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GOP aims to discredit 'sensational' Cassidy Hutchinson testimony with new Jan. 6 report

House Republicans on Monday issued a new report that aimed to discredit Cassidy Hutchinson, the former White House staffer who served as a star witness for the House January 6 Committee.

Hutchinson, NBC News reported, made waves when she "testified under oath, privately and publicly before the Jan. 6 panel, that she had heard that Trump had lunged at the steering wheel of the presidential SUV and got into a physical altercation with his lead Secret Service agent after the president was told he could not go to the Capitol to join his supporters after speaking at a rally on the Ellipse on Jan. 6."

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'Moral squalor': Conservative blasts GOP for missing its last chance to dump Trump

At a presidential campaign event in Iowa in early 2016, Donald Trump famously told a crowd, "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible."

Eight years later, Trump is running for president a third time and is almost certain to receive his party's nomination. The GOP is once again rallying around Trump.

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'Round and round we go': Analysts say Trump waived presidential immunity in N.Y. trial

Former President Donald Trump on Monday sought to delay the New York election interference trial, which deals with the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, by claiming "presidential immunity."

But legal analysts on social media after the filing pointed out Trump has already waived his right to claim such protection.

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Trump fans seek revenge against Wisconsin's top GOP official: 'You could be next'

Donald Trump supporters are trying force a recall election of Wisconsin's top elected Republican, assembly speaker Robin Vos, because he refused to impeach the state's head elections official.

Vos infuriated the former president and his supporters by refusing to decertify President Joe Biden's election win, and he angered them even more when he refused to go along with a plan to impeach top election official Meagan Wolfe, reported ABC News.

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Jamie Raskin trashes GOP's new impeachment strategy: 'Star witnesses' are all criminals

House Republicans will try to give their seemingly stalled impeachment inquiry some new life in the near future with a fresh strategy — but it's one that's already being panned by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD).

Punchbowl News reports that there is growing acceptance within the House Republican caucus that there will not be a successful vote on the floor to impeach Biden, even though Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who has been leading the investigation, has spent months hyping potential bribery charges against him.

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How Trump has once again 'exposed' himself as a 'small-minded bully': analysis

Former President Donald Trump has often attacked President Joe Biden as "Sleepy Joe," but after Biden's passionate and aggressive State of the Union address, Trump used a different line of attack in response — and mocked Biden's speech impediment.

The Atlantic’s John Hendrickson lamented that Trump has crossed yet another line — one that speaks volumes about his character, or lack thereof.

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Republican senator attacked by Oklahoma GOP after he's seen agreeing with Biden

Fewer than three seconds of the State of the Union Address by President Joe Biden is getting a Republican senator in trouble.

KWTV reported Monday that Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, the key architect of the conservative border policy that could have passed the House and Senate, appeared to agree with Biden about details in the plan.

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Trump asks judge to pause Stormy Daniels trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity

Donald Trump asked a judge Monday to delay his New York criminal case until the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed his presidential immunity claim in another prosecution.

The former president is scheduled to stand trial beginning March 25 in Manhattan on 34 counts of falsification of business records related to his hush money payments to adult movie star Stormy Daniels, but Trump asked Judge Juan Merchan to put the case on pause until the high court ruled, reported Reuters.

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Trump's 'rambling and confusing' answer on TikTok ban called out by New York Times

Former President Donald Trump was asked on Monday why he had apparently changed his mind on the merits of banning TikTok, but his answer left the New York Times somewhat puzzled.

In fact, the Times' coverage of Trump's remarks, which were made to CNBC's "Squawk Box," described them as "rambling" in the headline.

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Charlie Kirk lays into 'C-level replacement actress' Katie Britt: 'It was a mockery'

Right-wing host Charlie Kirk blasted Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

On his Monday podcast, Kirk joined other Republicans who were unhappy with Britt's speech.

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GOP candidate mocked after claiming Trump outplays pros on the golf course

A former adviser to Donald Trump who is running for a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives spoke at a recent Trump rally and offered some praise of the former President's golf skills.

“I’m not sure if I should say this,” Brian Jack said during his speech. “But just a few weeks ago, President Trump put to shame two professional golfers. I ain’t gonna mention their names, but just know he shot a 70 on 18 holes.”

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'Herding cats': GOP hardliners vent fury at Mike Johnson — but aren't gunning for his job

Conservative hardliners are furious that House Speaker Mike Johnson negotiated a deal that they feel does not cut spending sufficiently enough, but they aren't threatening his job just yet.

House Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good (R-VA) criticized the first of two funding packages — but doesn't expect Johnson to make any effort to find a better deal on the second that must pass by March 22 to avert a partial government shutdown, reported NBC News.

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'I sure as hell don’t know her': Ana Navarro trashes Katie Britt for sex trafficking story

The co-hosts of "The View" were shocked at how Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt misled the public in her State of the Union response speech last week.

Over the weekend, it was revealed that Britt changed facts when she blamed President Joe Biden for a shocking tale of a woman being sex-trafficked as a 12-year-old. The facts were revealed, Whoopi Goldberg said, showing the woman was trafficked in Mexico, "nowhere near the border," during George W. Bush's administration.

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