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Critics rip No Labels as useful idiots for Trump campaign

No Labels have been around since 2010, describing its outlook as "bipartisan" and helping found the centrist House Problem Solvers Caucus in 2017. Along the way, No Labels' supporters have included a combination of Blue Dog Democrats, non-MAGA Republicans and independents.

But in 2023, No Labels has received some scathing criticism from Never Trump conservatives who are supporting President Joe Biden in the 2024 election — most notably, The Lincoln Project, whose Rick Wilson has slammed it as being a group of useful idiots for the Donald Trump campaign. Wilson considers Trump a dangerous, corrupt authoritarian and has been warning that No Labels could help him win in 2024 if it runs a third-party presidential candidate.

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Trump's plan to kill 'Deep State' could be about to get a Supreme Court boost

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that, according to Forbes, could have broad implications about federal power — and help former President Donald Trump pursue his agenda of turning the government into his own personal army.

The basic upshot of the Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy is that "hedge fund manager George Jarkesy is challenging the SEC’s authority to have disputes heard by administrative law judges, after an administrative law judge found him guilty of committing securities fraud," the report explained.

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Harpooning a tycoon: Bank exec tells N.Y. trial of ‘whale hunting’ for Trump business

A Deutsche Bank executive testified in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial that she tried to harpoon the real estate tycoon, financially speaking, according to reports.

Managing director Rosemary Vrablic detailed her efforts to secure a deal with a “very high net-worth individual,” the former President, the Messenger reports.

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‘How fascists act’: Trump slammed for demanding Biden weaponize government to help him

Overnight, amid a flurry of social media posts, Donald Trump demanded President Joe Biden weaponize the federal government to "come down hard" on a news media outlet to benefit the indicted ex-president's 2024 political campaign. While attacking the press is part of Trump's regular tactics, this time he's getting widely criticized for his thinly-veiled threat he will do what he's demanding of Biden if he retakes the White House.

The First Amendment is clear, and numerous rulings have shown the federal government cannot censor or dictate how or what the free press reports. It can, and has, asked for coverage of a story, and can direct a news outlet's attention to an issue, but it cannot stop the media from reporting on a presidential candidate.

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'Was Kevin McCarthy going to breastfeed him?' The View mocks 'Trump isn't eating' story

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has revealed new stories about Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy in her new book — and the co-hosts of "The View" are loving every word.

According to Cheney, when Trump left the White House and returned to Mar-a-Lago after his 2020 election loss, he was "depressed" and "wasn't eating." McCarthy (R-CA) rushed to the Florida estate, where he took a photo with the former president despite previously saying it was time for the GOP to move on from Trump.

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'These losers have fought me from 2016': Furious Trump lashes out as Koch backs opponent

Billionaire Charles Koch and the political network he finances endorsed Nikki Haley for the Republican nomination Tuesday — and Donald Trump is furious.

Taking to his Truth Social platform Wednesday, the former president hit out at the politically involved billionaire family which used to be supportive of him.

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Trump hush money case remains under veil of secrecy — and his lawyers aren't happy: report

The New York district attorney is desperately trying to keep Michael Cohen's name out of the court filings involving the Stormy Daniels hush money scandal. In fact, he wants to keep the adult film star's name out, too.

The Daily Beast obtained a court filing from last month which showed redactions that try to keep the identities of "Lawyer A" and "Woman 2" under wraps.

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'Trump being Trump': Analyst lays into GOPers trying to brush off 'antidemocratic plans'

As Donald Trump's GOP nomination begins to look an almost certainty, he's not making any attempt to hide that he's "increasingly embracing autocratic language and ideas," columnist Robin Abcarian writes in The Los Angeles Times.

But the big problem, she said, comes from the people who keep brushing that off as "Trump being Trump."

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'Incredibly stupid campaign': Analyst sees Trump blowing lead by repeating past mistakes

Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden are apparently locked in a tight race with a year to go until the election — but, according to an analyst, Trump is set to blow it by repeating mistakes.

Salon writer Amanda Marcotte said he's beginning to revisit policies that cratered his approval when he was in the White House and in the days after he left — and it's reminding voters why they kicked him out in 2020.

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Trump issues ominous threat: 'Biden should stop his Thugs before it's too late for him'

Donald Trump issued an ominous threat against President Joe Biden over his ongoing criminal prosecutions.

The former president has been charged in four jurisdictions on 91 felony charges and has already been found liable for fraud and sexual abuse, and on Wednesday morning Trump issued what could be interpreted as a violent threat against Biden and the rest of his political opponents.

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Busted: Newly unveiled recording blows up key Trump defense at fraud trial

At his civil fraud trial in New York, former President Donald Trump tried to distance himself from past financial statements that improperly tripled the size of his personal penthouse in Trump Tower.

Specifically, Trump tried to claim that he had nothing to do with that gross overvaluation of his own property and he instead tried to pin the blame on others within the Trump Organization for the error.

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Trump's campaign tributes to MAGA rioters play right into Jack Smith's hands: report

Former President Donald Trump has taken to openly embracing people who violently stormed the Capitol on his behalf, even going so far as to record a song with some of the jailed rioters.

However, the Associated Press reports that this could cost the former president in the courtroom.

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'This isn't hearsay': Legal expert shows how Liz Cheney's book might hurt Trump at trial

Two days after the election, Trump reportedly knew he had lost. And his private whisperings could come back to bite him.

In former Rep. Liz Cheney's book “Oath and Honor,” she describes how then Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) informed her only two days after Election Day in 2020 that Trump conceded privately that he lost the election.

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