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'Severe anomalies': Trump Media CEO seeks official probe over worsening trading woes

The CEO of former president and convicted felon Donald Trump's eponymous media company has flagged "severe" anomalies he believes warrant an official probe, according to a new report.

Trump Media CEO Devin Nunes sent a letter to Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman stating he had coaxed Congress to seek a formal probe into the matter by Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), according to Reuters.

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'Poster child for corruption': Judge Cannon slammed for 'crazy' new ruling in Trump case

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, already under scrutiny for her series of decisions tilting the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case in former President Donald Trump's favor, took the highly unusual step of allowing three right-wing lawyers who filed amicus briefs to give oral arguments in a hearing about whether to throw the entire case out on June 21.

Legal experts have reacted with disgust over Cannon's decision over how to conduct this hearing — and the general public on social media took notice as well.

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'Your analogy is ridiculous': Republican gets brutal fact check on Trump persecution claim

A far-right North Carolina congressman drew sharp criticism Tuesday following his comparison of former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case in New York to what Black people experienced in 1950s Alabama.

Republican Rep. Dan Bishop, who represents the state's 9th congressional district near Charlotte, told The Pete Kaliner Show in Charlotte that Trump's criminal case "fundamentally rigged" because the case was brought in the Democratic leaning state.

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'Allow him to speak': Expert gives shocking reason to end Trump's hush money gag order

One legal expert says a surprising person should want Judge Juan Merchan to lift his gag order against the newly convicted former President Donald Trump.

Elliot Williams, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, appeared on CNN's "The Situation Room" to argue Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg should not challenge Trump's new demand to have his gag order lifted.

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Cannon lets lawyers with right wing ties back Trump's classified docs dismissal demand

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon will allow a number of outside parties with ties to a right-wing organization to give arguments during a hearing later this month on whether to throw out former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case.

According to Lawfare's Anna Bower, Cannon is allowing a trio of attorneys who filed amici — Josh Blackman, Gene Schaerr, and Matthew Seligman — to participate in oral arguments at "the hearing on Defendant Trump's Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on the Unlawful Appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith." The hearing will take place on June 21.

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MTG: Freedom Caucus chair will knife you in the back - just like he did to Trump

Republican firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is urging Virginia Republicans to oust incumbent Virginia congressman and far-right House Freedom Caucus chair Bob Good at the state's primary this month, warning her own party that Good will stab them in the back — "just like he did President Trump."

Greene (R-GA) followed Trump's lead, with both taking to X on Tuesday afternoon to call for Good's ouster in his June 18 Republican primary.

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'Utterly Horrible': Trump’s Putin claim ignites anger, again

Donald Trump, the Republicans’ 2024 presumptive presidential nominee and a convicted felon, is claiming Russian President Vladimir Putin will release a U.S. reporter arrested on espionage charges who the U.S. says is being wrongfully detained, if the American people elect him president again.

“Evan Gershkovich, the reporter for The Wall Street Journal who is being held by Russia will be released almost immediately after the election, but definitely before I assume office,” Trump says in a video (below) posted to his Truth Social account Tuesday. “He will be home, he’ll be safe. Vladimir Putin, President of Russia will do that for me. And I don’t believe he will do it for anyone else.”

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Republican Party uses pic of Ho Chi Minh City for GOP convention in Milwaukee

Wisconsin and Vietnam may not have a lot in common, but the Republican Party struggled to tell them apart when designing the 2024 convention website, according to a new report.

Boston Globe reporter Sam Brodey was looking up information on the convention website and couldn't help but notice that the skyline photo of Milwaukee didn't look like Milwaukee.

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Trump demands hush money judge end gag order after historic criminal conviction

Former President Donald Trump is demanding that Judge Juan Merchan terminate the gag order in his criminal hush money trials on the heels of his historic conviction, according to a new report.

CNN's Kara Scannell reports that Trump's attorneys argued in a letter delivered Monday, and made public Tuesday, that there was no longer any need to protect the jury from prejudice.

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Republican likens Trump conviction to the persecution of Black people in 1950s Alabama

A far-right North Carolina congressman and election denier — who's running to become the state's top law enforcement official — this week compared former President Donald Trump's prosecution in New York to the persecution Black Americans faced in 1950s Alabama.

Republican Rep. Dan Bishop, who represents the state's 9th congressional district near Charlotte, told The Pete Kaliner Show in Charlotte that Trump's criminal case "fundamentally rigged" because the case was brought in the Democratic leaning state.

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'More in common with the Taliban': Outrage erupts over state GOP's anti-Pride vitriol

The Colorado Republican Party wants all Gay Pride rainbow flags to burn to ash, according to a new report.

In a mass email titled “God Hates Pride” the state GOP made a call to flames, and castigated LGBTQ community as Pride month began on June 1, according to the local NBC affiliate 9News.

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Adam Schiff shades House Republicans with epic Sam Alito diss

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) hit House Republicans with an epic diss Tuesday as they grilled Attorney General Merrick Garland over their claims that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against Donald Trump.

Republicans at the House Judiciary hearing attacked Garland for everything from state charges against Donald Trump to ignoring GOP demands for the audio version of special counsel Robert Hur's interview with President Joe Biden.

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GOP will defund DOJ in retaliation for Trump conviction: Speaker Mike Johnson

The embattled Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) is vowing to use the arsenal of tools at his disposal, including defunding, to target the U.S. Dept. of Justice after ex-president Donald Trump was convicted in a New York State prosecution on 34 felony charges last week.

In a Tuesday meeting behind closed doors with his House Republican conference members, Johnson said “he will do everything he can to go after the Department of Justice,” CNN reported, “and said the verdict has ignited support for the former president, two sources familiar with the comments told CNN.”

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