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House Republicans infuriated former President Donald Trump's MAGA base Friday by urging President Joe Biden's Cabinet to declare him unfit to serve.

Rep. Chip Roy (TX) Friday afternoon submitted a resolution to invoke the 25th Amendment on the heels of a presidential election debate against Trump that political analysts describe as a failure for Biden.

In a scathing appraisal of how the two moderators of the first 2024 presidential debate let Donald Trump run wild with a firehose of lies, one critic stated the pair is responsible for letting the former president hoodwink viewers who aren't fully immersed in politics on a daily basis.

In her column for Salon, political observer Heather "Digby" Parton wrote that "State of the Union" anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash failed as journalists by letting Trump make a mockery of the debate by lying with impunity, and not calling him out on it before a huge television audience.

Former President Donald Trump received a check on his quest to challenge his $464 million civil fraud ruling Friday by an exasperated lawyer who accused him going on a "fishing expedition."

Trump has sought to yank Justice Arthur Engoron from the New York City case — in which he was found liable of defrauding investors by falsely inflating Trump Organization assets — by arguing the judge had inappropriate conversations with lawyer Adam Leitman Bailey, court records show.

Former President Donald Trump's MAGA supporters are despairing over a surprising voice of dissent in the Supreme Court's Jan. 6 ruling — a move that legal experts believe means she will rule against Trump's presidential immunity claim.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's decision to oppose the court's ruling — which raises the bar for prosecutors to prove Jan. 6-related cases — spurred several legal experts to suggest she may rule against absolute immunity for the former president.

The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to some Jan. 6 defendants and demanded that prosecutors demonstrate specific evidence to show how the defendant was obstructing an official proceeding.

Fewer than 20 percent of the Jan. 6 attackers were charged with obstruction and those that were generally have other charges affiliated with it. Most of the attackers were charged with trespassing on federal property and other crimes about attacking law enforcement.

CNN host Jim Acosta cut off a supporter of Donald Trump on Friday morning when the former Trump campaign adviser refused to answer questions about the ex-president's deluge of lies in Thursday night's presidential debate.

Sitting down with conservative Bryan Lanza, Acosta confronted him with Trump making claims about Jan. 6 and abortion that were flat-out untrue only to have Lanza complain that the press is covering for Biden's poor debate performance.

"Why does Trump keep saying that Democrats want to execute babies after birth?" Acosta pressed. "That's a lie. That's not true."

"I think what you have to have the conversation with the campaign to see whether it's a lie," Lanza parried. "I think the most important thing that I walked away from the abortion conversation last night was that President Trump was proud of nominating Supreme Court justices who did overturn Roe v Wade and returned it to the states, which is where the American public has wanted it for a significant amount of time."

"Now, sure CNN can sort of cover —and MSNBC can try to sort of focus on the lies..." he continued only to have Acosta to cut him off with, "Don't go after, don't talk about the press, come on. He lied over and over again."

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As Lanza attempted to talk over the CNN anchor, Acosta continued, "No. Bryan, he said the January 6 defendants are quote 'so innocent.' Correct? These are people who are criminals."

"They stormed the Capitol. They broke the law that would've never happened had Donald Trump just accepted the results of the 2020 election. And you know that." Acosta lectured him.

"Sure, but what have the voters decided on that?" Lanza replied without answering the question. "The voters decided that is not their priority when they vote in this election."

"Republican voters decided that," Acosta corrected him.

"He's winning independent voters and he's winning the general election in swing states so all voters at this particular point made the decision that January 6 is not relevant to their lives," he attempted.

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Donald Trump hailed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that could have major implications for one his own criminal cases Friday.

The court ruled 6-3 in favor of former police officer Joseph Fischer, who was among hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants — including the former president — who have been charged with obstructing an official proceeding for their effort to prevent the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's election win.

A Supreme Court ruling that makes it more difficult to prosecute rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was met with outrage on the left and cheers of celebration from the MAGA right Friday morning.

"This is a big win for Trump," replied Fox News pundit Jonathan Turley. "It knocks out a substantial part of the case of Jack Smith against the former president."

The morning after President Joe Biden turned in a poor performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Meghan McCain tried to pin the blame on First Lady Jill Biden.

McCain, who quit ABC's "The View" where she was often at odds with her co-hosts and just as often derided for her opinions, spent Thursday evening live tweeting the debate, at one-time writing, "Our country is on the precipice of an absolute crisis and democrats [sic] aren’t going to be able to just shriek and point at Trump this time," before later adding, "I have been shunned, called a traitor to my family, disinvited places because I kept sounding the alarm Joe Biden is too old to be President. I will never forgive the media and DNC propagandists for putting Americans in this position and signaling to our enemies how weak we are."

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday took a shot at CNN for not doing more to counter the slew of falsehoods spouted by former President Donald Trump in real time.

During an interview with CNN's John Berman, Shapiro was asked repeatedly if he still had confidence in President Joe Biden after his widely criticized debate performance on Thursday night.

President Joe Biden's aides are getting their digital resumes ready after a debate performance that's being compared to a disaster movie spoof, according to a new report.

"I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue,” one Democratic House member told Politico.

Taking a break from talking about President Joe Biden's poor debate performance on Thursday night, the "Morning Joe" crew on MSNBC pressed former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance on what is happening in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom and why the Donald Trump trial has yet to begin.

According to the former prosecutor, Cannon is engaged in needless stalling likely because she doesn't want to have her conduct scrutinized by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

"She's got motions that have been fully briefed and argued in front of her. One of them is the prosecution's motion to change Donald Trump's conditions of pretrial release, so that he can't continue to spread this lie that he's been perpetuating, saying the FBI was trying to assassinate him when they executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago," Vance began. "Even Trump's own lawyer was forced to concede in court this week that that simply wasn't the case."

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"Look, the judge has plenty of information in front of her," she later added. "The job that every federal judge has and every state court judge has is to make a decision; she seems to be incapable of doing that, perhaps because, at least in this matter, as soon as she does, the party that loses will take her decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for appellate review."

"She seems to be very shy about letting any more of her decisions go there," Vance suggested. "She's had two very bad outings in front of that court."

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