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Election worker unleashes on Rudy Giuliani's lawyer in cross-examination

An attorney for Rudy Giuliani struggled to help his client during the cross-examination of former Georgia election worker Shaye Moss.

On the second day of Giuliani's defamation trial, Giuliani's attorney, Joe Sibley tried his hand at cross-examining Moss. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell has already ruled that Giuliani is liable for defaming Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman.

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Shaye Moss hits back as lawyer blames Trump for threats: 'Giuliani was driving the bus'

Shaye Moss nimbly sidestepped a slew of oratory traps laid by Rudy Giuliani’s lawyer in her $43 million defamation case Tuesday, according to a reporter in the courtroom.

When Joe Sibley tried to argue the Trump campaign and far-right conspiracy sites were to blame for racist threats the Georgia poll worker received after Giuliani baselessly accused her of election fraud, Moss had a reply ready in waiting, reports Politico’s Kyle Cheney.

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Trump — not Biden — got cash from 12 countries: Dem fact-checks GOP at impeachment hearing

As House Republicans race to cobble together legislation to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, Democrats are pointing to ex-President Donald Trump — who appears to have engaged in the same activity the GOP is accusing the current president of.

Republicans, who are pushing to hold an impeachment inquiry vote, claim that Biden took money from foreign countries via his son Hunter’s business dealings. They have, as some Republicans admit, found no direct proof of their allegations.

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Judge scorches Giuliani lawyer: 'We're in the situation we're in because of your client'

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell blasted Rudy Giuliani's attorney, Joe Sibley, after his client continued to possibly defame two Georgia election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss.

Following a lunch break on the second day of the defamation trial, Howell addressed false claims Giuliani made before television cameras the night before. The one-time attorney for former President Donald Trump had continued to suggest that Moss and Freeman were responsible for rigging the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump's $900K expert was rejected from earlier case for contradictory evidence: report

An expert paid nearly $900,000 to testify in Donald Trump's fraud trial once had his evidence tossed by a New York judge who found it “flatly” contradictory, according to reports and court records.

Evidence from Eli Bartov — an NYU professor paid $877,500 to testify in defense of Trump’s accounting methods — was rejected by the judge in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against ExxonMobil in 2019, ABC News reports.

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New Mar-a-Lago evidence looks like 'separate count of conspiracy to influence': analyst

Former federal prosecutor and legal analyst Harry Litman said there might be a new charge of conspiracy in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

It was revealed Monday that, after the FBI raid on the country club, Trump cozied up to a ex-staffer who had quit his job in the days after.

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Jury hears evidence Rudy Giuliani again defamed election workers in last 24 hours

Rudy Giuliani may have damaged his legal case after jurors heard that he continued disseminating falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election during his defamation trial.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell warned earlier on Tuesday that Giuliani may have again defamed election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss with comments he made after the first day of trial. Howell has already found Giuliani liable for claiming the election workers rigged the 2020 presidential election for then-President Donald Trump.

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Mike Johnson aide says ‘open and transparent’ too ‘wordy’ for impeachment rules

Republicans on a key committee on Tuesday declined to include an "open and transparent" provision in a proposed resolution to begin the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

During a Rules Committee hearing, Ranking Member Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) backed an amendment to use the phrase "open and transparent" because it had been removed from the resolution used to impeach former President Donald Trump in 2019.

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Trump sells off pieces of the suit he wore in his Georgia mugshot photo

Donald Trump is once again raising money off his indictment on Georgia racketeering charges.

The twice-impeached, four-times indicted former president raised more than $7 million within days of his surrender to authorities in Atlanta selling merchandise bearing his glowering mugshot — and on Tuesday he announced a new fundraising vehicle related to the booking photo.

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White supremacist who dined with Trump calls for ‘death penalty’ for non-Christians

Last year Donald Trump dined with two anti-Semites, Kanye West and Nick Fuentes, at his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence, drawing massive outrage while revealing to many Americans for the first time who Fuentes is: a white supremacist, Christian nationalist, anti-LGBTQ, authoritarian extremist who supports Trump's "America First" doctrine.

In his livestream show on Sunday titled, "The Great Replacement is about White GENOCIDE," Fuentes called for the "death penalty" for non-Christians, according to Right Wing Watch (video below). "Antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist Nick Fuentes says that when his America First movement takes power, all non-Christians will be executed," RWW reported.

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Trump whines that gag order forced him not to testify in fraud trial

Donald Trump admitted Tuesday he dodged testifying in own fraud trial because of a gag order banning him from commenting on court staff in his $250 million fraud trial.

Trump took to Truth Social Monday to decry both Justice Arthur Engoron — who has said he has received credible death threats during court proceedings — and Attorney General Letitia James.

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'Falsehood after falsehood': Fact-checker finds Trump lied every 12 seconds in Fox segment

Donald Trump made a false statement every 12 seconds during a five-minute video clip from his town hall appearance hosted by Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity, according to a new analysis.

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CFRB) brought one of those claims — Trump's assertion that U.S. oil and natural gas resources could solve Social Security's coming fiscal imbalance — to the attention of Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, who analyzed the entire video and found the former president dispensed "falsehood after falsehood in rapid succession."

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'Trump ordered you to be here!' Dem shreds GOP for MAGA fealty at impeachment hearing

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) scolded his Republican colleagues on Tuesday for moving forward with what Democrats described as a "sham" impeachment hearing.

At a House Rules Committee hearing on the possible impeachment of President Joe Biden, McGovern said former President Donald Trump was behind the crusade.

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