Donald Trump

The Jan. 6 Committee Gets It: Trump’s Attack On The 2020 Election Wasn’t About One Day
Jan. 6 Committee Frames Attack As Result Of Months-Long Plot, Says Danger Is Ongoing
Where Things Stand: It Was A ‘Movement’ Alright
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Republicans have been putting in a lot of work today to convince you, before the Jan. 6 committee has even spoken a word this evening, that the findings are all a bunch of bs; the product of hysterical lefty Democrats being snowflakes about a few people breaking into the people’s House.

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Just Before He Swept Jan 6 Under The Rug, McCarthy Privately Warned That GOPers Can’t ‘Sweep This Under The Rug’
Judge Orders Eastman To Turn Over Emails On Potential ‘Crime,’ Secretive Group’s Meetings
Trump Pushed Secret Service To Let Him Join March To The Capitol Weeks Before Jan. 6
Where Things Stand: In Milo’s Hiring As MTG’s Intern, Viral Cruelty Remains The Point
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Yes, on its face, it is pathetic and entertaining that the once-relevant, 37-year-old far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos has been hired as an UNPAID intern for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) several years after he was sort of but not really pushed out of his gig at Steve Bannon’s Breitbart for appearing to defend pedophilia.

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Mo Brooks Pleads For Trump To Re-Endorse Him Weeks Out From Alabama Senate Runoff
Where Things Stand: The ‘Investigate The Investigators’ Conspiracy Theorist Lines Of Attack Are Falling, One Day At A Time
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Just yesterday a federal jury essentially toppled ex-President Trump’s victimhood-laced line of attack against the Russia probe when it acquitted DNC-connected lawyer Michael Sussmann.

The acquittal was a significant swing and a miss, not just for special counsel John Durham, who was handpicked by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, but for Trumpers everywhere who have built a brand off of the long-unsubstantiated belief that the Mueller probe was nothing more than a politically motivated conspiracy of the elites to undermine Trump’s legitimacy as president.

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Georgia AG Subpoenaed In Investigation Into Trump’s Election Steal Scheme
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