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Maria Bartiromo rips into Marjorie Taylor Greene for 'disruption' with bid to oust speaker

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo confronted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for causing a "disruption" in the U.S. House of Representatives by trying to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

During an interview on Sunday Morning Futures, Greene worried that Republicans would vote for former President Donald Trump but not vote for House members who did not fight for his agenda.

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'Crowd has been thinning': Trump supporters reportedly 'walking out' of N.J. rally

Donald Trump loves to brag about the "huge" size of his political rallies, but on Saturday a reporter spotted the ex-president's supporters leaving the event while he was still speaking.

Trump over the weekend spoke in New Jersey, which most polls show is solidly behind the current president, Joe Biden. After the event, the former president was criticized for making a mistake about China and for apparently slurring his speech.

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'Carry-dite-bye-raye-sigh-en': Trump mocked as rally shows his 'slurring is getting worse'

Donald Trump was ridiculed online after his rally on Saturday, including for appearing to "slur" his words.

The former president spoke in New Jersey over the weekend, where he confused people with his comments about "O.J." and appeared to mistake Beijing for Taiwan.

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Georgia GOP vice chair booted for illegally voting 9 times as a convicted felon

Brian K. Pritchard is no longer the vice chairman of the Georgia Republican Party after a large majority of his fellow Republicans voted to remove him from his position this week.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Pritchard was removed from his role as the party's number two official after a whopping 86% of the Georgia GOP's state committee supported a motion to oust him.

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In-depth CNN review casts doubt on big Trump trial gripe

An in-depth CNN review of Donald Trump’s campaign calendar has exposed one of biggest courtroom gripes to be in doubt.

Trump has repeatedly complained that being forced into a courtroom while his criminal trial involving hush money payments continues has stopped him from campaigning.

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'It hurts Donald Trump more': Legal expert explains why ex-president is at a jury handicap

A key witness with his fingerprints all over the supposed financial documents coverup may manage to dodge testifying in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial.

But former New York City prosecutor and CNN analyst Karen Friedman Agnifilo thinks his contribution is a bit of a mystery that likely would bruise Trump's defense.

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Paul Pelosi's attacker faces potential 40-year prison sentence for 'terrorism'

The man convicted of breaking into Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) home and hammering her husband has been recommended to serve 40 years to life in prison.

The 2 a.m. ambush on Oct. 28, 2022, committed by David DePape who was found guilty by a jury of attempting to kidnap Member and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi "on account of the performance of her official duties" and assault of her husband, according to the filed sentencing memorandum.

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'He's coming after you, Jake Tapper': Trump aide warns CNN host about ex-president's goals

Anthony Scaramucci keeps trying to scare CNN about former President Donald Trump.

Trump's former communication director on Friday issued a dire warning to CNN host Jake Tapper that echoed a similar message he gave to Kaitlan Collins.

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'Playing with a loaded gun': Democrat calls out Mike Johnson's election fraud lies

A Democratic lawmaker called out House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) for spreading baseless claims of election fraud just days after helping to save his job.

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) Friday shamed Johnson — who claimed this week he knew "intuitively" that undocumented immigrants vote illegally — for parroting election lies similar to those made before the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Steve Bannon moves one step closer to jail after appeals court upholds conviction

Steve Bannon moved one step closer to jail for refusing to comply with a House subpoena during the Jan. 6 investigation.

The former White House chief strategist and right-wing podcaster's conviction for refusing a congressional subpoena to testify was unanimously upheld by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals, but his four-month jail sentence was placed on hold while their ruling is reviewed, reported Politico.

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'Improper fishing expedition': Judge Merchan slaps down Trump subpoena gambit

Judge Juan Merchan rejected Donald Trump's request to subpoena a former prosecutor in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office.

The former president's lawyers had asked the court for testimony and documents from former prosecutor Mark Pomerantz, who called the hush money investigation a "zombie" case in his book and questioned whether charges were warranted, but Mercan rejected the request on a number of grounds.

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Trump team's efforts to shame Stormy Daniels 'fell flat' during 'withering attack': expert

Donald Trump's attorney attempted to shame Stormy Daniels for appearing in adult films and dancing nude, but a legal expert said those efforts likely "fell flat" with the jury.

The adult film actress testified for more than seven hours over two days about her brief sexual relationship with the former president, who is charged with falsifying business records in an effort to pay for her silence ahead of the 2016 election, and MSNBC's Lisa Rubin told "Morning Joe" that she held her own against aggressive cross examination.

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Trump lawyers 'took the bait' and bolstered Stormy Daniels' cred: expert

Putting Stormy Daniels on the stand to testify under oath paid off for prosecutors in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, according to one legal expert.

While Daniels didn't provide smoking-gun evidence that the former president falsified business records to cover up hush-money payments he made to her in 2016, former federal prosecutor Duncan Levin thinks Daniels came off as not only credible but said her "terrible" tale needed to be told.

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