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Marjorie Taylor Greene has a notorious reputation for a lot of things, but not her ability to sus out clearly bogus internet hoaxes. The Georgia congresswoman on Monday shared a video purporting to show a mother walking into her son’s classroom, tearing down a Pride flag, and arguing with the …

A Texas sheriff with links to the Oath Keepers has been convicted of “official oppression” for the mistreatment of detainees in his jail in 2021, one of whom allegedly staged a suicide attempt. Jeffery C. Lyde is the suspended sheriff of Clay County, a rural area of North Texas near …

A former aide to Donald Trump has reportedly revealed to prosecutors that the former president regularly used classified documents to write out to-do lists for assistants. According to ABC News Molly Michael, who worked as an assistant to Trump between 2018 and 2022, revealed to federal investigators that Trump repeatedly …

When Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked Donald Trump if he ever worries about “going to jail” for the crimes he’s been charged with, the former president claimed he is too busy thinking about “making the country great, making America great” to even consider it. “No, I don’t really. …

Donald Trump told so many lies during his Meet the Press interview that aired Sunday that NBC released a lengthy fact check chronicling his numerous mistruths. He claimed that bacon prices have increased five fold (they have not), that the 2020 election was “rigged” (there is no evidence of this), …

Rep. Lauren Boebert addressed the incident where she was kicked out of a Denver performance of the musical Beetlejuice, claiming in an interview with One America News that she was removed from the theater for being “a little too eccentric.” That’s certainly one way of framing it. Theater surveillance footage …

Fully one-third of U.S. states have election deniers in some of the highest positions overseeing elections. That’s according to a new report from States United Democracy Center highlighted by Mother Jones. Although many election deniers lost their races in the 2022 midterms, States United, a non-partisan organization, found that a …

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was acquitted on Saturday of corruption charges, following an articles of impeachment trial which included misconduct, bribery, and corruption allegations. In May, his fellow party members voted to impeach him, concluding he may have committed numerous crimes and that he abused his position to …

The Department of Justice argued in April to keep former President Donald Trump in the dark regarding a warrant for the contents of his Twitter account, out of fear that Trump’s reaction to the search could “precipitate violence” against law enforcement, Politico reported on Friday. Newly unsealed court filings reveal …

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan warned Donald Trump in August that she would not tolerate any actions that could be perceived as witness intimidation by the former president in his 2020 election meddling case. She’s now considering a motion for a partial gag-order on Trump’s public statements. According to …