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Trump calls Mastriano and Oz vital to a Republican takeover in 2022 and 2024

WILKES-BARRE TWP., Pa. – Campaigning for Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial and U.S. Senate nominees on Saturday, former President Donald Trump cast Doug Mastriano and Dr. Mehmet Oz as vital leaders in a fight to take back the state and country starting with this year’s midterm election.

Trump spoke for nearly two hours at the rally outside Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County, at the heart of a region Trump carried handily over President Joe Biden in 2020.

In his rambling and invective-studded style, Trump cataloged what he said were Biden’s failures that reversed the gains of his administration, and repeated his baseless claim that he won reelection.

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Watch: MTG fails to defend Dr. Oz and declares John Fetterman a ‘communist’

Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene traveled to Pennsylvania for Saturday's Donald Trump rally for Republican gubernatorial Doug Mastriano and U.S. Senate nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Ahead of the rally, Greene was interviewed by the far-right website Real America's Voice.

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Biden seeks to make midterms a referendum on Trump

Midterm elections in America are traditionally all about the current president -- whose party rarely comes out well. Joe Biden has another plan for this November: to turn the vote into a referendum on Donald Trump and his "extremist" politics.

The 79-year-old Democrat -- still unpopular though his poll numbers have been creeping back up -- has a catchphrase that says it all: "Don't compare me to the Almighty. Compare me to the alternative."

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Far-right website could cause ‘national security threat’ in 2024 election as harassment campaigns escalate

One of the darkest corners of the internet is the subject of a new exposé by NBC News.

Correspondent Ben Collins, who covers disinformation, extremism and the internet for NBC, explained that he was very cautious about filing the report on the website Kiwi Farms with reporter Kat Tenbarge.

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Congress working with NARA as Trump ‘gift’ investigation proceeds: report

The FBI investigation into documents that were allegedly illegally at Mar-a-Lago has brought fresh attention to one of the less-known congressional investigations into Trump potentially having possession of an entirely different set of illicit items.

"Former President Donald Trump intermingled classified and unclassified materials in boxes at his Florida residence and had dozens of empty folders that bore a “classification” marking, according to an inventory list made public Friday morning that describes in more detail what FBI agents recovered when they searched Mar-a-Lago last month," The Washington Post reported Friday. "Several of the retrieved boxes also contain items labeled 'clothing/ gift item,' according to the inventory list. While these are not secret or sensitive items, experts said the discovery of them at Mar-a-Lago raises questions about whether Trump followed longstanding rules around receiving gifts domestically and those from foreign governments."

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Georgia Democrats see an opening in 2022's midterm elections

Democrats in Georgia see their power on the rise after narrowly winning its presidential votes and both U.S. Senate seats in the past two years. But success at the state level has not yet materialized, and the 2022 midterms are proving to be a challenge.

After losing in 2018 by about 55,000 votes, Stacey Abrams leads one of the most diverse slates of candidates in the state’s history and seeks to change the balance of power by beating incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp.

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'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult'

MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA critics have been arguing that his condemnation of DeSantis, former President Donald Trump and other MAGA Republicans is painfully out of touch with Main Street America — and that Reich and other liberals and progressives simply don’t understand conservative values.

But Reich’s MAGA critics are ignoring or overlooking the fact that anti-MAGA arguments are hardly confined to the left. A long list of right-wing Never Trump conservatives, from attorney George Conway to The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes to Washington Post columnist Max Boot to former Nancy Reagan speechwriter Mona Charen to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough (a former GOP congressman), have been attacking MAGA as a movement that favors far-right authoritarianism rather than traditional Reagan/Goldwater/McCain conservatism. And William Saletan, a writer for the conservative website The Bulwark, defends President Joe Biden’s anti-MAGA use of the term “semi-fascism” in an article published on September 1.

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Watch: White House names 'extreme' MAGA Republicans who have promoted violent rhetoric

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre served up a stunning and rare rebuke Wednesday afternoon of several “extreme” MAGA Republican elected officials who are using violent rhetoric and false claims that align with former president Donald Trump’s agenda and actions.

“Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has posted videos depicting him attacking the President and members of Congress,” Jean-Pierre responded to a reporter who asked if President Joe Biden criticizing “MAGA Republicans” and using the term “semi-fascism” to describe their ideology goes against his 2020 campaign promise to be a “uniter.”

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'Negative, bile-filled performance artists': Adam Schiff laments the Republican 'crackpot caucus'

Congressman Adam Schiff (D-California) appeared on MSNBC's Tuesday edition of The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell and reflected upon Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-South Carolina) radioactive prediction that there would be "riots in the streets" if former President Donald Trump is criminally indicted.

"I think with Lindsey Graham you see some signs of conscience flare up from time to time that are quickly extinguished," Schiff quipped to host Lawrence O'Donnell.

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Republicans on Sunday shows reveal how scared they are about Trump's document scandal

Republicans appeared on Sunday morning news shows, making it clear that they're not comfortable with Donald Trump's latest scandal, the New York Times round-up explained.

Monday begins the third week since the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. What they recovered was a cache of government documents that Trump stole to take with him upon leaving the White House. A number of the documents were so top secret that the government has been unable to describe them to the public.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene just 'trying to live out Christian faith' with her anti-transgender bill

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said a bill that would prevent gender-affirming treatment for transgender children is part of a "spiritual war" and her "Christian faith."

During an interview with Human Events podcast host Jack Posobiec, Greene explained that the local SWAT team had been wrongly called to her home on two occasions because she was a victim of a tactic known as "swatting."

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‘Fire this numbskull’: Mick Mulvaney’s comments put CBS News on the hotseat

Former Trump acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, who is a current CBS News analyst, was harshly criticized on Friday for his comments about Trump's redacted search warrant.

CNN anchor Jim Sciutto played a clip of Mulvaney discussing the FBI search warrant execution.

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Atlanta DA now investigating voting systems breach in central Georgia county as part of Trump probe

On Friday, the Associated Press reported that Fulton County, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis is now investigating a voting systems breach in Coffee County, a small area 200 miles south of Atlanta, as part of her investigation into former President Donald Trump and his allies' efforts to overturn the election in the state.

"The widening of the probe highlights the latest instance in which unauthorized people appear to have gained access to voting equipment since the 2020 election, primarily in battleground states lost by Trump," reported Kate Brumback and Christina Cassidy. "Election experts have raised concerns that sensitive information shared online about the equipment may have exposed vulnerabilities that could be exploited by people intent on disrupting future elections."

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