The Justice Department has asked the Jan. 6 committee to turn over transcripts of interviews it has conducted, signaling that Attorney General Merrick Garland’s probe into the attack on the Capitol could be intensifying. The New York Times reported the news on Tuesday, noting that the committee was made aware …
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One day before voters in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District head to the polls in a crowded GOP primary, former President Donald Trump reiterated his support for scandal-ridden incumbent Madison Cawthorn. The show of support comes a week after Rolling Stone reported that Trump has been “totally weirded out” by …
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Elise Stefanik is the third-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives. She is a member of the party’s leadership, in other words, elevated last year by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. She’s also one of a growing contingent of conservatives who have brushed up against the “great replacement” conspiracy theory, a …
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A “good guy with a gun” tried to stop the massacre at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, but was foiled by the assailant’s bulletproof vest and helmet. When an 18-year-old began his alleged white supremacist rampage Saturday afternoon, a security guard employed by the market, former policeman Aaron Salter, shot at …
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Just three days before the May 17 primary in Pennsylvania to decide the Republican candidate for governor, Donald Trump announced his endorsement of frontrunner Doug Mastriano, a far-right state senator who has backed the former president’s election claims and even attended the Jan. 6 rally outside the Capitol. “There is …
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Stewart Rhodes is comparing the U.S. Justice Department to Nazis, and denouncing the prosecution of Jan. 6 defendants as “a war against the entire MAGA movement,” an offensive he claims seeks to render Donald Trump ineligible for a 2024 presidential bid. The Oath Keepers founder spoke out in a recorded …
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Donald Trump’s media company is now hiring for its upcoming streaming television service, posting an ad on job sites for creators looking to help produce Trump’s MAGAfied answer to Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+. In the ad posted Wednesday, the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) announced it was looking for …
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The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis has found that major U.S. meat processors made “baseless” claims about meat shortages in order to convince the Trump administration to issue an executive order to keep plants operating as Covid-19 was ravaging the nation in the spring of 2020. “Meatpacking companies …
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Jim Pillen won Nebraska‘s stacked Republican primary for governor on Tuesday, defeating Charles Herbster — the Donald Trump-backed candidate whose campaign was marred by sexual assault allegations. Herbster, an agriculture industry CEO known for wearing a large cowboy hat, has been accused of sexual misconduct by eight women. One of …
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise that as the Capitol Police were clearing out Congress following the attack on the Capitol last Jan. 6, Lindsey Graham‘s mind was on politics. The senator from South Carolina was thinking specifically about how the riot could rally the nation, and who the best …
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