Marjorie Taylor Greene

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mike Lee spread anti-Ukraine disinformation with edited video

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) are actively spreading anti-Ukraine disinformation, posting to Twitter a deceptively-edited video of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which they falsely claim means the Ukrainian President wants America's "sons and daughters" to die defending Ukraine.

Senator Lee complained his personal Twitter account was suspended at some point after he retweeted the video. It was recently restored and his post with the deceptively-edited video has not been removed.

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Republicans are 'emboldened' because there has been no accountability for J6: ex-White House lawyer

Lawmakers who participated in the Jan. 6 attacks and the planning of the attack on the Capitol have never been held accountable for their involvement. It's something that former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal says has "emboldened" them.

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace played a clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) ranting to Gabriel Sterling, the COO of the Georgia Secretary of State, that the 2020 election was fake, Donald Trump won and that thousands of dead people voted. The facts have been proven over and over again. The special grand jury in Georgia went so far as to say that the fraud Greene claimed wasn't true. The new grand jury that will begin this month will have an opportunity to confirm the findings.

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Top Kevin McCarthy aide met with mother of late Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt: report

A senior aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) recently met with the mother of the late Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, whose death at the hands of a Capitol Police officer has made her a martyr among election-denying Trump supporters.

CBS News reports that the staffer this week met with Micki Witthoeft outside of McCarthy's office, which Witthoeft later referenced when she spoke outside of a protest rally outside of a jail where many Capitol riot detainees are being held.

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Furious Ted Cruz shouts at Merrick Garland as he erupts over Kavanaugh protests

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) began shouting at Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday during a Senate Oversight hearing. Among the things Cruz was angry about was that the Department of Justice was not in the process of prosecuting protesters who went to Brett Kavanaugh's home and posted information about the Supreme Court justice's location.

"As you know, those threats finally materialized with Nicholas Russki, a 26-year-old man from California who traveled across the country, was arrested outside the home of Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh, armed with a handgun, a knife, and burglary tools," said Cruz. "He said that he came there to kill Justice Kavanaugh because he was enraged by the leaked opinion. Now of course you are prosecuting that individual for attempted murder. But did you bring even a single case to enforce this law, or did the Department of Justice decided this law doesn't apply it if it is harassing justices' opinions that we don't like?"

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Marjorie Taylor Greene spokesman hits CNN fact checker with foul-mouthed tirade

A spokesman for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a profane response when asked to comment on a misleading claim the congresswoman made online.

Greene blamed President Joe Biden's policies for the deaths of two young men from Michigan whose mother testified Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee, although they each overdosed in 2020 while Donald Trump was president.

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'Afraid' FBI agents wanted to shut down Trump docs probe before Mar-a-Lago search: report

A new report from the Washington Post claims that some agents within the Federal Bureau of Investigation wanted to shut down a probe into former President Donald Trump's handling of classified information because they were "afraid" of being political targets.

According to the Post's reporting, these agents argued for shutting down the probe after Trump's lawyers claimed last June to have conducted a "diligent" search of Mar-a-Lago for additional classified documents requested by the government.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene demands 'safe spaces' for conservatives: 'We deserve it!'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) reiterated her demand for separation from "woke" liberals by calling for "safe spaces" for conservatives.

Republicans have long sneered at their ideological opponents as "snowflakes" looking to retreat into "safe spaces" -- often to escape racist, sexist or homophobic abuse from conservatives -- but the firebrand Georgia Republican claims she and likeminded folks "deserve" their own.

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Origins of Matt Gaetz' bizarre 'China' propaganda

During a hearing this week, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was humiliated after promoting a report from the Global Times to justify the end of military aid to Ukraine — only for the witness to point out the Global Times is Chinese state-run media.

But there's a lot more to the story, wrote Aaron Blake for The Washington Post on Tuesday.

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'I ain't going to prison': Steve Bannon defiant over 'sham' fraud trial in New York

Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon shrugged off the fraud charges against him in New York when questioned by reporters on Tuesday, the New York Daily News reported — defiantly suggesting he will not face any jail time.

"Trump adviser Steve Bannon isn’t worried about going to the big house because New York’s case against him is 'a sham,'" reported Molly Crane-Newman. "The right-wing strategist shared his belief when he appeared in Manhattan Supreme Court Tuesday for his alleged role in the We Build the Wall crowdfunding scam."

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'The maths are hard': Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for not understanding what 'seized' means

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) undermined her own attack on President Joe Biden's immigration policies surrounding illegal drugs that have been intercepted by Customs and Border Patrol during a Tuesday House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee hearing.

"I want you to know that in 2020 there were 4,800 pounds of fentanyl seized by CBP. But in 2021, fiscal year 2021, it increased to 11,200 pounds of fentanyl was seized by the CBP. That is a direct result of Biden administration failure policies," said Greene. "Now here we are in – to date, to date, fiscal, fiscal year 2023 – they have already seized 12,500 pounds of fentanyl. The Biden administration is failing this country by not protecting our border and securing our border, and stopping Chinese fentanyl from being brought into our country illegally by the cartels, and people are dying every single day because of it."

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Former FBI general counsel says more lawsuits are probably coming for Fox News over election lies

In a conversation with Stephanie Ruhle on Monday, former FBI general counsel, Andrew Weissmann, suggested that "more" charges might be coming "on the criminal side" for Fox News.

Speaking to Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday, he focused more on the idea of legal consequences that Fox News could face as a company.

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Guns in schools caused by lack of prayer: NYC mayor

The mayor of New York City has blamed the lack of prayer in public schools for a flood of guns being found in them.

“When we took prayers out of schools, guns came into schools,” Democrat Eric Adams said at an interfaith breakfast Tuesday, Politico reported.

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Judge handcuffs crying 13-year-old girl who was attending her father's hearing

During a final revocation hearing for Mario Puente, who admitted to violating the terms of his supervised release, the federal judge overseeing his case decided to teach Puente daughter an impromptu lesson on the dangers of drugs, Above the Law reported.

Puente told Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California that he needs to leave the city of San Diego in order to get away from people who cause him to get in trouble. Another reason, according to Puente, was his daughter, who he wants to be a better example for -- or else she might follow his same path in life.

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