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The Washington Post reports: The Georgia prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trump improperly interfered in the 2020 presidential election filed court papers Friday to obtain testimony from Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich. Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis also requested testimony from other potential witnesses including former White House lawyer Eric Herschmann. …

“If it comes down to issues, Warnock is just gone because he’s wrong on virtually everything Georgians believe in and he knows that which is why he’s trying to drag this campaign down into the mud in the hopes that he can drown Herschel Walker in mud. “You know, I talked to Herschel about this this morning and I’ve known …

“There’s never been a more blatant misuse of the Justice Department this close to an election. You know, the ground rule used to be that 60 days out, they stopped all the stuff precisely not to try to influence an election. “Instead, you have a deliberate targeting process underway to intimidate Republican donors, Republican candidates, and even Republican lawyers. “This …

The New York Times reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol on Thursday asked former Speaker Newt Gingrich to sit for a voluntary interview about his involvement in former President Donald J. Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. In a letter to Mr. Gingrich, the Georgia Republican who held the speakership in the late …

“They’re going to set the stage for stealing this election if they can. They may set the stage for actually trying to suspend it, which has never been done in American history. “But remember, they’re desperate. They’re faced with a very real likelihood that if the truth comes out, if the Republicans control the House and Senate, there are a …

“This is a direct threat to freedom. And if it is allowed to stand, it is the end of the constitutional order, crossing the Rubicon. “Calista and I actually went once to the Rubicon, which is a very tiny creek, but it was the symbolic border of Rome. “And to cross the Rubicon with an armed force was to destroy …

“Go back and take everything that Al Gore put in his movie, go through it step-by-step — it’s all a bunch of lies, it didn’t happen, it’s not true. “The human race is not on the edge of collective suicide unless it’s by nuclear war. But we’re certainly not on the edge of collective suicide because of climate. “And I …

“You’re up against, as you’ve heard me say before — way back in 1972, Peter White wrote that the liberal ideology had become a liberal theology, and that’s what you’re up against. “This is now a religious cult. And it’s a complicated cult, it’s a cult of environmentalism, it’s a cult of transgenderism. It’s a cult of income redistribution. You’ve …

Mediaite reports: Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) shot back at Newt Gingrich for claiming they and the rest of the January 6 Committee might go to jail. “I think when you have a Republican Congress, this is all going to come crashing down,” Gingrich said. “And the wolves are going to find out that they’re now sheep …

“You have — both with Attorney General Garland and with this select committee on January 6, people who have run amok. What they need to understand is on January 4 next year, you’re going to have a Republican majority in the House and a Republican majority in the Senate. “And all these people who have been so tough, and so …

“Look, I think they are exactly like the brownshirts in Italy and Germany in the ’30s and the late ’20s. I think they are like the Soviets in 1917. Like the Maoists in the 1950s. These are totalitarians and they are saying, you know, I want come after you. “I actually think Sinema and Manchin ought to just switch parties. …

Media Matters has the transcript: SEAN HANNITY (HOST): Does Youngkin need to win for this to have the maximum impact? What if it’s really tight? NEWT GINGRICH (GUEST): No look. First of all if it’s really tight they’ll steal it, so you can’t afford to have a really tight election. You have to win by a big enough margin that …

Politico reports: With an eye toward winning back the House and Senate in the 2022 midterm elections, former President Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda outlining a MAGA doctrine for the party. His template is the 1994 “Contract with America,” a legislative agenda released ahead of the midterm elections in the middle of President Bill Clinton’s first term. …

Media Matters has the transcript: They’re only going to have 200 people in the entire room. Now, this is a room which can easily hold virtually 1,000 or more people. But they have decided for COVID reasons — and this is a president whose pathological concern about COVID is almost bizarre — for COVID reasons, that each party, 50 House …

“Every idiotic thing that the Biden administration has done in the first 100 days, you begin to realize — whether it’s threatening everybody who believes in the Second Amendment or it’s attacking everybody who believes in right to life or it is attacking people of traditional values who are appalled that this administration would fly the gay flag at American …

Mediaite reports: “I just got suspended by Twitter, so I’m part of the censored group because I did a tweet saying that having illegal immigrants come in without any controls is a public health issue in the time of Covid,” said Gingrich. “So I just want to report, I’m part of the same effort by Twitter to censor the country …

“They don’t want to protect your America. They want to create an alternative America. It’s an America of racial deep inequality and an anti-white, and by the way, anti-Asian basis. “It’s an America in which transgender dominates Christianity and Judaism. It’s an America in which they want to actually pass a bill to create a permanent machine just like California, …

“This whole thing is a tragic, pathetic joke, which undermines the United States. And the truth is, it’s not a trial. I mean, all this lawyer talk is baloney. “This is a mock trial in which the party of Hollywood has put together a series of films designed to make us so upset, that we have to have somebody to …

Raw Story reports: Former Congressman Newt Gingrich (R-GA) was hammered on Saturday night for attacking Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Twitter, saying the Black lawmaker is participating in a “lynch mob” out to get controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). It did not go unnoticed that former Georgia politician cited only two women of color in his attack in his …

Mediaite reports: Former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich railed against Nancy Pelosi as the “most destructive Speaker” in history, leaving out his own checkered past, which involved paying $300,000 and resigning in disgrace after a Congressional ethics probe found he lied about violating tax law. “First off, she keeps violating the Constitution,” he claimed, before offering up several very vague, …