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And their comments from April 2020 haven’t aged well.In a montage titled “This Week In COVID History,” Fox News personality Sean Hannity boasts about “inching closer and closer to beating this virus.”Then-Vice President Mike Pence claims, “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” as does then-President Donald Trump, who also says the national…

Donald Trump once flipped out during a golf fundraiser after one of John Boehner’s aides accidentally gave the wrong names for their playing partners, the former GOP House speaker recalls in his upcoming book. Trump, in the incident that took place years before his presidency, reportedly raged at Boehner’s staffer and asked if he was “some kind of…

There will be no reckoning at the Republican National Committee. Three months after former President Donald Trump helped incite a violent attack against Congress, the GOP is bringing hundreds of donors and several future presidential prospects to the former president’s doorstep in south Florida. While a handful of Republican leaders hope to move…

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The National Republican Congressional Committee is using threatening language to push Republicans into making repeat monthly donations. The NRCC, which raises money for House Republicans, warns donors against unchecking this prechecked box: NRCC The text appears on the WinRed fundraising platform. The NRCC directly links to the page from…

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and a former aide in the Trump administration, said in interviews Wednesday that he is evaluating a run for governor of New York as a Republican. Giuliani, 35, who has never held public office, told The New York Times that he was “strongly considering”…

In his opening monologue on Wednesday night, Stephen Colbert addressed the scandals engulfing Rep. Matt Gaetz, mocking a particular claim the Florida Republican made in his memoir “Fireband.”Gaetz sought to position himself as a particularly strong ally of former President Donald Trump in his book, which came out in fall 2020.“The Late Show”…

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) reportedly asked that former President Donald Trump grant him a blanket, preemptive pardon during the final days of Trump’s administration, The New York Times reported Tuesday. The publication, citing people familiar with the discussions, said the firebrand lawmaker privately asked the White House for clemency for…

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) was harshly criticized Tuesday for claiming the U.S. has a “major under-incarceration problem,” despite the country’s alarmingly large prison population and world-leading rate of imprisonment. “We have a major under-incarceration problem in America. And it’s only getting worse,” tweeted Cotton, citing a CNN article…

Things are going so well for Joe Biden that his predecessor Donald Trump has had to attack the president from a new angle.“I think other people are making most of the decisions but I may be wrong about that, I don’t know,” Trump said of Biden. “I don’t really know him very well, but to be honest with you, somebody’s making decisions.”“Now that…