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Spoof statement claims Trump vows to 'save' Hunter Biden

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story reported the statement came from Trump's campaign. It was, in fact, a spoof.


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Alvin Bragg to be grilled by GOP-led House Judiciary Committee next month

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the first prosecutor in United States history to secure a criminal conviction against a former American president, will face a grilling from House Republicans next month.

NBC News reports that Bragg will testify at a public hearing on July 12th when he'll face off against members of a committee chaired by top Trump ally Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

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Aileen Cannon's latest move helps Trump — but shouldn't derail case: analyst

U.S. District judge Aileen Cannon struck a paragraph from Donald Trump's indictment that likely benefits him — but should not derail the case against him, an analyst wrote Tuesday.

The Florida-based judge rejected a defense motion Monday seeking to dismiss charges for "pleading deficiencies" and excised a paragraph that describes Trump allegedly showing classified documents to a representative from his political action committee.

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'Bully and terrorize and bribe': 'Deeply alarmed' conservative issues red-alert warning

Former President Donald Trump appears in Nazi Dictator Adolf Hitler's visor cap in the photo illustration above a plea for sanity from a conservative scholar and a Canadian attorney who fear the convicted felon has already begun a fatal attack on democracy.

Norman Jay Ornstein, emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick delivered Tuesday a red-alert warning that Trump's criminal hush money conviction was not cause to celebrate of the Justice system's strength.

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'False' and 'irresponsible': DOJ smacks down Jim Jordan's 'conspiracy' in sharp letter

Calling Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan's allegations "speculation," "conspiratorial speculation," "unfounded," "baseless," "irresponsible," and "false," the U.S. Dept. of Justice in a strongly-worded and trenchant letter smacked down the House Republican's suggestion the New York State criminal prosecution of Donald Trump was a project of the Biden administration.

Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte from the DOJ Office of Legislative Affairs writes that Jordan's Judiciary Committee "has demanded information from the Department because of what you describe as a 'perception that the Justice Department is' behind the District Attorney’s so-called 'politicized prosecution' and a 'perception that the Biden Justice Department is politicized and weaponized' to that end." [Italicized words original to DOJ document.]

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Judge Cannon quickly grants Trump's latest request for delay

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon granted former President Donald Trump's request to delay a filing in his classified documents case.

On Monday, Trump's legal team requested a delay in filing to disclose the experts he intends to use at trial. Cannon first set the deadlines in May.

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Matt Gaetz's surprising reaction to Hunter Biden verdict spawns MAGA conspiracy theories

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a longtime antagonist of President Joe Biden, surprised many of his followers on Tuesday by gently speaking out against Hunter Biden's conviction on multiple gun-related charges.

"The Hunter Biden gun conviction is kinda dumb tbh," wrote Gaetz on X.

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Hunter Biden verdict puts a nail in ​coffin of Trump's weaponized DOJ claim: critics

Hunter Biden's guilty verdict in his trial on gun crimes Tuesday prompted a range of responses.

Politico judicial reporter Kyle Cheney pointed out that some thought that, because of the power of the Biden family combined with the fact that the trial was in their home state of Delaware, Hunter would get a pass.

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Democrats target pro-Trump 'dystopian plot' with Stop Project 2025 task force

A group of congressional Democrats on Tuesday launched a task force aimed at spotlighting and combating the threat posed by Project 2025, the sprawling far-right agenda crafted by allies of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Spearheaded by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), the Stop Project 2025 Task Force "will serve as a central hub for pro-democracy Members of Congress, civil society, and affected communities to coordinate on examining, highlighting, preempting, and counteracting this right-wing plot to undermine democracy," Huffman's office said in a press release.

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Trump hits out at on-the-record report that he could make military service mandatory

Donald Trump launched a furious attack on the Washington Post Tuesday after a new report suggested mandatory military service might be a priority if he wins a second administration.

The presumptive Republican nominee denied on-the-record reporting by the Washington Post which shows his former defense secretary Christopher Miller, whom he floated as a possibility to return to that role, has contributed to the right-wing Project 2025 strategy for remaking the federal government. He told the newspaper that a national service requirement should be “strongly considered.”

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'It's not me': Marjorie Taylor Greene says Rachel Maddow 'is the fringe person'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at Rachel Maddow Tuesday after the MSNBC host called her a "fringe" member of Congress for pushing to defund NATO.

The Georgia lawmaker spoke to podcaster and convicted criminal Steve Bannon after dozens of Republicans voted for her failed legislation to cut NATO's funds.

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'F​ear her': GOP sources reveal Marjorie Taylor Greene directly threatened James Comer

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene threatened Rep. James Comer when he urged her to apologize to Rep. Jasmine Crockett over the two women's viral screaming match in House chambers last month, multiple Republican sources have revealed to CNN.

The Georgia Republican told Comer her "people" would not tolerate any effort to silence her, which multiple witnesses said was a reference to the looming threat of Greene's MAGA base, according to the report.

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Secret audio of Justice Alito’s wife exposes his plans and her ‘bitterness’: critics

Secretly-recorded audio of a candid and uninhibited conversation with Martha-Ann Alito, whose husband is the far-right Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, during which she exposed her apparent anti-LGBTQ bias, bragged about how she spends time planning revenge on her critics, and appeared to reveal her husband's possible retirement plans has stunned political experts and court-watchers alike.

Documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor, posing as a conservative Catholic at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3, also secretly recorded her conversations with both Justice Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. Windsor, who some label an "activist," caught Justice Alito saying he believes there are “fundamental” differences between the left and the right that “can’t be compromised,” and agreeing the nation needs to return to “godliness.”

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