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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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Trump exploits legal 'weakness' that can be 'manipulated by maliciously inclined': expert

Former President Donald Trump is deliberately trying to drag out his Washington, D.C. trial over election interference as much as possible — and it's all an effort to exploit a critical weak point in the American legal system, argued former Homeland Security official Paul Rosenzweig for The Atlantic.

Trump's latest stall tactic concerns his claim he has "presidential immunity" from being prosecuted for actions taken in office — a claim most experts have dismissed because Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election were in his capacity as a candidate and not a president.

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New House Freedom Caucus leader is no fan of Trump: 'Only person that can lose to Biden'

The hard-right Freedom Caucus has elected a new chairman who has endorsed one of Donald Trump's primary challengers.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA), the freshly minted chair of the caucus that has long been aligned with the former president, previously endorsed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had been a member of the group when he was a House member, reported NBC News.

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Jack Smith lines up 3 witnesses to link Jan. 6 rioters to Trump’s phone data: report

Many defenders of former President Donald Trump have been claiming that the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building isn't something that he encouraged or condoned in any way. And far-right conspiracy theorists have falsely blamed everyone from FBI agents to leftist antifa supporters for the attack — with no evidence to support those claims.

But special counsel Jack Smith's office, according to The Guardian's Hugo Lowell, has "indicated" that it is planning to feature three witnesses at Trump's election interference trial "who could potentially show how January 6 rioters moved on the Capitol in response to the former president's tweets."

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Yes, Trump can win the 2024 election. Here are four reasons why

By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - He has been impeached twice, tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power after losing the 2020 presidential election, faces scores of charges in multiple criminal cases, and his critics warn he is plotting to rule as an autocrat. Yet, Donald Trump could still return to the White House. Trump leads his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination by nearly 50 percentage points in national opinion polls, a remarkable comeback for a one-term president who three years ago appeared vanquished and humiliated. Here are four reasons why Trump could win ...

Jury to determine damages Giuliani owes to poll workers

A federal jury began hearing arguments in Washington on Monday to determine how much former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani should pay for defaming two Georgia election workers.

US District Judge Beryl Howell, in a ruling in August, found Giuliani liable of defaming Fulton County poll workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea Moss with his November 2020 election lies.

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Jack Smith brought in a heavy hitter to press Supreme Court Trump case: expert

The move by special counsel Jack Smith to quickly move up the ladder and ask the Supreme Court to rule on Donald Truimp's claim of presidential immunity in the Washington D.C. court case was praised by one former federal prosecutor who pointed out that Smith brought in an expert to press the case.

On Monday the court agreed to expedite the case, thereby skipping the Court of Appeals, leading to the prospect that could keep the trial on track for a March start date.

Writing on her Substack platform, ex-U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote the move by Smith is unprecedented if for no other reason it involves a former president of the United States.

Vance then argues that the special counsel, "is asking them to tell Trump that immunity (and double jeopardy, an argument with even less merit than immunity) is off the table so the case can proceed to trial."

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Mainers challenge Donald Trump’s election eligibility

Mainers are challenging former President Donald Trump’s primary election eligibility.

Two challenges filed with the state claim Trump action’s in relation to the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol bar him from taking office again. One challenge takes an alternate approach: Since Trump maintains he won re-election in 2020, he is ineligible to seek a third term as president.

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Jack Smith's 'brilliant move' has Trump 'very, very worried': ex-White House spokesman

Former President Donald Trump's White House communications director complimented special counsel Jack Smith Monday after the federal prosecutor managed to get the Supreme Court to agree to expedite the process of determining Trump's immunity.

Anthony Scaramucci — who lasted as Trump's communications director for only 10 days — was talking with CNN's Kaitlan Collins.

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Jack Smith plans to call Trump cellphone tracker as expert in Jan. 6 case: report

Special counsel Jack Smith plans to call an expert who tracked former President Donald Trump's cell phone use, including his activity on Twitter, during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, reports the Messenger.

This information was revealed Monday in a three-page filing in Smith's federal Washington D.C. election interference case against the former president, the Messenger reports.

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