ranks of the GOP’s classically liberal old order, but from the brash online 'new right' that is more animated by culture wars and MAGA identity politics than by free markets and free people," wrote Tim Miller. Specifically, he hired Nate Hochman — "a conservative writer who has earned more ink by the age of 25 than anyone this side of Justin Bieber, has garnered a reputation as a young MAGA whisperer," and who has "found it necessary to cozy up to the movement’s gutter-dwelling racists in order to climb the ladder of influence."

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Migrants found dead in train car near Uvalde: report

At least two people were found dead in a train car, Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin told Texas Public Radio.

At least five others were hospitalized, McLaughlin said.

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'This man assaulted everyone': Marjorie Taylor Greene staffer tries to get a protester arrested for whistling

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s staff on Friday tried to get a protester arrested for whistling during a press conference.

The disruption happened as the far-right congresswoman from Georgia was holding a press conference after visiting Jan. 6 defendants held at a Washington, D.C., jail, where she said they were being denied medical care and treated as “political prisoners.”

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'Nonsense and lies': Democrat slams Republicans who took 'field trip' to martyrize J6 prisoners

Far-right House Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), took a trip this week to visit the Washington, D.C. jail, where a handful of January 6 defendants, accused of high-level offenses like assaulting police officers, are housed. These Republicans claimed that the defendants are effectively political prisoners and victims of mistreatment.

But none of that is true, said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), who accompanied the Republicans on this trip, and told MSNBC's Ali Velshi what she actually saw on Friday.

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Here's how much Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has lost investing in Trump’s Truth Social venture

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) made a personal bet on Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform — and is losing bigly.

The value of Greene’s class A stock in Digital World Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, that’s supposed to merge with Truth Social, had cratered in recent weeks amid significant corporate turmoil.

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‘Shameful’: Dem lawmaker accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of lying about Jan. 6 inmates

After leading a congressional delegation visiting Jan. 6 insurrection defendants on Friday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said that the inmates aren’t receiving medical care and are not being treated as well as others in the facility.

“It’s a two-tier justice system evidently,” the far-right congresswoman from Georgia told reporters after visiting the Washington, D.C., jail.

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Kyle Rittenhouse laments Kenosha shooting lawsuit: ‘I pray they don’t win’

After then-teenager Kyle Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to defend local businesses from protesters demonstrating against the 2020 police shooting of Jacob Blake, he entered an altercation that led to him fatally shooting two people and injuring a third. He became a right-wing hero after he was acquitted of all charges in that incident, with a jury finding he acted in lawful self-defense.

But he now faces a civil suit from Gaige Grosskreutz, the surviving person he shot — and this week, he appeared on OANN's "Real America with Dan Ball" to complain about his new legal predicament.

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