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Hunter Biden called Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) bluff — and it appears to have worked.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden's son said that he would testify to Comer's House Oversight and Reform Committee, but only if it was in public. Comer had requested that it be behind closed doors.

Two legal experts delivered a linguistic smackdown of former President Donald Trump's latest claims during the latest episode of the "Prosecuting Donald Trump" podcast released after Thanksgiving.

Former longtime prosecutors Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord walked through the accusations Trump made over the holiday, claiming that he is being selectively prosecuted in a manner that is retaliatory and vindictive.

Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were the two associates of Rudy Giuliani who funneled campaign money from foreigners to Donald Trump, according to a Justice Department indictment. But more than their scheme, their work with Giuliani as he worked to dig up dirt on Joe Biden in Ukraine.

Parnas was sentenced to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release in June 2022, after pleading guilty. He did work with congressional committees when asked for information in 2020.

After a tragic report about the state of danger for immigrants around the world, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow poked fun at some cities in Georgia.

A fake elector is coordinating Republican-leaning cities in Fulton County, north of Atlanta, to protest the county regulating their elections. The Democratic-run county uses electronic counting machines and voting machines, which the GOP leaders oppose. Instead, they intend to hand count everything that comes in on election night.

Three lawsuits brought against Trump for his hand in the Jan. 6, 2021, melee has remained stalled in a federal appeals court.

“I am surprised how long it’s taking," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) told Politico for a Monday report.

A top anchor at the far-right One America News Network (OAN), Dan Ball, patrolled the halls of the network's headquarters openly carrying a handgun earlier this year, in response to a homeless man getting into the building, reported The Daily Beast's Confider on Monday.

"A female on-air personality was visibly shaken after encountering the unauthorized visitor in the building early one morning, these sources said. 'It can be kind of scary at the studio on the early morning shift when you are pretty much the only person there,' one OAN insider explained. 'Especially on the weekends when you are basically there alone,'" reported Justin Baragona.

A Florida woman who worked in the federal Small Business Administration has been charged with bribery as part of an alleged scheme she struck with Joel Greenberg, the former county tax officer and friend of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is currently serving a prison term for sex trafficking, reported the Orlando Sentinel.

According to federal prosecutors, wrote Martin E. Comas, Angela Chew "helped convicted Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg and one of his associates submit and process fraudulent federal loan applications meant to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. In return, [Chew], who worked as a loan specialist for the federal Small Business Administration, received $3,000 in kickbacks from Greenberg in mid-2020 — just weeks after he resigned from public office, according to the grand jury indictment released Nov. 8."

Over the holiday week, Donald Trump decided that his new campaign issue would be eliminating the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. As it turns out, Republicans aren't enthusiastic.

Trump explained that he's "seriously looking at alternatives" to the legislation, claiming the failure to repeal and replace it was "a low point for the Republican Party." The GOP held power in the House, Senate and White House at the time, but Trump still couldn't get it done.

Donald Trump is threatening to use his second term in office to attack Americans using the military.

Presidential historian Michael Beschloss appeared on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber," guest hosted by Katie Phang, to elicit a stark warning.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) has no plans to let off his blockade of Senate approvals of military promotions following the Thanksgiving holidays, as his own party grows increasingly angry with him. Even Fox News reporters begin to criticize him.

In fact, Tuberville told CNN congressional reporter Manu Raju on Monday, the military is on his side.

If he's booted from the House, Rep. George Santos (R-NY) could still lavish in some post-Congress perks.

The flailing politician facing a 23-count federal indictment for embezzling campaign coffers to purchase Botox injections and feed an OnlyFans account, and fibbing to Congress about his wealth, among other offenses, is all but awaiting for his peers to put him out to pasture.

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi is seriously concerned about the recent reporting that Donald Trump's White House was not vetting some people they were pardoning or commuting sentences for in the administration's final months.

A New York Times report by Michael Schmidt and others revealed that one of Trump's pardons was for a violent drug distributor named Jonathan Braun. The story walks through how Braun was able to leverage his family's relationship with Jared Kushner's family. The man had a history of violent threats and other concerning behavior that made for an unusual choice for a commutation.

A cannabis kingpin with a penchant for using brute force was one of the 237 people who received clemency from former President Donald Trump and ultimately became a loan shark. Then, his sudden prison release hindered a federal predatory lending investigation.

According to The New York Times, Staten Island native Jonathan Braun, 40, was freed on Jan. 20, 2021, in concert with then-White House senior aide and son-in-law Jared Kushner, after serving just two-and-a-half years of a 10-year prison stint for smuggling and selling $1.72 billion worth of marijuana in the US from 2007 to 2010.