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Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo, who infamously peddled conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that were concocted by a woman who believes she can talk with the wind, is now floating wild conspiracy theories about the origins of COVID-19.

While there is still some debate over whether COVID-19 may have originated from a viral research lab in the city of Wuhan, Bartiromo on Monday took things several steps farther — and suggested that the virus was part of a deliberate plot to bring down former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) infuriated his Republican colleagues by calling out their lack of accomplishment since taking control of the House majority, according to a report.

The Freedom Caucus member blasted colleagues in the Republican caucus for their inactivity on the border wall, and added that he could not think of "one material, meaningful, significant thing" they had accomplished during this congressional session.

Some of former President Donald Trump's most outspoken critics are conservative Republicans who served in his administration, including former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

And they are making it clear that they would like to see someone else win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Donald Trump shared a conspiracy theory posted by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) about the Jan. 6 insurrection Monday.

The Utah Republican, who participated in discussions about Trump remaining in office despite losing the 2020 election, called for an investigation of the House Jan. 6 committee after security footage from inside the U.S. Capitol was released showing police allowing some rioters into the building.

Republicans are looking to prop up Independent — and former Democrat — incumbent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in an effort to split the Democratic Party vote and boost GOP candidate Kari Lake's chances in the Arizona Senate race next year, Politico reported.

The party is reportedly worried that Sinema seems able to attract twice the number of Republican voters in a three-way race as Democrats, so members of the National Republican Senatorial Committee have launched a new digital ad that touts her liberal beliefs while attacking likely Democratic nominee Ruben Gallego.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said this week that there's a real effort underway to convince former President Donald Trump to pick ex-Fox News host Tucker Carlson as his vice president.

During an interview with The Dispatch's Jamie Weinstein, Haberman was asked about rumors swirling about Trump naming Carlson, who is notorious for spreading racist conspiracy theories, as his running mate.

Federal appeals court Judge Bradley Garcia expressed skepticism about overruling a gag order that Judge Tanya Chutkan placed on Donald Trump in his election subversion case.

In a hearing on Monday, a panel of three judges heard arguments from Trump's attorney, John Sauer, about why his client should be able to speak about witnesses and make public statements that critics argue could influence prospective jury members.

A Georgia judge imposed a protective order in the sprawling racketeering case involving Donald Trump — but a former federal prosecutor faulted him for not doing so earlier.

The defense lawyer for one of the former president's co-defendants admitted that he released video interviews with Jenna Ellis, Scott Hall and Sidney Powell — who have all pleaded guilty in the case — and former U.S. attorney Barb McQuade wrote a new column for MSNBC explaining why the judge's order was necessary.

The Court of Appeals held a hearing Monday about whether to reinstate the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump blocking him from disclosing certain information about the trial and attacking or threatening court officers in the 2020 federal election interference case — and Trump's attorney, John Sauer, stumbled as the judges demanded he explain his legal position.

The case was heard by a three-judge panel consisting of Judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard, appointed by President Barack Obama, and Judge Bradley Garcia, appointed by President Joe Biden.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to consider prosecutors’ request to revoke Harrison Floyd’s bond for allegedly making incendiary statements about witnesses in the 2020 presidential election interference case.

McAfee’s ruling will determine whether the ex-director of Black Voices for Trump will have to return to the same Atlanta jail where Floyd spent several days in August after a grand jury indicted him on charges alleging that he, Donald Trump and 17 of their co-defendants illegally conspired to try to reverse the GOP incumbent Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss to the Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in Georgia and several other states.

A Republican pastor who coordinates the faith-based outreach for the Philadelphia chapter of Moms for Liberty was convicted a decade ago of sexually abusing a teenage boy.

Phillip Fisher Jr., who leads the Center of Universal Divinity in Olney, helps connect the right-wing group with local faith leaders to boost membership, and other leaders say they're shocked to learn he pleaded guilty in 2012 to a felony count of aggravated sexual abuse of a 14-year-old boy when he was 25, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Many former Trump administration officials believe the former president is unfit to hold public office again — and cannot comprehend why he still has a large fanbase of voters prepared to elect him, reported The Washington Post on Monday.

"Among their reasons for opposing a second Trump term, they cite the 91 criminal charges against him, his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, his false claims of election fraud, his incendiary rhetoric in office, his desire to weaponize the Justice Department, his chaotic management style, his likely personnel choices in a second term, and his affinity for dictators," noted Post reporter Josh Dawsey.