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Conservative pundit Candace Owens is being mocked for an April 2020 tweet that hasn't aged well.

Owens implied at the time that COVID-19 wasn't all that serious because Indians were packed closely together but had under 200 deaths. A year later, it is becoming clear that COVID-19 has made it to the country as hospitals are overrun with dying patients.

A rabbi is being called out for being a fraud, NewJersey.com reported Monday. According to the report, self-proclaimed "good Jewish boy from New Jersey," Rabbi Michael Elkohen, is actually Micael Elk.

In a story that has captivated Israelis in recent days, Elk was actually a Christian missionary sent to Israel as part of an effort to convert Jews, claimed two anti-missionary groups. He lived "undercover" for 15 years.

There are about 70 percent of Republican voters who still refuse to believe that Joe Biden was elected in 2020. But according to the Washington Post, the White House doesn't plan to let those people influence their decisions.

Speaking to Oliver Knox, press secretary Jen Psaki was asked how the White House considers those election deniers.

"The View" co-host Meghan McCain blamed Democrats for what she called "bad messaging" around masks and the vaccine as the coronavirus pandemic enters its next phase.

According to McCain, saying that people still have to wear masks despite being vaccinated gives conservatives no incentive to get the vaccine to begin with. The goal of the coronavirus vaccine is to prevent people from dying or being hospitalized with severe cases of the virus. Presumably, that would be the incentive for being vaccinated — to avoid death. But that isn't enough of an incentive for some conservatives, McCain argued.

The long and twisted tales of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) started with the news of his "get-out-of-jail-free card" after a DUI while serving in the state legislature. The bro-world that he represents is part of a larger problem, Teen Vogue argued, that is bleeding into life outside of college.

Writing Monday, Hope Corrigan explained that the typical culture created by college fraternities isn't supposed to make it past graduation. Instead, it has become somehow acceptable to continue the reckless behavior and "casual misogyny" in the "adult" world.

Former President Donald Trump's Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, closes over the summer because they're unable to accommodate people in the heat and humidity. So, he's headed up to his other club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the heat isn't as bad.

But before he leaves, The Lincoln Project is hitting him with one more ad for the area that will flood his airwaves. The ads first began in early April, when the group of former GOP consultants targeted Trump with a message about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shoving him out of Republican influence. Trump, who has attacked McConnell since leaving office, is building the Republican Party without the influence of the former president.

"Last Week Tonight" host John Oliver went after Fox News host Tucker Carlson on his show again. Oliver, who. has spent several shows attacking Carlson, this time focused on the ways in which the Fox host uses questions to spread misinformation, particularly when it comes to the vaccine for COVID-19.

In a super-cut of Carlson episodes, Oliver showed several of the "questions" that were proposed in an effort to incite panic over the vaccine. Oliver even went so far as to call Carlson one of the largest "super spreaders" of the virus.

Rudy Giuliani was raided by the FBI this week in what has proved to be the latest example of (alleged) inept criminal behavior by one of former President Donald Trump's closest advisers.

Giuliani is the target of an investigation by the US attorney's office in Manhattan surrounding his dealings in Ukraine while trying to drum up scandals about former President Joe Biden and any role he played in the firing of Marie Yovanovitch, Trump's former ambassador to Ukraine. Ironically, the investigation wasn't started under the Merrick Garland Justice Department, it began while Bill Barr was the attorney general. There was an internal debate whether or not to serve a search warrant for Giuliani in the final weeks of the Trump presidency, the Associated Press reported Friday.

To Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Democrats aren't the opposition, they're the enemy. She said as much in a tweet Sunday begging for likes and retweets on a slow-news night.

But her colleague, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), who served as a Marine in Iraq, was quick to school her on the reality of what an enemy is. He recalled the Jan. 6 insurrection and what he faced from real "enemies" attacking the U.S. government.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced a boycott of Newsmax Sunday, calling for his followers to only watch OAN for their news source instead of the other far-right fringe channel, tweeted Salon's Zachary Petrizzo.

Newsmax settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems contractor Eric Coomer.

As former Vice President Mike Pence comes back to politics, he's ignoring the serious attempts on his life by supporters of former President Donald Trump. In fact, he's attempting to dismiss them entirely, according to one conservative.

Speaking to CNN's Pamela Brown on Sunday, Bulwark columnist Amanda Carpenter, who previously worked for Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, called Pence out on the attempt.

At a Bikers for Trump rally, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn appeared to forget the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Flynn was in South Carolina for Linn Wood, who is running to take over the Republican Party in South Carolina.

Republicans have told President Joe Biden that they're ready, willing and eager to negotiate with him on the spending and funding of his landmark infrastructure plan. The problem, however, is that they won't negotiate with Biden on the spending and funding mechanism of the plan.

Writing for the Washington Post Sunday, columnist James Downie noted that the GOP claims that it wants to be part of the solution, but only if it means they get everything they want and Democrats don't get anything.