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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

The Hollywood Reporter reviews the coming Trump biopic: Liberals will see it as a stomach-churning making-of-a-monster account while the MAGA faithful might conceivably misconstrue it as an endorsement of their guy, who has made the killer instinct his brand. That’s not to say the movie’s political sympathies are unclear. But if the Trump years have taught us anything, it’s that …

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Menendez Jurors See Photos Of $480K In Stashed Cash

The New York Post reports: It’s a “boot-load” of cash. New photos shown at Sen. Bob Menendez’s federal bribery trial reveal over $600,000 in cash and gold bars stashed around his cluttered New Jersey home — including a stack of bills stuffed inside a Timberland boot. Jurors at the Menendez trial, which began last week in Manhattan federal court, were …

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Trump Attacks Ethnicity Of Judge: “Just Look At Him”

Mediaite reports: Donald Trump once again attacked Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan. This time, he urged those watching to “take a look at where” the Colombia-born Merchan “comes from.” “The judge hates Donald Trump,” the former president insisted. “Just take a look. Take a look at him. Take a look at …

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GOP Rep. Greg Murphy Discloses Tumor In His Skull

CNN reports: GOP Rep. Greg Murphy announced on Tuesday that he has a likely benign tumor in the base of his skull and will be absent from Congress as he undergoes surgery. His absence further narrows House Speaker Mike Johnson’s historically thin majority to 216 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the chamber — though impending special elections should help extend …

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On Sale Today: New Book By Ali Forney Center Founder

Back in February, I reported that Ali Forney Center founder Carl Siciliano had penned a coming book and today it has gone on sale. From the Penguin Random House press release: Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney—a Black nonbinary teenager overflowing with life—in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old and …

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Trump’s Extremist “Meme Team” Behind “Reich” Video, Wasn’t “Random Online Account Reposted By Staffer”

Media Matters reports: After former President Donald Trump posted a video mentioning a “unified Reich,” his campaign blamed a “random account” but left out that the account is seemingly part of a pro-Trump “meme team” that has ties to the campaign and is apparently led by Brenden Dilley, a podcaster who regularly spews extreme and hateful rhetoric on his online …

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Smartmatic: Newsmax Deleted Evidence In Our Lawsuit

NBC News reports: Smartmatic alleges that Newsmax has destroyed evidence in the voting machine company’s lawsuit against the right-wing news channel over false claims that Smartmatic helped “rig” the 2020 election, according to court documents made public this week. Lawyers for Florida-based Smartmatic allege that Newsmax engaged in a “cover-up” by destroying texts and emails of key executives that would …

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Docs Found In Trump’s Bedroom Months After Search

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s attorneys found classified documents in his bedroom four months after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, per court documents unsealed Tuesday. The judge wrote in an 87-page opinion that, “Notably, no excuse is provided as to how the former president could miss the classified-marked documents found in his own bedroom at Mar-a-Lago.” A witness scanned the contents …

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Junior Blames “Clown” Jurors For Daddy Not Testifying

“Why would you justify this insanity? Look at the clowns that they put on there — you don’t subject yourself to that nonsense. You are going into a kangaroo court. There’s nothing more. Nothing less. There’d be absolutely no reason, no justification to do that whatsoever.” – Donald Trump Jr., responding to MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard asking why Trump has …

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Quid Pro Quo: Big Oil Execs To Host Trump Fundraiser

The New York Times reports: Tomorrow’s private luncheon to benefit MAGA Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, comes about a month after Mr. Trump hosted energy executives over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Florida. He asked them to donate $1 billion to his campaign so that he could retake the White House and dismantle Mr. Biden’s climate regulations, including the …

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