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Trump May Need to Find a Less Shady Backer for His Fraud Bond

New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Friday asked the judge presiding over Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial to reject the former...

20.04.2024 50

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New Evidence Shows Matt Gaetz Might Be Skeezier Than We Thought

Matt Gaetz isn’t having a great week. It just got worse. The House Ethics Committee, which is investigating Gaetz for illegal drug use as a member...

19.04.2024 8

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If Trump’s Sitting in His Hush-Money Trial, Who the Heck Is Posting?

Donald Trump fired off an all-caps rant on Truth Social Friday about his presidential immunity Supreme Court case—despite sitting in the courtroom...

19.04.2024 4

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How Trump’s Hush-Money Trial Is Wrecking His Campaign

Donald Trump is finding campaigning for the 2024 presidential election more difficult than his last time around, and his criminal trial in Manhattan...

19.04.2024 5

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Republicans Can’t Stop Pointing Fingers Over Congressional Chaos

House Republicans are still going at it amid their continued failure to unite behind foreign aid packages. The newest target? Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, who...

19.04.2024 6

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Republicans Are Tearing Each Other to Shreds Over Foreign Aid Package

House Republicans traded personal barbs on Thursday as disagreements over foreign aid packages to Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan threaten to throw the...

19.04.2024 5

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The Shocking Reason Some Democrats Won’t Repeal a Zombie Abortion Ban

Just months away from a presidential election that could decide the future of reproductive rights, congressional Democrats and abortion rights groups...

18.04.2024 5

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What Is Marjorie Taylor Greene Thinking with These Wild Amendments?

Funding for Ukraine and Israel has been hotly contested in Congress. For Marjorie Taylor Greene, it’s just fodder for trolling. As two separate...

18.04.2024 5

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Trump Hush-Money Juror Shows Danger of Being Identified

Just days after a former federal prosecutor warned that publicizing information about potential jurors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial could put...

18.04.2024 5

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Trump Starts Day 3 of Hush Money Trial in the Trumpiest Way Possible

Donald Trump’s disregard for the law seemingly knows no bounds. His latest violation? A judge-mandated gag order. On Wednesday, Trump, facing...

18.04.2024 6

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Two Biggest Election Deniers About to Meet on “Election Integrity”

House Speaker Mike Johnson is heading to Mar-a-Lgo to meet with Donald Trump to discuss a topic with which neither is familiar: election integrity....

11.04.2024 20

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Trump’s Bond Is So Weak, Letitia James May Still Seize His Assets

Donald Trump, with the help of “the king of subprime car loans,” has posted the $175 million bond for his civil fraud case, ostensibly giving him...

10.04.2024 7

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Trump Loses Another Ally as Former CFO Sentenced to Prison

Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg, who pleaded guilty to perjury in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial, was sentenced Wednesday to five...

10.04.2024 6

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McCarthy Reveals Why He Thinks Matt Gaetz Ousted Him—and It’s Gross

Ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has a theory as to the motivation behind the motion to vacate filed by Florida Representative Matt Gaetz. And it...

10.04.2024 8

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Truth Social Losses Deal Humiliating Blow to Trump’s Biggest Brag

Donald Trump’s financial house of cards is beginning to collapse. The Republican presidential nominee, who’s made his personal wealth central to...

10.04.2024 5

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Trump’s Last-Ditch Attempt to Stop His First Criminal Trial Is Idiotic

It is the eleventh hour for Donald Trump in his bid not to stand trial in his criminal hush-money case. So he’s planning a new, frantic measure:...

09.04.2024 30

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Mark the Date! Garland’s DOJ Actually Takes a Stand on Something?

Despite threats by Representatives James Comer and Jim Jordan to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, the Department of...

09.04.2024 10

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Look Who Agrees that Republicans Are Pushing Kremlin Propaganda

A rift is emerging in the Republican Party between the pro-Russia right and a group of senior GOP Congress members warning against those pushing...

08.04.2024 5

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The Shady Company Backing Trump’s Bond Somehow Just Got Even Shadier

It’s conventional wisdom that the right wing is dominated, defined, even, by “grifters all the way down.” No big surprise, then, that the...

08.04.2024 6

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Donald Trump’s Abortion Announcement Has Pissed Everyone Off

Donald Trump on Monday publicly announced his long-awaited decision on a potential national abortion policy, satisfying no one and leaving both...

08.04.2024 7

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Pro-Trump Lawyer Can’t Stop Getting Arrested for 2020 Crimes

Michigan lawyer Stefanie Lambert unsuccessfully tried to challenge the 2020 election results in court. Now she’s appearing before a judge in another...

22.03.2024 10

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Trump Wants an Abortion Ban Based on the Weirdest Logic Ever

Donald Trump has decided on an answer to one of the signature policy questions of the 2024 election cycle. It’s simple arithmetic, at least in the...

17.02.2024 10

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Watch: Tucker Carlson Explains Why He Gave Putin a Pass on Navalny

Tucker Carlson’s latest defense of authoritarianism has already come back to haunt him. Just days before Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ...

16.02.2024 2

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Twitter Files’ Matt Taibbi Says Elon Musk Sent Him Unhinged Messages

It appears Elon Musk has turned against yet another ally in his wayward war against online censorship. On Thursday, Matt Taibbi , the Rolling...

16.02.2024 2

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GOP Senator Gives Dire Warning on Putin Apologists After Navalny Death

North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis paid tribute to Alexei Navalny after the Russian dissident died in prison Friday. “Navalny laid down his life...

16.02.2024 2

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GOP Pollster Reads Party the Riot Act Over 2024 Losses

Frank Luntz foresees disaster for Republicans if they don’t course-correct following the brutal New York special election that cost them a House...

15.02.2024 4

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What Motivates Trump’s Valentine to Melania? Take a Gue$$

14.02.2024 2

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Lara Trump Vows Oh-So-Trumpy Grift for When She Joins the RNC

Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the Trump family gravy train is running on schedule. Its next stop: the Republican National Committee. ...

14.02.2024 3

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Putin Suck-Up Watch: Tommy Tuberville Takes the Gold

Tommy Tuberville, former college football mediocrity and TNR’s Dumbest Senator of 2023 , announced himself as a contender for Congress’s...

14.02.2024 2

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GOP Congressman Accidentally Gives Real Reason for Mayorkas Impeachment

Surprise, surprise: The GOP is being disingenuous about impeachment again. Just a few years after crying foul at the “ witch hunt ”...

14.02.2024 70

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GOP Congressman Spews Racist Screed on Fall of “Western Civilization”

Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy may have stirred up disunity in the GOP earlier this year with his threats to oust House Speaker Mike...

14.02.2024 20

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Lindsey Graham Is Losing It, Starts Yelling at a Poster

Debate over the $95 billion foreign aid bill in the Senate reached the prime minister of Poland. Well, sort of. On Monday night, South Carolina...

13.02.2024 4

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Ron Johnson Says Dumb Thing Before Casting Pro-Putin Vote

The Senate early Tuesday morning passed a $95 billion aid package, which dedicated $60 billion of assistance to Ukraine—but not without...

13.02.2024 10

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Fox News Offers Bonkers Proof of Why Taylor Swift Is a Psy-op

Taylor Swift, twelve-time Grammy Award winner, Spotify’s most streamed artist in 2023, and TIME Person of the Year, can add another line to her...

11.01.2024 4

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It Never Ends With the Freedom Caucus: Mike Johnson Ouster Countdown Begins

Less than three months into Mike Johnson’s tenure as speaker of the House, some House Republicans are already experiencing buyer’s remorse. ...

09.01.2024 1

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