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“So here’s President Trump saying some stuff about Ukraine. [Plays clip.] I have some moral objections to the stuff that he is saying about Ukraine here because I don’t think that it is true.  “So for example, at one point during this press conference, he made the signally false statement that Ukraine started the war. This is not true. Ukraine …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to shut down an immigrants rights group in Houston, alleging it is “systematically” flouting nonprofit rules by advocating too aggressively against state laws and political candidates. It is the latest attempt by the Republican attorney general to shutter groups aiding immigrants in Texas. Paxton has sought, unsuccessfully so far, to …

Mediaite has the transcript: STEFANIK: I would not have done what Mike Pence did. I don’t think that was the right approach. I specifically stand by what I said on the House floor. And I stand by my statement, which was– COLLINS: So, you would have rejected the votes? STEFANIK: There was unconstitutional overreach in states like Pennsylvania, and I …

The Jefferson City Leader reports: Matthew Bryan Thilges, 60, of House Springs has been sentenced to seven years in prison for possession of child pornography. He also has been ordered to pay a total of $57,000 in restitution to 17 victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced. Thilges was sentenced Sept. 20 after pleading guilty on June 7 to receiving child …

Bloomberg News reports: The eldest son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Saturday that his father doesn’t have a deadline to return to Brazil and dismissed the idea of extradition by the US. Bolsonaro traveled to the US late last month, two days before the end of his term, skipping the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da …

Gothamist reports: A conspiracy-minded men’s rights activist who bragged online about storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to three and a half years in prison on Monday after a search of his Upper East Side apartment turned up a cache of illegal firearms, the Manhattan district attorney said. Samuel Fisher, 33, was charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm, …

Media Matters has the transcript: You can’t be concerned over wokeism and virtue signaling and crime, inflation, and COVID. The hard left radical postures, that’s been taking up his limited shelf space in his brain, right? All that stuff pushed out all the stuff he’s supposed to care about, he’s supposed to care about the real concerns of the American …

Raw Story reports: A MAGA rioter who infamously called for the hanging of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has filed a bizarre motion to dismiss her case in which she employs rhetoric similar to that used by the “sovereign citizen” movement to demand her release. MAGA rioter Pauline Bauer filed a motion to dismiss in which she describes herself as “I, …

Axios reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) plans to make her purge the beginning of a new movement, with campaign travel, fundraising and speeches to challenge Donald Trump for ideological dominance of the GOP. Driving the news: Sources in Cheney’s camp tell me her message will be the importance of the truth, the need to move past Trump, and a push …

The Washington Post reports: For a few moments after the camera began recording, the white man smirked silently in his seat at an upscale California restaurant. Then, he gave the family at the next table the middle finger and unleashed an anti-Asian tirade. “Trump’s going to f— you,” he said, adding that the family “need to leave” and calling one …

CNN reports: A five-term Republican congressman endorsed by President Donald Trump conceded his primary reelection bid in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday evening, a stunning upset that will vault his far-right challenger, Lauren Boebert, into the state’s general election. Boebert is the latest GOP candidate associated with the QAnon conspiracy theory, though she doesn’t go as far as self-professed …

“Who is attacking us? Mr. Esper should know this. It’s antifa. Department of Justice, NYPD, others are saying this very clearly. These are people, by the way, that we faced back in 1960’s, 70’s, and early 80’s. “These were people who were far leftists, Marx, Lenin, folks who embraced that ideology. They’ve allied with Black Panther movement and it took …

“I have zero problems with this phone call. There is no quid pro quo here, but I do have a problem with Nancy Pelosi. If you believe that Donald Trump did something to hurt this country, you owe it to vote, not talk about impeaching the president. The only way to open up an impeachment inquiry is to vote. We …

Politico reports: Lindsey Graham is ready to go on offense. Now that President Donald Trump’s “no collusion” claims have seemingly been vindicated by special counsel Robert Mueller, the Senate Judiciary chairman has plans for an aggressive oversight probe of his own. He’s even hoping to convince the attorney general to appoint a second special counsel. The South Carolina Republican announced …