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Revealed: How a mysterious social media account is influencing Congress

On X, @ringwiss has at least 14,000 followers and regularly tweets about the United States' congressional procedures.

Many users have wondered who is behind the account. According to Politico's Gabe Fleisher, the mystery operator has been revealed — and he isn't from the U.S.

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Trump is 'acting like a jerk' and chasing away voters he desperately needs: conservative

During an appearance on CNN on Monday morning, conservative writer Jonah Goldberg pointed to the substantial number of voters who are not pleased with either President Joe Biden or Donald Trump as their choices in the November presidential election who could swing the election either way.

According to Goldberg, Donald Trump is not doing himself any favors lately with his antics and is, in fact, chasing those voters away.

Speaking with host Kate Bolduan, the columnist pointed to what pollsters are calling "double haters" which reportedly make up 19 percent of the electorate.

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Bolduan kicked off the conversation by asking about Trump's supposed outreach to moderates.

"There's, there's a weird irony here though, is that a big chunk of the Trump, existing Trump coalition, the one that turned out in primaries, were actually, particularly in southern states, former Democrats, right?" he told the CNN host. "He's won over that part of the FDR coalition that was the sort of working-class whites, you know, the sort of Dixiecratish whites. They're already part of the Trump coalition."

"So some of the people that he's talking to aren't the moderates, the middle, all that kind of stuff," he continued. "They're sort of the radicalized very online people that have been moving over anyway. I think this is all weird strategy at the end of the day. Every pollster you talk to who's honest about this stuff? This is going to boil down to what they're increasingly called the 'double haters,' people who dislike both of them."

"While Biden is not reassuring for a lot of people and a lot of people don't like him for legitimate reasons, when you compare Trump's approach, which is to make fun of Biden's stuttering, childhood stuttering and to be a jerk about it, that feels to me like it pushes more double-haters away than and I'm not sure it's going to be a winning strategy."

Watch the video below or at this link.

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'Sir, you saved our industry!' Trump claims grateful steel company execs wept before him

Former President Donald Trump said on Monday that executives and workers at American steel companies openly weep in his presence because of the tariffs he placed on Chinese steel during his presidency.

During an appearance on CNBC's "Squawk Box," the former president defended his record on trade and claimed that the tariffs he slapped on China were beneficial to American industries, so much that people in those industries purportedly become overcome with emotion to express their gratitude.

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Trump puts GOP on the 'pathway to loserdom': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned that Donald Trump was setting Republicans on the pathway to losing another election cycle.

The former president became a punchline during the Academy Awards after posting criticism of host Jimmy Kimmel, who then mocked his legal troubles, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump just can't stay out of his own way.

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'Like an 8th grader': Nancy Mace scorched on MSNBC for her 'shameless' Trump rape defense

Multiple panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" argued on Monday that Rep. Nancy Mace is "incapable of feeling shame," and they harshly criticized the South Carolina Republican over her attempt to turn the tables on interviewer George Stephanopoulos during an ABC News interview.

Speaking with Stephanopoulos on Sunday, Mace repeatedly accused the host of trying to shame her as a rape victim by asking why she is endorsing Donald Trump, who was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll last year.

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'It's repulsive!' Dem lawmaker torches Trump's tribute to Jan. 6 rioters

Former President Donald Trump's campaign over the weekend paid tribute to the violent rioters who stormed Congress on January 6th, 2021, and it left Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi visibly disgusted.

Appearing on CNN Monday, Krishnamoorthi was shown a clip from a Trump rally where a recording of jailed Capitol rioters singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played over the loudspeaker.

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'The wrong thing to do!' Morning Joe pounces on Katie Britt for attempt to spin Biden lie

On Monday morning, the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" jumped all over Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) for running to Fox News on Sunday and attempting to clean up the mess she made in her much-maligned response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

After earlier showing Britt's speech interspersed with clips from Scarlett Johansson's parody of the talk on "Saturday Night Live," co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski shared a clip of the Alabama Republican insisting to host Shannon Bream that she did nothing wrong by linking a horrific decades-old story about sex trafficking to Biden that has been proven to be a misrepresentation at best.

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'Not a test run': Morning Joe warns Trump fans are 'begging for a dictator'

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed small-government conservatives for getting "swept up" in Donald Trump's authoritarian ambitions.

The former president has long praised dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, and the "Morning Joe" host highlighted his explicit threats to act like one if he's re-elected after apparently locking down the Republican presidential nomination.

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'He just keeps walking into traps': Morning Joe buries Trump for latest humiliation

After sharing clips of Sen. Katie Britt's widely mocked State of the Union response and the corresponding parody of the Alabama Republican's speech on Saturday Night Live, the hosts of "Morning Joe" focused on Donald Trump's latest humiliation when he went to war with comedian Jimmy Kimmel late Sunday night.

According to co-host Joe Scarborough, the former president's old tricks are blowing up in his face these days after he used his Truth Social platform to attack Kimmel's hosting performance during the Oscars ceremony.

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'Let the Patriots go home!' Trump demands Georgia charges 'should be immediately dropped'

Former President Donald Trump demanded that charges be dropped against him and co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case.

The former president and 18 others were charged in Fulton County with racketeering for their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, resulting in four guilty pleas already.

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Trump's envy of Hitler revealed by his own ex-chief of staff

Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly tells CNN that former President Donald Trump openly envied the late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and the loyalty he supposedly inspired in subordinates.

In an interview with CNN, Kelly recounted how the former president would praise Hitler for his economic record while also saying he "did some good things" despite being one of the worst mass murderers in the history of the world.

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Biden beaten in effigy at Kansas GOP fundraiser

TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans have condemned a fundraiser Friday night where attendees paid to kick and beat an effigy of President Joe Biden, distancing themselves from extremists who have seized control of the party.

The Biden-bashing antics were part of a Kansas GOP event in Johnson County, where rocker Ted Nugent and disgraced former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline were the main attractions.

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'Isn't it past your jail time?' Jimmy Kimmel responds to Trump's Oscars critique

Oscar's host Jimmy Kimmel hit back at Donald Trump Sunday after the former president poured scorn on the comedian's performance at the Hollywood ceremony.

Trump Truth Socialed his criticism of Kimmel, a frequent critic of the GOP front-runner for the presidential nomination, as the Hollywood extravaganza was broadcast live.

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