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Politico reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined on Thursday to say whether he would support Donald Trump if the former president becomes the Republican nominee to challenge President Joe Biden in 2024. DeSantis, who launched his own presidential campaign last month, was asked whether he would “support” in the wake of Trump’s recent barrage of criticism over the governor’s handling …

Semafor reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. isn’t backing down after calling Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo. a “little bitch” to her face on the House floor Wednesday during a fight over their dueling efforts to impeach President Joe Biden. Asked whether there was any chance the two would reconcile after the confrontation, Greene said: “Absolutely not.” “She has genuinely been a …

The Daily Beast reports: The messy feud between two of MAGA world’s biggest stars burst into public view on Wednesday, when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) a “little b—h” to her face on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The angry exchange came as the two lawmakers have been swiping at each other …

The Hill reports: House Republicans on Wednesday teed off on one of their own colleagues, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), over her stunning move to force a vote this week to impeach President Biden. While no fans of the president, Boebert’s GOP critics said her move to stage an impeachment vote this week is wildly premature, harming the Republicans’ ongoing efforts …

Media Matters has the transcript: I don’t know why President Trump is doing interviews on Fox like that. I mean, it’s contentious, it’s nit-picky. It’s just not the way you comport yourself. It’s not an interview, it’s an interrogation, and it’s not acceptable, but, his handlers, you know, are greater minds than ours, so, yeah, I guess you’re going to …

Rolling Stone reports: Earlier this year, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers and political advisers on a “small fact-finding mission,” as a person with knowledge of the matter describes it to Rolling Stone. The former president wanted to know, according to that source and another person close to Trump: “What is Mark doing?” Trump was referring to his former …

Fox News reports: Live Action founder and pro-life leader Lila Rose told Americans to trust their conscience when voting for president in 2024, and argued that former President Trump was backsliding on pro-life issues, despite his role in the overturning of Roe v. Wade. She made waves on Twitter after she declared in April that Trump “disqualified” himself from the …

“Look, either Donald Trump — if you believe what he said when they left, that means he didn’t pick the very best people and doesn’t know how to pick personnel. If you believe what he said about them in the beginning — the great stuff — then this guy is the worst manager in the history of the American presidency. …

First, a reminder from yesterday: The House on Wednesday voted down a resolution to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). The push to reprimand the former House Intelligence Committee chair came as former President Trump was arrested on Tuesday over his handling of classified documents. The resolution cited Schiff’s allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia during the 2016 election, and …

The Daily Beast reports: Mike Pence was caught in a heated exchange with conservative radio host Clay Travis on Wednesday after the former vice president refused to confirm if he would pardon Donald Trump. In an interview on The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Pence demurred on the question of pardons, saying that it was too early to decide. …

The Independent reports: Ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo appeared on Fox & Friends and delivered a sobering assessment of the charges against his former boss which dismantled the assertion Mr Trump’s allies have pushed on social media seeking to explain away the boxes of documents and classified materials at Mar-a-Lago as the president’s own property. By all indication, he said, …

CNBC reports: Americans For Prosperity, the political network financed largely by billionaire Charles Koch, is launching a wave of digital ads targeting former President Donald Trump. The ads argue that if Trump becomes the Republican nominee next year, it will lead to President Joe Biden winning reelection. Koch, who’s worth more than $60 billion, and his network notched several wins …

“This is what I’ll tell you, two things can be true at the same time: One, the DOJ and FBI have lost all credibility with the American people and getting rid of just senior management isn’t going to be enough to fix this. This is going to take a complete overhaul, and we have to do that. “Two, the second …

Mediaite reports: Harmeet Dhillon, a MAGA influencer and lawyer for Tucker Carlson, urged Republican leaders to boycott Fox News on Monday. Dhillon made the call, the latest move in Carlson’s ongoing battle against his former employer, after the network sent Carlson a second cease-and-desist letter following the second episode of Tucker on Twitter, which aired last week. She shared her …

Everybody knew that this was coming: Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, who I didn’t know very well, called me before his last election to say he was in BIG trouble and very much needed my Endorsement. I LOVE Oklahoma & won 76 out of 76 Districts, something that never happened before. Ronald Reagan was next with 56. Anyway, I gave …

Mediaite reports: Conservative author Ann Coulter jokingly(?) called on “every Republican to commit suicide in solidarity” with former President Donald Trump on Friday after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk encouraged Trump’s rivals to drop out of the Republican primary in solidarity with Trump over his indictment. Following news of Trump’s indictment on Thursday, Kirk proposed that “every ‘Republican’ running …

The Daily Beast reports: Ron DeSantis is turning to A.I. in his war of words with Donald Trump. In a new campaign ad, the Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful deploys several A.I.-generated images to attack the former president, renewing fears about the use of the technology to spread misinformation. The ad, posted to Twitter by DeSantis’ rapid response team, …

Mediaite reports: Steve Bannon, whose War Room podcast is highly influential with the MAGA base, declared that in the “Republican Party, those 149 who voted for it, all have to be primaried.” “Let me repeat that. All of them, including people we’re quite fond of and some who we used to be fond of, have to be primaried,” Bannon added, …

“Their woke roosters have come home to roost. But this is not new. Over the last decade, they’ve been backing further and further away, even to the point of funding groups that have Drag Queen Story Hours. They’ve funded the Southern Poverty Law Center and cut off all Christian organizations like Salvation Army because their views on marriage were too …

From Marjorie Taylor Greene’s text to Matt Gaetz: I have almost the same identical voting record as Thomas Massie, the most fiscally conservative member of Congress. And I voted with him on this bill. And Bannon, who was senior counsel to Trump in the WH and responsible for the first debt ceiling increase bc Bannon is reckless and no where …