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Axios reports: The top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee’s agriculture panel raised money for a legal defense fund with claims he’s facing federal prosecution that a spokesperson later disavowed. On a fundraising page for a new legal expense fund — which was later taken off-line — Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) wrote: “[President] Biden’s FBI is using its unlimited power …

The Daily Beast reports: Rudy Giuliani claimed in a recent deposition that the Trump campaign essentially had veto power over One America News reporter Christina Bobb’s stories while she volunteered for the Trump legal team following the 2020 presidential election. In a defamation lawsuit filed by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer against former President Donald Trump and several of his …

Spy Talk reports: Disgraced former Donald Trump National Security Adviser and Army general Michael Flynn was paid a previously unreported $200,000 for work on a controversial plan to bring nuclear power to the Middle East involving Russian and other foreign business interests, according to a report this weekend by the respected Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. The payment to Flynn was …

The Hill reports: Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Monday said it was a mistake to work for former President Trump. When asked during an interview with host George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “Good Morning America” if it was a mistake to work for the former president, Grisham, without hesitation, responded “yes.” When pressed on why she decided to …

Mediaite reports: A leading face of the effort to overturn the 2020 election results, attorney and Donald Trump loyalist Lin Wood put a different conspiracy theory forward in a clip going viral on Twitter when he suggested the planes that hit the World Trade Center towers on 9/11 were CGI and a missile was fired at the Pentagon as part …

Mediaite reports: Fox News is drawing a great deal of blowback for a misleading headline about Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) not paying property taxes. On Sunday, Fox published an online piece entitled “Democrat Tammy Duckworth hasn’t paid property tax on her Illinois home since 2015, report says.” Fox’s headline blatantly suggests that Duckworth is freeloading off of her state. Between …

From the right wing Daily Caller: Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn said Sunday that President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill is a “build back broke” agenda designed to “institutionalize socialism.” Blackburn argued Sunday that the Democratic initiative is designed to be “a takeover of the country in one vote. They want government control of your kids,” Blackburn claimed. “They want government …

From Florida’s Pinellas County Sheriff’s Department: Deputies assigned to the Marine Unit and DUI Unit investigated an overnight boating crash that resulted in the arrest of 38-year-old Paul Rae. Rae is currently on federal supervised release status due to his indictment in the January 6, 2021 incident at the US Capitol. On October 2, 2021 at approximately 10:00 p.m., deputies …

The Daily Mail reports: Trashelle Odom, of Boise, Idaho, the wife of a construction company executive, claimed in the police report obtained by DailyMail.com that the married Lewandowski said that he ‘was from a bad part of Boston and to have killed people,’ while seated next to her at the charity dinner at the Westgate Hotel in Las Vegas on …

The New York Times reports: Facebook, which has been under fire from a former employee who has revealed that the social network knew of many of the harms it was causing, was bracing for new accusations over the weekend from the whistle-blower and said in a memo that it was preparing to mount a vigorous defense. The whistle-blower, whose identity …

The Kansas Reflector reports: A handful of people showed up at the Kansas statehouse to make a case Saturday that federal prosecutors were unfair to hundreds of Jan. 6 insurrectionists who breached the national Capitol building while contesting the election loss of President Donald Trump. Ian Camacho, who organized the gathering on behalf of Look Ahead America, said the objective …

The Huffington Post reports: The FBI has arrested a mother-and-son duo accused of entering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol after the pair were successfully identified by online sleuths. Maryann Mooney-Rondon and Rafael Rondon were arrested on Friday, a law enforcement official told HuffPost. The two arrestees ― whom online sleuths working …

From the Department of Justice: A Texas man who plotted to blow up a data center in Virginia was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah. Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested in April after attempting to obtain an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in …

Tampa’s CBS News affiliate reports: A former Florida candidate for Congress was arrested this week on charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. In probable cause documentation, the Department of Justice — citing video and photo evidence — accuses Jeremy Brown of being on Capitol grounds in full military apparel. He, too, is said to have …

Politico reports: The woman who has accused Corey Lewandowski of making unwanted sexual advances last weekend has sent a statement to police outlining her allegations against the former Trump adviser. Trashelle Odom, an Idaho-based Trump donor, alleged that while seated next to Lewandowski at a Las Vegas charity dinner, Lewandowski described his genitalia, boasted about his sexual performance and touched …

Austin’s NBC News affiliate reports: The Austin Fire Department Arson Investigators and the FBI announced an arrest in an incident involving a person who tried to vandalize and start a fire at the Travis County Democratic Party Headquarters earlier this week. On Friday, AFD identified the man as Ryan Faircloth, 30. An arrest warrant released on Friday for Faircloth said …

The Daily Beast reports: Being Sidney Powell is harder than it used to be. Once, she was a key player in Donald Trump’s inner circle. These days, she might have trouble just getting in the front door. The “Kraken” queen long ago removed herself from acceptability among the more respectable GOP circles with a constant stream of bizarre election conspiracy …

The Huffington Post reports: Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost his third lawsuit brought by a parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, one day after he lost two other Sandy Hook cases. In a court filing unsealed Friday, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued her ruling for default judgment against Jones in the defamation …

The Insider reports: “I’m not considering anything beyond doing my job. We got a lot of stuff going on in Florida. I’m going to be running for reelection next year,” the Republican told Fox News host Sean Hannity. “We are also working on a lot of things in the state beyond the governor’s race. We got school-board races,” DeSantis added. …

The New York Times reports: The organizers of the review “made up the numbers,” the headline of the experts’ report reads. The experts, a data analyst for the Arizona Republican Party and two retired executives of a Boston-based election consulting firm, said in their report that workers for the investigators failed to count thousands of ballots in a pallet of …