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Another holiday has come and gone in which Donald Trump failed to issue a professional message that conveys the right emotion for the moment, according to ABC's Jimmy Kimmel.

Taking to Twitter on Easter, former President Barack Obama posted a message saying, "I want to wish all who celebrate a happy and blessed Easter. With everything going on in the world right now, it's a chance to hug our loved ones tight and give thanks for new beginnings and the blessings we all enjoy."

One of the biggest problems that Republicans faced in 2022 is that the majority of Americans didn't want to vote for them. They lost all but one U.S. Senate seat they were hoping to hold onto and failed to take back others. The so-called "red wave" they were bragging would happen failed.

The Washington Examiner reported Monday that the GOP is begging Donald Trump to keep out of the 2024 race.

The Pentagon Papers revealed secrets and lies about the Vietnam War that infuriated a public that was already turning against the war at the time. The man who copied the papers, Daniel Ellsberg, spoke to The New York Times just as a fresh leak from the Pentagon was being posted online.

A slate of documents was released on the social platform Discord before the press ultimately picked it up. They reveal the Pentagon's plans for Ukraine after the invasion by Russia. Some of the documents have been "heavily doctored," according to one defense official that spoke to Politico.

The Nashville City Council met on Monday to vote to reinstate state Rep. Justin Jones, one of two Black Democrats that Republicans expelled from the Tennessee House after a group of three spoke out in support of crowds protesting gun violence in the Assembly gallery.

The Shelby County Commission has not indicated whether they will move to forward to do the same with Rep. Justin Pearson, the second Democrat to be expelled.

Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) tried to weigh in on the so-called "woke beer" debate after Bud Light announced a partnership with transgender social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

The Houston Chronicle reported Crenshaw was triggered by seeing a trans woman holding a can of Bud Light in an Instagram post this weekend.

The NBC Nightly News will air an interview with Tiffany Dover, who fainted after getting the COVID-19 vaccine on live television leading to a number of anti-vaccine advocates to sound the alarm.

“I didn’t die that day,” Tiffany told NBC. “But the life I knew did.”

The New York Times reported on Monday that over 250 drug companies are coming out against the ruling by District Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, halting the Food and Drug Administration’s 23-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. But those same drug companies were supporting the Republicans that ushered the judge onto the bench.

When Kacsmaryk was brought before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2017, it was after the 2016 election cycle, where the majority of the money from pharmaceutical companies went to Republicans.

Comedian John Oliver addressed the shocking actions in Tennessee last week, in which three lawmakers experienced expulsion votes because they spoke up to the gallery full of gun safety protesters that were demanding action after the mass shooting in the state.

He opened with a video of state Rep. William Lamberth, a Republican, who told a group of students to their faces that he didn't care about their desperate need not to be shot in school and instead asked them what gun they would be open to being shot with. Gun safety advocates have argued that the AR-15, the gun of choice of many mass shooters, generally doesn't leave many survivors because its bullets explode once they hit.

When a member of the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally rammed his car into a crowd of people, killing one young woman, the man was charged with murder and a slate of other crimes and marched off to prison. When an active-duty Army sergeant working as a ride-share driver, opened fire into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2020 and a jury sent him to jail, the Texas governor came rushing to his side.

Gov. Greg Abbott now claims that the state's "Stand Your Ground" law protected Perry because people surrounded his car. Perry, who was a whopping 70 miles from his base, actually turned his car into the crowd of people, forcing them to surround his car because he was pushing through them with the car.

The "friend" of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has been paying for the Thomas couple to go on lavish trips around the world on his pal's private jet and personal yacht, is also known for collecting Nazi memorabilia. While Republicans have excused it away as ensuring the horrors of history are remembered, the reality is a little more disturbing.

GOP donor Harlan Crow has a yard full of statues of dictators on display. He has a signed portrait of Adolf Hitler and an autographed copy of Hitler's book Mein Kampf. One houseguest found some of Hitler's linens and place settings hidden away in an upstairs cabinet, hidden away from the public.

Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA) cautioned critics of Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg's case against former President Donald Trump, noting that it's still not really known what all Bragg has because the specifics weren't included in the indictment or the statement of facts.

CNN's Jim Acosta began the segment with the recent ABC News poll saying that 64 percent of Americans agree that Trump acted illegally. Just 36 percent think he didn't act illegally.

The Fox Corp. has settled one of its several defamation lawsuits just as the network is about to go to trial for the suit from Dominion Voting Systems.

Law & Crime editor Adam Klasfeld posted the court documents Sunday, showing the 2020 election-related suit from a Venezuelan businessman that involved false claims about voting machines.

This week, Justice Clarence Thomas was exposed for scoring fancy vacations on private yachts and jets from someone he says is a "friend," but that has interests before the Supreme Court.

Former Republican Steve Schmidt filmed a video with his thoughts on the matter, pointing out that it's yet another reason that Americans don't trust the Supreme Court.