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Trump sues Michael Cohen for $500 million

Former President Donald Trump is suing his ex-attorney Michael Cohen for $500 million, claiming "multiple breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breaches of contract by virtue of Defendant’s past service as Plaintiff’s employee and attorney."

Cohen was disbarred in 2019 after he pleaded guilty to tax evasion and campaign finance violations concerning payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels. He was sentenced to three years in prison.

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Rupert Murdoch's family uses the HBO show Succession against each other: report

An extensive piece in Vanity Fair about Rupert Murdoch, his children and his last marriage, it was revealed that the News Corp. kingpin is obsessed with the HBO show "Succession."

This past Sunday on the show, the head of the family's news empire, Logan Roy, ultimately died, leading the show into what it's truly named for: his succession.

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Complaint filed by Stormy Daniels' lawyer alleges Trump's attorney has a massive conflict of interest

Donald Trump's lawyer, Joe Tacopina, may run into some problems with his work on the hush money case brought by the Manhattan District Attorney, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Stormy Daniels's lawyer, Clark Brewster, has filed a complaint to a New York attorney grievance committee, revealing communications between the adult film star and Tacopina in Feb. 2018. She had approached him about being her attorney in matters related to Donald Trump.

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Senators encourage Justice Department to probe the Tennessee expulsions as a civil rights violation

The Washington Post reports that the next step in the war between Democrats and Republicans in Tennessee is U.S. senators encouraging the Justice Department to probe the matter for civil rights violations.

Last week, GOP lawmakers in the state's Assembly voted on expelling three Democrats, but the only two removed were Black men.

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Legal expert doubts Trump's story: Court cops don't cry because 'the vast majority' of people charged are 'guilty'

Former President Donald Trump told Tucker Carlson on Tuesday that when he went to the Manhattan courthouse last week, there were a lot of sobbing cops.

"Tears were pouring down," Trump said about the officers working at the Manhattan courthouse.

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'From the man who brought you windmill cancer': Critics baffled by Trump's 'nuclear warming' threat

In an interview with Fox host Tucker Carlson, former President Donald Trump claimed that he was an environmentalist because he has been fighting against "nuclear warming."

It's a topic he briefly mentioned in 2018 after meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where he began talking about what is generally referred to as nuclear proliferation. At that time, he was bragging about his work to get North Korea to denuclearize.

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Lindsey Graham changes his tune on Saudi Arabia after a $37 billion South Carolina contract with Boeing

After the brutal death and dismemberment of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) proclaimed he would never go to Saudi Arabia as long as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was in charge.

Five years later, Graham met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for what he called a “very productive” meeting on Tuesday, reported The Washington Post.

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CA man dead after chasing dog into flesh-eating bacteria-laced pond

Forty-one-year-old Jeff Bova waded into a California pond after his dog with nothing more than a small cut on his right arm.

Out in the mountains of Julian in San Diego County, Bova waded into the standing water after a big rain. He tried to treat it with anti-bacterial cream until finally, it blistered, and fluid came pouring out of it, causing unreasonable pain. That's when he finally went to the hospital. Two days later, he was dead.

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Cassidy Hutchinson’s Trump-funded lawyer suing J6 committee

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House aide to Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, had a Trump-funded lawyer during her ongoing testimony with the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and what led up to it. But before appearing in person, she ditched the Trump lawyer for another one. Now that lawyer, Stefan Passantino, is suing the select committee, which no longer exists.

Ten months after Hutchinson appeared before the committee and four months after the committee was disbanded, Passantino alleges that that committee developed a "false narrative" that he encouraged Hutchinson to lie.

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'Stephen Miller might not just be a witness but a target': Conservative says of Trump's 'Rasputin'

Donald Trump's former top aide Stephen Miller appeared before the federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

Discussing the matter, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace explained that she has stacks of tapes of Miller appearing on Fox News and talking about the plot to overturn the election. In one Dec. 14, 2020 appearance, Wallace said that Miller was stressing Jan. 20 being the only thing written in stone. He claimed that there was more than enough time to certify Trump as the winner.

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Bank robbery turns into hostage situation in Arlington: reports

For the second day in a row, staff in a bank are experiencing fear as a gunman walked through their doors. In Arlington, Virginia, an armed robbery turned into a standoff and hostage situation with customers and bank employees still inside, NBC Washington reported Tuesday afternoon.

It's a Wells Fargo bank located in the 3100 block of Washington Boulevard, in the Clarendon area, which is about four miles as the crow flies to the White House in Washington, D.C.

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Jim Jordan plays the victim after targeting Alvin Bragg

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) may have taken the first shot but he is now portraying himself as the real victim.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg filed a lawsuit against Jordan after he demanded that Bragg appear before the House Judiciary Committee, even though Congress has no oversight over his office.

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Legal expert doesn't understand why Trump's lawyers are 'spinning things that are clearly false'

Donald Trump's new lawyer appeared on the Sunday morning political talk shows this weekend appearing to explain how Trump ended up with 15 boxes of federal documents — including classified ones — in his desk drawer.

James Trusty offered: "Yeah, I mean can you imagine — does anybody in their right mind really think that Donald Trump came down to Mar-a-Lago while still president, I guess, in January, and said hey, these are the boxes I packed, let's be careful with those. That goes in the dining room that goes in the closet."

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