Marjorie Taylor Greene

The View suspects something fishy going on with Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6 footage

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin wondered if House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed over a trove of Capitol surveillance video footage to Tucker Carlson as part of the concessions he made to win his leadership battle.

The California Republican gave the Fox News host exclusive access to 41,000 hours of footage recorded during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and Hostin's suspicions were raised by the fact that McCarthy didn't give access to the material to any other news outlet.

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'Treason': Robert E. Lee relative slams Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'national divorce'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was criticized by a relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee after she repeatedly called for a "national divorce."

Reverend Robert W. Lee IV told TMZ that Greene was "acting no better" than the generals who fought to secede from the Union in the U.S. Civil War.

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Fox News' Doocy disses Biden’s Warsaw speech before he gives it

Fox News' Peter Doocy was not impressed with President Joe Biden's speech in Warsaw, even before he delivered it. The President, after traveling to Kyiv and becoming the first sitting President to enter a war zone without a U.S. military presence, headed to the capital of Poland to deliver remarks just ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal war against Ukraine.

"It's not the solemn set of remarks that we were kind of told to expect, based on the existential threats that he sees," Doocy said before President Biden began speaking. "It has almost a campaign rally feel, like if they were having a campaign rally for democracy."

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Trump attacks US for offending Kim Jong Un with training exercises: 'He feels threatened'

Former President Donald Trump early on Wednesday morning attacked the governments of the United States and South Korea for holding joint military training exercises that he said would offend North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump decried the exercises as an expensive provocation of North Korea.

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Romney slams 'loony' Marjorie Taylor Greene's proposal to partition the United States

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for suggesting the United States undergo a "national divorce" — a euphemism for Republican-controlled states seceding from the country, akin to the South in during the Civil War.

Romney gave the comments to Utah reporters in Salt Lake City, according to Deseret.

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Kyle Rittenhouse hit with new lawsuit from man he shot in Kenosha

A man who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse during the riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin, back in 2020 has filed a lawsuit against Rittenhouse and Wisconsin government officials, Fox News reported on Tuesday.

Gaige Grosskreutz, who admitted during testimony that he pointed a firearm at Rittenhouse before he was shot, is seeking financial losses, "damages for emotional distress, humiliation, loss of enjoyment of life, and other pain and suffering on all claims," and punitive damages.

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Trump's PAC spent $10M to cover his legal bills

According to federal election filings obtained by the New York Times, former President Donald Trump has spent an estimated $10 million directly from his political action committee to cover his own legal fees in 2022.

The same filings show that over $16 million was spent on Trump's legal expenses in both 2021 and 2022, including spending for attorneys who represented witnesses in Trump-related investigations, however $10 million did directly go to legal firms representing the former President's investigations and lawsuits.

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Utah's GOP governor slams Marjorie Taylor Greene over her 'evil' comments

In a post to Twitter this President’s Day, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for red states in the U.S. to “separate” from blue states and for shrinking the federal government.

“We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government,” Greene wrote. “Everyone I talk to says this. From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are done.”

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'Stay in Hollywood': Marjorie Taylor Greene suggests movie ban in 'national divorce' rant

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for new residents in red states to be stripped of voting rights as part of her plan for a "national divorce."

In recent days, Greene has repeatedly called for a national divorce and insisted that she did not want a civil war. Under her plan, many federal government agencies would be disbanded, and red states would enact strict moral laws in the name of liberty. She said there would be a law to govern the placement of sex toys in stores, for example.

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How a failed screenwriter used QAnon to smear people he blamed for rejected scripts

Rolling Stone has published another excerpt from Daily Beast reporter Will Sommer's just-released book about the QAnon phenomenon and it details how a failed Hollywood screenwriter used the conspiracy theory to smear the people whom he blamed for his scripts getting rejected.

The screenwriter in question is a man named Robert Cornero, who until two years ago posted online as a QAnon influencer known as Neon Revolt and who garnered a particularly obsession with a writer named Franklin Leonard, who publishes influential reports about promising unproduced movie scripts, many of which eventually get picked up and made into movies.

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Ketanji Brown Jackson scolds conservative justices over Black teen's appeal of 162-year sentence

On Tuesday, Associate Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, with an assist from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, issued a dissent that scolded the conservatives on the court for refusing to hear an appeal from a Black man who was sentenced to 162 years for armed robbery when he was a teen because his lawyer screwed up.

Quartavious Davis was arrested in 2010 when he was 19 for a string of robberies in Florida and, due to mandatory sentencing rules at the time, received 162 years after being "convicted of seven counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime," reported MSNBC.

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Conservatives blame 'far-left prosecutor' for MSU massacre

Conservatives are blaming a "far-left prosecutor" for a mass shooting last week at Michigan State University that left three students dead and wounded five others.

The New York Post argued in an editorial that Ingham County prosecutor Carol Siemon allowed gunman Anthony McRae to plead guilty to a misdemeanor, and not a felony that would have prevented him from buying the murder weapons, in 2019 after a police office found him carrying a concealed handgun, but legal experts told MLive the case isn't unusual.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene details 'national divorce' — including 'rules' for 'sex toys'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) explained in detail on Tuesday how her vision for a "national divorce" would work.

On Monday, Greene's repeated calls for a "national divorce" raised concerns that she wanted a new civil war.

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