In Meeting With Powerful Conservatives, DeSantis Privately Called for Google to Be ‘Broken Up’

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis has frequently railed against “Big Tech.” He has accused Google, Facebook and Twitter of silencing conservative voices.

But in private, DeSantis has gone even further.

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Thoughts And Prayers: The ‘Radical Left’ Has Infiltrated The Phone Lines Now Too

You Didn’t Hear It From Me

Donald Trump brings a sort of lather, rinse, repeat energy to his conspiracy theories that makes it super easy for his supporters to latch onto and legitimize whatever thought happens to fly out of his mouth or get posted on Truth Social first.

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Extremely Odd Bedfellows Urge Supreme Court To Issue Decision On Independent State Legislature Theory

The Supreme Court sought guidance as it asked the parties in Moore v. Harper, the term’s banner election law case, to explain what it should do with the case now that the North Carolina Supreme Court is rehearing the underlying redistricting dispute.

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Where Things Stand: I’m Sure He Will Figure Out How To Insult Me Better Soon But In The Meantime …

He’s just asking questions.

Donald Trump gave us a taste of the mess that’s to come with the 2024 GOP primaries back in February when he less-than-subtly breathed life into what was, at the time, just far-right internet trolls making vague allegations that had something to do with Ron DeSantis partying with high schoolers.

Now DeSantis is giving him a taste of his own medicine. 

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Fox, Dominion Set To Duke It Out In Court Tuesday Over 2020 Election Lies

When attorneys for Dominion Voting Systems asked NewsCorp Executive Chairman Rupert Murdoch whether Fox News “endorsed” the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, he knew exactly which talking heads were responsible.

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House GOP Use Trump’s Truth Social Conspiracy Theories To Go After Manhattan DA

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is demanding sworn testimony from the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg amid reports of a possible upcoming indictment of former President Donald Trump.

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First Look at the DeSantis/Trump Storm

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, under pressure from Trump allies, is taking his first stab at addressing the Trump indictment situation. It shows both his inevitable strategy and the inherent difficulty of the situation. He pleads little knowledge of how it works when you pay “hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just, I can’t speak to that.” But he also insists that Alvin Bragg is a “Soros-funded prosecutor and so he like other Soros funded prosecutors, they weaponize their office to impose a political agenda on society at the expense of the rule of law and public safety.” The approach isn’t surprising: Deep State/Soros yada and also did you hear he paid hush money to a porn star he had sex with?

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Trump Allies Use Expected Indictment To Try To Turn GOP Against DeSantis

Former President Donald Trump’s political allies are trying to use the possible upcoming indictment against him in the Stormy Daniels hush money case to rally the GOP against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) — increasingly the most popular roadblock in Trump’s third run for office.

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