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Former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor is releasing his second book, "Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump" – and startling excerpts are already dropping.

In a piece in RealClear News Wednesday, Taylor describes Donald Trump's desperation to have his own personal military group, an idea inspired by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Donald Trump has long been obsessed with Elvis Presley, even going so far as to tell an audience that people said he looked like Elvis. Now he's comparing his rallies with concerts by the late rockstar.

On his social media site, Trump shared a link to an article claiming that the former rocker couldn't pull in the same crowds that he could.

A prominent legal analyst on Tuesday called on law enforcement to hold Donald Trump accountable for the Jan. 6 insurrection and subsequent actions, citing the recent arrest of a Jan. 6 defendant found heavily armed near former President Barack Obama’s Washington D.C. home.

NBC News legal analyst Glenn Kirschner in a YouTube video said President Joe Biden had been asked by world leaders why Trump hadn’t yet been held to account for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

An 8-year-old child was shot in the chest while in a Walmart parking lot of Choctaw, Oklahoma, on Independence Day when his teen brother was playing with the gun.

According to KOCO, the police on the scene initially told them that the gun belonged to an Oklahoma City police officer. Later the police told reporters that the children were simply related to an OKC PD officer.

The district attorney of Philadelphia didn't hold back during a Tuesday press conference after another mass shooting in America.

Five people were killed, and two were injured on Monday in his city, leading to anger and frustration. It has become an emotion seen in many cities nationwide that experience mass shootings. Over and over, local lawmakers move from begging for help to demanding action.

Shortly after the Supreme Court on Thursday effectively gutted affirmative action in college admissions, one of Wisconsin’s top elected state officials signaled interest in attacking other ways colleges promote campus diversity.

Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) suggested cutting scholarships and grants, among other programs that benefit racial minorities.

A Virginia sheriff facing federal bribery and conspiracy charges was defiant in a local television news interview Monday.

Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Jenkins told NBC4 Washington, “I am still the sheriff. I am still working. I am still running for re-election.”

The widespread use of cell phone and body cameras mean that few police officers are able to do anything without it being captured on video.

It's unclear if that is what triggered a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy last week. When he saw a woman filming him, he threw her to the ground, KABC News reported.

A conservative TV host on Tuesday expressed shock over the sales of a book authored by failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake – and not in a good way from the perspective of America’s right.

Steve Deace professed admiration for Lake and expressed dismay that the election denier’s “Unafraid,” which was released late last month, is nowhere near the Amazon’s Top 100 rankings, and asks fellow Twitter users to theorize about the book’s flop.

On Tuesday, the Republican Party's official Twitter account posted to mark the Fourth of July, writing, "247 years ago, our forefathers told Ol' King George to get lost! Happy Independence Day from the GOP!"

There was just one problem: the flags they used in the graphic were not the American flag. They were the Liberian flag.

Former adviser to Speakers John Boehner (R-OH) and Paul Ryan (R-WI), Brendan Buck, revealed on Tuesday that Republicans are struggling to come up with a way to sell extremist views, particularly when it comes to Roe v. Wade being eliminated.

In a panel discussion, Buck revealed that Republicans have no idea what to say about abortion after spending a generation trying to bring down laws that prevent the government from regulating women's healthcare.

Cinde Warmington, a Democrat running for governor of New Hampshire next year, has sought to prioritize fighting the opioid epidemic. In one ad, she promises to “finally tackle the mental health crisis and fentanyl crisis in a real way, so that families can get the help they need.”

There's just one problem, reported The Daily Beast: two decades ago, Warmington was a lobbyist for Purdue Pharma, defending their right to sell OxyContin, a powerful opioid painkiller that helped trigger the crisis in the first place.