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Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'Our own voters don't even want to vote for Republicans'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) complained that her voters no longer want to vote for Republicans because they are not radical enough.

"We're literally losing our country and our children's future," Greene told right-wing podcast host Charlie Kirk on Tuesday. "And I believe that we should be standing up with everything we have in Congress fighting the Biden administration because our own voters don't even want to vote for Republicans in Congress anymore."

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GOP candidate says Trump puts allegiance to him above winning elections: new book

Jonathan Karl's new book, "Tired of Winning," tells the story of former U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick, who narrowly lost to Dr. Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania primary after Donald Trump endorsed the TV doc and attacked McCormick.

The backstory of that is that McCormick hired several Trump loyalists for his campaign and went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring. But, when he arrived, he was asked about an interview he gave to Bloomberg after the Jan. 6 attack, Karl wrote.

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Powell and Ellis deposition videos were leaked to intimidate witnesses: Fani Willis

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on Tuesday alleged that video depositions of former Trump lawyers Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell had been leaked to the press as a form of witness intimidation.

The Washington Post reports that Willis' office is asking the judge overseeing its sprawling racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and his allies to issue an "emergency" protective order over discovery materials to prevent further leaks.

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Trump allies demand criminal probe of Michael Cohen after trial testimony: report

Two House allies of former President Donald Trump called on Attorney General Merrick Garland Tuesday to launch a criminal probe into Michael Cohen after he testified against his former boss in the New York fraud trial, according to a new report.

House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Mike Turner demanded Garland investigate Cohen for lying under oath to Congress about the former president's business dealings, NBC News reports.

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'Fascism is pain': Writer says Trump is gaining from the crises bombarding U.S. electorate

Democrats are growing increasingly worried about President Joe Biden's popularity as polls show declining support for him, while Donald Trump escalates his rhetoric against his political opponents and government entities who are prosecuting him.

According to Salon's Chauncey Vega, the result of "seemingly never-ending and simultaneous crises" is an "American people who are uncertain, discontent, and feeling weathered."

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‘Actual incitement’: Former DOJ official warns on Trump’s latest post

A former top U.S. Dept. of Justice official issued a warning on one of Donald Trump's latest social media posts, saying it is an "actual incitement to break the law," and "it greatly endangers" the judge and attorney general in his New York State civil business fraud case.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump reposted another user's post that reads, in all-caps: "My fantasy," and then: "I would like to see Lititia [sic] James and Judge Engoron placed under citizens arrest for blatant election interference and harassment."

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'Holy cats, Trump is done': Republican responds to new evidence in Fani Willis case

A former Republican lawmaker says ex-President Donald Trump "is done" after Jenna Ellis admitted to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigators that she was told he wouldn't leave the White House, despite having lost the 2020 election.

"Holy cats," wrote former U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), "Trump is done."

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Alyssa Farah Griffin reveals Mark Meadows told her Trump wasn't leaving the White House

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin confirmed Tuesday that she was told while working as a White House aide that Donald Trump wasn't going to leave after 2020.

Trump's former lawyer Jenna Ellis revealed in an interview to the Fulton County district attorney's office — revealed by ABC News Monday — that an excited White House aide had told her that they weren't leaving on Jan. 20 when Joe Biden was inaugurated.

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Steve Bannon confirms official plans for 'Trump Davidians' cult merchandise

Right-wing podcast host Steve Bannon confirmed on Tuesday that he plans to sell merchandise promoting a "Trump Davidians" movement.

ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl first reported on MSNBC that Bannon planned to sell swag with the "Trump Davidians" logo. The slogan refers to the Branch Davidian religious cult that had a deadly standoff with ATF agents in 1993.

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Memo from Trump's body man convinced him Pence could overturn 2020 result: new book

Jonathan Karl's new book, "Tired of Winning," reveals how Donald Trump used junior, inexperienced staffers to come up with his legal strategies.

Reports surfaced this week, before the book was published at midnight Tuesday, that Trump's body man, Johnny McEntee, was handed the power to hire and fire based on his loyalty.

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Trump second term would leave Constitution and rule of law a 'dead letter': columnist

Former President Donald Trump's plans for a second term would go far beyond the boundaries of normal presidential behavior, warned columnist Jamelle Bouie in The New York Times — indeed, he wrote that his goals are designed to transform American democracy into a strongman regime.

This comes amid a number of reports that show Trump is planning to remake the civil service in his image, with the help of legacy far-right think tanks like the Heritage Foundation as his recruiter — and as he is telegraphing his plans to root out his political critics, whom he dehumanized as "vermin" in a recent speech.

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'Could sink us in 2024': Trump allies want him to force out 'ineffective' RNC chair

After crushing losses across multiple states in last week's elections, Republican operatives are now urging former President Donald Trump to lean on Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel until she resigns.

According to CNBC, an ouster of McDaniel would be unlikely without a push from Trump as she was reelected to another two-year term in her position in January. Bur reportedly there are efforts within the Republican Party to force the RNC chairwoman's resignation ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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Sidney Powell: Trump trusted me because 'everybody else was telling him to pack up and go'

Former President Donald Trump's ex-legal adviser Sidney Powell had a simple explanation for Georgia prosecutors trying to figure out why the former president listened to her — even as she pushed bizarre conspiracy theories and claimed she could time travel and talk to the wind.

According to The Washington Post, she told attorneys working for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis that Trump ignored White House counsel and listened to her instead “because we were the only ones willing to support his effort to sustain the White House. I mean, everybody else was telling him to pack up and go.”

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