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'Tons of CASH!' Trump spews angry Truth Social tirade amid NYC fraud woes

Former President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account on Wednesday to rage against the civil fraud judgment made against him earlier this year, which put him on the hook for over $450 million in damages and limited his ability to operate in New York.

His complaint arrived days after Trump was convicted in a New York City courtroom on 34 counts of falsifying business records — the first time a former president has been charged with a felony.

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'Major discrepancies': WaPo shreds Sam Alito's upside-down flag explanations

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's shifting explanations for why his properties flew controversial flags following the Capitol riots don't pass the smell test.

That's according to a new analysis published Wednesday in the Washington Post that highlighted what it called "major discrepancies" in the conservative justice's explanations for why an upside-down American flag flew outside his Fairfax County, Virginia, home — the same symbol carried by supporters of former President Donald Trump during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks.

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'Surprised they let me live': Mike Flynn likens his 'character assassination' to JFK slay

Michael Flynn compared himself to political martyrs such as former President John F. Kennedy and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in a new two-hour film he reportedly made about himself.

Of course, the disgraced former national security adviser hasn't actually been killed by his enemies, but he says they may as well have been, according to a deeply reported article published by Mother Jones.

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Graduate's father arrested for blocking Black superintendent from shaking daughter's hand

The father of a Baraboo High School graduate blocked his daughter from shaking the hand of the Black superintendent as she graduated, video of the incident shows.

The school district, which has had repeated problems with racism and antisemitism, held its graduation Friday. The father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, Wisconsin News reported.

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House GOP demands Department of Justice charges Hunter Biden with lying to Congress

House Republicans Wednesday issued criminal referrals against President Joe Biden's son Hunter and his brother James.

Republicans on the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means committees accuse the two Biden men of making making false statements to Congress during the impeachment inquiry of the president.

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'Secretly fleecing taxpayers:' Nancy Mace faces ethics probe over ritzy D.C. townhouse

South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has been accused of "secretly fleecing taxpayers" in an ethics complaint filed this week on the heels of a lengthy Washington Post exposé on reimbursement requests linked to her D.C. townhouse.

Members of Mace's staff provided details about her spending habits to the Post, which published the report Tuesday.

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'Absurd' decision attacked as Cannon tweaks Trump trial schedule to hear from outsiders

Judge Aileen Cannon Wednesday manipulated the scheduling in former president and convicted felon Donald Trump's classified documents case as she accommodated what critics called a "crazy" decision to allow input from right-wing lawyers, court records show.

The Trump-appointed Florida federal court judge filed a scheduling change to three days of hearings slated to take place in Trump's Espionage Act violations trial later this month.

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Trump claim on Fox News debunked by ex-special counsel: 'Falsely denies what he did'

Donald Trump told Fox in an extensive interview that not only did he never say that Hillary Clinton should be locked up, but that he never pursued prosecuting her.

Multiple videos showed the first claim to be false, and on Wednesday former special counsel for the Department of Defense Ryan Goodman, blew the second out of the water too.

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Trump rails about 'horrible open wounds' and 'sham' trials in baffling new post

Former president and convicted felon Donald Trump took to Truth Social Wednesday to rail about "horrible open wounds" and his "sham" trial.

Trump unleashed his attack on "Crooked" President Joe Biden, whom he claimed was slashing subsidized health care coverage for seniors suffering with a painful symptom of the chronic condition called diabetic neuropathy.

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'Plethora of food': Trump lawyer reveals how he dodged daily junk food feasts at trial

The attorney for former president and convicted felon Donald Trump says he dropped 8 pounds dodging what he described as a "plethora" of unhealthy food daily toted into court by his client.

Todd Blanche described Trump's fast food feasts during his criminal hush money trial to For the Defense podcaster David Oscar Markus.

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Trump VP contender suggests Black lives were better under Jim Crow during campaign event

One of the lawmakers being considered for Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate suggested to a crowd of Black conservatives that things were better under Jim Crow.

U.S. Reps. Byron Donalds (R-FL) and Wesley Hunt (R-TX) spoke to a crowd in Philadelphia this week, where they made the case to a group of supporters that living under Jim Crow was better for them, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

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San Francisco readies the 'Trump prison chicken' for display during ex-president's visit

San Francisco is readying a less-than-warm welcome for former President and convicted felon Donald Trump on Thursday when he attends a fundraiser tech billionaires are throwing him; a 3-story-tall inflatable chicken bearing his golden bouffant and prison stripes, according to the local Fox affiliate KTVU.

The Trump prison chicken will bob in the bay that is also home to Alcatraz Island, home to the now-shuttered notorious prison, organizer Danelle Morton reported said.

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'With all my heart': MTG pens fawning love letter to convicted felon Donald Trump

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene avows she does not worship former President and convicted felon Donald Trump, but a new social media homage suggests she's got a lot of love to give him.

Greene posted to X Tuesday evening a 300-word X post fawning over Trump and the qualities she said she truly loves.

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