Steve Bannon was found guilty on Friday on charges of contempt of Congress related to his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Bannon is the first Trumpworld figure to be held accountable in court for their refusal to cooperate with the panel’s investigation. The jury …
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Former President Donald Trump unleashed a frenzy of posts on Truth Social, his social media app, following the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, before the Jan. 6 Committee. The testimony revealed the chaos behind the scenes of the Trump administration in …
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A man who said he wanted to kill Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the Supreme Court justice’s home, multiple outlets reported on Wednesday. The Justice Department has now announced that Nicholas John Roske, 26, has been charged with attempted murder. Roske was apprehended on a street near Kavanaugh’s home in …
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Former Attorney General Bill Bar in late 2020 appointed John Durham to investigate whether the Justice Department’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia was, as Trump has claimed repeatedly, a fraudulent “witch hunt.” Durham hasn’t turned up much, but he did manage to get former Hillary Clinton …
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Donald Trump posted about the need for “real solutions and real leadership” on Wednesday in response to the school mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and he’ll likely make a similar call on Friday, when he travels to Houston to address the National Rifle Association. But when there was another mass …
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is putting the unconfirmed reports about her love life to rest. While speaking toInsider, the New York politician confirmed that she and her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, are engaged. “Yep! It’s true,” Ocasio-Cortez told the outlet. She latershared on Twitter, “It’s true! Thank you all for the well …
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Donald Trump helped make Rep. Madison Cawthorn a star of the MAGA movement, but now the lawmaker risks falling out of The Donald’s good graces. Just a month after he invited Cawthorn to speak at a North Carolina rally, Trump has grown increasingly annoyed and disappointed with his MAGA apprentice. …
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott is often the tip of the spear for the great conservative project in America, which makes him a good bellwether for which parts of the American system the GOP will attack next. Abbott now has his sights set on public education. The Austin American-Statesman reports that …
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Donald Trump was in Delaware, Ohio, late last month for a rally to promote his preferred candidates in the Buckeye State — most notably J.D. Vance, who on Tuesday night won the Republican Party’s nomination for U.S. Senate. Trump strayed from his prepared remarks at several points during his speech, …
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As a journalist covering QAnon and fascism in Los Angeles, I’ve seen a lot in the past couple years. I’ve seen danger and violence, heard crazy conspiracies and angry confrontations, and tracked a movement as it spirals deeper and deeper into insanity. It has worn on me, and there are …
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