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'Betrayed': Ex-Trump aide rails against 'flip-flopper' Nikki Haley for going full MAGA

"The View's" co-host, Alyssa Farah Griffin, has been one of Nikki Haley's biggest supporters on television. Now, all of that has changed.

After spending months trashing former President Donald Trump as unfit, Haley this week offered her full support to him.

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Jack Smith hands over 500 pages to Trump — and jabs Cannon for making him do it

Special counsel Jack Smith Thursday handed over nearly 500 pages of materials to Donald Trump after the former president's lawyers accused him of "extraordinary" misconduct in the classified documents case, court records show.

In his letter to Florida federal court judge Aileen Cannon, Smith takes a stiff tone when he reports delivering 457 pages of discovery materials linked to Trump's accusations that the Justice department tampered with evidence.

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'Bell that’s hard to unring': Expert thinks jurors are curious why Trump didn't testify

Jurors come into a case with a lot of preconceived opinions, and former President Donald Trump's resistance to testifying in his hush-money trial could influence their final decision, one legal expert said.

Trump is on trial in Manhattan for 34 counts around the falsification of business records around a hush money scandal involving an alleged affair.

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Supreme Court upholds South Carolina election maps that allegedly weakened Black voters

A South Carolina district, which Rep. Nancy Mace (R) represents, will remain the same, despite claims that it was racially gerrymandered.

In a 6-3 ideological decision Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court conservatives voted to reverse the lower court decision that struck down the seat.

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Trump valet's lawyer admits they have no case to back up latest argument: ex-DOJ official

Donald Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, went to court for a hearing Wednesday, alleging he was being unfairly persecuted by the Justice Department in the classified documents case before Judge Aileen Cannon.

Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, Brandon Van Grack, a former national security official for the Justice Department, said that Nauta's own lawyer confessed their complaints weren't even valid.

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Ethics czar who prepped Samuel Alito for confirmation now wants him recused

A former ethics czar for George W. Bush once helped Justice Samuel Alito prepare for his Senate confirmation hearing. Now he's furious at Alito's behavior and wants him recused from any case involving Jan. 6.

Speaking to WBUR, Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School,- confessed that he is very disappointed reading the report that Alito had a flag flying upside down outside his home.

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'Pathetic coward': Nikki Haley said to have 'sold her soul' by announcing vote for Trump

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley made a shocking announcement Wednesday when she announced she'll be voting for her unvanquished political opponent: former President Donald Trump.

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins reported on X Wednesday afternoon that Haley agreed to walk the Republican party line and vote for the GOP's presumptive nominee.

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'Shouting match' erupts between lawyers at Trump's classified docs hearing: report

A "shouting match" erupted Wednesday during a hearing in former President Donald Trump's ongoing classified documents case, according to a new report.

The Florida federal courtroom devolved into chaos as lawyers grew increasingly upset over a defense attorney's contested claim he'd been threatened by a prosecutor, according to the Independent.

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Republicans plan new criminal investigation into Hunter Biden

Republicans in the House are eyeing a new attack on President Joe Biden's son.

According to Fox's congressional reporter Chad Pergram, GOP members are saying Hunter Biden delivered "falsehoods" while giving a deposition to Congress during an impeachment hearing involving his father, and they are seeking a criminal referral to the Justice Department.

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'Republican civil war': Details surface of GOP lawmaker's massive retaliation campaign

The Texas Republican Party is in the middle of a purge of its own membership, at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott — and out-of-state donors, according to a new report.

The Texas Republican governor, after a group of state legislators defied him over private school voucher funding, is mounting a campaign of retaliation that sets a new political precedent, Politico reported Wednesday.

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Trump shamed for deluge of 'punts' that make policy 'remarkably unclear'

Donald Trump frequently repeats that he intends to "look into it" when asked about a specific policy — now he's punted so many time his stance on multiple issues is "remarkably unclear," a Washington Post columnist wrote.

Trump spoke to one local news affiliate this week, where he claimed he was looking into a plan to restrict contraception for women. He has since tried to walk it back, but such flubs might be why Trump is dodging questions on policy positions, Aaron Blake wrote.

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'They hate the truth': Outrage erupts over House Republicans' latest pro-Trump move

Outrage erupted among lawmakers and political spectators Wednesday when House Republicans demanded a Democrat's summary of the charges facing former President Donald Trump be stricken from the official record.

Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) lashed out at Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) as he detailed the many charges facing the former president and questioned House Republicans own rhetoric on the matter.

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'Kill it with fire': Pro-Nazi MAGA extremist plots mass public school book burning

A pro-Nazi MAGA extremist was caught Wednesday plotting a mass school library book burning to "cleanse" children's literature of its "filth."

Stew Peters, described by the Anti-Defamation League as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and a white supremacist, can be seen in a newly surfaced video demanding his followers storm classrooms and libraries for books they will burn in a "Nuremberg" themed event next fall.

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