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'We've entered the cope stage': Brutal obit for DeSantis campaign penned by conservative

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, once seen as the great hope for conservatives who had grown tired of former President Donald Trump, is now limping into the Iowa caucuses significantly trailing the man he'd once hoped to unseat as leader of the Republican Party.

Nick Catoggio, a conservative who has long been a critic of Trump, writes in The Dispatch that "we've now entered the cope stage" for DeSantis backers who had hoped that he would finally break Trump's grip on the Republican base.

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Trump snarls DOJ is 'setting a horrible precedent for the future' by investigating him

As he heads off to Iowa for a two-day, four-rally tour, Donald Trump took a parting shot at the Department of Justice on Truth Social, once again complaining about "ELECTION INTERFERENCE!!!"

According to the former president, what the DOJ is doing by investigating his part in the Jan. 6 insurrection, as well as his absconding with and hiding sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, is nothing less than damaging the future of the country.

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READ: Andrew Giuliani and George Santos' epic 'pathetic' spat over who is Trump's favorite

There’s political theater and then there’s vaudeville slapstick: guess which George Santos and Andrew Giuliani engaged in on X Friday.

Santos, the former New York Congressman ousted over multiple criminal accusations, and Giuliani, the failed conservative gubernatorial candidate and son of a former mayor facing possible disbarment and a court-ordered $148 million defamation payment, dove headfirst into a heated debate over who had the closest relationship with Donald Trump, the former president facing 91 criminal charges.

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'Outrageous': Jamie Raskin buries Eric Trump for raking in millions in foreign cash

Invited on CNN to discuss the bombshell report on Donald Trump and his family taking in millions from foreign governments while the former president was still in office, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dropped the hammer on Eric Trump for trying to blow off concerns about the cash grab.

Speaking with CNN host John Berman, Raskin highlighted findings in the report that he co-authored with Democratic colleagues on the House Oversight Committee before being asked about Eric Trump's pushback.

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'Ultimate wake-up call': Ex-ally of Josh Hawley spurred to run against him by Jan. 6

One of the more infamous images from January 6, 2021 was of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), who greeted supporters of then-President Donald Trump with a raised fist in solidarity just hours before they stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Hawley's actions three years ago, along with his refusal to denounce Trump's election lies, has prompted one Missourian to run against him in 2024.

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Bombshell report reveals evidence Trump campaign 'directly orchestrated' fake elector plot

The effort to submit slates of so-called "fake electors" in Michigan — which then-President Donald Trump narrowly lost in 2020 — appears to have been a project of the Trump campaign itself, according to a recent report.

The Detroit News reported on internal emails from the Trump campaign that showed how the former president's top legal advisers like John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn and Kenneth Chesebro, who are now cooperating in multiple states' fake elector investigations, "directly orchestrated" the effort to steal Electoral College votes from then-candidate Joe Biden.

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Failed gun-toting GOP candidate demands purity test to avoid 'totalitarian dictatorship'

The gun-toting lawyer who became a meme with his wife as they pointed weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters walking past their St. Louis home has come up with a plan to purge the GOP of what he calls imposters.

Mark McCloskey turned up at a Republican Party meeting in the city Thursday to promote a plan to make candidates take a GOP knowledge test and have their voting history checked — and disqualify anybody who doesn’t score well.

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'They know better': CNN busts Ted Cruz for his Jan. 6 riot flip-flop

On the day before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot that sent lawmakers fleeing for their lives from supporters of ex-president Donald Trump, CNN's hosts took GOP lawmakers to task for diminishing the events of the day.

In particular, host Phil Mattingly busted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for turning tail on his own remarks right after the far-right insurrection that sought to stop the certification of President Joe Biden's win.

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Trump's 'political superpower' will keep him on ballot despite insurrection: columnist

The evidence is plain to see — Donald Trump is an insurrectionist who ordered his followers to ‘take their country back” as they stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to deny a legitimate election, a New York Times columnist wrote Friday.

But the ex-president’s “political superpower” means the U.S. Supreme Court will not be throwing him off the ballot, added Jamelle Bouie.

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Proud Boys' reputation in shambles with extremists after 'drunk' Capitol riot faceplant

As Americans look forward to the 2024 election that will likely be a rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, an organization that supported the former president and took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection has all but disappeared because they have become a joke among far-right extremists.

According to a report from Vice's Tess Owen, the Proud Boys, once a force among extremists, have seen their ranks thinned -- in part due to jail sentences.

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Watch: Brian Sicknick's brother profanely trashes Trump's pledge to pardon MAGA rioters

The brother of Brian Sicknick, the late United States Capitol Police officer who suffered from a fatal stroke the day after battling Trump-supporting rioters, had some choice words for the former president this week.

In an interview with CBS Mornings, Craig Sicknick expressed disgust after being played a clip of former President Donald Trump musing about pardoning the people who violently stormed the Capitol on his behalf, even going so far as to call them "hostages" instead of prisoners.

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Pipe bomber mystery still puzzles FBI three years after Jan. 6

The identity of a pipe bomber who targeted the D.C. offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the day before the Capitol attack remains one of the biggest mysteries of January 6, according to a report Friday.

The FBI is still frantically searching for the man, recently offering a half-million dollar reward for information and re-issuing a plea for help on the eve of the attack’s third anniversary.

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Trump’s mental state questioned after 47-post tirade about E. Jean Carroll

Former President Donald Trump copied and pasted the same attack on writer E. Jean Carroll — who is suing him for defamation — 47 times on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday alone.

The Messenger reported Friday on Trump's flurry of posts sharing various attacks on his accuser. In the posts, Trump repeatedly asserted that he had "no idea who E. Jean Carroll was," before accusing her of calling her husband a derogatory slur. He encouraged his millions of followers to "Look at her Tweets, Stories, and the CNN Interview about her," and added that "The Judge on the Case is another Highly Partisan Clinton-Appointed Friend. He should have recused himself long ago!"

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