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'I'm giving you the facts': CNN's Bash cuts off Ronna McDaniel during rant about Biden

During an interview on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday morning, host Dana Bash was forced to talk over and then eventually cut off RNC head Ronna McDaniel as she ranted about one of President Joe Biden's speeches.

Up to the moment McDaniel started railing about Biden, Bash gave her free rein to spread Republican Party talking points, but that changed when the GOP spokesperson built up a head of steam and refused to stop talking.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene flips out with rant at 'communists and Democrat activists' who got her banned from Twitter

On January 2nd, 2022, Twitter permanently suspended the personal account of United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Greene) for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of its vaccines. Greene had received multiple warnings and a temporary block from the platform's content moderators but continued to post conspiracy theories anyway, most notably that inoculations are "dangerous" and that “extremely high amounts of COVID vaccine deaths are ignored.”

Greene – who is the first Capitol Hill lawmaker whom Twitter totally banned for violating its terms of use regarding the coronavirus crisis (though she is certainly not the only one to be reprimanded) – later called Twitter "an enemy to America" that "can't handle the truth." Her congressional account has remained active, however, thanks in part to Twitter's erring away from the potential appearance of interfering with politics.

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Truth Social users -- led by Don Trump Jr -- have grown increasingly 'unhinged' before the election

According to a report from the Guardian's Adam Gabbatt, with the midterm election just days away, users of Donald Trump's troubled Truth Social platform are going off the rails with new conspiracy theories about a stolen election, vicious attacks on Democrats and a growing obsession with something they call "BlueAnon."

As Gabbatt notes, at the center of riling up the supporters of the former president is his son, Don Trump Jr., one of the more "prominent agitators" on the site.

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Pelosi misinformation 'came from all levels of Republican politics': report

Republicans "fed a misinformation loop" after the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi was attacked by someone who believed far-right conspiracy theories in San Francisco.

"Within hours of the brutal attack last month on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the House, activists and media outlets on the right began circulating groundless claims — nearly all of them sinister, and many homophobic — casting doubt on what had happened," The New York Times reported Saturday. "Some Republican officials quickly joined in, rushing to suggest that the bludgeoning of an octogenarian by a suspect obsessed with right-wing conspiracy theories was something else altogether, dismissing it as an inside job, a lover’s quarrel or worse. The misinformation came from all levels of Republican politics."

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Evangelical 'prophets' have become top GOP surrogates waging 'spiritual warfare' against Dems: report

Prominent GOP candidates in the 2022 midterms are drawing support from people claiming to be "prophets" channeling the will of God.

On Saturday, The Washington Post reported on the growing trend that includes people like Lance Wallnau, who claimed in 2015 Donald Trump was "anointed" by God to be president.

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Trump will be a 'ghost Speaker of the House' blowing up GOP efforts to set the agenda: reporter

On Friday's edition of MSNBC's "All In," New York Times Magazine writer Robert Draper argued that should Republicans take control of the House next week, as most election forecasters believe to be likely, they will face an immediate problem in trying to get all of their various factions to work together.

And further complicating all of this, he added, former President Donald Trump himself will be constantly upending the conversation, assuming the mantle as de facto leader of the GOP even as current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), expected to become speaker, attempts to set an agenda.

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Jan. 6 committee questioning Secret Service agents who were in Trump's motorcade: report

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot on Friday interviewed the Secret Service agent who was in the lead car in then-President Donald Trump's motorcade on January 6, 2021, and will be scheduling testimony from the driver of Trump’s presidential vehicle as soon as next week, CNN reports.

The names of the agent and the driver have not been publicly revealed.

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Former teacher and LDS bishop has a long history of sexual abuse but has never been charged

An Arizona former school teacher who was arrested last year for the alleged assault of two Phoenix junior high students will not be charged, News 12 reports.

Glendon Templeton, 62, previously a bishop in the LDS church, was accused of groping the teen girls while he was their volleyball coach.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'disingenuous' attacks on Ukraine funding torn apart

In an analysis for the Washington Post, Philip Bump suggested that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's continuing attacks on U.S. funding to Ukraine to stave off the Russian invasion is less about international affairs and more about providing her with a platform to rile up her supporters with her fear-mongering over the U.S./Mexico border.

As the Post political analyst explained, Taylor Greene (R-GA) has her Ukraine numbers overstated but that is inconsequential since she is only using the war as a gateway to segueing into border complaints.

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Watch: Marjorie Taylor Greene says Paul Pelosi is to blame for his near-fatal assault as he arrives home from hospital

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told Trump supporters at a Sioux City, Iowa rally Thursday that Paul Pelosi is to blame for his own assault, just as the Speaker's husband was being released from the hospital after being bludgeoned with a hammer in a "near-fatal" attack that left him unconscious in a pool of his own blood.

As she made her remarks news broke that Pelosi had just been released from a six-day stint in hospital, where he was operated on for a skull fracture and damage to his arm and hands. The Washington Post reports court records reveal his attacker was trying to wrestle control of a hammer, "striking Mr. Pelosi in the head at full force with the hammer, which knocked Mr. Pelosi unconscious.”

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Kevin McCarthy is obsessed with 'his own political future' — and will do anything to gain power: Michael Fanone

On MSNBC Tuesday, former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was severely injured in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, shredded House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — and accused him of putting aside his morals in the quest for power.

In the initial aftermath of the attack, McCarthy condemned Trump's role in inciting it and even privately demanded he resign from office. However, he quickly went back to defending the former president, and sitting idly by as House Republicans like Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) characterize the people who invaded the Capitol with weapons, beat police officers, and threatened lawmakers as "tourists."

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Watch: Michael Fanone rips Republican Kari Lake in profanity-laced rant on live TV

On Tuesday's edition of MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," former D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone tore into Kari Lake, the former Arizona news anchor turned Republican nominee for governor of Arizona, who has spent most of her campaign pushing conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, even outright saying she'll only accept election results if she wins the race.

Fanone's comments came in response to a newly released ad by the Republican Accountability Project targeting Lake, featuring the mother of deceased Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who defended the Capitol alongside Fanone and died shortly after.

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MSNBC legal expert blames Marjorie Taylor Greene for hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband: 'A kook with a lot of power'

A panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" drew a straight line between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's conspiracy theories and the attack on House speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband.

Paul Pelosi was severely beaten by a hammer-wielding assailant in a politically motivated attack, and Florida prosecutor Dave Aronberg blamed Republican elected officials for encouraging violence.

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