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TPM’s investigation reveals that Rawson’s campaign got a boost from members of the very groups that marched in Charlottesville nine years ago. His campaign donations show he received funds from people with ties to white nationalist organizations.

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Trump’s decision to pardon or commute the sentences of all the January 6 rioters convicted of crimes was a spur of the moment decision designed to get the issue behind him quickly. “Trump just said: ‘F*ck it: Release ‘em all,’” an advisor recalled.

A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation was “flatly wrong” and a “revisionist myth.”

The presidential election is now two months away. What if the billionaire contests the result? What if he decides democracy is over-rated? This was Elon Musk's role in England. Now Trump is proposing him as our new Efficiency Czar.

Much attention has been focused on the "insurrection" clause (Section 3) and whether Trump should be allowed to hold office, given his role in the Jan 6th attempted insurrection, his actions are also at odds with other key provisions of the amendment

To recruit and train members of a civilian military force under his control, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has hired a company that specializes in combat training and lists as one of its instructors a former U.S. Navy SEAL accused of war crimes.

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The most important of all indictments against the former president: openly and long-time racist businessman and politician being brought up on federal charges by a very powerful civil rights enforcement tool created during the Reconstruction years.

Neither CNN nor its host was able to take control as the ex-president played steamroller, to the audience’s delight. It began and ended in a way that absolutely everyone could have predicted.