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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Alex Jones is being 'politically persecuted' over Sandy Hook conspiracy theories

In a recent interview, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said that while she didn't like the fact that Alex Jones was spreading conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting, "Alex has apologized over and over again."

On Friday, a jury in Texas decided that Jones must pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of Sandy Hook shooting victim Jesse Lewis. The decision came one day after the jury awarded $4.1 million in compensatory damages.

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Fox News ‘still fetishizing’ Trump but election lies are still keeping him off the network: report

Fox News continues to prop up Donald Trump as the leader of the Republican Party, but he hasn't appeared on the network for months.

The conservative network has been giving two potential 2024 challengers, Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis, plenty of airtime, including two recent prime-time interviews, although coverage of the former president remains overwhelmingly positive, reported The Guardian.

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'Unholy force' Marjorie Taylor Greene busted by religious leader for her 'bastardization' of Christianity

In a column for the Daily Beast, the executive director of Faithful America scorched Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for distorting the teaching of Jesus Christ to push her defense of Christian nationalism.

Explaining that conservatives embracing the militant Christian stance -- with its overtones of racism -- are "wolves in sheep's clothing," Episcopal Rev. Nathan Empsall claims that the far-right conservative is guilty of the "bastardization of the Christian faith."

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Trump rambles for 108 minutes in CPAC speech filled with 'unapologetic fascism': report

Former President Donald Trump spoke for nearly two hours in his closing address at the CPAC summit in Dallas.

In Trump's view, America has been destroyed in the 18 months since he left office, with out-of-control crime, inflation, and oddly enough unemployment, which Trump estimates to be three times the official number.

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Watch: CPAC booth features crying man in MAGA hat pretending to be a jailed Jan. 6 rioter

A display set up at the Conservative Political Action Conference offered a performative portrayal of jailed U.S. Capitol rioters by a failed actor whose testimony landed some of them in prison.

The booth consists of an unidentified man wearing an orange inmate jumpsuit and a MAGA hat sitting in a mock jail cell and crying, and passersby are offered headphones that play testimony from suspects arrested for various offenses during the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to freelance journalist Laura Jedeed.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene: Ashli Babbitt was actually trying to stop the rioters from entering the Capitol

In a video posted to her social media channels, Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed without evidence that Ashli Babbitt, the woman shot and killed by a Capitol Police Officer on Jan. 6 as she tried to jump through a door's broken window that led to the Speaker's Lobby, posed no threat and was actually trying to stop the rioters.

Greene described Babbitt as an "unarmed woman" who is "on video hitting someone in the face that was breaking the glass to go in to the Speaker's Lobby."

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Right-wing conferences have become more plentiful and more 'extreme': report

Far-right Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been drawing vehement criticism around the world for a July 23 speech in Romania, where he declared that a “mixed-race world” is harmful to western countries and promoted the racist Great Replacement theory. The speech was so racist that even long-time Orbán adviser Zsuzsa Hegedüs resigned in protest, calling it “a purely Nazi diatribe worthy of Joseph Goebbels.” But despite that controversy, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) plans to go ahead and feature Orbán at the start of its Dallas gathering. Orbán, in fact, is scheduled to give one of the keynote speeches when the event opens on Thursday, August 4.

The four-day Dallas event, which continues through Sunday, August 7, has a far-right lineup of MAGA culture warriors. In addition to Orbán, CPAC Texas 2022 will feature former President Donald Trump, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, “War Room” host and former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

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Alex Jones says judge in his trial 'demonically possessed' and part of 'cult'

Embattled conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Tuesday said that the judge who is trying a case against him was "demonically possessed" and part of a "cult."

For the second day this week, Jones skipped portions of his Austin trial, which will determine damages after a judge found him guilty for defaming victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

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Jon Stewart rails against Republican senators: 'I've never seen corruption like this and I'm from New Jersey'

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart is back on Capitol Hill Tuesday to press the Senate to support the legislation to provide healthcare to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

"This country hangs by a thread, and that thread is the hundreds of legislative aides that work in these buildings that work really hard and they keep this thing going," Stewart told Raw Story on Tuesday. "The senators themselves, a lot of them, don't really know what's in this stuff. And there are egos, like — I've never seen egos like this and I'm in show business. And I've never seen corruption like this and I'm from New Jersey. So, you can imagine how f*cked this place is."

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Judge slaps down Trump's attempt to dismiss Capitol cops' civil suit against him

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday slapped down former President Donald Trump's effort to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Capitol Police officers who were injured during the riot that Trump incited on January 6, 2021.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, Mehta shot down Trump's claims that his actions leading up to and during the January 6 riots are not subject to civil litigation because they "fall within the 'outer perimeter' of his presidential responsibilities."

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'Is there proof?' Marjorie Taylor Greene claims Ayman al-Zawahiri's killing is midterm conspiracy

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) used her congressional Twitter account to claim that Democrats engaged in a conspiracy to claim terrorist mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed to boost their midterm fortunes.

In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Greene suggested that Democrats were taking action because President Joe Biden had not gotten a boost from Russia's war on Ukraine.

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Trump welcomed Cassidy Hutchinson on his post-presidency team despite claims he didn't: report

Business Insider has obtained documents that they say show Cassidy Hutchinson was working with former President Donald Trump even after he left office.

Trump and his allies have set their sights on attacking Hutchinson after she testified to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the effort to overthrow the 2020 election. Hutchinson was previously working with a lawyer paid for by Trump's political action committee, but several months ago, it was revealed she switched to her own counsel. It turned commentators to suspect it meant she was walking away from Trump World to cooperate with the committee. Up until that point, she had been quietly on the team.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be Donald Trump's vice president

United States Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) revealed to the right-wing media outlet Real America's Voice over the weekend that she would be "honored" if former President Donald Trump asked her to be his running mate if he wins the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 2024.

Trump is expected to announce his fourth White House bid in the near future but has made no indication of who he would add to the ticket.

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