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The House held its vote to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in "inherent contempt" on Thursday, but it was the party's own members who helped defeat it, Punchbowl's Jake Sherman said on X.

The final screen of the C-SPAN vote showed four Republicans who voted against the measure and 12 Republicans who didn't vote at all.

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell pushed back after he was served another eviction notice for a Minnesota warehouse.

The StarTribune reported that Lindell was facing a hearing in Scott County District Court on June 23 because he failed to pay rent for June and July on a 374,000-square-foot property in Shakopee. Lindell reportedly owes $447,603.

Conservative campaign adviser and frequent CNN commentator Scott Jennings was on the receiving end of mockery from host Jim Acosta and CNN political commentator Paul Begala after he went on a rant after being pressed on the controversial Project 2025 conservative platform that Donald Trump is now running away from.

With both Jennings and Begala on to discuss the latest poll numbers for President Joe Biden and Trump, Acosta brought up Project 2025 as a drag on the GOP ticket with Jennings bizarrely comparing it to progressive House members, known as the "squad," calling to defund the police.

"Let's talk about Project 2025," host Acosta prompted. "You've got dozens of former Trump officials involved in this project. Let's look at the organization behind the project, which is sponsoring the RNC, has banners up at the Milwaukee airport welcoming conventiongoers."

"What's going on? Why is Trump ... why are his advisors trying to distance themselves from the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025. I mean, it sounds like , you know, that they are very much like-minded on a lot of these things?"

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"Because they're not the president, they're not running for president," Jennings parried. "The Heritage Foundation doesn't appear on the ballot. The people working on this don't appear on the ballot. The only person who decides what policies they're going to pursue is the person on the ballot or the person in the Oval Office, or at least that used to be the case before Joe Biden — I'm not so sure given the reporting about how he's out to lunch or whatever."

"But in this Donald Trump will ultimately decide what his agenda is and that's why the RNC put out a platform." he excitedly added. "If the Democrats want to play this game though, I think they should be prepared to own every single policy proposal ever issued by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the rest of the squad; Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), socialist organizations in America that support that group."

"If you want to play this game, then you're going to have to own everything starting with defund the police," he exclaimed. "So what I'm going to assume, Jim, is that Democrats want to own for Joe Biden defund the police if they want him to own project 2020, then they can own defund the police and we'll see how the American people sort it out."

A bemused Begala replied, "I've got to say kudos to my buddy Jennings there for that deflection, you're slicker than a bucket full of eels."

A laughing Acosta added, "I want to say 'defund the police'? What year is this? Anyway, I thought we were talking about Project 2025."

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Fox News host Will Cain suggested earlier this week that former President Donald Trump falsely claimed he was unaware of Project 2025.

During a Monday interview, Cain spoke to The Heritage Foundation's Kevin Roberts, the lead architect of Project 2025. Patriot Takes first highlighted the clip on Thursday.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was referred to the Justice Department by a pair of senators for a special counsel investigation, following extensive reporting about his improper acceptance of and failure to disclose gifts, luxury accommodations, and other favors from right-wing billionaires with business before the court.

But legal experts told Newsweek on Thursday that this is unlikely to go anywhere.

Former President Donald Trump views the NATO alliance, one of America's most critical military partnerships in promoting global security, through a lens of personal profit, warned Puck News' Julia Ioffe on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Thursday.

This comes amid her reporting that foreign NATO leaders are privately bracing for the possibility Trump could defeat President Joe Biden this November, and they are debating how to curb the worst of his instincts, given that when he was in office he routinely demanded other NATO members pay more on military spending, threatened to leave the alliance, and had a closeness with Russia's Vladimir Putin that could threaten U.S. support for Ukraine against Russia's invasion.

The death penalty has been either abolished or suspended in most of Europe and Latin America, and parts of the U.S. have rejected it as well. Presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, however, is campaigning on not only maintaining the death penalty, but expanding it to include drug trafficking.

During an early July campaign speech in Doral, Florida, Trump vowed, "We will institute the powerful death penalty for drug dealers…. And we will never allow mothers to watch their child hopelessly dying in their arms, screaming, 'What can I do? What can I do? Help me God, what can I do?'"

Appearing on CNN Thursday to discuss President Joe Biden's struggles after a poor debate performance more than two weeks ago, a Republican party strategist found herself having to explain away an ugly racist attack on Vice President Kamala Harris made by one of Donald Trump's closest allies.

On Newsmax's "Rob Schmitt Tonight" on Wednesday, the host asked Sebastian Gorka, "Do these donors really think that Kamala Harris is going to do better in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania than Joe Biden would?"

House Republicans won't let Rep. James Comer (R-KY) release a 400-page impeachment inquiry report on President Joe Biden that has left him political limbo, a new report claims.

The House Oversight Committee chair is reportedly "eager" to show the nation this week a report that fellow Republicans admit is unlikely to result in any impeachment effort, Punchbowl News reported Thursday.

Turmoil has engulfed Washoe County, Nevada, the home of Reno and the second-most populous area of Nevada outside the Las Vegas metropolitan area, after Republicans on the county commission refused to certify an election.

According to USA Today, the three Republican members of the commission, which make up a majority of the five seats, refused to certify the results of the primary, claiming that the recounts for candidates Mark Lawson in Washoe County Commission District 4 and Paul White in Washoe County School Board Trustee District G, both Republicans who narrowly lost, require "further investigation," in the words of Commissioner Clara Andriola.

A speechwriter for former President George W. Bush was subjected to ridicule Thursday when he suggested the key to secure a 2024 election victory for the presumptive Republican nominee was Donald Trump making fun of his own hair.

Marc Thiessen delivered this advice in a Washington Post editorial Thursday dedicated to helping Trump win over undecided and moderate voters. He also included a possible stump speech.