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BOOK: Trump Advisor Considered Faking Heart Attack To Stop Trump’s Infamous Helsinki Presser With Putin

Axios reports: The versatile Jonathan Lemire — Politico’s White House bureau chief and host of MSNBC’s “Way Too Early” — is out Tuesday with “The Big Lie,” his new book that includes this account of President Trump’s disastrous press conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018: “Fiona Hill, the senior Russia expert on the National Security Council, who was …

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Pence’s Security Detail Called Families To Say Goodbye

USA Today reports: When rioters breached the Capitol building, filling its hallways with rioters and chants to hang former Vice President Mike Pence, the Secret Service detail began “to fear for their own lives.” During the January 6 Committee’s eighth public hearing, the committee played a recorded interview with a White House security official who had access to Secret Service …

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Ivana Trump Buried On Trump’s New Jersey Golf Course

The New York Post reports: Ivana Trump was laid to rest at the bucolic Trump National Golf Club cemetery in Bedminster, New Jersey, on Wednesday, a source told The Post. The ex-wife of former President Donald Trump was buried in a rose gold-hued casket at the tony golf club — which includes a pool complex next to 17th-century farm buildings …

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Four-Star Generals Blast Trump: “Dereliction Of Duty”

From an op-ed published by the New York Times: The inquiry by the House’s Jan. 6 committee has produced many startling findings, but none to us more alarming than the fact that while rioters tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the president and commander in chief, Donald Trump, abdicated his …

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GOP Reps Applaud Pence In Person For Defying Trump

Congress Minutes reports: Mike Pence received high praise from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) for his handling of Jan. 6 when he returned to his old stomping grounds on Wednesday. According to two people in the room during Pence’s appearance at a meeting of the conservative Republican Study Committee, Roy stood to thank the former vice president for counting the votes …

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McConnell: Trump Will Face “Crowded” 2024 GOP Field

The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says former President Trump will face a lot of competition in a Republican primary if he runs for president in 2024. McConnell, who usually avoids commenting on the former president, predicted that the 2024 Republican primary won’t be a cakewalk for Trump if he runs again. “I think we’re going to …

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Joe Rogan: “Man Baby” Trump Was On Adderall In WH

Mediaite reports: Joe Rogan went after former President Donald Trump during a recent podcast episode. “He’s on Adderall,” Rogan proclaimed. “Do you think he’s on Adderall?” “Yes, I do — only because there were multiple people who used to work on The Apprentice that were like, ‘He was fucking gassed up for shoots,’” guest Tom Segura said. “I heard they …

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Ron DeSantis +22 Over Trump In New Florida Poll

Florida Politics reports: Yet another poll of the still developing 2024 race for the Republican presidential nomination shows Ron DeSantis in a strong position. A new survey from Naples-based Victory Insights shows DeSantis ahead of Donald Trump 61% to 39% when respondents leaning to one candidate or another are forced to choose. Even without the leaners, DeSantis is still above …

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Nutbag Lawyer Pitched Trump On Declaring Martial Law

The New York Times reports: Around 5 in the afternoon on Christmas Day in 2020, as many Americans were celebrating with family, President Donald J. Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., on the phone with a little-known conservative lawyer who was encouraging his attempts to overturn the election, according to a memo the lawyer later wrote …

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DeSantis Outraised Trump In First Half Of The Year

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s fundraising slowed in the first half of 2022, falling below $50 million in a six-month period for the first time since he left the White House 18 months ago. A fundraising committee that directs money to his various political groups raised $17 million in the second quarter of this year, according to …

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Medical Examiner: Ivana Trump Died As Result Of A Fall

ABC News reports: Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, died from injuries sustained as the result of a fall, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said Friday. Manhattan paramedics, responding to a call for cardiac arrest, found Ivana Trump just after 12:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the FDNY. She was pronounced dead at …

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Trump’s First Wife Ivana Trump Dies At Age 73

ABC News reports: Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 73, the family told ABC News. “Our mother was an incredible woman — a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend,” the Trump family said in a statement. “Ivana Trump was a survivor. She fled from communism …

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Trump: I Could Have Made Musk “Drop To His Knees”

The Daily Beast reports: The war of words between former President Donald Trump and Elon Musk is intensifying — and getting weirder. On Tuesday evening, Trump responded to a series of tweets the Tesla CEO had sent Monday encouraging Trump to end his political career. “I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat …

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POLL: Half Of GOP Voters Don’t Want Trump Back

The New York Times reports: By focusing on political payback inside his party instead of tending to wounds opened by his alarming attempts to cling to power after his 2020 defeat, Mr. Trump appears to have only deepened fault lines among Republicans during his yearlong revenge tour. A clear majority of primary voters under 35 years old, 64 percent, as …

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Musk: It’s Time For Trump To “Sail Into The Sunset”

Yahoo News reports: Elon Musk said on Monday it was time for Donald Trump to “hang up his hat and sail into the sunset,” days after the former U.S. President mocked the billionaire at a political rally and called him a “bullshit artist.” Writing on Twitter, Musk said, “I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang …

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Trump Ridicules “Bullshit Artist” Elon Musk [VIDEO]

Fox News reports: “I want to thank you and I want to say a big hello Anchorage, hello,” Trump started his remarks, before noting how beautiful the state was. “It is a very beautiful state of Alaska.” “Elon. Elon. Elon. He’s not going to buy Twitter,” Trump said after encouraging those in attendance to use a competing social media platform, …

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Romney: Trump’s Return Would Feed USA’s “Sickness”

Sen. Mitt Romney writes for The Atlantic: President Joe Biden is a genuinely good man, but he has yet been unable to break through our national malady of denial, deceit, and distrust. A return of Donald Trump would feed the sickness, probably rendering it incurable. Congress is particularly disappointing: Our elected officials put a finger in the wind more frequently …

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Trump Only +9 Over DeSantis In National GOP Poll

Mediaite reports: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is within single digits of ex-President Donald Trump in a new national poll, the closest he’s been in this or any other reputable poll — and that’s before Tuesday’s bombshell testimony. A sample of Republican and Republican-leaning respondents to a new Yahoo! News/YouGov poll were asked “Who would you rather see as the Republican …

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Fox Host Calls Trump’s Election Lies “Unhinged” [Video]

The Wrap reports: Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade launched an unexpected broadside at Donald Trump, calling the former president “unhinged” after the 2020 election in the period before the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Speaking on Howard Kurtz’s “Media Buzz” show on Sunday about the House Jan. 6 committee hearings, Kilmeade also rejected Trump’s repeated assertions that “he was …

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Trump Fears Roe Ruling Will Spur Backlash Against GOP

The New York Times reports: The man most responsible for shaping a United States Supreme Court that delivered the conservative movement a long-sought victory has spent weeks saying he didn’t think it will be good for his party. Publicly, after a draft of the likely decision leaked in May, former President Donald J. Trump was remarkably tight-lipped for weeks about …

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