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The Daily Beast reports: In the weeks leading up to their impeachment trial, senators on Capitol Hill are actively avoiding meeting with President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani—partly because they fear he might try to pass off Russian conspiracy theories as fact, according to interviews with more than half a dozen Republican and Democratic lawmakers and aides. “He has …

Politico reports: Republican House Minority Whip Steve Scalise believes the “impeachment charade” is exposing the Democrats’ weakness. On “Fox News Sunday,“ the Louisiana Republican was direct: “The Senate will have a fair trial and you’ll see an acquittal. Everybody knows it’s going to end in acquittal.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he said, has a duty to turn over the articles …

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News host Katie Pavlich on Friday walked back her assertion that the CBC’s cut of Donald Trump’s Home Alone 2 cameo was “censorship.” “I have to issue a correction,” the conservative Fox host stated. “Because apparently this edit happened in 2014.” “I was saying it would have been censorship if they did it now,” she …

The Hill reports: Senate Republicans are plotting a speedy acquittal of President Trump as they strategize ahead of the impeachment trial. After weeks of public haggling from within the caucus, GOP senators are largely lining up behind a shorter proceeding with few, if any, witnesses, paving the way for them to hand Trump an early election-year victory. Sen. Lindsey Graham …

The Daily Beast reports: If you don’t know who Jenna Ellis is, you are hardly alone. Many officials at the upper echelons of Trumpworld don’t really know her, either. In more than a dozen conversations with senior figures in the White House, 2020 campaign, and broader Trump orbit, barely anybody had known Ellis as more than a blip on the …

Charisma News, the site best known here for its anti-witchcraft tutorials, its claim that the lifespan of gays is shortened by 20 years, its warning that burning breakfast eggs can summon demons, and its declaration that yoga is white witchcraft, today weighs in on evangelical infighting. From its CEO and publisher: For the past four decades, Christianity Today has been …

France 24 reports: Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory in a leadership primary in his right-wing Likud party Friday, ensuring he will lead it into March elections. “A huge win! Thank you to Likud members for their trust, support and love,” Netanyahu tweeted. Initial results showed Netanyahu comfortably beating rival Gideon Saar, though a final tally was expected …

CNBC reports: The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday that a TV version of the Christmas movie “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” which erased a cameo from Trump, was edited years before he became president. The Trump-free version of the 1992 film stoked outrage among conservative and pro-Trump media sources — including the popular morning show “Fox & Friends,” …

Deadline reports: Fox & Friends took umbrage with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for editing President Donald Trump out of their airings of Home Alone 2: Lost In New York. On Thursday, Fox & Friends talked to conservative pundit Mark Steyn about how the CBC took Trump’s scene out of their airings and explained that they did so to make time …

The Associated Press reports: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, says she was “disturbed” to hear Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell say there would be “total coordination” between the White House and the Senate over the upcoming presidential impeachment trial. “And in fairness, when I heard that I was disturbed,” Murkowski said before describing that there should be distance between the White …

“Liberal-leaning Christianity Today said that President Donald J. Trump should be removed from office because he is ‘profoundly immoral.’ Really? Profoundly? What does that even mean? “Is profoundly immoral worse than mildly immoral, or slightly immoral, or worse than just being plain old immoral? It’s like when someone tells a lie—does it matter if it was an all-out lie or …

Law & Crime reports: Rudy Giuliani yesterday shared a link to his Facebook page as he teased “more to come on my investigation, soon!” So people checked out his Facebook page and noticed that the bio lists him as “Former Attorney General of the United States.” Giuliani, of course, was not the U.S. Attorney General. He served as Associate Attorney …

The Hill reports: An editor at The Christian Post announced his resignation late Monday, citing a recent editorial that he said positioned the evangelical publication “on Team Trump.” Nazworth’s resignation came after an editorial published by the Post earlier Monday. In the editorial, John Grano and Richard Land accused Christianity Today editor Mark Galli, who called for President Trump’s removal …

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News on Sunday: “If you pause for one moment and you read this IG (inspector general) report by Horowitz. Here’s the FBI; they broke into President Trump — at the time candidate Trump’s — campaign, spied on him, and then they covered it up. It is a modern-day …

“Patriots are tired of it. They’re not going to put up with it any more. I’m around the gun community. I hear the talk. This talk is beginning to escalate, like the militia-type stuff. “They’re getting ready to take up arms and to take things into their own hands if they don’t see something happen. So this is why I’ve …

Deadstate reports: Right-wing pastor Jonathan Shuttlesworth declared his undying support for President Trump in a recent bizarre rant, saying that he’ll support Trump even if he “is found to be running a dogfighting ring on Mother Teresa’s grave while having multiple affairs,” Right Wing Watch reports. Why would he do that? Because he’s grateful Trump doesn’t support Drag Queen Story …

TIME Magazine reports: As the political clamor caused by a top Christian magazine’s call to remove President Donald Trump from office continues to reverberate, more than 100 conservative evangelicals closed ranks further around Trump on Sunday. In a letter to the president of Christianity Today magazine, the group of evangelicals chided Editor-in-Chief Mark Galli for penning an anti-Trump editorial, published …

The Hill reports: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said Sunday he does not think Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the power to hold the articles of impeachment the House passed last week from the Senate. “Frankly, I don’t think the speaker has the right to do this,” Blunt said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” in response to Pelosi’s decision not …

The Daily Beast reports: Russian state media have joined President Vladimir Putin in delivering a full-throated defense of impeached U.S. President Donald J. Trump. Such support would have been implausible for any other U.S. leader, much less one who claims to be “tough on Russia.” One of the Kremlin’s top propagandists, Vladimir Soloviev, heaped praise upon Trump and rattled off …

Spokane’s CBS News affiliate reports: The House Republican Caucus has expelled Matt Shea after an investigation revealed that he “participated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States.” Shea represents Washington’s 4th District, which encapsulates the area surrounding Spokane Valley. He has since taken to social media to call the investigation a “sham.” The 108-page investigation found that …