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Marjorie Taylor Greene hits Fani Willis with criminal referral over alleged affair: report

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) believes the Georgia prosecutor spearheading the sweeping racketeering case against Trump and 18 others for allegedly conspiring to meddle with the 2020 election results — committed a crime and she's calling on the governor to intervene, according to NBC News.

On Wednesday the Georgia lawmaker formally sent a criminal referral to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Attorney General Chris Carr complaining that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' hiring of special prosecutor Nathan Wade constituted an "illegal conflict of interest" after it was revealed the pair were allegedly engaged to be in a relationship.

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'Oh yeah, we're really afraid of you': Dem drips with sarcasm in response to MTG

Democratic lawmakers are both mocking and knocking Republicans for their chaotic attempt Wednesday to hold Hunter Biden in contempt — as he sat watching in the front row.

After Republican Oversight and Reform chair Rep. James Comer (R-KY) made it clear that he wasn't going to allow Biden to speak, the president's son stood and walked out. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) told reporters after the fact that he was too scared to face them. She even went so far as to say Hunter Biden was having a "temper tantrum."

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'That should be stricken': Republicans erupt after Dem links Trump to Jeffrey Epstein

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee expressed outrage Wednesday after Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) noted that former President Donald Trump associated with Jeffrey Epstein.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing about Hunter Biden, Moskowitz reacted to sex trafficking concerns brought up by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

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'Toddler having a temper tantrum': MTG lays into Hunter Biden for contempt meeting walkout

After making a surprise appearance at a congressional hearing Wednesday, Hunter Biden abruptly walked out half-an-hour into it — just as Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene began to speak.

"Excuse me, Hunter, apparently you're afraid of my words," Greene said as Biden left the room. "Aw. Wow, that's too bad."

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'Stupid': Marjorie Taylor Greene faces conservative backlash over Hunter Biden hearing

Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Nancy Mace (R-SC) faced backlash from at least one conservative radio host after they allegedly used "left-wing weaponized talking points" at a hearing on Hunter Biden.

During his Wednesday podcast, right-wing host Charlie Kirk reacted to the two lawmakers' remarks at Biden's contempt of Congress hearing. Kirk recalled being disturbed because Mace admitted that "white privilege" was real.

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MTG slammed for lashing out at Hunter Biden — after she tried to shame him with nude pics

A historic day in the House of Representatives saw the crude phrase for intimate photographs of the masculine anatomy entered into the congressional record.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) uttered the immortal couplet d--- pics in outrage after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke out against Hunter Biden for storming out of a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing.

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Impeachment-palooza: GOP seeks 7 ousters as Republican alleges Obama is really in control

House Republicans this week have threatened two additional members of the Biden administration with impeachment, bringing the total so far during this Congress to seven elected and appointed federal government officials: President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves.

In addition to House Republicans' official impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, on Wednesday House Homeland Security Chairman Mark Green gaveled in the first of his committee's impeachment hearings on DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: "Havoc in the Heartland: How Secretary Mayorkas’ Failed Leadership Has Impacted the States."

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'Pure congressional mayhem': Analyst left shocked by scenes in House contempt hearing

A congressional hearing ended in "mayhem" as Republicans began the process of holding Hunter Biden in contempt for not complying with a subpoena to sit for a closed-door deposition.

President Joe Biden's son had agreed to testify in a public hearing last month, which Republicans rejected, and Hunter Biden briefly appeared Wednesday morning at a hearing of the House Oversight Committee before abruptly departing as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) claimed her allotted time.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene furious as Jamie Raskin says Ashli Babbitt's death is on Trump

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out Wednesday after Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pointed out that Jan. 6 protester Ashli Babbitt was not murdered.

During a House Oversight hearing to consider contempt of Congress charges for Hunter Biden, Greene claimed that Babbitt had been a "murder" victim on Jan. 6, 2021, because she was shot while breaching the U.S. Capitol.

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Ex-GOP official thinks Democrats plotted Hunter Biden face-off with Republicans

Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) accused the Democrats of pulling a fast one on the House Oversight and Reform Committee Republicans Wednesday when Hunter Biden appeared unexpectedly at a meeting discussing charging him with contempt of Congress.

"A remarkable day on Capitol Hill," he told MSNBC after the incident unfolded.

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Listen: Trump’s top Senate allies try – and fail – to defend his immunity claim

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is demanding a federal court grant him blanket immunity from prosecution for anything he did during his four years in the White House.

But even some of Trump’s top allies in Congress rejected Trump’s latest legal claim.

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'This trial date will stick': George Conway thinks Trump's immunity fight will end quickly

George Conway confidently predicted Donald Trump would quickly lose his immunity battle and stand trial as scheduled in his Washington, D.C., election subversion case.

The former president's attorney argued Tuesday that he should be broadly immune from criminal prosecution because he had not been convicted in his impeachment trial by the Senate following the Jan. 6 insurrection, but Conway told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" the three-judge appeals court panel might already have decided to deny that claim.

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Judge effectively neuters Trump's 'grandstanding' in upcoming defamation trial

A federal judge effectively neutered most of Donald Trump's defenses in his upcoming defamation trial.

The former president's attorneys had been preparing for his second defamation trial involving journalist E. Jean Carroll as if the first one never happened in hopes of clearing his name after a jury found him liable for sexual assault, but U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a new order severely limiting the parameters of this case, reported The Daily Beast.

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