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Salt Lake City’s Fox affiliate reports: A suspect shot and killed by FBI agents early Wednesday in Provo was connected to alleged threats against President Joe Biden and other officials. The FBI says its agents were attempting to serve arrest and search warrants in Provo when they shot and killed a suspect, now identified as Craig Deleeuw Robertson, at around …

First, a reminder from December 2022: Brandon Straka filed a defamation suit against MSNBC, Chris Hayes, and Ari Melber today and stated this is just the “first in a strategic string of lawsuits” he will be filing against various media outlets and individuals for egregiously malicious and untruthful reporting about the details of his misdemeanor charge related to the 8 …

Axios reports: Former Arizona GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake is staffing up for a Senate campaign in anticipation of an October launch, making Arizona ground zero to replay — and relitigate — GOP losses in the last two elections. A potential three-way battle, with Sen. Kyrsten Sinema running as an independent, will expose deep divisions in both parties on whether …

The Miami Herald reports: A federal judge issued arrest warrants this month for two people living in the Florida Keys who the FBI said participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.  Bryan Roger Bishop, 51, is accused of spraying a chemical irritant in the face of two Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department officers. He faces several …

“So you stated in your speech at the TPUSA conference that the Democratic Party used to have loving Americans, but has now been hijacked by Marxist lunatics. “You also went on to say that what we have today is not a fight between Republicans and Democrats, but a fight between good and evil, dark and light, and the godly against …

Politico reports: Special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of efforts by Donald Trump and others to subvert the 2020 election remains ongoing — with at least one interview this week that focused on fundraising and spending by Trump’s political action committee. In a closed-door interview on Monday with Bernard Kerik, investigators asked multiple questions about the Save America PAC’s enormous fundraising …

The Hill reports: Fox News’s Jesse Watters said Monday that former President Trump would “immediately” violate a possible protective order that special counsel Jack Smith requested a federal judge issue last week. “I’m sure he’ll violate it immediately,” Watters said on Fox’s “The Five.” “He will, and he’ll dare the judge to do something about it.” Smith appealed to the …

The Arizona Republic reports: Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan is trying to keep secret more than 1,600 texts he exchanged with a Michigan lawyer who was indicted on charges of illegally accessing voting machines as part of a plot to overturn 2020 election results. Logan sent and received nearly 2,400 texts with Stefanie Lambert, more than any other person he …

The Texas Tribune reports: Attorneys for suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a flurry of motions over the weekend that seek to dismiss additional articles of impeachment, arguing that the allegations are baseless or fall under the legitimate duties of the attorney general’s office. Paxton’s team also downplayed the severity of the accusations against him — including those surrounding his …

USA Today reports: Members of the white supremacist organization Patriot Front have filed a federal lawsuit against a leftist activist, claiming he infiltrated their group and revealed their identities as members. The activist’s “doxxing” of the four plaintiffs as members of Patriot Front cost them their jobs, incomes and relationships with family members, the lawsuit claims. Filed in federal court …

The Insider reports: Rudy Giuliani, the man who defined 9/11-era Manhattan before descending to ignominy as Donald Trump’s election-denying personal lawyer, has listed his Upper East Side apartment for $6.5 million. The listing by Sotheby’s Realty, posted during the final week of July, makes no mention of the property’s owner, or the fact that it was the site of a …

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, an architect of Donald Trump’s last-ditch efforts to subvert the 2020 election, is asking a California judge to postpone disbarment proceedings lodged against him, saying he’s increasingly concerned he’s about to be criminally charged by special counsel Jack Smith. “[R]ecent developments in the investigation have renewed and intensified [Eastman’s] concerns that the federal government might …

“This is a disgusting attack on our electoral system. And as I’ve said before, the electoral system in America is now dead unless all of this is reversed. Is a president not free to discuss decisions about elections with his vice president and strongly urge him to take one position or another? The judge who is going to hear this …

The Kentucky Lantern reports: Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron traded barbs and addressed a raucous crowd of supporters and naysayers during the 143rd Fancy Farm Picnic. Cameron addressed the crowd first. His speech focused on culture war issues laced with zingers referencing conservative internet feuds, like backlash to country singer Jason Aldean’s “Try That In …

Mediaite reports: Pissed-off supporters of ex-President Donald Trump heckled ex-VP Mike Pence to his face as he greeted supporters in the parking lot of his event in New Hampshire. The indictment also seems to have awakened something in Pence, who suddenly leaned very hard into ripping Trump over his effort to pressure Pence into changing the result of the electoral …

The Associated Press reports: A Texas man who advocated for a mass shooting of poll workers and threatened two Arizona officials and their children has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison, prosecutors said Friday. Frederick Francis Goltz, 52, of Lubbock, pleaded guilty earlier this year to interstate threatening communications. Goltz was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge …

Mediaite has the transcript: JOHNSON: I think the atmosphere, perhaps Stephen, is right for true, true reform here at the DOJ. Sir, how do you go about doing it? MILLER: Well, the first and most important thing is to reestablish what is known as the unitary executive. So this goes back to the Watergate era. And now we obviously know, …

“This is a guy who’s already won. He won in 2016. He won even bigger in 2020. All that January 6th was, was a staged riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election. If we just go back and deal with this fraudulent election and what happened in 2020, we don’t have to impeach Biden because …

Politico reports: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy would not say if he would have certified the election results like former Vice President Mike Pence did on Jan. 6, 2021, sidestepping repeated questions on Thursday. “I would have never let it get to that point,” Ramaswamy said in response to POLITICO’s questions. “I would have never put myself — or been …

“We are arresting the leader of the opposition and a former president because of destabilizing lies. Really? How — what does it — what does it mean, even? What is destabilizing? What does lying mean? “You know for a fact, you arrogant America haters, you know for a fact that the last election was honest? I don’t know for a …