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The Daily Beast reports: Shooters Grill, the gun-themed Hooters parody restaurant that put Rifle, Colorado, on the map and elevated Boebert to local celebrity status, has run into some trouble with its new landlord—a marijuana retailer. Boebert told The Daily Beast that she and her husband, Jayson Boebert, had been surprised to receive the notice last week announcing that their …

Reuters reports: A billionaire fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday lost a bid to dismiss criminal charges he lobbied the U.S. government on behalf of the United Arab Emirates without disclosing his affiliation. Thomas Barrack, the former head of investment management firm Colony Capital and chair of Trump’s inaugural committee, had pleaded not guilty to charges of …

Florida Politics reports: Republican congressional candidate Mark Lombardo has released a new ad for his campaign to oust U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz in Florida’s 1st Congressional District. This week, the Pensacola Republican launched his first TV ad. Titled “A Marine Who Will Put You First,” the 30-second spot takes aim at Gaetz while highlighting Lombardo’s West Florida roots. “When I …

Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate reports: FBI agents served a search warrant Wednesday on Nevada’s top GOP official, sources told the 8 News Now I-Team’s George Knapp. Agents seized the cell phone of state Republican chairman Michael McDonald, reportedly as part of an investigation into the fake elector scheme initiated at the end of the 2020 presidential election. The Nevada Republican …

The Washington Post reports: Federal agents investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday dropped subpoenas on people in multiple locations, widening the probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Among those who received a subpoena Wednesday was David Shafer, the chairman …

CNN reports: Rep. Mo Brooks — one of the Republican lawmakers facing calls from the January 6 committee to testify about his interactions with former President Donald Trump — said Wednesday that he is willing to testify but only in public. “My basic requirement is it be in public so the public can see it — so they don’t get …

“These are Republican senators that Republican voters do not support any more. We’ve got to change our Republican Party and needs to happen right here. Because if we don’t start defending Americans’ freedoms and rights and putting America first, our Republican voters are not going to want to put us in charge.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, after reading the names …

NBC News reports: A former West Virginia lawmaker who stormed the U.S. Capitol on behalf of former President Donald Trump while livestreaming his felonious activity on Facebook was sentenced to three months in prison on Wednesday. Derrick Evans, who had been sworn in as a Republican state delegate just a few weeks before the Capitol attack, was arrested and charged …

The Huffington Post reports: Herschel Walker was going after Stacey Abrams, the Democratic candidate for governor, for recently saying, “I am tired of hearing about [Georgia] being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.” Abrams cited the state’s problems with mental health treatment, maternal mortality, incarceration rates …

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department’s investigation of the Jan. 6 attack ratcheted up Wednesday as federal agents dropped subpoenas on people in at least two states, in what appeared to be a widening probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors to thwart Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. FBI officials confirmed to …

Law & Crime reports: After hearing complaints by prosecutors and defense attorneys that the Jan. 6 Committee complicated their work, a federal judge “reluctantly” agreed to postpone the Proud Boys’ seditious conspiracy trial until December 2022. The Department of Justice has long complained that the Jan. 6 Committee refused to immediately turn over all transcripts of their interviews. Those include …

The Detroit News reports: A Michigan Republican lawmaker proposed a resolution Tuesday to declare Jan. 6 as “Remembrance Day,” stating it should be recognized “for the heinous and tyrannical actions levied on society by an unhinged and politically motivated ruling elite.” State Rep. Steve Carra, R-Three Rivers, introduced the resolution during Tuesday’s session, when it was referred the House Rules …

The Washington Post reports: In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail. The committee on Tuesday held its fourth hearing, which focused …

“Vice president Mike Pence, he thinks he can be president of the United States. According to the reporting, he is taking a good hard look at running. He is opened to running in 2024 against Trump. “Now, I think that’s a terrible idea. Number one, he’s not nimble enough, he’s not decisive enough, he’s too wooden, he’s not imaginative. “He’s …

Politico Playbook reports: Amy Kremer, chair of Women for America First and an organizer of Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 rally: “Donald Trump is disconnected from the base. It’s time for those of us in the movement to get back to basics, back to our first principles. We were here long before President Trump came along, and we’re going to be …

Axios reports: Mehmet Oz, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, is quietly shifting his campaign messaging away from former President Trump as he transitions into what’s likely to be one of the most hotly contested Senate elections of the midterms. Oz’s transition for the general election highlights the tightrope many Trump-endorsed candidates have attempted to walk — embrace …

Bloomberg News reports: Fox News’s parent company can be sued by a voting-machine maker because Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch may have acted with “actual malice” in directing the network to broadcast conspiracy theories alleging the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Donald Trump. Delaware Superior Court Judge Eric M. Davis on Tuesday denied Fox Corp.’s motion to dismiss the suit, …

Business Insider reports: A federal judge on Tuesday gave a green light to Smartmatic’s defamation lawsuit against One America News, a right-wing media organization it alleges pushed conspiracy theories about the election technology company’s role in the 2020 presidential election. Herring Networks, which operates OAN, asked US District Judge Carl J. Nichols to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing he didn’t have …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Manu Raju recorded Johnson as he faced another 2-minute barrage of questions, wherein Johnson claimed the development was a “such a non-story” about a “staff to staff deal.” He claimed that “some staff intern [from the House] said the vice president needs this, or whatever. I wasn’t involved.” Johnson said it was this contact from the unnamed …

Media Matters has the transcript: Biden goes out and says, well, if you’re going out and you’re buying a yacht, it doesn’t help the economy a whole lot. And I’m like, Yes, it does. You want to know why? Because it takes a lot of people to build those multimillion-dollar yachts that the rich and famous hang out in all …