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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) clashed with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) at a hearing on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's prosecution of former President Donald Trump.

Moments after the hearing got underway on Thursday, Chairman Jordan called on Gaetz to question witnesses for five minutes. However, Gaetz offered a motion to subpoena Bragg and Assistant District Attorney Matthew Colangelo.

Former President Donald Trump shocked politicos Thursday with his reported comment that Milwaukee — the major swing state city he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020 that will also be hosting the Republican National Convention next month — is a "horrible" place.

"A history-making gaffe to insult the convention host city," commented White House Senior Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates. "No nominee has ever done it."

Former President Donald Trump was on Capitol Hill Thursday to speak to Republican Party lawmakers, and he is still talking about pop star Taylor Swift.

A news report earlier this week revealed Trump's shock that Swift was not a fan of his, a long-held opinion of hers that surfaced during the 2020 election cycle. According to a new book by Variety editor Ramin Setoodeh, Trump couldn't understand why a "country" star wouldn't support him. Swift evolved from country music to pop with her album in 2014, a New York Times report explained.

As former President Donald Trump prepared to meet with top corporate CEOs on Thursday, an analysis estimates that the GOP frontrunner's proposed giveaway to the nation's most profitable corporations would exceed the size of the federal K-12 budget for the current fiscal year.

Conducted by Brendan Duke and Will Ragland of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF), the analysis shows that cutting the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15%—as Trump and his advisers have proposed—would give the largest 100 U.S. companies an annual tax cut of $48 billion.

Former President Donald Trump reportedly praised Hannibal Lecter, a fictional cannibal, at a meeting with Republican lawmakers Wednesday.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the remarks while speaking to the House Republican caucus, according to CNN.

Former President Donald Trump Thursday called the most populous metropolis of a key swing state hosting the Republican National Convention next month a "horrible city," according to a new report.

Trump insulted Milwaukee to House and Senate Republicans who gathered for a policy discussion on Capitol Hill Thursday, the first of such meetings since January, 2021, Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman reports.

A new viral video showed supporters of Donald Trump arguing that the Earth is flat.

According to The Good Liars, a comedy duo, the video was filmed at a rally for Trump. It had over a million views by Thursday.

Republicans began their first meeting with former President Donald Trump since he ordered Capitol rioters to “fight like hell” on Jan. 6, 2021, by serenading him in celebration of his birthday, according to multiple reports.

The House and Senate Republicans who gathered for a policy meeting with Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee convicted of felony crimes, sang "Happy Birthday" and gave him a baseball bat and ball as a present, according to Punchbowl News' Jake Sherman and CNN's Manu Raju.

One of the leading candidates to be Donald Trump's running mate in the 2024 presidential election is going to have some explaining to do after a CNN report found evidence that he had a habit of liking tweets that were harshly critical of the former president.

According to CNN's KFiles team, Sen. J.D Vance (R-OH), who has been a constant cable news presence defending Trump both before and after he was convicted on 34-felony counts in a Manhattan courtroom which has led many political observers to conclude that he is in a constant state of auditioning for the vice presidential slot.

Former President Donald Trump claimed that he might intentionally lose the first presidential debate of 2024 in an effort to keep President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

During an interview that aired Thursday on Real America's Voice, Trump sought to lower expectations for his debate performance. He argued that Biden should take a drug test before the event.

In a private call with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), former President Donald Trump reportedly launched into a profanity-laden diatribe about his 34 felony convictions in New York.

In Thursday's edition of the Politico Playbook, writer Rachel Bade, Eugene Daniels and Ryan Lizza reported that Trump had a lengthy call with Johnson as he prepares for his first trip back to Washington, D.C. since the deadly January 6, 2021 insurrection. At one point, the subject of Trump's guilty verdict came up, which prompted the former president to pressure the speaker to use his power and influence to minimize its impact.

With Donald Trump headed to Capitol Hill on Thursday to meet with GOP lawmakers including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), CNN's John King reported that some GOP lawmakers would just prefer not having to deal with him at all.

Speaking with host John Berman, King stated that ever since the former president first came on the political scene there have been Republicans who privately have taken shots at him but have held their tongues publicly because they fear his wrath.

"That Donald Trump is back on Capitol Hill of all places as Republican kingmaker is a wow," King told Berman who replied, "You know, it's interesting because there's the issue of what it says about him and, as I think, you know, he's got this skill, whether you liked him or not, this political resilience that is in many ways unprecedented, but what does it say about them?"

"What does it say about these Republican members who absolutely were saying other things on January 6, 7, 8, and 9th?" he asked.

"Many of them, some will never say this publicly, but in private conversations, many of them from the beginning had been trying to figure out how do we make him go away? How does he go away?" King replied. "When will the trap door open and he will go away because, never mind 5:00 A.M. tweets when he was president, even never mind the insurrection. I know the people out there throw things at the TV."

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"But he's not a conservative, he's not one of us, he doesn't stand up against Vladimir Putin. You know, he's just not a traditional Reagan Republican or a Bush Cheney Republican," he said of the GOP lawmakers.

"They've wanted him gone a long time, but they haven't even figured out how," he elaborated, "and I think that the fact that the Marco Rubios and Ted Cruzes and the people who Trump just eviscerated in 2016 and still to this day doesn't really respect and thinks he dominates will just follow him. Follow him because they are afraid of his people they're afraid of the phone calls, the protests, the people back home."

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