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'As bad as it can get': Legal expert says Trump special master case ended in 'humiliation for Judge Cannon'

Following the orders handed down by a federal appellate court this Monday, U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon dismissed a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump to halt the FBI's investigation into classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

"The case, which only lasted a little over three months, was remarkable in the way it showed how this South Florida federal judge entertained the former president’s novel legal theories—all in the service of attempting to slow down a potential criminal indictment that threatens his return to power," The Daily Beast reported. "From her private chambers in Fort Pierce, Florida, Cannon dismissed the case by acknowledging she lacked jurisdiction to ever entertain it."

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'Learn how sarcasm works': Marjorie Taylor Greene quickly backpedals on 'armed' insurrection

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) confirmed on Monday that she had made remarks about how to plan an "armed" insurrection against the government but insisted that the comments had been a joke.

At a gala for Young Republicans over the weekend, Greene said that Trump supporters would have "won" on Jan. 6 if she and Steve Bannon had planned the attempted insurrection.

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Pro-democracy groups spent $32 million fighting Trump’s election lies in midterms

A pair of newly created progressive organizations undertook a multimillion-dollar midterm election push against Donald Trump's election lies.

Pro-Democracy Center and Pro-Democracy Campaign each operated in states across the country during the midterm election cycle to support organizations pushing to expand voting in Arizona and Michigan, boosted voter outreach programs in Florida and Pennsylvania and backed campaigns to press local officials to expand access to early voting, reported Politico.

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‘Treason out loud’: Critics call Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks ‘fantasizing about killing her colleagues’ (video)

Christian nationalist U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's remarks at the New York Young Republican Club's Saturday night gala have elicited massive response – and condemnation – from many after she insisted had she been "in charge" of the January 6, 2021 insurrection the rioters "would've been armed" and they "would have won."

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene, a Republican from Georgia, told the group (video below). Some of the rioters and attendees were armed.

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Morning Joe panelists condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘disgusting’ speech

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski condemned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's remarks about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The Georgia Republican spoke over the weekend at the New York Young Republican Club's 110th Annual Gala, saying that if she and Steve Bannon had actually organized the Capitol riot that participants would have been armed and the insurrection would have succeeded.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's new 'endorsement of violence' could land her in front of a grand jury: CNN analysts

Reacting to a video clip of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) boasting that she and former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon would have done a better job leading the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan 6th, two CNN analysts stated she should be compelled to testify before a grand jury looking into the insurrection.

In a video released over the weekend, a smirking Taylor Greene can be seen telling a laughing crowd, "Then Jan. 6 happened. And next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed."

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'We want total war': Young Republican group cheers on the next insurrection

While Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) promised that if she were in charge of Jan. 6, people would have been more armed and dangerous, other speakers at the Young Republicans gala in New York City talked about the next civil war.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremism throughout the United States, cited the speech from the Young republican president Gavin Wax, who told the Upper East side gala, “We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets."

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'We would have been armed': Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon brag Jan. 6 would be different if they were in charge

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is making it clear that she would have "won" the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election.

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene told a group of New York Republicans over the weekend," said the New York Post.

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Kellyanne Conway goes into full meltdown mode

Kellyanne Conway, a political strategist who also served as White House advisor to former President Donald Trump, recently delivered critical remarks leveled at Republican senators.

According to Conway, Republican lawmakers did not stand behind Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker in the days leading up to the state's highly publicized election runoff.

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Republicans turn their anger towards Trump after poor midterms performance: 'Too many candidates believed 2020 was stolen'

More and more Republicans are seeing Donald Trump as the reason they weren't able to usher the expected "red wave" during the midterm elections, and their anger is compounded by the recent loss of Herschel Walker in Georgia's Senate race, allowing Democrats to expand their majority to 51-49.

“It’s just one more data point in an overwhelming body of data that the Trump obsession is very bad for Republicans, but normal Republicans are doing extremely well,” retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, whose open seat was picked up by a Democrat, told CNN.

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'Another reason to impeach': Marjorie Taylor Greene adds Britney Griner to Biden's offenses

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) argued that President Joe Biden should be impeached because his government negotiated with Russia to return WNBA star Britney Griner.

Greene has previously introduced three articles of impeachment against Biden for "his dereliction of duty in Afghanistan, his violations of immigration law causing a national security crisis on our Southern border, and his usurping of the Constitutional balance of power by ignoring the ruling of the Supreme Court," according to her website.

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'Downright nasty' MAGA supporters are turning on each other as Trump flails: conservative

According to conservative Matt Lewis, Donald Trump's collapse among Republicans who would now like him to go away and no longer be the face of the party, has set off a civil war among some of his most ardent followers who are now jockeying to take over the MAGA movement.

With Trump's plummeting to earth after his 2020 election loss and the failure of the majority of his hand-picked candidates failing to win in the 2022 midterms elections, Lewis wrote that his "minions' have the "knives out" for each other as things fall apart.

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Trump hosts Mar-a-Lago event with top QAnon 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theorist

Former President Donald Trump reportedly posed with a "prominent adherent of the QAnon and 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theories" during a recent event at Mar-a-Lago, according to ABC News.

The outlet cited social media posts showing Liz Crokin speaking at the Mar-a-Lago event and posing with Trump.

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