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'Screaming deception': Body language expert analyzes Trump when pressed on foreign funding

Donald Trump's behavior during a recent answer to a question about receiving funds from a foreign government raised red flags for one body language expert.

Dr. Jack Brown, who previously analyzed the GOP debaters and found them presenting "insincerity and chronic deception," has also analyzed Trump's so-called "neck of fear."

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Comer refuses to investigate Trump family member over 'influence peddling' allegation

Last year House Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Comer acknowledged former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House advisor Jared Kushner had “crossed the line” when he accepted $2 billion in foreign investment funds from the government of Saudi Arabia as he started up a private investment firm just months after leaving the White House.

Now, Chairman Comer says he will not open an investigation into any possible wrongdoing, Huffpost reports, despite top Democrats alleging Kushner engaged in “apparent influence peddling and quid pro quo deals.”

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Jeffrey Clark testifies his client was Donald Trump: 'A problem for both of them'

Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark Wednesday asserted that his client was Donald Trump when he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election from within.

At a disciplinary hearing before the D.C. Bar, Committeewoman Patricia Matthews noted that Clark had repeatedly cited attorney-client privilege in refusing to answer questions.

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Fani Willis slams Jim Jordan over 'politically motivated' threat to hold her in contempt

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis slapped back at U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) over his threats of contempt of Congress, which she called "unreasonable" and "politically motivated," new reports show.

Willis — the Georgia prosecutor who has charged former President Donald Trump with election racketeering in her state — sent an angry missive to Jordan regarding his investigation of how her office spends federal funds, CNN's Zach Cohen was first to report on Wednesday.

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Jeffrey Clark’s lawyer cites ‘MSNBC problem’ while trying to keep client off stand

Former Justice department official Jeffrey Clark's lawyer argued that his client should not be forced to testify at a disciplinary hearing because he would be shamed on MSNBC.

Attorney Harry MacDougald made the argument at a bar hearing Wednesday that could see Clark disbarred for his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

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Don Jr. begs for $5 handouts as he whines about fate of his Trump Tower 'boyhood home'

To some, it looks like a corporate Fifth Avenue monolith with a golden elevator at the heart of a historic $464 million fraud case.

But for Donald Trump Jr., Trump Tower will always be his “boyhood home.”

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MAGA lawyers have drawn up plans to bring down Letitia James if Trump re-elected: report

MAGA lawyers are crafting legal strategies the Department of Justice could use to specifically target New York Attorney General Letitia James if Donald Trump is re-elected, according to a new report.

Three sources confirmed the behind-the-scene plans to Rolling Stone, while two sources specified one proposal involved federal prosecutors accusing James of attempting to illegally interfere with the 2024 presidential election, an ironic consideration given that Trump has been indicted in federal court and in Georgia with attempting to illegally overturn his own 2020 election loss.

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E. Jean Carroll's lawyer blasts Trump for treating defamation trial like 'campaign event'

In a court filing that was made public Tuesday, the lawyer for writer E. Jean Carroll said that Donald Trump's claim that he didn't get a fair trial in her defamation civil suit against him is "meritless."

In her filing, attorney Roberta Kaplan wrote that Trump's "great difficulty" in refraining from making defamatory statements about Carroll is so “particularly acute" that the court must reject his request for a new trial, and added that the $83.3 million defamation judgment against the former president was “entirely in support of her case" — and a rejection of Trump's claim that the trial was politically motivated.

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Charlie Kirk: Embryos should be saved from a burning building before live babies

Right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk explained recently why embryos should be saved from a burning building before babies.

Kirk was asked the question during a Turning Point USA college tour after an Alabama judge ruled that embryos should be considered people.

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Greene says she won’t take responsibility if Johnson loses speaker’s gavel before election

Despite filing a motion to vacate the chair last week, which could end Mike Johnson's short term as Speaker, and despite pummeling him in the press, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) says she will take no responsibility if House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries becomes Speaker of the House before the November election.

Appearing on right-wing media Tuesday, the far-right Georgia Republican targeted Speaker Johnson again, telling GOP voters Johnson stabbed them "in the back."

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Feds should declassify dirt on Manafort if Trump brings him back on campaign: Dem senator

Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager who shared internal polling data to a suspected Russian intelligence asset back in 2016, is reportedly in the mix to rejoin Donald Trump's 2024 campaign despite being convicted in 2019 on charges ranging from tax fraud to witness tampering to conspiracy to defraud the United States.

However, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) thinks that the American public should get the full story about Manafort should Trump actually pull the trigger on bringing him back into the fold.

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RNC's new interview question courts 'extra crazy' — and scares off the sane: strategist

The Republican National Committee's new interview question which asks potential employees if they believe the 2020 election was stolen is designed to help former President Donald Trump court a very specific voter bloc, a campaign expert believes — the "extra crazy."

Democratic political consultant Chuck Rocha made this bold analysis of Trump's campaign strategy during a CNN panel Wednesday to discuss the new RNC question that has already begun raising eyebrows and making headlines.

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Disney's bitter war with Ron DeSantis comes to end

Disney's war with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has come to an end with the settlement of a lawsuit.

The Central Florida Tourism Oversight Board, which governs the special tax district where Disney is located, voted unanimously Wednesday morning in favor of the agreement and dropped most of its legal opposition to a state law restricting classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity, reported the Washington Post.

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