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Pro-Trump newspaper exec accused in $67M scheme indicted on money laundering charges: Feds

The chief financial officer of an international newspaper known for pushing pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theories has been indicted on federal money laundering charges, according to federal prosecutors in New York City.

Weidong "Bill" Guan, top accountant for The Epoch Times, is accused of participating in an international scheme to conceal $67 million in "illegally obtained funds to bank accounts" in the name of the company — effectively accusing The Epoch Times itself of being a huge money-laundering operation.

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'Irrational child of a man:' Dem erupts at pro-Trump Republicans doing his bidding in D.C.

Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-PA) erupted on live television Monday over House Judiciary Committee Republicans she argues are destroying Americans' faith in its political institutions to help an "irrational child of a man," former President Donald Trump.

The committee is a powerful one, she noted, and one on which Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once served.

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'He’s a pathological liar': Trump's 'absurd' claim shredded in new op-ed

Former President Donald Trump made an extraordinary claim in a Fox & Friends interview over the weekend: He never actually called for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be locked up. “I didn’t say ‘lock her up,’ but the people said, ‘lock her up, lock her up.’ Then, we won. And I say — and I said pretty openly — I said, ‘all right, come on, just relax, let’s go, we’ve got to make our country great,’” said Trump.

This is "absurd," wrote Bess Levin for Vanity Fair — and there are countless examples of Trump doing just that.

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'Someone stop him!' Frustration mounts over new delay in Trump's Georgia election case

Donald Trump's Georgia election racketeering case almost certainly will not begin before Americans head to the polls to vote for the 47th president, according to legal experts and reports.

That's because a new decision from the Georgia Court of Appeals to tentatively schedule for Oct. 4 oral arguments on an appeal challenging Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' right to prosecute the case, the Associated Press reported Monday.

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'So totally sketchy': New report on Trump criminal case witnesses stuns legal experts

It isn't unusual for an expert witness to be paid for testimony, but a new report that former President Donald Trump's media company and campaign have delivered major financial benefits to nine witnesses in his criminal trials is raising concerns.

ProPublica's extensive reporting found Margo Martin, a Trump White House aide, got a 20 percent raise and former Trump golf caddie Dan Scavino was appointed to the Trump Media board after he was subpoenaed.

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'Feeling his own mortality': Trump body language expert spots 'rare' signs of panic

Fresh off of a conviction in his criminal hush money trial former President Donald Trump sat down Sunday for an interview with 'FOX & Friends Weekend' that saw him showcasing some serious anxiety, a body language expert says.

In what some suspect was heavily edited, Trump was sized up by the body language expert who — after nine years of analyzing the man — says this was only the second time he's witnessed Trump positioning his feet in such a way that screams lack of confidence and discomfort.

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‘National embarrassment’: MTG slammed for ‘crazy and irresponsible' attack on Fauci

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci during the Republican House’s hearing on the coronavirus pandemic Monday, refused to call him “Dr.,” and promoted lies and conspiracy theories forcing Democrats to denounce her remarks as “crazy and irresponsible,” and demand they be stricken from the record.

Dr. Fauci was the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, from 1984 until the end of 2022. In both the Trump and Biden administrations he became the public face of the battle against the pandemic.

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'In-your-face corrupt': Columnist scorches Supreme Court for going to bat for Trump

The Supreme Court is "in-your-face corrupt" — and working to help former President Donald Trump get re-elected however it can, Andrew Perez wrote in a blistering analysis for Rolling Stone published on Monday.

The court is getting ready to decide a pair of cases that could heavily impact whether Trump can be tried for conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election — and as Justice Samuel Alito is refusing to step aside from participating in them, despite recent reporting that he has flown symbols associated with MAGA conspiracy theories at his house.

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Jan. 6 rioter pulls faces behind Fauci as doctor tells Congress about death threats

Dr. Anthony Fauci was called back to Congress on Monday and attacked by Republican lawmakers — but his foes weren't merely before him in the congressional hearing.

A Jan. 6 attacker who served one of the toughest prison sentences yet handed out was perched over his left shoulder, making faces.

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'How we're all feeling': Kid makes funny faces behind GOP lawmaker during pro-Trump speech

Rep. John Rose (R-TN) brought his son to work — but things didn't go quite the way he may have anticipated.

After the Memorial Day holiday recess, members of Congress returned to Washington where they began hearings and gave their typical five-minute floor speeches.

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'Increasingly concerned': Onlookers fear Trump has laid groundwork to steal Georgia vote

Conservative Janelle King is the latest appointee to the Georgia State Board of Elections — and she's already causing questions about whether she intends to subvert democracy to ensure Donald Trump recaptures the state after he lost it in 2020.

King, however, claims that the allegations are unfounded and she hasn't had any contact with the Trump campaign, The Guardian reported Monday.

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Trump DOJ's sentencing of Michael Cohen could come back to haunt ex-president: expert

The Justice Department's targeting of Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has long been debated, as the so-called "fixer" maintains that all of his actions were in service to someone else who was not sent to federal prison for the crimes.

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann walked through the things in Trump's past that will impact his sentencing.

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'We apologize': Publisher vows to stop selling debunked election conspiracy film

Publishers of right-wing activist Dinesh D'Souza's debunked election fraud book and film will stop distributing 2,000 mules and have issued a public apology to the Georgia man it falsely accused of voting illegally.

Salem Media issued a press release Friday apologizing to Mark Andrews, the voter suing D'Souza, his publisher, and a conservative nonprofit called True the Vote which provided election fraud "research" without the evidence to back it.

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