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Fox News guest fact-checked on 'thriving' Trump economy claim: ‘Couldn’t get toilet paper'

A Fox News contributor who championed former President Donald Trump’s “thriving economy” received a brutal fact check from Americans who remember March 2020.

Dr. Janette Nesheiwat appeared on “Outnumbered” Thursday afternoon to paint a bright picture of the American economy under Trump, the candidate she’d like to see win again in 2024.

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'Nothing good': Op-ed paints 'nightmarish' picture of second Trump presidency

The specter of another Donald Trump presidency looms over 2024 as this year draws to a close.

The twice-impeached former president has been indicted four times on 91 charges yet somehow remains the Republican frontrunner, and The Guardian looked ahead to the threat he might pose to American democracy and the world order in an ominous year-end op-ed.

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GOP wins Georgia redistricting that gives party advantage with ‘Black district'

A Georgia judge has ruled that the Republican legislature's new electoral map that creates a majority-Black voting district and gives the GOP an advantage satisfies the Voting Rights Act,

The news was also posted on social media by Michael Li, a redistricting lawyer for the non-profit law and public policy institute Brennan Center.

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Appeals court denies Donald Trump's attempt to delay E. Jean Carroll case

Donald Trump wanted to pause his defamation case with E. Jean Carroll while he fights his claim of "absolute immunity" at the appeals court and U.S. Supreme Court, but he lost the effort in court Thursday.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the request by Trump to put everything on hold while the immunity claim goes through the court, as was done in his Washington, D.C. election subversion case, posted legal analyst Allison Gill.

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'You committed crimes': Jan. 6 rioter's pity party blows up in her face as prison looms

An attempt to generate support and pity just 13 days before she has to turn herself in to serve the prison phase of her almost 93-month sentence on nine counts related to the Jan. 6 riot did not go well for the unapologetic insurrectionist known as the "Bullhorn Lady."

Just days after Christmas, Rachel Powell, a mother of eight from Western Pennsylvania, took to X to assert she has no "criminal history" — despite her conviction in July for the attack on the Capitol where she was filmed hacking at a window with an ice axe.

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'I don't think people are afraid': Leader of GOP's governors shrugs off Trump threat

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has managed to strike a balance between warring factions in his state's Republican Party, according to Politico.

Lee, who is an evangelical who has appeased right-wingers with legislation targeting abortion and LGBTQ rights, has also stood up against his state’s GOP supermajority in regards to issues like refugee resettlement and prevention of mass shootings.

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GOP rivals slam Boebert's 'desperate stunt' that pits her against them in Congress fight

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is switching congressional districts in a move her GOP detractors call a "desperate stunt" to avoid losing her seat in Congress.

The Colorado Republican announced Wednesday she would run in the state’s 4th congressional district, after serving two terms in the 3rd district — and her GOP primary rivals pounced on her move to replace the retiring Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO), reported the Sentinel.

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'We get the government we want and deserve': Voters get stern telling off from WaPo writer

Voters tired of Republican lawmakers who strip women of their bodily autonomy, champion election-deniers and torpedoing voting rights only have themselves to blame.

This ruler-to-the-knuckle take comes from Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin, who argued Thursday the real problem is that Americans aren’t protesting hard enough.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for embalmers to testify to GOP on COVID conspiracy theory

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has called on Congress to talk with embalmers to prove a theory about the COVID-19 vaccines being dangerous.

In a Thursday social media post, Greene shared an interview from the right-wing Real America's Voice network that claimed embalmers are finding "fibrous clots" in dead bodies.

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For second week in a row Meghan McCain claims The View is obsessed with her

For a second week in a row, former co-host of "The View" Meghan McCain complained about something Ana Navarro said during a pre-Christmas appearance on the show.

The discussion earlier this month was about Hunter Biden and the way some people use their name for "influence-peddling."

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Lauren Boebert may have given GOP a gift by switching districts: report

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) may not win her election after switching Colorado congressional districts, but her move should help Republicans hold onto the seat she's vacating.

The controversial congresswoman barely won re-election last year, and her Democratic opponent Adam Frisch has far outraised her this year for their rematch — but now he will instead face a GOP opponent who does not have the same baggage that Boebert will carry with her to the 4th congressional district, reported Politico.

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No immunity for Trump after 'corruptly' trying to stay in office: Reagan WH lawyer

According to a former White House counsel under President Ronald Reagan, there is no way that the Supreme Court should extend presidential immunity protections to Donald Trump after his power play to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

In a column for the Wall Street Journal, Peter J. Wallison, currently a senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute, expressed his disgust for the former president's actions that led up to the Jan. 6 insurrection and questioned why the courts would look the other way.

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Nikki Haley tries to clean up Civil War flub: 'It was about the role of government'

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Thursday sought to clean up earlier remarks that excluded slavery as the cause of the U.S. Civil War.

The controversy began when Haley was asked what caused the Civil War at a town hall event in New Hampshire.

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