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Elon Musk in GOP crosshairs over 'very serious' allegation: 'We got to investigate'A Republican lawmaker who worked as an FBI agent in Ukraine demands sworn testimony over a decision he warned "costs human lives." Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Tuesday that if Elon Musk ordered a lapse in Starshield coverage for Ukraine, as a report says, "that is likely a violation of the law." Fitzpatrick said Musk has…

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MAGA senator melts down when confronted about million-dollar promise: ‘Get him out’A MAGA senator running for governor had a reporter escorted out of a campaign dinner after being pressed about a pricey old promise. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told staffers "Get him out" on Tuesday night when a Lagniappe reporter asked about his 2020 pledge to donate his congressional salary to Alabama veterans and their families, the Mobile outlet…

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Trump torched as ‘thug’ for threatening sick families with ‘extortion’President Donald Trump drew swift condemnation from critics after making a promise to ailing families that came with a political string attached. On Tuesday, Trump vowed that his administration would settle outstanding claims from people sickened by toxic water at Camp Lejeune , the Marine Corps base in North Carolina , but only if Republicans prevail in…

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MAGA lawyer's new 'corruption' scandal sends jaws to the floor: 'So rampant'A new bombshell corruption story published by The New York Times on Tuesday detailed how the family of a billionaire seeking a pardon from the Trump administration gave a $50 million deal to Alina Habba, a far-right lawyer involved in many of the president's personal dealings and who had briefly headed up the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Jersey before…

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Supreme Court justice sounds alarm over ‘nightmare’ unleashed by her colleagues: NYTA Supreme Court justice delivered a blistering assessment of her own court's record on elections just two weeks before the midterms. Justice Elena Kagan told an audience at Catholic University's law school on Tuesday that the conservative majority's rulings on campaign finance, partisan maps and voting rights have deepened the nation's divisions, The New…

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WSJ scorches Trump's openness to stunning 'grand bargain' with dictators: 'Worst idea'The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board warned that President Donald Trump’s openness to a three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping “could blow up alliances at home and abroad,” in a Tuesday editorial titled “Trump’s New Global Triumvirate?” “It’s hard to know what President Trump is up to at any one moment because he operates so much on…

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Criminal probe hits Kristi Noem’s last-minute DHS purchases: reportAircraft purchases made under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are drawing fresh scrutiny after DHS cited an “ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation” to withhold records, The Washington Sun reported Tuesday. The disclosure came in response to reporter Mark Alfred’s request for documents detailing the purchases, including sellers,…

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Noem's plane purchases face fresh scrutiny after DHS invokes ‘ongoing criminal’ probeAircraft purchases made under former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are drawing fresh scrutiny after DHS cited an “ongoing criminal law enforcement investigation” to withhold records, The Washington Sun reported Tuesday. The disclosure came in response to reporter Mark Alfred’s request for documents detailing the purchases, including sellers,…

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Pollster scrambles amid looming investigation exposing their whole operation: reportA supposed upstart polling company has now revealed their entire operation was fake, and are claiming they did it all as a social experiment — but some election observers aren't buying. On Tuesday evening, the account for Wedgewood Polls, an outlet that has purported to release surveys on key races across the country, revealed all of their numbers were…

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Billionaire landed pardon after his family bankrolled Trump’s former lawyer: NYTA billionaire charged with bribery won a pardon from President Donald Trump after his family handed a lucrative contract to one of the president's loyalists. Julio Herrera Velutini , a Venezuelan banking heir, received a full pardon early this year after his daughter's company hired Alina Habba , Trump's former personal attorney, under a deal…

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Trump-appointed judge faces psychiatric exam order amid probe into ‘bizarre emails’A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has had her cases temporarily reassigned and faces mounting scrutiny Tuesday after investigators said she abandoned her duties and sent confidential court records to roughly 140 people. U.S. District Judge Ada Brown of Dallas has already been ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination amid concerns about her…

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Todd Blanche publicly brawls with MAGA influencer over DOJ official: ‘You are dead wrong’Far-right activist Laura Loomer drew a blistering public rebuke from the head of President Donald Trump's Justice Department after targeting one of his top deputies. Attorney General Todd Blanche tore into Loomer on Tuesday in a post on X after she used a lengthy thread to attack Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward , accusing him of sending…

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GOP voting rule sending ballots to the trash after backers insisted it wouldn't: reportThousands of North Carolina mail ballots are on track to be rejected over technical errors after a federal judge upheld strict new Republican-backed rules, according to data shared with Democracy Docket. Common Cause North Carolina and the Southern Coalition for Social Justice compiled figures from 27 of the state’s 100 counties. They show a rejection…

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Journalist fires back after Trump attacked him in brutal Oval Office meltdownA White House reporter President Donald Trump berated in the Oval Office is firing back with a scathing account of the president's meltdown. Andrew Feinberg, White House correspondent for The Independent, published a first-person piece Tuesday detailing how an event meant to unveil the Trump administration's new fraud tip line turned into a personal…

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Shocked Mike Lee staffer deletes candidate's 'vile' ad: 'I got this one wrong'Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) chief strategist apologized and deleted his post of an attack ad featuring Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton’s estranged mother. Dan Hauser, whose X profile describes him as Lee’s chief strategist, announced the deletion on X Tuesday afternoon. The ad, which began circulating online Monday night, shows Donna Arthur…

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Trump DOJ adding 'fuel to the fire' with new federal judge ‘stunt’ in Minnesota: expertPresident Donald Trump’s Justice Department is pushing to sideline Minnesota federal judges overseeing at least 50 ongoing immigration cases, a move critics warn threatens judicial independence, according to an exclusive PunchUp investigation . The publication warned Tuesday that the “extraordinary demand could disrupt dozens of active cases involving…

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Trump's sneering 'lunatic' jab exposes how he plans to steamroll a Dem Congress“I can do whatever I want.” These are the six words that frighteningly matter most when it comes to one Donald Trump. It isn’t that he believes merely that he’s above the law. He doesn’t think there’s even any law that’s necessary to defy — that the entire structure of right and wrong that drives the system has been replaced by What Trump Wants. He…

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MAGA candidate's spoof of 'Democrats' backing him exposed in shady financials: reportA group that has called itself “Democrats for Mike Rogers,” now renamed “Together for Michigan,” draws much of its money from Republican-aligned sources, Federal Election Commission filings show, according to The Bulwark's Joe Perticone. The PAC’s two largest contributions came from GLCF, Inc., a conservative super PAC that has already been airing…

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Stephen Miller reamed after Oval Office implosion over 'fraudsters': 'Shameless racism'White House aide Stephen Miller faced accusations of “shameless racism” after claiming Somali immigrants used stolen money to buy luxury cars and a “nice house.” Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, made the remarks Tuesday in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance launched a $25 million fraud-tip program. The…

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'Scumbag': Ohio MAGA candidate condemned for 'loathsome and repugnant' political adOhio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is in hot water after an ad was released on his behalf using the estranged mother of his opponent, Amy Acton — who has been accused of covering up for her daughter's sexual abuser — and using her to call Acton a liar. Faced with criticism and even fact-checking from conservative outlets , the Ramaswamy…

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