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The Washington Post reports: The Washington Post reviewed more than 20 hours of video filmed for the documentary, “A Storm Foretold,” which is expected to be released later this year. The footage, along with other reporting by The Post, provides the most comprehensive account to date of Stone’s involvement in the former president’s effort to overturn the election. Stone privately …

Law & Crime reports: The Virginia Supreme Court on Thursday denied Devin Nunes a chance to appeal a lower court ruling in a long-running defamation feud with Republican strategist Liz Mair. The upshot of the ruling is that Nunes’s efforts to sue Mair, years in the making, have ended with a whimper. The Republican former San Joauqin Valley congressional Representative …

From a petition by Faith In America: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is twisting religion and using Jesus’s name to defend her blasphemous partnership with white nationalists. On Friday, 2/25, several prominent Republican politicians — including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar — spoke at an explicitly white-nationalist conference in Florida. The “America First Political Action Conference” is organized …

Talking Points Memo reports: The House Jan. 6 Committee issued a subpoena to Kimberly Guilfoyle on Thursday, demanding information about fundraising for the rally on the Ellipse that came immediately before the Capitol was stormed. The panel cited texts from Guilfoyle it said it had obtained in which she wrote that she had “raised so much money for this.” Guilfoyle, …

Politico reports: Prosecutors at the first criminal trial over the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, showcased their most compelling evidence on Thursday: testimony from defendant Guy Reffitt’s teenage son about his father’s radicalization in the months leading up to the historic attack. Jackson Reffitt, 19, took the stand Thursday afternoon in the federal case against his father, …

The Hill reports: Former Trump White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere is reportedly set to testify before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. Multiple outlets reported that Deere, who served in the Trump White House for roughly three years, was scheduled to speak with the House panel on Thursday. He is currently …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, has decided to end his reelection campaign after he was forced into a primary runoff amid 11th-hour allegations of infidelity. Taylor made the stunning announcement late Wednesday, hours after he finished his five-way primary with 49% of the vote, just missing the cutoff for winning the primary outright. The day before …

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) had a terse reaction on Thursday to GOP Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) heckling President Biden during his State of the Union address on Tuesday: “I think they should just shut up.” Pelosi didn’t say if she thinks there ought to be any formal sanction by the House to …

“You know what, I believe in personal responsibility. If you sign the dotted line, I don’t care how young you were to take the student loan, then it’s your duty to pay it back. “But what we need to do is stop the bleeding, stop the hemorrhaging. We need to stop having these federally guaranteed student loans. “Imagine if you’re …

The Wall Street Journal reports: The Republican National Committee is trying to choke off fundraising for the commission that’s been the organizer of general election presidential debates for more than three decades, escalating a dispute that’s been brewing for years. In a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates first shared with The Wall Street Journal, the RNC recommends that …

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports: When the House passed a resolution Wednesday night to declare support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, only three votes were in opposition. Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky was one of them. The resolution passed near-unanimously with a 426-3 vote. Three Republicans voted in opposition: Massie, Raul Gosar (Arizona) and Matt Rosendale (Montana). The resolution calls for an immediate …

“I don’t think this going to work out for him the way that he wanted to, and you know, when you see people who are willing to fight, it’s inspiring to see these people just grab rifles who are civilians and going out there and fighting to ward off the Russian army. “A lot of other places around the world, …

Law & Crime reports: The North Carolina man who claimed to be an independent journalist “on the front lines of the assault on the [C]apitol” will be allowed to carry a concealed firearm while awaiting trial on misdemeanor charges. Stephen Ethan Horn, 24, was seen in a photo posted by the New York Times Magazine among the crowd inside the …

The Birmingham News reports: A Blount County man who personalized his license plate with the acronym LGBFJB, a Don’t Tread on Me image, and the words “Let’s go Brandon,” a phrase popularly associated with a vulgar insult against Joe Biden, has been told by the State of Alabama he must change the plate name or lose his vehicle registration. Nathan …

The Daily Mail reports: Donald Trump condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a ‘holocaust’ but shied away from criticizing Vladimir Putin directly during a Wednesday morning interview. The former president instead blamed his successor Joe Biden for giving Moscow the confidence to launch its attack, telling Fox Business that ‘Putin never would have done it with me.’ Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE BANNON (HOST): You’re an audience favorite. But everybody wants to know Lou Dobbs’ take on last night, Joe Biden. Both the performance and the content, sir. LOU DOBBS (GUEST): Thank you very much Steve and it’s great to be with you. First as to the president’s performance, it struck me that we were witnessing …

Mediaite reports: Jimmy Kimmel went after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for skipping President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address because he didn’t want to take the required Covid-19 test ahead of the speech. Explaining himself to HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic, Rubio claimed that he simply did not have time to take a test ahead of the speech, adding that …

Forbes reports: Former Trump legal adviser John C. Eastman, who outlined a legal strategy for overturning the 2020 presidential election, has been under investigation since September by the State Bar of California for possible legal and ethical violations, the bar announced Tuesday. The bar said Eastman may have breached California law and attorney ethics rules in connection to the election, …

Roll Call reports: Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert’s decision to give up a safe Republican seat in the House take on a troubled state attorney general ended in defeat Tuesday, when he finished last in a four-person primary. A firebrand who led pre-Jan. 6 efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and has since denounced the “un-American and illegal treatment” …

NBC News reports: Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., repeatedly interrupted and interjected during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Greene was heard grumbling through the entire part of Biden’s speech about Covid policy before she shouted a remark about women’s sports when Biden mentioned new laws targeting transgender Americans and their families. …