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An army of internet trolls is going to war for former President Donald Trump with the latest artificial intelligence tools, reported The New York Times on Wednesday — and many of their top targets are women and minorities.

"Cheered on by Mr. Trump, the group traffics freely in misinformation, artificial intelligence and digital forgeries known as deepfakes. Its memes are riddled with racist stereotypes, demeaning tropes about L.G.B.T.Q. people and broad scatological humor," reported Ken Bensinger.

Prosecutors in Michigan will present their case Wednesday against 15 state Republicans charged for acting as false electors for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, WXYZ reported.

The charges against the accused false electors were announced by Attorney General Dana Nessel's office back in July, and all pleaded not guilty except one, James Renner, who had all criminal charges against him dropped in October thanks to a cooperation deal.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys "immunity" from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case. That "immunity," Trump claims, renders the case invalid.

Smith considers Trump's immunity-from-prosecution argument in the case ludicrous, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed. In a December 1 ruling, Chutkan stressed that the office of the presidency "does not confer a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free pass."

In an interview with Substacker Aaron Rupar released on Wednesday, political scientist Brian Klaas pulled back the curtain on how former President Donald Trump's latest rhetoric is poisoning American politics — and how the press is barely even paying attention to it anymore.

"In 2017, whenever Trump tweeted anything I got media requests from CNN, MSNBC, the BBC," said Klaas. "I was going on TV all of the time to talk about every single tweet. Some of them were pretty banal and genuinely not that big of a deal. They were just unusual, because he wasn’t the standard politician. Now he’s saying, 'We’re going to purge the vermin,' and he’s talking about going after his political opponents, and the phone doesn’t ring."

Donald Trump "supercharged" decades of work by right-wing Christians to remake the Republican Party as an "ethno-nationalist party," according to a new column.

Polling data shows a majority of Republicans – 54 percent – identify with Christian nationalism, compared to just 31 percent in 2010 who identified as merely conservative Christians, and Salon columnist Amanda Marcotte said that shift has been the result of a long-term project by religious extremists that had accelerated since Trump was first elected.

Is special counsel Jack Smith the new four-star general in the "War on Christmas?"

That appears to be the allegation that former President Donald Trump's lawyers are making in their arguments against granting Smith's request for expedited review of whether the former president can be held criminally liable for actions that he took while he was still president.

Former President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells among experts with his domestic second-term plans, which would undermine U.S. democracy by transforming the civil service into a system to reward loyalists and using the Justice Department to target political enemies. But a Trump presidency would also have substantial impacts for the world at large.

In an interview with columnist Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times, Council on Foreign Relations senior vice president James Lindsay believes that a second Trump term would be a massive windfall for Russia's Vladimir Putin, currently mired in a disastrous invasion of Ukraine that has evolved into a costly stalemate.

Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski is calling for Republican Bob Spindell to be removed from the Wisconsin Election Commission for being one of the fake electors who, in 2020, tried to help former President Donald Trump overturn the election results in that state. When Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) appeared on CNN on Monday night, December 11, host Kaitlan Collins asked if he favored removing Spindell from the Commission in light of his role in the "fake electors scheme."

Johnson, in response, accused Democrats of using fake electors and told Collins, "These folks did nothing different than what many Democrats have done in many states. It has happened repeatedly."

In a September 2020 report, the House Transportation Committee found that Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) "played instrumental and causative roles" in two deadly plane crashes that, combined, killed 346 people altogether.

Before that, according to Daily Beast reporters Roger Sollenberger and Riley Rogerson, Rep. Mike Garcia (R-California) "sold up to $50,000 in" Boeing shares. That August 2020 sale, the journalists report in an article published on December 13, came "weeks before" the "damning results of" a congressional probe "into deadly crashes involving the company's 737 Max airliner" became public.

Rudy Giuliani has allegedly gone from Gracie Mansion to the poorhouse.

That's according to his one-time press secretary, Ken Frydman, who appeared on CNN's "Laura Coates Live," who suggested that the once-revered top prosecutor and NYC mayor is desperately hurting for cash.

Donald Trump is considering a plan that would allow North Korea to keep its nuclear weapons while relieving some of its economic sanctions, according to a new report.

The former president, if he's re-elected next year, badly wants to reach an agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and would consider allowing the nation to freeze its nuclear program and stop developing new weapons in exchange for lifting some sanctions and offering other forms of aid, three sources briefed on his thinking told Politico.

A panel on Tuesday voted to recommend a living wall of flora and fauna be constructed on the Arkansas Capitol grounds as a “monument to the unborn” in accordance with a new state law.

Approved by the Legislature in March, Act 310 authorizes the secretary of state to decide where to place “a suitable monument commemorating unborn children aborted during the era of Roe v. Wade.”