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President Donald Trump's Cabinet members and nominees have had to pass a loyalty test and often debase themselves publicly to keep their jobs — it's what an analyst has dubbed "the Costanza presidency."

In a Substack post published Friday, Tom Schaller, professor of political science at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, detailed just how far Trump's allies have been willing to take their lies, even refusing to deny Trump lost the 2020 election. This "favorite lie" is something Trump has come to expect from his faithful followers and people within his inner circle, he wrote.

"Like their boss, Donald Trump’s lackeys lie about pretty much everything: the state of the economy, the cost and need for the White House ballroom project, the security of shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz," Schaller wrote. "Their bald-faced deceptions are designed to convince you that up is down, day is night."...

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) provided what one legal expert referred to as a "non-denial denial" when asked about a potential lie during her response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union.

Raw Story reported on Friday that Britt had been alleged to have told an "out and out lie" during her breathless response to Biden's speech. Essentially, a reporter accused Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) of making false statements when she discussed the horrors of a girl sex-trafficked by Mexican cartel members.

"These events didn't happen in the United States," said the journalist in a video. "These crimes didn't take place in the United States. Or even near the border. They took place in Mexico."...

The internet is in an uproar over the revelations that a top GOP witness lied under oath.

A vital informant of the FBI's investigations into Joe Biden's son Hunter is being charged by a grand jury with lying under oath in the investigation. It doesn't bode well for the ongoing attacks on the Bidens from Republicans.

Alexander Smirnov, who was identified as a confidential human source in the investigation, was arrested in Las Vegas, a Justice Department statement said on Thursday. He had alleged that executives at the Ukrainian company Burisma claimed they only hired Hunter Biden to "protect us, through his dad, from all kinds of problems," while Biden was vice president. ...

The bipartisan border deal the Senate spent months working on appears to be all but dead after former President Donald Trump whipped Republicans against it, fearful he would lose one of his most potent campaign issues. This leaves Senate Republicans in the position of trying to come up with reasons why they oppose it.

On the Senate floor Thursday evening, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attempted to do so in an argument with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), one of the chief negotiators of the deal, reported The Hill's Alex Bolton.

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Trump's been telling some dangerous whoppers, according to his own former White House attorney.

Ty Cobb during an appearance on CNN's “Erin Burnett OutFront" remained confident that prosecutors would turn his former client into a punching bag for all the lying should he take the witness stand and testify.

"I'm not sure he will testify," Cobb said. "I'd say it's still 50-50 because as the lawyer in me says, you know, 'Why put him on?'"...

Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will likely face between two and three years in prison if he is convicted in the criminal case that was just brought against him, a federal prosecutor said.

Attorney Elie Honig of Lowenstein Sandler LLP, a former New Jersey and federal prosecutor, was speaking to Jake Tapper on CNN when he was asked what type of punishment Santos might face if the congressman is ultimately convicted. Santos on Wednesday got slapped with 13 different criminal charges including counts of wire fraud and money laundering. Afterward, he vowed not to resign and said he would run for reelection.

"If George Santos is convicted, Jake, this is a jail case," Honig said. "Now we hear these maximums - 20 years, that is the maximum here. We need to sort of look past that. Nobody is going to get anything near 20 years."...