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Republicans plan new criminal investigation into Hunter Biden

Republicans in the House are eyeing a new attack on President Joe Biden's son.

According to Fox's congressional reporter Chad Pergram, GOP members are saying Hunter Biden delivered "falsehoods" while giving a deposition to Congress during an impeachment hearing involving his father, and they are seeking a criminal referral to the Justice Department.

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'Republican civil war': Details surface of GOP lawmaker's massive retaliation campaign

The Texas Republican Party is in the middle of a purge of its own membership, at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott — and out-of-state donors, according to a new report.

The Texas Republican governor, after a group of state legislators defied him over private school voucher funding, is mounting a campaign of retaliation that sets a new political precedent, Politico reported Wednesday.

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‘Flatulating’ Trump waiting to be 'first felon elected president’: Illinois governor

CHICAGO — As Democratic leaders gathered in Chicago for a Democratic National Convention walkthrough, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker let it rip on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“It's a choice between kindness and cruelty, between a president who stands up against hatred and extremism, or a candidate who promises to be a dictator and makes excuses for white supremacists who chant ‘Jews will not replace us,’” Pritzker said Wednesday at the United Center in Chicago.

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'Put aside your cowardice': Furious Liz Cheney slams GOP over Trump's 'dangerous lie'

A furious former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) Wednesday slammed House Republicans for "blindly" following former President Donald Trump after he spread a debunked conspiracy theory she warned could provoke violence.

Cheney took to X Wednesday afternoon to condemn Trump for spreading the conspiracy theory that President Joe Biden had planned to assassinate him — a claim repeatedly debunked by political experts and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials.

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Trump shamed for deluge of 'punts' that make policy 'remarkably unclear'

Donald Trump frequently repeats that he intends to "look into it" when asked about a specific policy — now he's punted so many time his stance on multiple issues is "remarkably unclear," a Washington Post columnist wrote.

Trump spoke to one local news affiliate this week, where he claimed he was looking into a plan to restrict contraception for women. He has since tried to walk it back, but such flubs might be why Trump is dodging questions on policy positions, Aaron Blake wrote.

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Jack Smith's team tells Judge Cannon Trump co-defendant's motion to dismiss is 'garbage'

A prosecutor on special counsel Jack Smith's team has told U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon that a motion to dismiss a classified documents case involving Donald Trump was "garbage."

According to The Associated Press, Stanley Woodward, a lawyer for Trump's personal valet and co-defendant Walt Nauta, accused Smith of targeting his client with a vindictive prosecution.

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'They hate the truth': Outrage erupts over House Republicans' latest pro-Trump move

Outrage erupted among lawmakers and political spectators Wednesday when House Republicans demanded a Democrat's summary of the charges facing former President Donald Trump be stricken from the official record.

Rep. Erin Houchin (R-IN) lashed out at Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) as he detailed the many charges facing the former president and questioned House Republicans own rhetoric on the matter.

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Trump witness could face professional sanctions after 'contemptuous' testimony: expert

A lawyer who was rebuked on the witness stand by the judge overseeing Donald Trump's hush money trial could face possible sanctions.

New York lawyer Robert Costello will likely be reported to the state bar after rolling his eyes and making negative comments while testifying this week for the former president's defense, which prompted justice Juan Merchan to clear the courtroom and admonish his "contemptuous" behavior, reported Newsweek.

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'Kill it with fire': Pro-Nazi MAGA extremist plots mass public school book burning

A pro-Nazi MAGA extremist was caught Wednesday plotting a mass school library book burning to "cleanse" children's literature of its "filth."

Stew Peters, described by the Anti-Defamation League as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist and a white supremacist, can be seen in a newly surfaced video demanding his followers storm classrooms and libraries for books they will burn in a "Nuremberg" themed event next fall.

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MAGA Republican secretly mocked 'crazies' who bought stolen election claims: report

MAGA Republican Abraham Hamadeh, who in 2022 lost his race to become Arizona's secretary of state and who repeatedly challenged the results in court, reportedly didn't buy the claims he was making about a stolen election.

What's more, Hamadeh mocked supporters who did.

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GOP freaks out after Dem lists Trump's trials in House: 'I demand his words be taken down'

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives demanded that remarks by Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) be removed from the record after he referenced former President Donald Trump's criminal and civil trials.

During a House floor speech on Wednesday, McGovern noted that Trump was not a king.

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'Never seen': Legal experts fear Judge Cannon could scrap trial at unusual court hearing

Donald Trump's lawyers were attending hearings in District Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom Wednesday — on the same day they had been scheduled to question jurors in the case they reportedly fear the most.

Jury selection was scheduled to begin this week in the Florida federal court, but Cannon instead will hear arguments in a long-shot effort by one of Trump's co-defendants to dismiss the charges after the judge postponed the trial indefinitely to settle various legal issues, reported the Washington Post.

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'My blackness makes me unqualified?' Jasmine Crockett rips GOP at jobs hearing

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) confronted a Republican plan to diminish diverse hiring practices if a GOP presidential candidate wins in 2024.

During a Wednesday House Oversight hearing on federal employment, Crockett noted that some of her Republican colleagues appeared to be echoing Project 2025, which aims to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices in the federal government.

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