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House Oversight Dems accuse James Comer of obstructing probe into Trump finances

The House Oversight and Reform Committee Democrats published a nearly 200-page report Thursday detailing what they uncovered in an over two-year investigation into cash Donald Trump brought into his businesses while president — but they said their efforts were stymied by the committee chair.

"The limited records obtained by the Oversight Dems for just 4 of the 500+ businesses Trump owned while he was President reveal they collected payments from these foreign governments," they said with a photo of flags that include China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Malaysia, U.A.E. Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Turkey, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Philippines, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Mongolia and Kuwait.

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Elise Stefanik withdraws endorsement of GOP candidate over mild criticisms of Trump

Simply calling former President Donald Trump "arrogant" is apparently now enough to get you exiled from the good graces of House Republicans.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Thursday announced that she was withdrawing her endorsement of Republican congressional hopeful Craig Riedel over what she claimed were "inappropriate" comments made about the former president.

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'They're going after me': Kari Lake fears Rudy Giuliani's fate in defamation case

Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake suggested she could meet the same fate as Rudy Giuliani after he was ordered to pay two election workers $148 million for defamation.

Lake is being sued by Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, who claimed he received death threats after Lake said he "sabotaged" her election.

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James Comer searched for China link to Biden — but Oversight found Trump instead: reporter

The House Oversight and Reform Committee, under Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) leadership, has searched through the finances of President Joe Biden and the rest of his family looking for incriminating links to foreign entities.

Now it turns out it was Donald Trump who had international business dealings while sitting in the White House, according to a report released by Democrats on the committee.

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'Bizarre and psychopathic': Trump targets E. Jean Carroll in Truth Social posting spree​

Donald Trump, just hours after his name appeared in newly unsealed court documents linked to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, attacked E. Jean Carroll Thursday morning in 31 Truth Social posts shared in just 26 minutes.

Trump didn't write a word, but shared opinion pieces from multiple conservative sites attacking the woman who accused him of raping her and then defaming her.

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'Enough': SCOTUS warned by conservative no free pass for Trump over new violence threat

According to conservative columnist David French, the Supreme Court should give absolutely no consideration to how Donald Trump's supporters would react if he is banned from running for office — and the court should stick to the letter of the law.

In his column for the New York Times, French claimed the time had finally come to say "enough" over worries the former president will incite more violence, while also maintaining that the 14th Amendment was correctly interpreted by the Colorado Supreme Court when they booted him off the ballot.

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Experts fear pro-Trump radicals could spark 'mass casualty event' if he's jailed: report

Almost three years have passed since the January 6, 2021 insurrection, in which a mob of Donald Trump supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol in the hope of stopping Congress from certifying now-President Joe Biden's victory.

A combination of Trump critics and national security experts have been fearing that the 2024 presidential election could also be accompanied by violence — a possibility that journalist Spencer Sunshine examines in a report published by The New Republic Thursday.

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Trump's lawyers should be held accountable for promoting his Big Lie in court: expert

Legal expert Kim Wehle highlighted Thursday Donald Trump's recent court filing about his actions around 2020 and Jan. 6 in a desperate effort to prove that intervening in the election was part of his role as president.

What's disturbing, she said, is that legitimate lawyers from prominent firms are willing to hang their reputations — and careers —on something like that.

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Trump asks court to hold Jack Smith in contempt for trying to keep trial on track

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge to sanction special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday.

In a 15-page filing, the attorneys accused Smith and two other federal prosecutors of defying a court's order pausing Trump's federal election subversion trial.

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'A stunning web of millions of dollars': Trump accused of taking foreign cash payments

According to a report issued on Thursday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Donald Trump used his position as president to enrich himself and his family by raking in millions of dollars from foreign governments.

USA Today is reporting the 156-page report accuses the former president took in at least $7.8 million from countries that include China, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The report unequivocally states that, based upon documents and records that have been reviewed, there is a "stunning web of millions of dollars in payments made by foreign governments and their agents directly to Trump-owned businesses, while President Trump was in the White House.”

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In the preface of the report, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) wrote: "It is true that $7.8 million is almost certainly only a fraction of Trump’s harvest of unlawful foreign state money, but this figure in itself is a scandal and a decisive spur to action."

USA Today reports that the information came from information handed over to Congress by Mazars USA, Trump’s former accounting firm in 2019.

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Judge 'increasingly impatient' with Trump's legal team ignoring his rulings: report

With Donald Trump's last-ditch attempt to delay a second E. Jean Carroll defamation civil trial slapped aside, his lawyers are reportedly scrambling to avoid another multi-million dollar judgment — and their filings are making the judge overseeing the case grow "increasingly impatient."

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, the Trump legal team is "grabbing at straws" with their attempt to relitigate the first Carroll defamation lawsuit which ended with a quick verdict ordering the former president to pay her in excess of $5 million.

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'Would be the end of America': Trump pushes latest bizarre conspiracy theory

Donald Trump launched his latest bizarre conspiracy theory Thursday, claiming the influx of migrants at the nation's southern border had been devised to create another election fraud.

And, in an extra weird twist, an apparent typo said the move would affect the 2020 election.

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Trump lawyers' baffling argument leaves door open to him being unable to serve: expert

Reacting to a filing Donald Trump's lawyers made to the Supreme Court this week to keep him on the ballot on Colorado after an adverse ruling, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade laughed at their wording that seems to open the door to their client being able to run for office but not serve if he wins.

Appearing on MSNBC, the legal analyst discussed the appeal that revolves around the use in Colorado of the 14th Amendment to bar Trump from running for office due to his part in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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