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A letter sent to Speaker Mike Johnson and House Chaplain Margaret Kibben blasted them for welcoming a pastor to the chamber who has a documented history of hate and antisemitism, posted Daily Beast reporter Roger Sollenberger.

According to the letter, signed by more than two dozen Democrats, Pastor Jack Hibbs promoted Donald Trump's 2020 election fraud lies "and inflamed his followers by preaching that Jan. 6th would go down in history alongside the War of Independence and the War of 1812.

Nathan Wade refuted claims that he dated Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis before joining the legal team prosecuting former President Donald Trump by testifying he had cancer in 2020.

"I had health on my mind," Wade told the court.

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson this week posted a series of videos whose purpose is to tell Americans that they don't have it anywhere near as good as the people of Russia.

As evidence, Carlson went to a subway station and a grocery store in tourist-heavy areas Moscow to argue that Russians live in luxury that Americans can only dream of.

Conservative podcast host Steve Bannon said that he fears Donald Trump could be too "mentally hurt" to govern effectively if he is reelected.

As news broke in two of Trump's court cases, Bannon lamented the "lawfare" against the former president.

Despite former President Donald Trump appearing certain to win the Republican nomination, danger signs show his grip on power may be weakening, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wrote Thursday.

"Four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump commands a strong majority of the Republican primary electorate, but signs point to his diminishing ability to control much beyond that," wrote Rubin, a former conservative who abandoned the right after Trump's takeover of the GOP.

Infighting erupted among House Republicans Thursday when one lawmaker accused another of “reckless disregard” over vague warnings issued this week of a national security threat, a letter sent to Speaker Mike Johnson shows.

Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) slammed Intelligence Committee chair Mike Turner (R-OH) over his Valentine’s Day revelation to the public that the U.S. faces an “imminent and perhaps existential threat,” according to the letter revealed by Politico’s Olivia Beavers.

During a roundtable discussion on MSNBC Thursday, attorney and legal commentator Andrew Weissmann discussed the Georgia court hearing that's examining the relationship between Fulton County D.A. Fani Willis and the lead prosecutor in her election interference case against Donald Trump.

Weissmann said that going into the hearing, Willis' legal team argued that her romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade is an "apples and oranges" issue when it came to the merits of the case. But the "real issue" for the judge was whether Willis was financially profiting from her relationship with Wade in the form of gifts he gave her that were paid for by his taxpayer-funded salary.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went on the warpath on Thursday against a medical professional who said COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives.

During a hearing on vaccine safety in the House of Representatives, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) asked Food and Drug Administration official Dr. Peter Marks to comment on the impact that the vaccines had on Americans' health after they began to be administered on a widespread basis in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donald Trump claimed Thursday that the Biden administration had "taken control" of his prosecution in Manhattan.

The former president appeared earlier in court, where justice Juan Merchan ruled that Trump would stand trial starting March 25 in the business fraud case involving his hush money payments to adult movie actress Stormy Daniels. After it finished, he took to his social media platform to claim that the Department of Justice had taken over the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

New York Judge Juan Merchan on Thursday shut down an attorney representing Donald Trump in his last-ditch effort to delay the former president's trial related to his hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

As reported by The Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche tried to depict the entire trial against his client as a completely unfair procedure that should be thrown out.

If he's convicted in the Stormy Daniels hush money case, Donald Trump could face anywhere between one and four years in prison — and he'd likely be sentenced just weeks before the November general election, attorney and legal commentator Norm Eisen said.

Eisen said he and colleagues analyzed "hundreds of comparable cases" and came to their conclusion about Trump's possible sentence.

A former friend of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis testified that the prosecutor's relationship with her colleague Nathan Wade began before she hired him.

Robin Yeartie, who previously worked in the district attorney's office, testified Thursday at a court hearing that Willis began her personal relationship with Wade before he was hired as a special investigator in the election subversion case against Donald Trump and his allies, reported the Associated Press.

After getting off to a rough start, the hearing in New York over the Stormy Daniels hush money trial ended with another sharp reprimand.

According to Just Security fellow Adam Klasfeld's live updates from the courtroom, "Trump's prosecutor Christopher Conroy complained about not receiving defense exhibits as discovery some six weeks before trial."