'It's stupid': Marjorie Taylor Greene gets straight talk from GOP strategist for 'demanding' Biden impeachment inquiry

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is "demanding" a vote on an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden, listing just a handful of Republican members of Congress who support the move. While the far-right Georgia Republican has been ramping up the pressure on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to approve an impeachment inquiry, longtime GOP strategist Susan Del Percio warns if Republicans try it, "it's going to go very badly" for them.

"No evidence has surfaced," The Messenger reports Thursday, "that shows President Biden received any of the funds that flowed to his son. And plenty of moderate and establishment Republicans worry impeachment will backfire on the party."

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WSJ fires back at Trump and blows a major hole in boasts about his trade policies

After criticizing the trade policies that Donald Trump is proposing if he lands a second term and then handing the former president space to respond, the Wall Street Journal editorial board fired back with a brutal fact check late Wednesday night.

As the editors wrote, Trump's assertion that his policies were a "success' don't match up with reality and the editors have the graphs to prove it.

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Trump attorneys backed off warnings about Mar-a-Lago search: 'He's just going to go ballistic'

Donald Trump was directly warned to comply with a subpoena from the Department of Justice or face an FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home, but his attorneys backed off because they feared an outburst from him.

Evan Corcoran, his then-lead attorney in the classified documents case, told the former president in person in May 2022 that the FBI might obtain a search warrant for the estate if he didn't voluntarily return the materials sought by the DOJ, but another attorney warned him not to push Trump to comply, reported ABC News.

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Peter Navarro complains 'this will be the most expensive week' of trial after saying he’d represent himself

Former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro, criminally-indicted on contempt of Congress charges for refusing to hand over documents and testify before the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, is now complaining about the cost of his trial after claiming initially he would represent himself.

Navarro, who wore numerous hats during the Trump administration, had claimed he did not have to comply with the legally-produced congressional subpoena because he had executive privilege, allegedly an extension of the privilege Donald Trump had asserted. A federal judge threw that argument out, leaving the former Assistant to the President and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy with little to support his reasons for not complying.

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Trump campaign paid pollster hired by Wall Street Journal $600,000 just in 2023: records

A polling firm working with the Wall Street Journal has also been on the payroll of former President Donald Trump and his 2024 campaign and received more than $600,000 from his campaign, legal analyst Allison Gill first reported.

Raw Story confirmed on the Federal Elections Commission website that, since the beginning of 2023, Fabrizio Lee & Associates has pocketed huge expenditures with the largest being $208,000 for "polling expenses and the least being $2,372.98 for "polling consultant expenses: travel." There were two other expenditures over $100,000.

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Jenna Ellis has reached her 'tipping point' and could soon flip on Trump: legal analyst

Taking into account former Donald Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis' highly publicized griping that Donald Trump and his PAC have given her the cold shoulder when it comes to paying her legal fees as a racketeering co-conspirator in Georgia, one former prosecutor claimed that makes her a prime candidate to flip on the former president.

According to a report from Newsweek's Ewan Palmer, Trump's greatest concern as he faces off with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is that Ellis makes a plea deal now that she is faced with the possibility of legal fees that could run into the high six figures.

Ellis, who has become an avid supporter of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' bid to replace Trump as the face of the Republican Party, has given every indication that she is done with Trump and has taken to X, formerly known as Twitter, to express her displeasure.

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"Has Trump defended the J6ers [January 6, 2021 accused]? Has Trump defended the indicted lawyers? Has Trump defended the pastors jailed or threatened with fines over [former Chief Medical Advisor Anthony] Fauci's failed covid policies Has he paid for anyone's legal defense except himself (oh and Jason Miller's child support lawyer)?" she wrote before adding, "I have no problem with Trump using donations to fight a weaponized government. I Encouraged people to donate after the first NY indictment. I do have a problem with Trump using little grandmas' pensions to pay for Jason Miller's child support battles."

After noting she is getting no help from Trump after being accused of being part of a scheme to help him steal the 2020 presidential election, more than one legal observer has singled her out as the one who could do the most damage to the former president.

As Newsweek's Palmer pointed out, a post from former assistant attorney general for New York Tristan Snell proclaimed, "Watch Ellis carefully now. When Trump cuts someone off, it's the tipping point that results in the person flipping on Trump. My bet: Ellis will cooperate."

That lines up with comments made by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, who has become a major critic of Trump after he ended up going to jail for lying on the ex-president's behalf.

Speaking with CNN, Cohen stated, "Donald's an idiot. Let me just be very clear, when it comes to paying money he is truly an idiot He has not learned yet that three people you don't want to throw under the bus: your lawyer, your doctor and your mechanic, because one way or the other, you're going to go down the hill, and there'll be no brakes."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on 'patriots' to help prove Jan. 6 conspiracy theory

In a rant posted to X on Monday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) doubled down on her previous demands to release all the security footage from the Capitol during the January 6 attack — this time suggesting it could help "patriots" prove a conspiracy theory that federal agents were planted in the crowd to incite the violence.

"I called for releasing the tapes and stopped doing so when it was explained to me that groups like sedition hunters would use facial recognition software to go after more vulnerable people," wrote Greene.

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'Donald is running scared': Former Trump lawyer calls out ex-president's 'dumbest move' yet

In an interview going into the Labor Day weekend, former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen explained away the flurry of videos and memes that the ex-president has been posting on his Truth Social platform as a defense mechanism that shows he is scared out of his mind over his rapidly expanding legal woes.

Speaking on the “Political Beatdown” podcast, Cohen – who is currently being sued by the former president who claims he violated an employee agreement and broke attorney-client privilege – said Trump "technically knows his a-- is cooked" as he faces four criminal indictments as well as a handful of potentially costly civil suits.

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'You will be removed in Jesus’s name!': Christian nationalist megachurch behind takeover of California school board

The Christian nationalist leader of a California megachurch is behind the takeover of a local school district board that has led to Proud Boy appearances and police being called in to keep meetings from turning violent, a report claimed Monday.

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Kate Briquelet and Decca Muldowney, pastor Jack Hibbs of the Chino Hills Calvary Church is proud that three of the five members of the Chino Valley Unified School District are affiliated with his church, where they are pushing the type of policies that are dear to the hearts of the growing number of far-right Christians across the country.

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'Donald Trump should be detained': Ex-prosecutor makes the case for jailing Trump

Based on his "dangerous" online rants, former U.S. Army prosecutor Glenn Kirschner thinks that it's time to revoke Donald Trump's bail.

Speaking on his "Justice Matters" videocast, Kirschner explained that when someone is charged with felony crimes and that person is considered a danger to others, they're detained. Trump, he said, has proven he fits the bill.

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Feds expand their quest to claw back crypto-bro cash from big-time politicians

A government agency best known for hunting down federal fugitives has become wildly successful at capturing another kind of target — money from political campaigns.

More than 150 political campaigns and committees — including well-known politicians such as House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) — have together surrendered to U.S. Marshals upward of $1.35 million in donations from executives of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, according to a Raw Story analysis of Federal Election Commission data.

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Trump ordered to appear in court for Michael Cohen lawsuit ASAP

Donald Trump is being ordered to come into court as soon as possible in a lawsuit that he had launched against his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.

In an unusual move, the judge updated the legal filing of Donald Trump's counter-suit late on Friday afternoon (below) demanding that his lawyers appear in court on the next business day.

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'Their is no system of justice': Trump lashes out at Judge Chutkan, Fani Willis, Letitia James in wild series of rants

Donald Trump posted a lengthy series of angry rants Thursday afternoon all the way in to Friday morning, attacking U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, New York Attorney General Letitia James, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Special Prosecutor Jack Smith and a top DOJ official, despite having been warned by Chutkan and having signed a pledge to not "intimidate or attempt to intimidate" an "officer of the court.”

As a condition of his release in Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal prosecution of the ex-president on charges related to his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election, Trump signed a document called an “Advice of Penalties and Sanctions.” It makes clear Trump could be jailed if he violates the order.

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