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Trump Media in spiral as it plunges to lowest level in months: report

Trump's media company is losing stock value yet again.

According to Newsweek, Google Finance data reveals that "as of June 11, the price of a share, traded under the ticket 'DJT' has plunged to $39.31 per share. This is the first time the stock has dipped under $40 a share since April 25 when it was $38.49. However, the price of a share is still higher than on April 17 when it dipped to $22.84, the lowest the share price had been since January 16, when it was at $22.35."

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'You are an abomination': Freedom Caucus member scorched after defending Trump's conviction

Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) faced heavy criticism from one Democrat who called him an "abomination" after he defended former President Donald Trump's felony convictions.

During Wednesday's Washington Journal program on C-SPAN, a woman named Ann called in with reaction to Tiffany.

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'Haul out the guillotine': Trump unveils disturbing new campaign message

Former President Donald Trump has a disturbing new campaign cash-grab demand: "Haul out the guillotine."

Trump warned heads will roll following his criminal conviction on felony charges in New York City in a campaign fundraising email shared on X Wednesday morning by CNN anchor Jim Acosta.

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'Automatic conspiracy theories': CNN reporter mows down MAGA delusions on justice system

CNN reporter Hadas Gold on Wednesday took a hatchet to Trump allies' claims that the criminal conviction of President Joe Biden's son were part of a broader plot by Biden to cover up even worse crimes.

Many observers have said that Hunter Biden's conviction massively undercuts former President Donald Trump's claims that President Biden has "weaponized" the Department of Justice against him.

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Attacking Hunter Biden could be risky for Trump: experts

Donald Trump could be tempted to use the conviction of Hunter Biden on felony gun charges as a campaign cudgel against Joe Biden, who is fiercely attached to his son, but experts say that strategy is risky.

Indeed, Trump's campaign team did not wait long to offer a hot take on Tuesday's ruling in a Delaware court, which stemmed from the younger Biden's 2018 purchase of a handgun while addicted to crack cocaine.

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Speaker Johnson on why he thinks Hunter Biden’s conviction is valid but Trump’s is not

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who could gain tremendous power if Donald Trump is elected president in November, explained to reporters his belief that Tuesday's jury conviction of Hunter Biden on three federal felony gun charges was absolutely legitimate while Donald Trump's conviction on 34 state felony charges was not.

"Every case is different," Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju (video below) when asked if "the president's son being convicted on three counts" undercuts the Republican Speaker's claims of a "two tier system of justice."

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Top former Trump aide Mick Mulvaney floats 'Revenge-a-Thon' against political foes

"What's wrong with a little revenge?"

That's what Mick Mulvaney, former President Donald Trump's one-time acting White House chief of staff—who consumer advocate Ralph Nader once described as the twice-impeached Republican's "sadist-in-chief"—asked Tuesday in a Hillopinion column suggesting that there would be nothing unseemly if his ex-boss is reelected and decides to embark on a campaign of retribution targeting Democrats.

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Attention Lincoln and Reagan: GOP senators scramble history with Trump greatness claim

Seismologists report that the chunks of granite falling from the Mount Rushmore National Memorial come from the laughter of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt after they read a recent email blast from the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

Donald Trump is “the greatest president in American history,” the NRSC’s fundraising missive declared.

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'Pornographically violent': Rachel Maddow unleashes no-holds-barred attack on Trump

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow attacked the former president in a brief commentary on Tuesday, addressing comments he had made over the weekend.

The MSNBC host joined colleague Nicolle Wallace to discuss the speech Donald Trump gave in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the weekend that left even Republicans scratching their head.

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Cannon's rulings fuel fears of undermining separate Trump case

Judge Aileen Cannon's recent rulings in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump have raised concerns amongst legal experts about possible attempts to undermine special counsel Jack Smith.

Cannon approved Trump's request to continue delaying his trial in Florida, where he is charged with taking documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, refusing to turn them over when requested, and conspiring to hide the documents and obstructing justice.

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'Completely wacko': George Conway smacks down ex-Trump aide's take on Hunter Biden

Conservative attorney George Conway just ripped apart the argument made by Stephen Miller – former President Donald Trump's top immigration adviser — that Hunter Biden's guilty verdict was somehow orchestrated by his father as "election interference."

On Tuesday, a Delaware jury found President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, guilty on all three counts in Department of Justice special counsel David Weiss' indictment.

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Ex-Trump attorney kicked off judicial committee for role in fake elector scheme

The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended former Trump attorney James Troupis from its Judicial Conduct Advisory Committee on Tuesday.

Troupis, who also previously served as a Dane County Circuit Court judge, was charged with felony forgery for his role in planning the scheme to have a group of Republicans cast false Electoral College votes for Trump after the 2020 election.

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'Alarming': Conservative caught pumping dark money into swing states via surprising source

Conservatives have been caught pumping dark money into key swing states that political experts are calling "alarming" — via a source commonly called "pink slime."

Dark-money funded websites designed to look like nonpartisan news outlets have choked out legitimate journalism sources in former President Donald Trump's primary battle grounds in the upcoming presidential election, Axios reported Tuesday.

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