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She also jabbed the former president for “helping me sell more books” since excerpts were quoted extensively in the $100 million lawsuit he filed earlier this week over the tax records she provided to The York Times, which produced a Pulitzer Prize-winning series about them.“Should I be angry, or should I send him flowers for selling more books for…

Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan (R) blasted Donald Trump in a searing CNN opinion piece Friday, comparing the former president to the devil, “looking for a party’s soul to steal.” Duncan referred to the late Southern rocker Charlie Daniels’ song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” ahead of Trump’s rally in the state this weekend. Duncan…

The FBI has arrested a staffer from the conservative organization FreedomWorks in connection with the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol, when rioters overran the building in support of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Brandon Prenzlin, who until this week was a grassroots coordinator at…

The House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has issued subpoenas to four individuals with close ties to former President Donald Trump. On Thursday, the panel demanded documents and testimony from former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former Trump social media chief Dan Scavino, former Defense…

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a graphic on Thursday showing a rise in murders in 2020 and blamed it on Joe Biden, who became president in 2021. “The U.S. murder rate under Joe Biden...” she wrote, alongside a graphic showing a nearly 30% spike in murders last year, when she was a spokesperson for then-President Donald…

“Now, let me get this straight. Flynn claims that the government’s plan is to sneak the vaccines into American food and their chosen vessel is salad. Really?” Colbert said of the theory that Donald Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, a QAnon believer, riffed on during an internet show this week.“You might wanna put it into…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) dismissed Donald Trump as “a fading brand” in a conversation with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in the weeks following President Joe Biden’s inauguration, according to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book “Peril.” “There is a clear trend moving forward. Sucking up to…

Texas election officials said Thursday night they were auditing the 2020 results in four large counties hours after former President Donald Trump, continuing to falsely claim the election was stolen, pressed Republican Gov. Greg Abbott for a ballot review. Trump won Texas last year by 5.5 percentage points, the closest margin of victory by a GOP…

More than 100 businesses and three dozen individuals have accepted $21 million and counting from Donald Trump’s political committees to help spread his lies about a “stolen” 2020 election — even after the Jan. 6 insurrection he incited to overthrow American democracy. The business payments from Trump’s Save America “leadership” committee and…

Legal experts mocked Donald Trump’s lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, The New York Times and three of its reporters on Tuesday and explained why it’s a dud.“Yeah, I’m going to go out on a limb and say this isn’t going anywhere,” Neal Katyal, who served as acting solicitor general in the Obama White House, told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on…