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'Like a young Abraham Lincoln': Trump's praise for VP hopeful spurs hilarity

Former President Donald Trump subjected one of his top picks for vice president to much ridicule Wednesday with an odd comment on his physical appearance.

Trump called into the Brian Kilmeade Show on Fox News radio — during which he responded to a yes-or-no question with a minutes-long free associating rant — to discuss, among other topics, rumors of a personal opposition to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

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'On agenda': Ex-Trump health aide touts highly controversial plan hidden in Project 2025

Although former President Donald Trump has disavowed any involvement with Project 2025, a former top health adviser of his touted one of its most controversial initiatives on Wednesday while speaking at the Natcon Conference.

According to NOTUS Reports' Oriana Gonzalez, former Trump lead health adviser Katy Talento at the conference touted a plan referenced in Project 2025 to use the Comstock Act of 1873 to ban the mailing of abortion-related medications in the United States.

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'We found some receipts': Eric Swalwell busts Ben Shapiro for downplaying Project 2025

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) called out conservative host Ben Shapiro for a history of anti-LGBT speech during testimony about Project 2025.

At a hearing on media "collusion" on Wednesday, Swalwell asked Shapiro about his support for the controversial right-wing plan known as Project 2025, which aims to reshape the country with conservative values if former President Donald Trump is reelected.

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'Really goes haywire': Fox News can't rein in Trump's raving reply to yes-no question

A Fox News radio host opened a can of nonsensical words Wednesday morning when he asked Donald Trump, the former president and convicted felon, a yes-or-no question.

Brian Kilmeade repeatedly tried, and failed, to redirect Trump's rambling answer to his question about the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "There are people who believe you want to get out of NATO — is that what you want to do?" he'd asked.

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'Devolving into chaos': Judge threatens to cut Rudy Giuliani off at bankruptcy hearing

A judge threatened to cut off former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's line Wednesday after he accused his bankruptcy creditors of "defamatory remarks."

Less than an hour before a scheduled hearing, Giuliani's lawyers changed their request to move from a Chapter 11 to a Chapter 7 bankruptcy — and instead asked for the case to be dismissed.

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'This is not the McCarthy era!' House Republican gets angry check from outraged Dem

A Republican lawmaker received an angry check Wednesday from a House Democrat who found himself forced to remind his fellow committee members they were not hunting communists amid a post-global war Red Scare.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) shouted down fellow Oversight Committee member Glen Clay Higgins (R-LA) for a line of questioning that Environmental Protection Agency administrator Michael S. Regan likened to an assault.

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GOP candidate’s threat foreshadows Trump sequel’s 'savagery': ex-federal prosecutor

During a recent speech at an evangelical church, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson — the state's 2024 GOP gubernatorial nominee and a Donald Trump ally — openly advocated violence against his political foes.

The far-right Christian nationalist and MAGA Republican told the crowd, "Some folks need killing…. It's not a matter of vengeance. It's a matter of necessity."

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'Can't be serious': Reporters buried for hyping Trump's new tone after 'deranged' rally

A report from Axios is once again claiming that former President Donald Trump is softening his "tone" to appeal to voters -- but critics on the internet aren't having it.

The Axios report in question is claiming that Trump has "adjusted his agenda" and the Republican Party platform has changed in a new bid to appeal to moderate voters, despite the fact that Trump spent Tuesday night ranting about pardoning people who violently stormed the Capitol on his behalf on January 6th, 2021.

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'Wait until 2025': Trump’s former ICE chief makes chilling promise at far-right conference

A senior official from former President Donald Trump's administration just made an ominous threat to the immigrant community during a recent gathering of far-right political activists.

Semafor reporter Dave Weigel reported that during the National Conservatism conference (also known as "NatCon") in Washington, D.C., several of the speakers eagerly expressed how they would help the former president accomplish his goal of pursuing vengeance against his political opponents if elected to a second term. During one panel, Tom Homan – who was director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Trump's Department of Homeland Security – suggested he was already working behind the scenes to make Trump's promise to deport millions of immigrants as draconian as possible.

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Stunning report reveals Mar-a-Lago's transformation into multi-million dollar grift

The Florida social club where Donald Trump, a convicted felon and former president, stands accused of illegally storing official classified documents is raking in cash with ramped up prices that grants patrons the privilege of easy-access sycophancy, a new analysis finds.

Mar-a-Lago has taken in $4.7 million from candidates and political committees since Trump left the White House in 2021 and bumped its initiation fee from $100,000 to $600,000, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

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Hope Hicks could end Trump's appeal of hush money conviction: ex-prosecutor

Donald Trump’s former aide Hope Hicks could be the key to bringing his effort to appeal his hush money conviction crashing down, a former federal prosecutor said.

Legal analyst Joyce Vance said evidence from Hicks presented in his trial is likely not covered by a recent Supreme Court ruling that Trump’s team is expected to rely on to overturn his conviction on falsifying business record charges.

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'We don't eat bacon anymore': Rally witness claims Trump rants are getting more 'surreal'

Former President Donald Trump's campaign rally in South Florida was a sign that his rants are getting even more bizarre than ever, wrote Richard Luscombe for The Guardian after witnessing the event.

In addition to all of his usual greatest hits, like falsely claiming the U.S. is no longer energy independent and that the U.S. military is going to be forced to adopt electric tanks, Trump offered a new claim about inflation under President Joe Biden.

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'Fantasy for MAGA men': Project 2025-linked dating app gets torn apart by columnist

A dating app promising love to right-wingers and set up by a leader of Project 2025 was decimated Wednesday in a column that slammed it as a "fantasy for MAGA men.”

The app, called “The Right Stuff,” was devised by John McEntee, an advisor in Donald Trump’s White House who is now a senior member of Project 2025, the sweeping plan to overhaul the federal government that’s been connected to the Trump campaign.

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