Religion & Politics

CNN host Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday angrily denounced President Donald Trump after reports emerged that the president for hours refused to act to calm down his rioting supporters.

Reacting to the Washington Post report that Republican lawmakers couldn't reach Trump during the deadly Capitol building riots because he was transfixed with watching them on TV, Camerota said that the president's behavior reminded her of a toddler.

The few remaining aides surrounding Donald Trump are admitting that they are spending their last days in the White House either avoiding the man they describe as a "violent toddler," or "babysitting" him in the hopes he won't do something that would imperil more lives in the U.S. or the world.

According to a report from the Daily Beast, the president has all but given up performing any of the few presidential duties he performed before the election and spends his days still insisting that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

The Hallmark company is demanding that two Republican lawmakers return donations after they were accused of helping to incite violence during a failed insurrection in Washington, D.C.

Judd Legum and Tesnim Zekeria broke the news that Hallmark -- along with Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, Marriott International, Commerce Bank, Dow Inc. and Mastercard -- will suspend contributions to Republican lawmakers who tried to overturn the 2020 election.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is now getting called out by one of his fellow Texas Republicans.

Republican Texas State Rep. Lyle Larson this week said it was time for Cruz to be quiet for his role in leading a failed attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden's victory from being certified in Congress last week.

According to a commentary written for Politico by two former senior Justice Department officials, Donald Trump likely would not be able to seek refuge by asserting his 1st Amendment right to free speech should he be indicted for inciting the mob to storm the U.S. Capitol last week that led to five deaths.

With the FBI and Justice Department officials scouring the country and arresting participants in the assault that shocked the world, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and David Williams, a former inspector general for multiple agencies, write that the Supreme Court has already set the legal threshold for prosecution when it comes to inciting a riot -- and that the president went well beyond it.