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Reuters reports: Two days after a man called in a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, she was targeted by a second “swatting” attempt on New Year’s Day, this time by someone who said Haley had shot her daughter, according to an incident report seen by Reuters. A Charleston County sheriff’s deputy responded …

Raw Story reports: The newly-elected Arizona Republican Party chair, Gina Swoboda, proudly told longtime Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon on his “war room” show that the former president personally urged her to run for the position and vowed to continue pushing lawsuits on his behalf to restrict access to voting in Arizona. In response to Bannon asking her how she …

Mediaite reports: Newsmax staffers received a memo on Monday morning alerting them to a mandatory and company-wide sexual harassment training, just months after a sexual harassment scandal involving a top executive rocked the conservative cable news outlet. The training, which will run for an entire week in February, comes after Mediaite reported in November on allegations against Newsmax vice president …

Mediaite reports: On Monday morning, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy waded into the world of sports commentary by predicting that the upcoming Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers would be rigged for the former in order to set the table for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s endorsement of President Joe Biden this fall. Ramaswamy posited …

CNN reports: In the wake of the 2020 election, the president of the far-right network One America News sent a potentially explosive email to former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, with a spreadsheet claiming to contain passwords of employees from the voting technology company Smartmatic, according to court filings. The existence of the spreadsheet was recently disclosed by Smartmatic, which …

The Messenger reports: “Don’t mess with Texas,” the state’s Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ominously warned Sunday in a message directed at President Joe Biden in a clash over border control. “We believe constitutionally we are right. We have a right to defend our citizens. We have a right to defend this country,” Patrick said on Sunday Morning Futures when …

“The senators are really good at spinning a story to make themselves look good. What I would say is that I always look for someone who’s willing to take action and President Biden has all the authority he needs to take action today. “And you’d have Republicans coming down to the White House asking that to be partners on fixing …

“It’s definitely not going to let a bunch of people in. It’s focused on actually turning people around on it. It is interesting, Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel and for our southern border because we demanded changes in policy. “So we actually locked arms together and said, ‘We’re not going to give you …

Tulsa’s ABC affiliate reports: The Oklahoma Republican Party approved a resolution Saturday condemning and censuring Sen. James Lankford. OKGOP State Committee members passed the resolution disapproving of Lankford’s work to pass a bipartisan border deal. The resolution, which was posted on social media by state Sen. Dusty Deevers, said the Oklahoma Republican Party will cease all support for Lankford until …

Axios reports: House Republicans unveiled articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday morning, blaming him for the surge in illegal border crossings and fentanyl trafficking. The House Homeland Security committee will consider the impeachment articles Tuesday morning, and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has promised a floor vote “as soon as possible” after that. They assert Mayorkas …

The Messenger reports: Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro complained about his recent four-month prison sentence, calling it a “death sentence” for someone his age. “They even want to put me in prison before I can have my appeal in this case,” Navarro griped to Sean Hannity Friday evening on Fox News. “They want Trump in prison and out of …

Politico reports: Former GOP House chair Liz Cheney on Saturday accused her successor Elise Stefanik of deleting a press release from 2021 condemning protesters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. In Stefanik’s 2021 press release, she condemned the “violence and destruction” of Jan. 6 and called for the perpetrators to be prosecuted. Stefanik has since downplayed the significance of …

Florida Politics reports: CFO Jimmy Patronis seems to believe Gov. Ron DeSantis wasn’t fully informed before his veto threat against legislation that would have slotted $5 million of state dollars to a former President’s much-needed legal defense. To that end, Patronis seeks a “dialogue” about proposals which would provide up to $5 million from a fund that gives public money …

Reuters reports: Authorities responded to a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley last month after a man claimed to have shot a woman and threatened to harm himself at her home, according to town records obtained by Reuters. The previously unreported “swatting” incident is among a wave of violent threats, bomb scares and …

Fox News reports: Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was caught on video attempting to dance “La Macarena” at a party in Spain with the duo who made the song infamous, Los del Rio. After her meeting in Madrid with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, Clinton traveled to Seville to attend a party in her honor …

Bridge Michigan reports: Donald Trump on Friday recognized Pete Hoekstra as chair of the Michigan Republican Party, throwing his political weight behind the former ambassador amid an ongoing leadership dispute. The support for Hoekstra by the former president doesn’t settle the dispute but puts significant pressure on Kristina Karamo to relinquish her claim to the post three weeks after critics …

ESPN reports: Vince McMahon, who co-founded the modern WWE in 1982, has resigned from his role as TKO executive chairman and from his position on the TKO board of directors, he said in a statement provided to ESPN on Friday night. McMahon, 78, leaves the publicly traded company — which was formed when UFC merged with WWE last year — …

“The judge is a disgrace to the greatest court in America. He’s telling a lawyer what questions to ask. That’s totally ridiculous. He won’t let him defend himself. First of all, he was found not guilty– or not liable for rape. It was sexual assault, not rape. And second, you can be guilty of rape, and still, a person can …

“I believe that this is a very coordinated thing. Somebody must be coordinating this. This means that this weaponized government doesn’t just intend to destroy your career and cancel you on social media, they mean to impoverish you and destroy any opportunity you have in the future. “This is a make it or break it time for the United States …

The Washington Post reports: Mace was so angry at Trump during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that she discussed with aides the prospect of confronting the rioters so she could get punched and become the face of anti-Trump Republicans, according to former staffers familiar with the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of …