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Marjorie Taylor Greene says her Jan. 6 signing is on after 'communists' tried to stop it

A book signing with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) set for the third anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was briefly without a venue this week after Westgate Resorts in Kissimmee, Florida canceled the event. But on Friday, she announced it was back on at another venue.

And she laid into "communist Democrats" for supposedly getting her ejected from her original location.

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'Darker view': What Alina Habba's comments reveal about her take on the Supreme Court

Former President Donald Trump's attorney Alina Habba's pressure campaign on Justice Brett Kavanaugh to "step up" in Trump's criminal cases shows she has a twisted, quid pro quo view of the legal system, said former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on MSNBC Friday.

"You can talk about Samuel Alito, who got his lifelong dream of overturning Roe through Donald Trump being the president," said anchor Joy Reid. "You could go on and on, the people who want him there, Clarence Thomas, you could argue his wife has material financial benefits from having a Trump presidency. I just wonder what you make of the fact that this court is operating in a world in which some people believe they owe him and that isn't like a crazy thing to think."

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'Recycled allegations': Jack Smith hits back at Trump's contempt effort in new filing

Special Counsel Jack Smith said Friday that he will continue to make filings in his case in D.C. alleging election subversion efforts by Donald Trump, firing back at a bid by the ex-president to hold him in contempt.

In a 15-page filing, Trump's attorneys accused Smith and two other federal prosecutors of defying a court's order pausing Trump's federal election subversion trial. Some said, however, that the former president "overplayed his hand" with that motion.

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Kari Lake blames nameless forces who 'unleashed viruses' to stop Trump

Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, who's an official candidate running for the U.S. Senate, blamed Illuminati-esque elements impinging on the good works of former President Donald Trump trying to heal a wounded country and ultimately save human civilization.

“These are some of the most corrupt, disgusting evil people in the world,” Lake explained when appearing in an interview on Real America’s Voice, according to a column by AZCentral's Laurie Roberts. “They’re pushing this globalist agenda and they don’t care who they destroy in the process."

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'Keep this up Joe': Internet celebrates Biden holding Trump to the fire in new speech

President Joe Biden's major speech came on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021 anniversary and was roundly praised by pundits for taking it to Donald Trump and MAGA for decimating the founding ideals of America.

“Today we’re here to answer the most important of questions: Is democracy still America’s sacred cause,” he said while about 10 miles from Valley Forge National Historical Park, where 250 years ago George Washington rallied troops during the Revolutionary War. “It’s what the 2024 election is all about.”

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'We have to get over it': Trump responds to Iowa school shooting during speech

Former President Donald Trump reacted to the shooting at the high school in Perry, Iowa, during a commit-to-caucus event in Sioux Center on Friday evening — and used an eye-catching turn of phrase.

"It's horrible to see that happening," said Trump. "It's just horrible. So surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it."

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'Destructively stupid': Alina Habba told her job is to be smarter than her 'idiot client'

Two bulky businessmen with eponymous corporations accused of crimes against the nation share a unique problem, a new political analysis contends.

As the fictional George Bluth put it in the television sitcom “Arrested Development”: “I got the worst f---ing attorneys.”

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Trump reacts to Biden speech: 'Not a time for us to have a mentally challenged president'

President Joe Biden’s condemnation of Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric Friday was met by the former president with insults and false claims about who won the 2020 election.

"The Democrats rigged the last election and they are trying it again…but it won’t work because they have shown how bad and incompetent they are," Trump told Fox News. He added, "This is not a time for us to have a mentally challenged president."

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'Remarkably poor strategy': Expert says Trump team's bid to bully justices will backfire

Former President Donald Trump's legal team is setting itself up for disaster by trying to threaten and intimidate Supreme Court Justices, Protect Democracy executive director Ian Bassin said on MSNBC Friday.

This comes as one of Trump's top lawyers stated on Fox News that she wants Justice Brett Kavanaugh, one of Trump's appointees, to "step up" on cases involving the former president.

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'GOP is about to lose their majority': Team MAGA worries as more Republicans leave office

Donald Trump's influencers and allies are starting to hit the panic button as more and more Republicans announce they are retiring, leaving office, or are otherwise unable to provide votes for the House GOP's agenda.

The already slim majority has been thrown into flux with the recent announcement by Rep. Bill Smith that he would be retiring and going to academia. The announcement came in November, but the panic is starting to set in now as some Republicans are beginning to do the math.

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Judge denies attempt to keep Trump off Wyoming ballot for insurrection: report

Donald Trump saw a legal victory on Friday as a Wyoming judge reportedly rejected an attempt to keep the former president off the state's ballot as a purported insurrectionist.

“Making a determination at this stage of the process would be imprecise, subject to speculation, and would create rather than diminish future controversies, because it would require engaging in legal details made in the abstract and result in a decision rendered without concrete factual background,” wrote Albany County District Court Judge Misha Westby in a court order, according to Cowboy State Daily.

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U.S. Supreme Court finally reveals if it will hear Trump's ballot removal appeal: report

The U.S. Supreme Court has set Feb. 8 as the date to hear former President Donald Trump's 14th Amendment appeal in which he argues that he should be eligible to remain on the Colorado primary election ballot, CNN reported.

The decision comes shortly after Trump’s legal team filed an appeal to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court's ruling barring him from the primary ballot. Maine’s Democratic Secretary of State, Shenna Bellows, also issued an order disqualifying Trump from the state’s ballot over his alleged actions in the the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

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Ex-GOP leader warns his party: Impeaching Biden will blow up in your face

Former Republican lawmaker Trent Lott, who was on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment investigation of Richard Nixon and the Senate Majority Leader during the Bill Clinton impeachment trial, has a stark warning for his party: Don't impeach President Joe Biden. It's going to backfire.

Lott, a Mississippi politician who was a towering figure in Republican politics for decades, exclusively told The Messenger that he believes a revenge-based impeachment would be a disaster.

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