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Charges against Trump Organization expected as soon as next week
The Manhattan DA's office notified the ex-president's lawyers of forthcoming criminal charges against the Trump Organization related to "fringe benefits the company awarded a top executive."
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Parkland shooting victim's parents dupe former NRA president into giving "graduation" speech in gun violence prevention video
Former NRA President David Keene, tricked into giving a fake graduation speech for a high school that does not exist, rehearsed his speech in front of thousands of empty chairs, each representing a life lost to gun violence in the US from this year's graduating class of seniors.
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Manchin makes STUNNING move on For The People Act
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa!
Justice Department suing Georgia, says state's new voting law targets Black voters
The lawsuit marks the first major action from the Biden administration to combat a series of new restrictive voting measures passed by Republican-led state legislatures. And it came on the eighth anniversary of the US Supreme Court decision to gut another key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 5.
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AOC blasts Republicans for wasting time and "negotiating in bad faith" on bipartisan infrastructure deal
"Wow, who could have possibly predicted that Senate Republicans were wasting months of a Dem majority's precious time negotiating in bad faith just to suddenly renege on a bipartisan agreement w/ new, mercurial demands after doing exactly the same w the Jan 6th commission," the New York lawmaker wrote.
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Video shows GOP Rep. comparing Democrats to Nazis: "They want to destroy the country"
Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry gave an extended tirade that argued Democrats are disloyal, unpatriotic, dangerous traitors to America and urged his followers to "go fight them."
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Trump White House aides drafted proclamation on Insurrection Act amid Floyd protests
White House aides put together the proposed proclamation on June 1, 2020, the same day that protesters were violently cleared from Lafayette Park so Trump could hold up a Bible in front of St. John's Church and declare himself the "law and order" president.
Trump says Wisconsin GOP leaders will be "run out of office" for not backing election audit
The disgraced ex-president warned that state leaders would be "primaried" if they do not give in to his demands for a new audit of his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
Officer injured in MAGA riot at US Capitol asks GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy to disavow GOP lies and conspiracies about the attack
Michael Fanone, who was badly injured on January 6 and has been on a mission to meet with Republicans in the aftermath of the attack, met with McCarthy on Friday afternoon and indicated he was not satisfied with the GOP leader's response, saying that McCarthy told him he would address the matter privately with his caucus.
Man hoping to unseat Liz Cheney says he pretended to support QAnon to discredit media
It is not clear why Miller believes that clearly professing his own support for the conspiracy theory, which falsely claims that Trump is involved in a secret war against a cabal of Satanic Democrats involved in child sex trafficking, would expose bias on the part of others.
Florida cracks down on Sidney Powell and Michael Flynn’s "deceptive" fundraising
A nonprofit run by "Kraken" lawyer Sidney Powell, pardoned felon and former National Security Advisor Gen. Michael T. Flynn, and Flynn’s brother Joseph just got hit with a formal administrative complaint by Florida’s statewide charity regulator.
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