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Jimmy Kimmel blasted Donald Trump’s return to the rally circuit over the weekend, but the late night host did find one area of agreement with the former president.Trump complained that the media won’t cover his 2020 election fraud claims, which many refer to as his big lie. “The Big Lie is a lot of bullshit, that’s what it is,” Trump said. “Yeah,”…

Donald Trump-devoted Republicans were slammed for hypocrisy for their tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the MLK Day holiday on Monday.House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) Rep. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.), and former White House press secretaries Kayleigh McEnany (now a Fox News host)…

Right-wing extremist Steve Bannon again promoted a plot Saturday to “decertify” America’s’ choice for president in what Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) warned could be democracy’s “endgame.”Bannon claimed on his podcast that the reason for Trump’s rally in Arizona Saturday was to pressure the state legislature to decertify President Joe Biden’s…

Should former President Donald Trump run for the White House again, an obscure Reconstruction-era law could keep him off the ballot in six southern states, including North Carolina, Georgia and Florida, because of his incitement of the Jan. 6 insurrection.The third section of the 14th Amendment prohibits people who swore to defend the Constitution,…

Former President Donald Trump and his administration demonstrated “unprecedented” engagement in the census process in a brazen bid for Republican political gain, according to a newly released memo written by a frustrated Census Bureau official.The scathing memo from September 2020 appeared to be written by Census Bureau Deputy Director Ron Jarmin…

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported this week that Donald Trump’s allies sent the government fake second sets of Electoral College documents in 2020 that falsely declared the then-president to be the recipient of the states’ electors.“It wasn’t one state, it wasn’t three states where they did this — it was at least five states where we have now obtained…

The Republican National Committee wants out of bipartisan presidential debates, and critics had thoughts.On Thursday, the RNC threatened to bar Republicans from election-year debates in a letter that Chair Ronna McDaniel sent to the nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.Democratic National Committee Chair Jaime Harrison led the criticism,…

The Washington Post tore into House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) refusal to cooperate with a House select committee’s investigation into the U.S. Capitol riot.In an editorial published Thursday, the newspaper said the probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on Congress by a violent mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters was…

Graham, during a widely ridiculed interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday, declared that “if you want to be a Republican leader in the House or the Senate, you have to have a working relationship” with Trump.On Thursday, “Deadline: White House” host Wallace ripped Graham for worshiping Trump and throwing McConnell “under the bus.” Graham…

Rep. John Katko, a moderate Republican from central New York, announced his plans to retire on Friday, further highlighting the political price paid by Republicans who broke with former President Donald Trump.Katko, who faced a primary challenge from Andrew McCarthy, a more pro-Trump Republican, is the third of 10 Republican members of the U.S.…