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'Perp walk!' Kari Lake 'looking forward' to Obama being 'sentenced to time'

Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's special advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, predicted that former President Barack Obama would be "sentenced to time" because of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

"I believe that accountability is coming," Lake told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling on Thursday. "I believe you called it perp walks. I'd like to see justice, is what I call it."

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MAGA senator shrugs after being caught violating stock trade laws for years

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) violated federal law by dodging reporting requirements for lawmakers to reveal their stock trades, according to a new report.

Mullin waited over 2 1/2 years before revealing he violated federal financial conflicts of interest disclosure laws, Dave Leventhal wrote for NOTUS.

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Alex Jones: Trump 'sources at the very top' planning to impeach Obama 'retroactively'

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed to have "sources" within President Donald Trump's administration that were orchestrating a retroactive impeachment of former President Barack Obama.

During his Thursday program, Jones encouraged his audience to urge the Trump administration to move forward with prosecutions as retaliation for the probe into Russia's election interference in 2016.

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'Sharp' appeals court judges signal Trump may lose key court battle: 'Hard for me to see'

President Donald Trump's government was in court on Thursday to defend his unilateral takeover of U.S. tariffs despite the Constitution allocating the job to Congress.

Writing for Politico, legal reporter Kyle Cheney characterized the judges as asking questions "sharply."

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Trump delivers ominous ‘arsenal’ threat over soaring drug prices: ‘Make no mistake’

President Donald Trump signed off on a series of letters Thursday to 17 American pharmaceutical companies demanding they lower drug prices for Medicaid patients within 60 days, and under threat that his administration would “deploy every tool in our arsenal” to gain compliance.

The letters were previewed on Thursday by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, shortly before Trump posted all 17 of them to social media. Sent to major pharmaceutical companies like Boehringer Ingelheim and AbbVie, Trump demanded the companies extend to Americans what’s known as "most-favored-nation" drug pricing, which would require offering drugs at prices similar to those of other nations.

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'This is not normal': Tulsi Gabbard suggests not posting on X is proof of Dem guilt

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggested that some Democrats were guilty of crimes because they had stopped using the X social media platform.

During a Thursday interview on The Blaze, host Glenn Beck noted that former Secretary of State John Kerry had made his X account private, and Democratic attorney Marc Elias had also stopped using the platform.

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'Absolutely insane': Rand Paul raises alarm by 'casually' suggesting Trump third term

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) caused a stir Thursday by entertaining President Donald Trump's suggestion that he could serve a third term.

The Kentucky Republican floated the idea, which Trump has raised in the past, discussing his opposition to a bill introduced by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses, as well as the president and vice president, from trading stock.

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'Everybody hates Trump now': Analyst pinpoints move that has sent support 'tanking'

As President Donald Trump continues to bleed Republican support, a report in The New Republic posits that his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal may prove to be too much for even his staunchest supporters.

Senior editor Alex Shephard wrote in an article titled "Everybody Hates Trump Now" that Trump's talent for collecting voters in the first place has never been about attracting them to his own groundbreaking ideas; rather, Trump identified where voters were on particular issues, then said "what other political leaders are too afraid to say."

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Army wastes fortune replacing year-old Bibles with new ones with fancy crest

It has only been a year since West Point replaced the Bibles in the academy's Cadet Chapel with "United States Military Academy West Point, New York" in gold embossing — but Army Secretary Dan Driscoll already wants new ones that include the coat of arms for the school.

Despite President Donald Trump's administration complaining of "waste, fraud and abuse" of taxpayer dollars, Driscoll is demanding the government spend $10,000 on the new Bibles to replace those from last year, Military.com reporter Steve Beynon wrote on X.

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'What did he think was going on?' Ex-prosecutor punches hole in Trump's Epstein story

Reacting to comments made by Donald Trump about Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade claimed it was legitimate to demand the president expand even more upon his relationship with the convicted child rapist.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Anna Cabrera, McQuade focused on Trump's explanation that he had a falling out with Epstein over the recruitment of Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago.

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'Him first': Trump ridiculed as he brings Presidential Fitness Test back to schools

President Donald Trump's administration has decided to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, which was given to students in American schools until 2013.

The move was instantly mocked by onlookers eager to point out that the fitness of Trump might not be something to aim for — despite the president's past brags about his health.

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‘Back off!’ GOP senators fire back at Trump after attacks on colleague

A number of prominent Senate Republicans are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s attacks on Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), telling him to “back off” his push to coerce the senator into compliance on changing a Senate tradition.

On Tuesday, Trump demanded that Grassley eliminate a Senate tradition known as the ‘blue slip,’ a tool for senators to block judicial nominees that would ultimately serve in their districts. Trump went on to reshare several posts on Truth Social labeling Grassley a “RINO,” or ‘Republican in name only,’ as well as another post suggesting Grassley “must hate America.”

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Trump freaks out that Josh Hawley bill will force him to sell Mar-a-Lago

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) proposed legislation that would restrict U.S. lawmakers from stock trading — and President Donald Trump was not happy about it.

In a committee vote Wednesday, Hawley and Democrats passed the bill out of committee, where it will hit the full Senate for a vote.

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