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Dozens of QAnon accounts are being white-listed on Trump's Truth Social

There is a concern that Donald Trump's social media site could go dark as a hosting bill of over $1 million has gone unpaid. Meanwhile, dozens of QAnon accounts are being allowed to organize on the site, reported Gizmodo.

Trump has refused to disavow QAnon in the past. When asked whether he agreed their conspiracy theories were "cray" or "untrue," he replied, “I don’t know about QAnon.” Months later, speaking with the U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and other aides, and saying that the group "basically believes in good government."

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One thing you want to pay is your host service: MSNBC reporter warns Trump's Truth Social to pay his bills

There's a growing concern about whether Truth Social will continue to exist as the company reportedly continues to refuse to pay their more than $1 million bill for a hosting service.

Speaking about the unpaid bills on MSNBC was reporter Ben Collins, who explained that there are a lot of things a website can dodge paying if there are money problems. CEO Devin Nunes would be one of those that the company could refuse to pay and the site would continue. But if they don't pay for its web hosting, they're about to go down.

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Why Biden's 'MAGA philosophy is semi-fascist' isn't the same as Clinton's 'basket of deplorables'

Atlantic editor Ron Brownstein joined former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-FL) in discussing the dramatic evolution from a few fringe conservatives being violent to it being a dominant force in the Republican Party.

Behind closed doors, President Joe Biden said that MAGA Republicans have gone semi-fascist in their philosophy. The level of lawlessness seen by MAGA Republicans has included the insurrection and violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, the attempt to overthrow the government and 2020 election, voter fraud, a kidnapping attempt, bombing plots, assassination threats, slaying of an anti-racist protester in Charlottesville, two attacks on state FBI headquarters, threats against the National Archives, threats against IRS agents and threats against judges, reporters, FBI agents and a slew of elected officials.

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Donald Trump ends his weekend by insulting NASA

Former President Donald Trump spent Sunday evening griping on his Twitter knockoff app Truth Social about a variety of topics that appear to be eating away at his psyche following a weekend full of potentially devastating personal legal developments.

The first post appeared at 6:15 p.m., wherein Trump maintained his innocence in the multitude of criminal probes that are underway into his post-presidency behavior:

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Retired intel expert explains how Trump taking top secret docs hurts America

Retired CIA counter-terrorism chief Douglas London warned that it's still not even known the extent to which Donald Trump taking documents from the White House has impacted the world. There are some items included in the docs that can't even be reported in court without redactions because they're top secret.

"There is classified information for reason," London explained. "The controls on those documents are meant to protect the way it is collected, more than the information itself. And, clearly, from the affidavit we've seen released, it was human information, meaning it was information from human sources. That means that the clues that might be in the intelligence or classified pieces of information that the president took with him to Mar-a-Lago provide clues and pointers that adversaries might use to identify the means of that information getting out. It's serious business. But really, we don't even know how the depth of it. We've talked a lot and heard a lot about the searing formation but we don't know with the names of those programs were because they were so sensitive. The names themselves are classified."

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Former prosecutor fact-checks Trump's claims the search for docs was about the election

Former prosecutor Preet Bharara schooled a right-winger working for a fringe conservative group that launches FOIA lawsuits against Democrats. It is a talking point that is parrotted by Donald Trump, who had a rambling rant on his social media site claiming that the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago to recover stolen government documents was politically motivated.

The legal expert, who even tried to help Trump during the transition and immediately after he was elected, explained in a list why nothing in the Trump documents scandal has to do with the election.

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'Billy on the Street' actor Billy Eichner singles out 'all the homophobes on the Supreme Court' in VMAs speech

"Billy on the Street" host and "Bros" co-writer Billy Eichner unleashed an epic rant at the Video Music Awards on MTV Sunday evening.

"Bros," he explained is the first ever gay romantic comedy made by a major Hollywood studio. He asked the audience to come out to see it so that they could show up homophobes everywhere. But there was one "homophobe" he singled out specifically.

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'The MAGA Republicans are a domestic terrorist cell': ex-Breitbart staffer

A former Breitbart staffer turned Democratic operative, Kurt Bardella, labeled the MAGA Republican caucus as so far to the extreme that they're dangerous.

He argued that the level of lawlessness seen by MAGA Republicans has included the attempted insurrection, voter fraud, a kidnapping attempt, bombing plots, assassination threats, slaying of an anti-racist protester in Charlottesville, two attacks on the FBI, threats against the National Archives, threats against IRS agents and threats against judges, reporters, FBI agents and a slew of elected officials.

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'Trump gives aid and comfort to domestic terrorists': Legal expert gets darker than Biden's 'semi-fascist' claim

Speaking to MSNBC's Alicia Menendez on Sunday evening, "The Nation's" Elie Mystal and "Sisters in Law" co-host Joyce Vance had their own thoughts when it comes to the predicament in which former President Donald Trump is enthralled.

The Fox network has spent the day going after President Joe Biden for saying that the MAGA Republican is "semi-fascist," talking about their demand to pull books from schools and ban LGBTQ children from speaking to their teachers about their orientation. LGBTQ teachers in Florida have been banned from talking about their family if they're married to a same-sex or trans person. There are some states where types of birth control are being banned and others where pregnant women are forced to come to near death because abortions have been banned unless the pregnant person is dying.

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Republicans on Sunday shows reveal how scared they are about Trump's document scandal

Republicans appeared on Sunday morning news shows, making it clear that they're not comfortable with Donald Trump's latest scandal, the New York Times round-up explained.

Monday begins the third week since the FBI executed a search warrant at Trump's golf club in Palm Beach, Florida. What they recovered was a cache of government documents that Trump stole to take with him upon leaving the White House. A number of the documents were so top secret that the government has been unable to describe them to the public.

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Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson warns a Civil War is coming — if it isn't here already

Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said that the Washington world of "elite Republicans" are playing a game in which they hear former President Donald Trump insult and attack or say inappropriate things and they clutch their pearls, only to forget they ever cared to begin with.

MSNBC host Yasmin Vossoughian quoted Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), who chastised the former president for refusing to hand over any documents when they were requested over a year ago. The government began asking for the stolen documents in May 2021. It wasn't until the first of 2022 that the National Archives was forced to travel down to Mar-a-Lago and bring back a truckload of boxes containing what Trump stole.

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Trump's social media rants criticized by legal experts as 'threatening the country with violence'

Former President Donald Trump has spent the weekend on his social media site throwing any possible complaints out in an apparent hope of finding someone to blame for his legal conundrum.

"The Raid (sic) on my home, Mar-a-Lago, is one of the most egregious assaults on democracy in the history of our Country (sic) which is, by the way, going to places, in a very bad way, it has never seen before!" Trump ranted on Saturday.

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National Archives now receiving threats from Trump supporters

The National Archives is now falling under the anti-government threats that other federal agencies have experienced in the past several weeks, Axios reported Sunday.

The attacks first began when the FBI conducted a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's golf club in Palm Beach to recover classified documents he'd stolen from the White House upon leaving his office. One man attacked the Cincinnati, Ohio FBI headquarters. Another man jumped the fence at the Chicago FBI offices.

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