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James Comer lashes out after Hunter Biden demands oversight testimony be public

Hunter Biden called Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) bluff — and it appears to have worked.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden's son said that he would testify to Comer's House Oversight and Reform Committee, but only if it was in public. Comer had requested that it be behind closed doors.

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Koch brothers' network is making a last-gasp push to bury Trump

The infamous right-wing network of organizations created by the Koch brothers is wading back into politics — and committing tens of millions in a last-gasp effort to deny former President Donald Trump the 2024 nomination, reported The New York Times Tuesday.

Presently, Trump tops all competitors by nearly 50 points in polls. However, the race to consolidate the anti-Trump vote is up for grabs, with Nikki Haley battling Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for second place.

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'Fact-defying appeals are continuing unabated': Editor bemoans Trump's efforts to get cash

Former President Donald Trump's fundraising pitches, like his social media posts, have long had a recurring theme of persecution. Democrats, Never Trump conservatives and the "Deep State," Trump has emphasized, are out to get him — and they will stop at nothing.

Trump often makes it personal for his supporters, telling them that when the "Deep State" attacks him, they're attacking you.

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'How dare they?' Robert De Niro slams removal of anti-Trump attack from awards speech

Robert De Niro — famous for his roles in "Taxi Driver," "Goodfellas," "Mean Streets," "Raging Bull" and other Martin Scorsese films — has been a scathing critic of former President Donald Trump. He unleashed his latest attack during a Monday night speech at the Gotham Awards in New York City — where he discussed Scorsese's new film "Killers of the Flower Moon."

According to the Guardian's Andrew Pulver, De Niro said that parts of his speech — specifically, anti-Trump comments — had been removed from the prompter. And De Niro, in response, "read the missing section of the speech from his phone," Pulver reports.

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Hunter Biden takes tactics from 'Trump’s scandal playbook' to fight indictments: report

Hunter Biden, who is currently facing indictments on gun charges and is at the center of Republican probes into his father's business dealings, is changing his legal tactics — and is coming out swinging.

For months, the president's son has quietly gone along with investigations and waited for exoneration, Politico reported. But, after an expected plea deal fell through earlier this year and he is facing criminal trial, that policy has been thrown out.

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Hunter Biden calls GOP investigators' bluff and agrees to sit for a public hearing

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) has been pushing for President Joe Biden's son to appear in a closed-door deposition.

But in a new letter to the committee, Hunter Biden's attorney is calling his bluff — and demanding it be a public hearing instead.

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'A boxer past his prime': Morning Joe marvels that Trump keeps picking the wrong fights

Donald Trump has started talking again about scrapping Obamacare, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough mocked him for going out of his way to pick the wrong side of an issue.

President Joe Biden's campaign is already planning television ads highlighting the former president's threats to health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, and the "Morning Joe" host said Trump's longstanding grudge against Barack Obama has come back to bite him again.

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Trump won't get pardoned in Georgia unless something goes 'off the rails': legal expert

Donald Trump and his lawyers are trying to delay his criminal trials until after the 2024 election when he could theoretically pardon himself as president, but one of those cases seems to be virtually pardon proof.

Right-wing attorney John Eastman, one of the former president's co-defendants in the Georgia election subversion case, wants to speed up the schedule for reaching a plea agreement, which MSNBC legal analyst Joyce Vance told "Morning Joe" is intended to delay Trump's trial and give his attorneys a preview of the evidence.

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'Commas matter': CNN legal analyst breaks down crucial new piece of evidence against Trump

Former Vice President Mike Pence is saying that a typographical error in his book obscured a serious moment in which he admonished former President Donald Trump against his plan to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Specifically, the former vice president told special counsel Jack Smith's team about the errant insertion of a comma in the statement "You know, I don't have the authority to change the outcome of the election," which made it look as if Pence was simply explaining it wouldn't work, when in reality he was scolding Trump that he knew it was illegal and was doing it anyway.

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Trump finally pins the blame on Putin in new bid to stay out of jail

For years, former President Donald Trump has avoided agreeing with intelligence assessments that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered on his behalf during the 2016 presidential election.

Most infamously, Trump rejected the American intelligence community's assessment about Russia's actions at a press conference in Helsinki, Finland where he stood next to Putin and said, "President Putin says it's not Russia, I don't see any reason why it would be."

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One misplaced comma in Mike Pence's book may give Jack Smith even more evidence

Investigators pored over Mike Pence's book so closely that they questioned the former vice president's placement of a single comma.

Pence sat for an interview earlier this year with special counsel Jack Smith's team to discuss Donald Trump's efforts to remain in office despite his election loss, and sources told ABC News that their questions zoomed in to a granular level of detail.

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Trump lawyers suggest Mike Pence is colluding with Biden to bring down their client

Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump are trying to undermine former Vice President Mike Pence's credibility by suggesting he may be in cahoots with Biden administration prosecutors.

In a filing flagged by Politico's Kyle Cheney, Trump attorneys suggested that Pence may have felt incentivized to turn on Trump because of leverage held over him by government prosecutors investigating his handling of classified documents.

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Mike Pence considered skipping Jan. 6 certification to avoid hurting 'friend' Trump

Mike Pence briefly considered skipping the Jan. 6, 2021, congressional certification of President Joe Biden's election win, according to his personal notes.

The former vice president told special counsel Jack Smith's team earlier this year that he was "sure" he informed Donald Trump that he had seen no evidence of widespread election fraud, but sources told ABC News that one of Pence's notes obtained by investigators shows that he nearly decided not to preside over the congressional proceedings.

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