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Jan. 6 rioter dressed in Stars and Stripes attacked cops with Trump flag: FBI

An accused Jan. 6 rioter was arrested Thursday on charges involving attacking police with a Trump flag while holding a "stop the steal" sign, an FBI affidavit stated.

Online sleuths nicknamed Lance Ligocki “Full Flag Suit" due to a Stars and Stripes outfit he wore that day. After his arrest, he was hit with felony charges of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers as well as obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, and other misdemeanor charges.

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'Bends easier than a paper plate': Chris Sununu slammed for endorsing Trump

Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu's decision to backtrack on his criticism of former President Donald Trump and endorse him in the 2024 race has spurred outrage from members of both parties — including many in his home state.

Sununu, an avid supporter of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and an outspoken critic of Trump's, announced he was throwing his support behind the lone-standing Republican's 2024 presidential campaign.

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Judge invites E. Jean Carroll to object to Trump's $92M bond payment plan

Judge Lewis Kaplan has invited E. Jean Carroll to object to former President Donald Trump's plan to pay a $92 million bond in the defamation case against him through a third party, reported MSNBC's Katie Phang on Friday.

This comes after the former president sought unsuccessfully for the court to grant a series of delays that would have let him put off posting a bond altogether.

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Parodies of Katie Britt's 'creepy' and 'breathlessly weird' SOTU rebuttal flood internet

A Republican Alabama senator left onlookers on both sides of the aisle stunned Thursday — and America's comedians could not wait to parody her.

Sen. Katie Britt's video rebuttal to President Joe Biden's State of the Union, which she appears to have delivered from her kitchen, made headlines Friday for just how badly it was received from both parties.

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RNC member who nominated Lara Trump as co-chair appears to cast doubt on qualifications

Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, was elected to be co-chair of the Republican National Committee on Friday, even as many critics have contended that she completely lacks the requisite qualifications for such a job.

Beth Bloch, an RNC member who officially nominated Trump for the position on Friday morning, seemingly alluded to this in her nomination speech.

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Trump is expected to soon find himself $4B richer — but there's a major catch

Donald Trump may suddenly find himself sitting on a gold mine when Truth Social goes public, but there's a major catch.

Truth Social's parent company is set to go public soon once it merges with Digital World Acquisition Corporation, and Trump fans could artificially pump up the value of the former president's investment as a show of political support — but he could face some hurdles to turning those shares into cash, reported Vanity Fair.

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Boebert comes up short again in new district despite Trump endorsement: report

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO ) is learning the hard way that she has a lot of work to do to get voters in Colorado's 4th District to back her third bid for the House of Representatives — even with Donald Trump's endorsement.

The controversial GOP lawmaker's last few months have been filled with scandal and turmoil since she abandoned the 3rd District for a safer seat in the more solidly conservative 4th, and she's still having trouble making inroads with voters at GOP get-togethers.

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Biden campaign uses KKK, Jan. 6 and Trump and Putin images in new ad

President Joe Biden's campaign quickly cut a new ad based on his widely well-received State of the Union Address, and interspersed images of the January 6 insurrection, Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the KKK including an "America First" parade banner, which is also Trump's campaign and policy slogan.

In the Biden ad, the president says, "Again and again I see competing forces in the battle for the soul of our nation." As the audio of those words plays, the video shows the KKK image, then an image of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and then Donald Trump.

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Trump's $91M E. Jean Carroll bond was put up by company linked to fraud trial

The company underwriting the $91.6 million bond former President Donald Trump paid Friday in his civil defamation case is part of the insurance group whose appraisal of Trump’s triplex in 2010 was foiled because “Mrs. Trump was sleeping,” court and federal records show.

The Federal Insurance Company secured Trump’s bond Friday in the New York defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, the writer the former president has been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming, court records show.

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'I love Trump but that is some BS!': Alex Jones unleashes attack on ex-president's boast

As President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address Thursday, former President Donald Trump was watching — and giving live commentary on his Truth Social platform, slamming Biden's claims and applying his own fact-checks.

Of the many parts of Biden's speech that got under Trump's skin, one was Biden's claim that the "pandemic no longer controls our lives," and that the vaccines that "saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer."

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'That was some weird stuff': CNN guest buries 'creepy' Katie Britt speech

Add former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols to those who are wondering today why the Republican Party chose freshman Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) to give the response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address.

Appearing on CNN with host Jim Acosta, Nichols — now a columnist for The Atlantic — came down on the side of those who were baffled by Britt's over-emoting and dramatic speech from her barren-appearing kitchen that he concluded came across as "creepy."

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Judge Cannon 'on thin ice' after latest ruling in Mar-a-Lago case: expert

Judge Aileen Cannon may have placed herself closer to getting removed from overseeing Donald Trump's classified documents case.

The Trump-appointed federal judge has raised eyebrows with some of her decisions that seem to favor the former president, who's been accused of the mishandling of sensitive government materials, but legal analyst David Lat said Cannon could have jeopardized her role in the case by accepting a pair of briefs arguing it should be thrown out, reported Newsweek.

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Trump posts $92 million to appeal E. Jean Carroll verdict

Former President Donald Trump has come up with enough money to appeal his defamation verdict against journalist E. Jean Carroll.

CNN reports that Trump on Friday posted the $92 million bond needed to appeal the civil lawsuit in which juries awarded Carroll tens of millions of dollars after Trump was found liable for defaming and sexually abusing her.

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