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'Every accusation is a confession!': Jim Jordan called out after 'hypocritical' comment

The GOP's Jim Jordan was called out on Wednesday after the lawmaker made comments about Hunter Biden's potential charges for not adhering to a subpoena.

Jordan himself has a history on this. In fact, after former President Donald Trump's trade adviser Peter Navarro was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a congressional subpoena in the January 6 Select Committee investigation, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner said that the Justice Department should set its sights on another target: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

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'We were so successful': Trump dodges political violence question in Fox News town hall

Donald Trump on Wednesday refused to directly answer a question during his Fox News Iowa town hall.

Trump, who has had his ups and downs with the conservative network in the past, appeared on Fox News and was asked about a "warning" he has given about the threat of political violence.

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'I don't have vengeance': Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley pile on Trump in GOP debate

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley knocked former President Donald Trump for being morally deficient and full of vindication during the final Republican debate.

She said that the next president of the U.S. needs to have "moral clarity."

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'This could really blow up Fani Willis': Trump is reportedly seeking 'more dirt on her'

Former President Donald Trump and his legal team are currently strategizing how to weaponize currently-unproven allegations that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the election racketeering case against him in Georgia, had an improper romantic relationship with a special prosecutor in her office, reported Rolling Stone on Wednesday.

"Trumpland is already discussing different ideas for marshaling considerable resources to try and dig up even more dirt on, among other things, Willis’ 'sex life and… her money' in an effort to shut down the criminal case against the former president and his associates, says an attorney close to Trump," reported Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng. "On Monday, a lawyer for one of Trump’s co-defendants, former campaign aide Michael Roman, dropped a bombshell in the Georgia election interference case — alleging that Willis has been romantically involved with her office’s special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, who has been paid $654,000 so far for his work on the case, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution."

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GOP lawmaker who supports Biden impeachment now expressing doubt it will succeed

The lawmakers determined to open a formal Biden impeachment aren't exactly brimming with confidence.

Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), who is also a member of the Judiciary Committee, admitted as much to CNN's Manu Raju that he's sensing some reticence.

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Revealed: Trump biographer discloses threat ex-president uses when he doesn't get his way

Former President Donald Trump has a particular threatening comment that he always falls back on when he senses he's no longer able to game the system, biographer Tim O'Brien told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday evening.

This comes as the former president faces a mounting pile of legal cases, both civil and criminal, few of which appear to be going his way.

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Republicans should say if Biden can have Trump killed without facing charges: ex-GOP chair

Former President Donald Trump's campaign rivals should answer whether they agree with his attorney John Sauer's argument in the D.C. Court of Appeals that the former president couldn't have been prosecuted even for ordering the military assassination of a political opponent, as long as he was not impeached over the offense, argued former Republican Party chair Michael Steele on MSNBC Wednesday — because the obvious logical extension of this argument is that President Joe Biden couldn't be prosecuted for having Trump killed either.

This comes as Chris Christie, the only Republican presidential candidate who took it upon himself to condemn the assassination theory, dropped out of the race this evening.

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Donald Trump's controversial slavery comments reveal his secret weapon: report

Donald Trump and Nikki Haley are both GOP presidential contenders who made similarly controversial Civil War comments, but only one is paying for it, and that's because Trump has the advantage, a new report says.

Haley left slavery out of her answer when asked what caused the Civil War, and Trump suggested the Civil War should have been "negotiated," ignoring that doing so would have continued the establishment of slavery in America. These issues were essentially the same, according to a writer for The Atlantic.

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'Already sputtering': Legal experts say Trump's grievance grift is in huge trouble

Donald Trump's grievance "grift" to flush funds into his campaign coffers has already begun its whimpering end, legal experts said on MSNBC Wednesday night.

Lisa Rubin took to the airwaves to discuss an email exchange between Trump's attorney Chris Kise and Justice Arthur Engoron, the civil court judge overseeing his $370 million fraud trial who Wednesday blocked, in a testy exchange, the former president's bid to present closing arguments.

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Trump lashes out at 'mean and nasty' judge for not allowing fourth deadline extension

Donald Trump on Wednesday lashed out on his Truth Social platform against New York state Justice Arthur Engoron, who purportedly refused the former president's attorneys' request for a fourth extended deadline to accept the terms under which Trump would give closing statements at his own civil fraud trial.

"I AM HEADING TO THE GREAT STATE OF IOWA TO FULFILL A COMMITMENT MADE TO DO A BIG FOXNEWS TOWN HALL. TONIGHT, 9:00 P.M. Eastern! I WILL THEN BE FORCED TO CIRCLE BACK TO NEW YORK WHERE I WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY DO THE CLOSING ARGUMENT ON THE CIVIL TRIAL WHERE THE TRUMP HATING JUDGE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ARE WORKING CLOSELY TOGETHER TO 'SCREW ME,' EVEN THOUGH I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG," wrote Trump.

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'It's on you!' CNN host tears apart House GOPer over blame for potential shutdown

As the House falls once again into paralysis with a hard-right flank of Republican lawmakers revolting at the deal House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is reportedly nearing with President Joe Biden, one of the dissenters, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), went on CNN to defend the brinksmanship bringing the government close to a shutdown — and was grilled relentlessly by anchor Pamela Brown.

"There is a very slim majority in the House, you've got a Democrat-controlled senate and a Democratic president, this is what you have to do to get the deal done," said Brown. "What do you say to that?"

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Chris Christie caught on hot mic saying Nikki Haley is 'going to get smoked'

Chris Christie apparently had a hot mic moment Wednesday, moments before he was expected to drop out of the Republican presidential primary.

Central Valley Politics obtained the remarks from Christie's YouTube channel ahead of his Windham, New Hampshire speech.

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Experts explain why efforts to bump Trump from ballots uphold U.S. Constitution

Critics may argue moves to bump Donald Trump from state presidential ballots threaten the Constitution, but one group of legal experts say those insurrectionist challenges are the best way to uphold it.

Obama administration “ethics czar” Norm Eisen, attorney Jeff Kolb, and Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren published Wednesday their defense of the 14th Amendment challenges to the former president’s eligibility to run again in 2024.

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