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'I feel bad for Rudy': Mike Pompeo says Giuliani's Hunter Biden claims don't 'make sense'

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday said that former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani was wrong to accuse him of covering up data from Hunter Biden's laptop.

In a recent interview with Newsmax, Giuliani seemed to claim that Pompeo had "buried" the laptop's hard drive.

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Special counsel’s latest move shows DOJ is opening a new front in Trump probes: NBC reporter

The recently appointed special counsel has issued a subpoena to Georgia's secretary of state for records related to Donald Trump's effort to overturn his election loss, signaling a new direction for the federal investigation.

Jack Smith, who was appointed to oversee Trump-related investigations for the Justice Department, asked Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for documents related to Trump's request to state officials asking them to "find" exactly the number of votes he needed to undo President Joe Biden's victory in the state -- and NBC News correspondent Ken Dilianian explained the significance of this latest development.

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GOP's Andy Biggs mocked Rudy Giuliani as 'The Circus' behind his back

The ongoing information being revealed by TPM shows a chain of text messages between the former chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) colluding over how to overthrow the Arizona election results.

While the two men ultimately acknowledged that former President Donald Trump lost the state, they began hatching a plan to challenge the election results.

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‘Treason out loud’: Critics call Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks ‘fantasizing about killing her colleagues’ (video)

Christian nationalist U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's remarks at the New York Young Republican Club's Saturday night gala have elicited massive response – and condemnation – from many after she insisted had she been "in charge" of the January 6, 2021 insurrection the rioters "would've been armed" and they "would have won."

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene, a Republican from Georgia, told the group (video below). Some of the rioters and attendees were armed.

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'There is evidence of criminality': Jan. 6 panel meets to decide referrals to DOJ

Members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol are expected to finalize decisions on criminal referrals during a virtual meeting Sunday afternoon.

CBS News' Margaret Brennan inquired about the panel's plans earlier Sunday, when Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)—a member of the subcommittee created to deal with outstanding issues, including potential referrals—to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)—appeared on "Face the Nation."

Pointing to reporting that the committee is considering referrals for former President Donald Trump, ex-DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, right-wing attorney John Eastman, former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, she asked, "Is there a consensus on whether to send a referral for criminal prosecution to the Justice Department, and would doing that be anything more than symbolic?"

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'We would have been armed': Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon brag Jan. 6 would be different if they were in charge

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is making it clear that she would have "won" the Jan. 6 attack on Congress and the attempt to overthrow the election.

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed,” Greene told a group of New York Republicans over the weekend," said the New York Post.

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Rudy Giuliani frustrated over Kari Lake's 'solid' case: 'Man, we can't lose this one, right?'

Rudy Giuliani and Christina Bobb, former attorneys for Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign, got together on Sunday to reminisce about their adventures and reflect on Kari Lake's battle to overturn the 2022 election in Arizona.

Bobb said that she was working with Lake's team after discovering nearly 300,000 allegedly fraudulent votes.

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Trump and John Eastman likely at top of list for Jan. 6 criminal referrals: legal expert

The House select committee investigating the Jan 6th Capitol is meeting on Sunday and is expected to make criminal referrals to the Department of Justice which will put Attorney General Merrick Garland on the spot over whether to file indictments.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Katie Phang Show," one former federal prosecutor explained that she expects to see Donald Trump and attorney John Eastman at the top of the list of referrals.

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Hunter Biden allies gearing up to go after his conservative accusers with lawsuits and investigations of their own

According to a Washington Post article, allies of Hunter Biden are not going to sit idly by as GOP House members and supporters of Donald Trump ramp up Congressional investigations and attacks on the son of President Joe Biden.

The report states that lawyer friends of the younger Biden are meeting to plan out counterattacks that could include defamation lawsuits and investigations of their own into his tormentors.

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Syracuse University to yank away Rudy Giuliani's honorary law degree

Syracuse University is looking to rescind the honorary degree it bestowed on former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani all the way back in 1989.

In an interview with Business Insider, Syracuse University Student Association President David Bruen revealed that the university's board of directors this past summer got the wheels rolling on clawing back Giuliani's honorary degree, which would mark the first time in the school's history that such a degree has been rescinded.

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Jan. 6 Committee pushing DOJ to charge 'highest levels' of plotters in Trump's circle: CNN legal analyst

On Thursday, new reports indicated that, in addition to former President Donald Trump, the House January 6 Select Committee is considering criminal referrals to the Justice Department for four of his high-ranking associates: Former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, attorneys John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — all of whom reportedly came up with plans to overturn the election results in various states, or undertook legal action to attempt to do so.

Speaking to CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room," former federal prosecutor Elie Honig laid out the implications of House investigators' potential move.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is under investigation by the House Ethics committee: report

The House Ethics Committee said it's investigating Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) in a statement this Wednesday, Forbes reports.

The panel said it will announce the results of its investigation sometime in 2023, but did not provide details as to what the investigation is about.

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Rudy Giuliani ally widely believed to be a Russian spy charged with money laundering

Andrii Derkach, a pro-Kremlin Ukrainian politician whom American intelligence agencies believe is a Russian spy, has been charged with multiple counts of money laundering.

Rolling Stone reports that Derkach, who infamously met with former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani in 2019 to push purported dirt on Hunter Biden, has been hit with seven counts of money laundering related to his attempted purchase of two Beverly Hills condominiums.

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