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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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

USA Today reports: Last week’s insult-laden House committee hearing may soon be immortalized on a hoodie or pair of socks. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, filed a trademark application Sunday for rights to the phrase “BLEACH BLONDE BAD BUILT BUTCH BODY.” Crockett hurled the alliterative insult at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Thursday during a heated House Oversight Committee session. Crockett …

The Hill reports: GOP Maryland Senate candidate and former Gov. Larry Hogan (R-Md.) has launched a new advertisement in which he says he will codify Roe v. Wade, “so every woman can make her own choice.” “As governor, I promised to uphold Maryland law on abortion, while providing over-the-counter birth control covered by insurance,” Hogan says in the ad. “And …

Law & Crime reports: At his arraignment hearing on Monday, John Banuelos of Illinois, a man accused of firing a gun into the air during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, told the presiding judge “I have nothing to worry about” because, he claimed, Donald Trump was going to be back in office in six months. The …

“Donald Trump today doubled down on his promise to leave ‘everything up to the states,’ suggesting he would allow states to have different policies on birth control and emergency contraception bans. “When a local Pittsburgh station asked Trump if he would support restrictions around contraception, he said, ‘Things really do have a lot to do with the states and some …

CBS News reports: The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is hearing arguments from both sides about what instructions he should give jurors before they begin deliberating next week. Justice Juan Merchan will craft what’s known as the jury “charge,” laying out the legal issues that jurors must consider to reach a verdict. Prosecutors and …