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Trump doubles down on war with NATO — and thinks Ukraine is already a member

Republicans and Democrats came together over the weekend to attack former President Donald Trump for his comments that he'd encourage a war with a NATO ally. The United States is in NATO, the group that links together Europe and the United States in the event of a war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long attacked NATO and sought to undermine it. Trump appears to believe that every country must pay an equal share, but that isn't the way that it works. Funds given to NATO from nations are calculated using a cost-share formula that Trump doesn't appear to fully comprehend. The money isn't sent as a check directly to NATO as he believes.

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Trump's own ex-lawyer calls his immunity case 'weak' — and then 'eviscerated' the briefs

Donald Trump's briefs aren't cutting it.

Trump's attempt to win over the Supreme Court to press pause on his immunity claim as it relates to his federal election subversion case in the lead to Jan. 6, 2021, was so "eviscerated" by the three-judge panel of the D.C. Court of Appeals that it's hard to see how they could override them.

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Son of Christian diet guru tells all

The son of a controversial Christian diet guru is speaking out about his experience and says he has a lot of regrets, News Channel 5 reported.

"I look back on my life and go: 'What were we doing? What was I thinking?'" Michael Shamblin told News Channel 5 about his life with his mother Gwen Shamblin, who many say was a cult leader.

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Trump whines to SCOTUS he can't talk to voters if he's stuck in a criminal courtroom

One of the key arguments made by former President Donald Trump in his filing to the Supreme Court asking for a stay on the D.C. Circuit's ruling he is not immune from prosecution is that a criminal trial would deprive him of vital time he needs to spend campaigning for voters in 2024.

"The D.C. Circuit’s extraordinary decision to return the mandate to the district court to proceed to trial imposes another grave species of irreparable injury — the threat to the First Amendment rights of President Trump, his supporters and volunteers, and all American voters, who are entitled to hear from the leading candidate for President at the height of the Presidential campaign," the filing stated — logic which would appear to argue against it ever being permissible to charge presidential candidates with a crime in an election year.

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'Disgusting': Nikki Haley destroys Trump for mocking her husband's military service

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley slammed former President Donald Trump in a CNN interview on Monday afternoon for the former president's recent comments disparaging her active-duty husband's military service in a campaign stop in her home state over the weekend.

Haley is the last major Republican candidate challenging Trump for the 2024 presidential nomination, although polling currently suggests Trump has a near-insurmountable advantage over her.

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​Trump plans to attend Fani Willis' hearing according to report warning of 'chaos'

Donald Trump plans to attend Thursday a hearing on allegations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had a relationship with a special prosecutor that determined his hiring in the former president’s Georgia election racketeering case.

Two sources told the Washington Post that Trump might ditch a scheduled appearance in his New York City hush money case and travel to Atlanta instead, where he would sit in the audience.

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Donald Trump mulls backing daughter-in-law Lara for next Republican Party chair: report

It’s all in the family when you’re former President Donald Trump and a Republican National Committee chair is up for grabs, according to a new report from the New York Times.

Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law and wife to his son Eric, is being considered to receive his endorsement, the Times reported Monday.

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'Bizarre first sentence': Ex-prosecutor slams Trump's presidential immunity plea to SCOTUS

Former President Donald Trump’s request that the Supreme Court consider his presidential immunity claim managed to hit a “bizarre” and “incredibly inappropriate” tone by the end of its first sentence, former Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said Monday.

Weissmann was shocked that a Supreme Court filing — which argues Trump enjoyed absolute freedom as a sitting president — began with an oft-quoted quip from famous former New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra; “This application is ‘déjà vu all over again.”

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'Flipped his lid': Barbra Streisand rips Trump over Taylor Swift disloyalty remark

Actress and singer Barbra Streisand took to the social media platform "X" on Monday to slam former President Donald Trump for his latest attack on singing sensation Taylor Swift.

"Trump is telling Taylor Swift that she’ll be disloyal if she supports Biden!" wrote Streisand. "Can you imagine? This is what a dictator is like. He’s really flipped his lid now."

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'Too stupid to hide your racism': Megyn Kelly roasted for attack on Black National Anthem

Former Fox News and MSNBC personality Megyn Kelly took to X to complain about Andra Day's performance of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the Super Bowl — a song also known as the "Black National Anthem."

"The so-called Black National Anthem does not belong at the Super Bowl," wrote Kelly, who has previously generated controversy for insisting that Jesus and Santa Claus are white and defending blackface exhibitions. "We already have a National Anthem and it includes EVERYONE."

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Joe Biden trolls MAGA conspiracy theorists after Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl

The Kansas City Chiefs prevailed in the 58th Super Bowl sending the internet into giggles about the online conspiracy theories involving Taylor Swift and Joe Biden ahead of the game.

The conspiracy theory has something to do with a CIA operation involving Taylor Swift and her refusal to support Donald Trump in both 2020 and 2024. Among the conspiracies is that Super Bowl 58, when added together, 5+8=13 and "13" is the name of Taylor Swift's album, as FoxNews.com explained this week.

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Republican senators confess they skipped Mike Lee's 4-hour filibuster

WASHINGTON — Republican senators completely missed Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) four-hour filibuster on Saturday.

Raw Story polled Democratic and Republican senators at the U.S. Capitol on whether they saw the big speech. Eleven Republicans confessed they missed it.

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RFK Jr. copies 1960 JFK presidential ad for Super Bowl using his own pics

Robert Kennedy Jr.'s super PAC ran an ad on the Super Bowl that copied his uncle's 1960 presidential campaign spot and one long time political expert is calling it "plagiarism."

The ad swaps out photos of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, with photos of himself. The color has a reddish hue and is shown in the original television aspect ratio before high definition. It replays the same song and logo.

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