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'Bad person -- habitual liar': Madison Cawthorn receives brutal complaint filed by fired aide

A former aide is filing a brutal employment-related complaint against Trump-loving Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), whom the staffer describes as a "bad person" and "habitual liar."

Smoky Mountain News reports that fired Cawthorn campaign aide Lisa Wiggins is unsparing in her assessment of her former boss, whom she alleges violated her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act when he refused to give her time off when her uncle died and her husband had a heart attack within the span of a single week.

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Evangelical Christians try to spread the gospel with on-board airplane cabin-wide preaching and singing (video)

A recent attack on U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene serves to expose what appears to be a new religious battlefield: your airline flight.

Rep. Omar focused on a viral video that shows evangelical Christians singing worship music. According to TMZ, the video "shows a packed flight with a good handful of passengers singing what appear to be Christian songs to the rest of the cabin ... jamming out on a guitar and walking up and down the aisle in high spirits." Some of the passengers, however, are clearly uncomfortable and displeased.

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‘America’s Hitler’: Trump-backed candidate sent shocking texts about the former president – according to his roommate

Senate hopeful J.D. Vance won Donald Trump's endorsement in a tight Ohio Republican primary, but six years ago he compared the former reality TV star to Adolf Hitler.

The venture capitalist and "Hillbilly Elegy" author deleted his Trump criticism from his Twitter feed before announcing his Senate campaign, but his former Yale Law School roommate revealed that Vance worried about Trump's rise during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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Mark Meadows still pushing election conspiracies with another Trump ally who tried to overturn 2020 election: report

Donald Trump's former chief of staff is continuing to push election fraud lies with another key player in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

Mark Meadows is a senior partner of the Conservative Partnership Institute "election integrity network" run by Republican lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who has hosted summits around the country to mobilize conservative activists to aggressively monitor elections in states Trump lost to Joe Biden, reported The Guardian.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene compares Ilhan Omar to 9/11 hijackers after she calls out Christian music on plane

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Monday suggested that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who is Muslim, could perpetrate a deadly airplane hijacking like the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In a tweet on Sunday, Omar shared a video of a man playing a guitar and singing Christian music on an airplane full of people.

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Trump supporters struggle to explain how 2020 was stolen – but are 'mystified' people don’t agree with them: GOP strategist

According to a Morning Consult poll from January of last year, some 35 percent of Americans, including 68 percent of Republicans, believe the claims of Donald Trump and his allies that the 2020 election was "rigged" by a campaign of mass voter fraud. Writing in The Atlantic this Monday, Republican strategist Sarah Longwell tried to analyze why so many Americans buy into Trump's "Big Lie."

"For many of Trump’s voters, the belief that the election was stolen is not a fully formed thought. It’s more of an attitude, or a tribal pose," writes Longwell, who is the publisher of The Bulwark. "They know something nefarious occurred but can’t easily explain how or why. What’s more, they’re mystified and sometimes angry that other people don’t feel the same."

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High-ranking Trump Organization employee taking the fall for alleged tax fraud scheme: report

A high-ranking employee of the Trump Organization has remained loyal to the former president during the Manhattan district attorney's investigation of the company's finances.

Jeffrey McConney, the company controller and chief lieutenant to former chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, testified before a grand jury before he was indicted in June 2021, but he took the blame for any off-the-books perks in Weisselberg's salary, according to court documents reviewed by The Daily Beast.

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The GOP's war on Disney is headed for failure: analyst

According to a report from Politico's Derek Anderson, the Republican party's full-on attack on the Disney Company for supporting the LGBTQ community is likely headed nowhere just as a previous battle with the NFL over Black Lives Matter was a major flop.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has been leading the charge against the entertainment giant after they criticized Florida's so-called "Don't say gay" bill he signed, and that has led some conservatives to join his war to the point where they have gone off the rails with accusations of pedophilia.

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'God bless Russia': SNL imagines Easter message from Marjorie Taylor Greene

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" imagined various politicians and celebrities send out Easter messages.

"Hi, I'm Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). I've been saying aggressively to all my Jewish and Muslim colleagues, 'Happy Easter!' Don't worry, this rifle is chocolate, but the bullets are real."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene is burning through campaign cash faster than she can bring it in: report

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Roger Sollenberger, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is spending campaign cash faster than she is bringing it in as her campaign has reported it overstated contributions to the controversial lawmaker.

Based upon campaign finance reports released on Friday, the report states that Taylor Greene's fundraising efforts reported its "first net loss on Friday, posting a $314,000 deficit over the first three months of 2022 while additionally revising previous contribution totals down by more than $100,000."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz funnel thousands of dollars to Trump’s ‘coup memo’ lawyer

Attorney John Eastman, who was still trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election as recently as last month, has received thousands of dollars from a joint fundraising committee set up by MAGA Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Politico reports that Gaetz and Greene's committee Put America First forked over at least $25,000 to Eastman's law firm, the Constitutional Counsel Group.

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GOP leadership fears Trump wing will 'burn the House down' after midterms

According to a report from Politico's Sarah Ferris and Olivia Beavers, moderate House Republicans are simultaneously excited at the prospect of reclaiming the House for Democratic majority control in November's midterm election and also fearful that far-right members will set about creating chaos instead of governing.

With multiple moderate GOP lawmakers retiring this year -- in many cases being driven out after attacks by former president Donald Trump -- members of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's inner circle see allies leaving who were more interested in passing legislation and not just fighting culture wars and making headlines.

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Herschel Walker wants to have dinner with writer who called his campaign ‘an insult to Black people’

Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia on Thursday responded on Fox News to complaints raised by Elie Mystal, justice correspondent at The Nation.

Mystal, a Harvard Law graduate, is the author of a new story for the magazine titled, "The Herschel Walker Senate campaign is an insult to Black people."

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