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The man who started Cowboys for Donald Trump said Tuesday that prosecutors used him as a testing ground before they moved to bar the ex-president from Colorado's state ballot.

Speaking to NBC News, Couy Griffin explained, "President Trump is at the very top, and I am at the very bottom, but a lot of the things they are trying to go after Trump on they have already been after me on. I have kind of been a testing ground for the legal stuff.”

A man accused of helping the former president attempt to overturn the 2020 election wants a bond deal so he can hit the campaign trail for Donald Trump in 2024, according to a new report.

Former Black Voices for Trump head Harrison Floyd asked a Fulton County judge Tuesday to ease bond conditions that prevent him from contacting his co-defendant in the Georgia election racketeering case, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

CNN's Jim Sciutto clashed with Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY) after he demanded to know why the congressman wouldn't back the bipartisan border security deal former President Donald Trump has been leaning on Republicans to block — and then fact-checked his claims about the border situation.

"Your colleagues demanded that the aid [to Ukraine] be packaged with a border security deal," said Sciutto. "That deal may not have everything that the House wants, but it certainly raises the standard for asylum seekers. It put billions of dollars more into border security. It also is trying to shorten the time that those cases are heard. Why isn't it better to have increase security at the border rather than nothing?"

Former President Donald Trump's recent comments suggesting he would compromise the U.S.' agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has alarmed and angered national security experts, including retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges.

During an interview with British newspaper The Times, Hodges called out Trump for signaling that he would violate Article 5 of NATO, which pertains to the collective agreement between member countries that they will rally to the defense of any ally who is attacked by Russia.

President Joe Biden publicly shredded former President Donald Trump's comment that he would encourage Russia to "do whatever the hell they want" to U.S. allies who hadn't paid enough on defense.

"For God's sake, it's dumb," Biden said. "It's shameful, it's dangerous."

Hunter Biden's former business partner and current star witness in the GOP's impeachment probe into President Joe Biden took a shot at the younger Biden during a closed-door interview Tuesday with both the House Oversight and Judiciary committees, Newsweek reported.

Retired U.S. Navy lieutenant and the CEO of Sinohawk Holdings, Tony Bobulinski told investigators he met with the ex-vice president in 2017 and that Hunter Biden's lawyers "should focus their energy on the facts and the extensive indictments Hunter is fighting versus creating smoke screens and distractions with their empty threats."

In a defeat for MAGA election crusaders, Georgia's Republican-controlled State Board of Elections voted down a measure that would have limited the use of absentee voting.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that the board considered an effort from Republican member Janice Johnston to limit no-excuse absentee voting, which became more popular during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Terrorism expert Seamus Hughes follows examples of threats that ordinarily would go unreported or underreported by the media because they're buried in court filings or specifics aren't released until several months after the threat is made.

On Tuesday, he added three new instances to a growing list of home-grown terrorists sending warnings of violence.

Republican lawmakers have been publicly and privately pushing the limits of acceptable discourse with race-baiting language in the age of Donald Trump, according to a report.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) insultingly highlighted the Somali birthplace of her Democratic colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on the House floor the same week as Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) slurred the Black husband of Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) as a "thug," and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) repeatedly mixed up the nationality of TikTok chief executive Shou Chew.