Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein, dropped explosive testimony on Friday that Epstein may have gone on a date with Princess Diana.

Maxwell, 63, testified in an interview with the Justice Department last month while serving her sentence for sex trafficking and other offenses. She agreed to participate as part of a DOJ investigation and to address mounting public pressure regarding documents and information about the Epstein case. Maxwell was subsequently transferred to a minimum security prison, unheard of for people convicted of such serious crimes.

In addition to making flattering remarks about President Donald Trump — whom she reportedly hopes will pardon her — The Daily Beast reported Friday she also made an eye-popping claim that Epstein may have been "set up on a date" with Princess Diana in London.

Maxwell said she believed Epstein visited London to meet Diana and attended a major event in the U.K. without her.

“I don’t know if he sat with Diana or he met with Diana and he’d already met her. I don’t know, but this, I believe was organized by Rosa [Monckton],” she said, referring to Diana’s best friend.

She added: “I don’t know if she was being set up as a date for him, maybe because she was... I don’t want to speak bad of Diana, but... I’m not going to do that.”

She guessed the event could've taken place in the early 2000s, though Diana died in 1997.

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow took to her eponymous show on Monday night to poke fun at Donald Trump's family over a project they have overseas that is now embroiled in scandal, as a key document in the deal was forged.

In opening her show, Maddow discussed large-scale protests in Serbia sparked by a deadly train station roof collapse, which exposed government corruption under the country's authoritarian, Trump-like president.

Amid broad protests, Donald Trump Jr. made multiple trips to the country to support the embattled leader, partly due to a controversial development plan, in which Donald Trump wants to tear down a monument and build a luxury hotel and apartment tower there.

"Literally on that site," remarked Maddow.

"Somehow, the very Trumpy, authoritarian president of that country—somehow he was able to come up with some kind of waiver, some kind of permission slip that said, actually, that site is no longer a protected national heritage site," a dubious Maddow added.

The president said he received an opinion from an expert that authorized tearing down the memorial.

But now, the "whole mess is all now falling apart," she said, sharing a headline that the Trump-Kushner hotel project had hit a "snag" due to alleged forgery.

"Forgery. What?" she exclaimed. "The Trump family’s $500 million luxury hotel project in Serbia—slated to be built on the site of a bombed-out defense ministry building—has run into an embarrassing complication. A key document the Serbian government has relied on to deliver this deal was forged."

Officials said the expert opinion was fabricated to justify the government’s decision to revoke the site's historic status, and the official involved now faces criminal charges.

"Darn that rule of law," Maddow quipped. "If it wasn’t for the remaining rule of law... and for those meddling kids."

Maddow noted there may never be a Trump Tower in Europe.

"Womp womp. Sad trombone," she chided.

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A Washington Post columnist rebuked Republicans on Thursday night over their budget plans, which she said sounded like it was hatched by cold-hearted miser Ebenezer Scrooge.

Catherine Rampell, a vocal critic of President Donald Trump's economic plans, wrote Thursday that the GOP is eyeing taking food and health care away from the poor to subsidize tax cuts for the rich.

"That might sound like a stale, Scroogy stereotype. But it's not an exaggeration: It's laid out, in black and white, in GOP budget plans released this week," she said.

Republicans have sought for years to shrink government health programs and food supplements, she noted, and now they're "desperate to extend and expand" Trump's 2017 tax cuts. That means they're "especially motivated" this time around to "shred the safety net," as they have to find savings "somewhere," said Rampell.

Given the massive dollar amounts on Trump's economic agenda, his party now must fill a gaping budget hole.

"They claim they'll do it through a combination of fake math, nonbinding promises and shanking the poor," she chided. That includes what the writer called "ludicrous economic assumptions to paper over" the House's massive revenue losses in its budget plan, such as assuming productivity growth will, in the words of Manhattan Institute fellow Jessica Reidl, "magically nearly double" and then remain there forever.

The budget also includes a "wistful throwback" to the Reagan era "magic asterisk," she said, pointing to $3 trillion in "unspecified" savings government-wide.

Rampell called out three pieces specifically and decoded them: Forthcoming cuts by the Agricultural Committee — which oversees food stamps and farm supports — to the tune of $230 billion; looming cuts to Medicaid, included in materials distributed just last month by the GOP's budget committee chair; and planned cuts of $880 billion from the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid and parts of Medicare.

" Trump has his enemies list, and lawmakers have theirs. The latter might just include your ability to feed your family," she concluded.

Hollywood actor Ben Stiller took to social media Wednesday to swat away what he called "lies coming from Russian media" — and promoted by Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor who was indicted along with Donald Trump and 17 others in Georgia's election interference case.

Powell – who has a history of promoting baseless conspiracies — shared a video Wednesday morning from a right-wing account with the watermark "E News" in which a narrator said the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, sponsored American celebrity visits to Ukraine following Russia's invasion.

The video continues, citing no evidence or sourcing, that major celebrity actors Angelina Jolie, Sean Penn, Jean-Claude Van Damm, Orlando Bloom and Ben Stiller each raked in millions from the agency to boost Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky’s popularity.

The video got a hefty endorsement from Powell, who reshared the video on X.

"Here’s another one #DigitalSoldiers! Keep them coming. It’s a lot of fraud and corruption to pick apart. Also list the names of people who got the money! #USAID has apparently been one big slush fund for anything the Left wanted," she wrote in sharing the video.

X's "Community notes" tool smacked down the video, noting the reporting is nowhere to be found on eonline.com.

To boot, Stiller himself came out and forcefully denied the accusations.

"Totally false. Untrue. These are lies coming from Russian media. I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no personal payments," he wrote on X.

Video from June 2022 showed Stiller shaking Zelensky's hand and calling him "my hero." In a lighter moment, Stiller complimented Zelensky on his "great acting career," to which Zelensky responded, “Not as great as you," as the two laughed.

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A right-wing attorney who has issued a bevy of threats in recent months to perceived foes of President-elect Donald Trump appeared to do so again, this time taking aim at the judge who presided over Trump's hush money trial.

Prominent conservative attorney Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project who previously served as chief counsel for nominations to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, sent his message to Judge Juan Merchan on Friday.

"Dear Judge Juan Merchan: You better hope your daughter Loren Merchan has saved the money she’s raised off your unprecedented, bogus trial of Trump. You may desperately need that to cover your legal expenses for your blatant corruption," he wrote on X.

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That post came hours after he wrote a profane post targeting the same judge.

"Dear Judge Juan Merchan: 1. Go f--- yourself. 2. Go home. Import the third world; become the third world," he said.

Davis has become a vehement defender of Trump in recent years, actively blasting the legal cases against Trump as "lawfare" and making numerous media appearances defending Trump.

Trump earlier in the day avoided jail time after his conviction was unconditionally discharged by Merchan, who Trump again called "highly conflicted" in a Truth Social post that claims "there never was case" and described the prosecution as a "scam."

The sentencing meant Trump is now a convicted felon but he will be given no additional punishment.

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) clapped back at President-elect Donald Trump, who raged about the never-Trump conservative on his social media app, calling her a "Warmonger of low intelligence."

Cheney — who made headlines during the presidential campaign when she endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris over President-elect Donald Trump, and urged other Republicans to do so as well — is the daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney.

In describing her, the White House said she "raised her voice -- and reached across the aisle -- to defend our Nation and the ideals we stand for: Freedom. Dignity. And decency."

Cheney was recognized for her role as vice chair of the House January 6 Committee.

Trump — and his MAGA allies — bemoaned President Joe Biden giving her the Presidential Citizens Medal on Thursday, accusing Cheney of being "totally corrupt."

"She, 'Bennie' Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th. Cheney has the distinction of losing her Congressional seat by the largest margin in History! The people of Wyoming understood how bad for our Country she was, but Biden rewarded her only because she hated 'TRUMP,'" he railed.

Trump then added, "She’s a Warmonger of low intelligence. All she wants to do is kill people in 'Endless Wars,' with no gain other than to defense companies. Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the rest of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible things under the pretense of January 6th. Nancy Pelosi refused to accept the help which was offered for security. She is responsible, and admitted as much, for all to see, on her daughter’s tape. They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America. January 20th cannot come fast enough. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

On Friday afternoon, Cheney issued a terse response.

"Donald, this is not the Soviet Union. You can’t change the truth and you cannot silence us. Remember all your lies about the voting machines, the election workers, your countless allegations of fraud that never happened? Many of your lawyers have been sanctioned, disciplined or disbarred, the courts ruled against you, and dozens of your own White House, administration, and campaign aides testified against you. Remember how you sent a mob to our Capitol and then watched the violence on television and refused for hours to instruct the mob to leave? Remember how your former Vice President prevented you from overturning our Republic? We remember."

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She added that Americans need to "reject your latest malicious falsehoods and stand as the guardrails of our Constitutional Republic — to protect the America we love from you."

Her response earned praise from supporters on Bluesky and X.

"OMG! Liz Cheney just DEMOLISHED Donald Trump in response to his new threat toward her! Trump is no match for Liz Cheney," remarked Democratic social media influencer Henry Sisson.

"Well said. History will not be kind to Trump and his enablers," replied the Republicans against Trump account on X.

"I stand with #LizCheney and she is absolutely right," cheered columnist Sophia A. Nelson.

"Trump and his GOP enablers can try to retcon what happened on January 6th. But we all saw it with our own eyes. We saw Trump and Republicans lie about the election being stolen. People believed them and attacked the Capitol to try and overturn an election. The truth is the truth," reacted Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark.

"Liz Cheney responds to Trump latest. Bravo," wrote Amanda Carpenter, writer and editor at the organization Protect Democracy, on Bluesky.

House Republicans on Wednesday proposed a new slate of rules for the next Congress, including one flagged by Axios as a "crucial alternation."

Among the changes to the standing rules proposed: "A resolution causing a vacancy in the Office of Speaker shall not be privileged except if it is offered by a member of the majority party and has accumulated eight cosponsors from the majority party at the time it is offered."

In other words, the threshold would be raised from just one House Republican being able to introduce a measure to force a vote on ousting the House speaker to now that member needing eight additional co-sponsors.

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The change stems from a GOP deal agreed to in November as the party prepares to renominate House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Axios reported that the proposed rules also scrap the Congressional Diversity & Inclusion Office and reverts the name of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

President-elect Donald Trump slammed "criminals coming in" from other countries after a driver plowed into dozens of people in New Orleans, killing 10 and wounding dozens of others. But Trump's statement, issued Wednesday morning, appeared to have been made before authorities identified the suspect as a 42-year-old Texas military veteran — a fact not lost on even the right-wing Fox News network.

Around 3 a.m. Wednesday, a pickup truck intentionally mowed down a crowd of New Year's revelers on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter. The suspect, identified as Shamsud Din Jabbar, drove a Ford F-150 Lightning truck in the attack that was apparently rented via the Turo app, the owner of the truck told ABC7.

Hours after the attack on Wednesday morning, Trump echoed his campaign rhetoric in blaming criminals from other countries.

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"When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!" he exclaimed.

A Fox News reporter read the statement on air Wednesday afternoon after federal officials identified the suspect, and fact-checked the president-elect.

"Now the former president said criminals coming in in a statement, meaning into our country, but to be clear Molly [Line] and Brian [Llenas] the suspect was born in the United States, he served in the United States Army, he was a veteran, the FBI is the lead agency in this investigation going through the social media and any other accounts associated with the suspect," said Justice Correspondent David Spunt.

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A former CNN anchor unleashed a profanity-laced tirade on his podcast while talking about a rift that has grown in MAGA world between the right-wing tech crowd of Silicon Valley and President-elect Donald Trump's base.

Don Lemon, who worked at CNN for nearly a decade until leaving in 2023, launched his rant on his YouTube channel on Friday as he cackled at the brouhaha that unfolded.

The rift emerged between two factions. On one side, tech allies such as billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy — who have been tapped to slash trillions from the federal budget — are advocating for more visas to attract highly skilled foreign workers. On the other side is the MAGA base, which has opposed expanding H-1B visas, seeing it as a threat to American jobs.

"If you were taken by this whole tech bro DOGE thing — oh and also, you know, we're going to deport migrants —" Lemon began, before breaking out into a hysterical laugh.

Lemon asserts that the tech crowd supports people who come to America and then overstay their visas, believing them to be "good workers" and "good people." Furthermore, they can't unionize.

"And now they're figuring out without these people we cannot do our tech jobs! But guess who knew that? The tech bros knew that. The folks who are supporting Donald Trump. The folks who you want to put in charge of the DOGE already knew that," he said.

Lemon continued laughing as he noted farms have indicated they'd have to shut down after just two days without visa workers.

"After that, it's over! Oh my gosh I love this!" a hysterical Lemon continued laughing. "Now you're finding out you dumb f---ing idiots. Now you're just figuring this s--- out. You're so f---ing stupid and you deserve it. You f---ing deserve it because you're so dumb."

Lemon said he was "openly gloating" over MAGA "stupidity" and how they were "taken."

Lemon continued laying into Trump's fans.

"You have been co-opted because you are in a f---ing cult and you don't even realize it because you have stupid MAGA brain and you don't get it. How stupid and dumb are you?" he said.

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A Republican state lawmaker in Utah abruptly resigned Thursday less than two months after winning re-election.

Rep. Kera Birkeland was appointed to the Utah House of Representatives in April 2020 and was elected to a full term later that year. On Nov. 5, she won another term with 60 percent of the vote over Democratic challenger Kris Campbell.

But on Thursday evening, she said her constituents deserve better.

"The residents of District 4 have granted me a profound opportunity; in several elections, they entrusted a young mother like me to be their voice. Their steadfast support, along with their commitment to hold me accountable, has been a profound source of motivation for me. My deep affection for each member of this District drives me to recognize that they merit a representative who can provide them with even more than I am currently capable of offering," said Birkeland.

She added: "It is with a heavy heart that I announce my decision to resign from the Utah House of Representatives, effective January 10th, 2025.

Birkeland cited family and professional obligations that have "increasingly required my attention away from home," and said she expects that trend will continue for at least a year or two.

"This choice was not made lightly; it has weighed heavily on my mind for some time, partly, because I feel that my work here is far from complete. Nevertheless, the present circumstances demand that I focus on other significant responsibilities," she said.

Birkeland supported anti-trans and anti-abortion bills, according to local media reports. Three years ago, she proposed legislation to ban trans athletes from competing in girls’ sports in the state, then proposed an even more restrictive bill last year. This year, she was the top sponsor of a transgender bathroom ban that passed this year.

Birkeland campaigned on development projects and affordable housing.

A New York Democrat thinks he knows what's behind President-elect Donald Trump's bizarre new request: money.

Over the weekend, Trump suggested the United States should reclaim the Panama Canal, citing exorbitant fees for access and an increasing Chinese presence in the waterway.

"The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the US,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform late Saturday. "This complete ‘rip-off’ of our Country will immediately stop …”

Trump said he would not allow the canal to fall into the “wrong hands."

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“The United States has a vested interest in the secure, efficient, and reliable operation of the Panama Canal, and that was always understood. We would and will NEVER let it fall into the wrong hands! It was not given for the benefit of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with us and Panama."

The president-elect also appeared to be alarmed by increasing usage from China.

“When President Jimmy Carter foolishly gave it away, for One Dollar, during his term in Office, it was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” he said. “It was likewise not given for Panama to charge the United States, its Navy, and corporations, doing business within our Country, exorbitant prices and rates of passage.”

Panamanian President Mulino rebuffed Trump's statement on his X account.

“Every square metre of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area belongs to Panama and will continue belonging [to Panama],” Mulino said in a statement, prompting a curt reply from Trump: "We’ll see about that."

The saga became the topic of conversation on CNN on Monday night, with former Rep. Max Rose joking that people should always take Trump at his word.

"Look, you should take what Donald Trump says seriously," he said. "And to my friend [Republican strategist David Urban], obviously congrats on your victory and what I particularly enjoyed about Donald Trump's campaign was all of the Panama Canal commercials. And you saw how much that spiked in the exit polls. It was such a pivotal issue in the campaign! So obviously he'd be acting on it now!"

As his fellow panelists chuckled at Rose's dig, he noted Trump did not mention the Panama Canal during the campaign.

"The guy never mentioned it once! So we all know how this business works, ok? Someone wrote him a check. Or Someone had a pivotal meeting with him and made him a promise for a future check if he acted on this issue. So it's going to be Panama Canal this week or next and then in the weeks thereafter it'll be another pet project of the billionaire class. This speaks to the actual truth of this second iteration of what the second iteration of the Trump presidency will be: not the populist hard core issues that he actually ran on, and that's what's so sad about all this."

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Tech billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk lashed out at a Democratic lawmaker on Friday afternoon who accused him of "endorsing a neo-Nazi party."

Following Trump's win over Vice President Kamala Harris, Musk has recently tried to use his influence to tilt Germany’s election, endorsing on his platform, X, the country’s far-right Alternative for Germany party. Musk wrote Thursday night, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

He shared his comment while resharing a post from far-right influencer, Naomi Seibt, who said Germany’s "presumptive next chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) is horrified by the idea that Germany should follow Elon Musk’s and Javier Milei’s example."

Seibt has pushed white nationalist ideology, according to The Guardian. She has also denied that climate change is largely driven by fossil fuels.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) slammed Musk on his platform.

"The AfD's mission is to rehabilitate the image of the Nazi movement. One leader's license plate is an open tribute to Hitler. A top AfD official said about migrants, 'We can always shoot them later...or gas them.' Another described Judaism as the 'inner enemy' in Germany," wrote Murphy.

Speaking with CNN anchor Dana Bash, Murphy railed that Musk's behavior is "not normal."

"AfD is essentially a neo-Nazi party in Germany," he said. "They exist to essentially rehabilitate the image of the Nazi Party," he said.

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The party has "all sorts of very dangerous ideas about ridding Germany of anyone that is not naturally born in that country," Murphy added. "They are an extremist group and it is just extraordinary that maybe the most important adviser to the United States, somebody that has been parading around the halls of Congress as a key adviser to the president is endorsing a neo-Nazi party inside of Germany."

Murphy warned the consequences could be "catastrophic" if the United States takes the official position in favor of neo-Nazis.

The criticism didn't sit well with Musk, who ripped Murphy on X.

"What a huge liar. The AfD policies are identical to those of the US Democratic Party when Obama took office! I don’t think there is a single difference."

While the AfD doesn't explicitly exhibit characteristics of white nationalism, the party's ideology and rhetoric closely align with far-right and right-wing populist ideologies, including elements of white nationalism.

The party's 2016 manifesto explicitly said, "Islam does not belong to Germany" and it has campaigned on slogans including "Burkas? We’re more into bikinis" and "Our country first!"

Furthermore, party co-chairman Alexander Gauland has talked of fighting an "invasion of foreigners."

Watch Murphy's clip at this link.

A new spending bill has been released that earned President-elect Donald Trump's seal of approval on Thursday.

After Trump and close ally Elon Musk killed the GOP's first attempt at a spending bill on Wednesday, the MAGA leader declared "success" in drafting a revised version on Thursday afternoon, which he called a "very good Deal for the American People."

"The newly agreed to American Relief Act of 2024 will keep the Government open, fund our Great Farmers and others, and provide relief for those severely impacted by the devastating hurricanes," wrote Trump, adding that it punted the debt ceiling until 2027.

The current spending bill expires at midnight Friday. If a deal is not reached, the federal government will shut down.

Read the bill here.

The top Democrat in the House took a moment to goad President-elect Donald Trump on CNN on Tuesday night during a discussion over how Democrats plan to "push back against far-right extremism."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries joined CNN's "The Source" and told anchor Kaitlan Collins that while his colleagues will work with Republicans to find bipartisan common ground — particularly as it relates to "driving down the high cost of living" — they're simultaneously "prepared to push back against far-right extremism."

That includes protecting Social Security, Medicare, Obamacare, reproductive health care and progress in fighting climate change.

When Collins noted Trump has picked a slew of House Republicans — opening them up to losing their razor-thin 217-215 margin — Jeffries had no complaints.

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"What was going through my head? Three words: Keep it going," he said. "At the end of the day, during the first 100 days of his administration as you indicated 217 to 215, meaning my Republican colleagues can't lose a single vote in order to get anything done. Which is why, by necessity, we should embrace bipartisanship to solve problems for everyday Americans."

He added the last time Trump took office, he had 241 Republicans in the House.

"We're in a very different situation in terms of making progress in a bipartisan way, exercising common sense to find common ground, and pushing back against Republican extremism whenever necessary," Jeffries said.

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A former Republican staffer who has made headlines for his social media comments — and was once rumored to be on President-elect Donald Trump's list for attorney general — delivered another threat on Monday evening, this time to former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY).

Cheney, a vocal critic of Trump, said in a statement Monday that Trump's suggestion that she and other members of the Jan. 6 committee see jail time "is a continuation of his assault on the rule of law."

"Here is the truth: Donald Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election and seize power," Cheney said in a statement obtained by Fox News. "He mobilized an angry mob and sent them to the United States Capitol, where they attacked police officers, invaded the building and halted the official counting of electoral votes. Trump watched on television as police officers were brutally beaten and the Capitol was assaulted, refusing for hours to tell the mob to leave."

Cheney later hit back at Trump’s claims the committee destroyed evidence, calling his statement "ridiculous and false."

"There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis for what Donald Trump is suggesting – a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee – and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct," Cheney said.

Her statement caught the attention of right-wing allies on social media, including MAGA attorney Mike Davis, who served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and was the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Chuck Grassley during the Trump administration. He played a significant role in the confirmation processes of several federal judges, including Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"Try it, @LizCheney. When we sue your a-- into the ground, your daddy won’t be able to save you," he wrote Monday night.

Davis also reposted other MAGA accounts accusing her of suppressing evidence in the Jan. 6 probe.

One-half of the country duo Big & Rich laid into Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Wednesday evening over the senator's comments about Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's embattled pick for Pentagon chief.

John Rich, a vocal supporter of Trump — and vehement opponent of Joe Biden who once mocked the president as "Sniffy" over his sniffles — took to the social media site X to voice his displeasure with Republicans waffling on Hegseth's nomination.

"The pro-war RINO's are all against @PeteHegseth and that tells you all you need to know," wrote Rich. "Pete is a threat to the war machine. Recess appointments?"

He added in a separate post, "Don't Kavanaugh our Hegseth," referring to the tough confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whose nomination was dogged by a sexual assault allegation and protests.

Rich then set his sights on Graham, who has called the allegations against Hegseth "disturbing."

"I think some of these articles are very disturbing. He obviously has a chance to defend himself here, but some of this stuff is it's going to be difficult..." Graham told CBS News.

Rich unleashed a series of posts on X targeting Graham, including at least two that used a homophobic reference.

"Who do you trust more? (repost for maximum results and hilarious responses:)" Rich asked his followers, providing just two responses: Santa Claus and Lindsey Graham.

"I sat across from Lindsey Graham at dinner with DJT a while back. As I was answering a direct question from POTUS, Lindsey twirled his Chardonnay (pinkies up) and told Trump I was a raging conspiracy theorist. I gave him a look that would hairlip the devil, then dismantled him," Rich later posted.

He added: "I've seen tougher guys at Starbucks."

Rich didn't stop there. He shared Graham's office number to his followers and urged them to let him know their feelings about confirming Hegseth.

"This better have 5k reposts before I go to bed," he challenged his followers.

Within an hour, the post had thousands of reposts.

"Welp, that didn't take long," he followed up.

Chuck Todd ruffled feathers on the left during an interview with fellow journalist Chris Cillizza, in which he unloaded on both President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

During their weekly conversation, Todd, who is the chief political analyst for NBC News, weighed in on the president's widely criticized decision to issue a full pardon for his son, who was accused of federal tax and gun charges.

"Joe Biden's got — needs therapy," said Todd. "And I say this with respect. He has not processed Beau's death. He has an issue. He cannot — he has this issue with Hunter. He second-guesses everything he's done —"

"Raising him," interjects Cillizza.

"Raising Hunter," agreed Todd. "Raising Beau. He, I think, blames himself for Hunter's inability to conduct himself as an adult for a period of time. I think he's better now."

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Todd said he knew both Beau and Hunter, and that it was "fair to say" that Hunter "failed at being a human being" in the 2010s.

"Failed at adulting for a variety of reasons," said Todd, adding there was "no doubt" that Joe Biden would do "everything he could" to protect Hunter. "Pure and simple. It's a dad reaction."

Todd added that Joe Biden couldn't face the potential "humiliation" of having President-elect Donald Trump pardon Hunter.

"I understand the decision as a father," said Todd. "I understand the decision personally."

Even so, Todd said Biden's decision will be weaponized by MAGA allies who will say he was "emotionally incapable of being president of the United States and probably never should have run." Todd said he "lost it" with Biden after reading transcripts of the Hunter Biden trial.

"You want to get angry? Just as a — somebody — with all these mixed emotions? You read the Hallie Biden transcript. And that's Beau's widow. Essentially he turned her into a crack addict," said Todd.

Joe and Jill Biden were "so concerned about their family," Todd added, "that they decided to run for president. I — so when you talk about the word selfish — it's almost like the word doesn't — their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position that it's in now."

MAGA supporters predictably seized on Todd's comments, with Charlie Kirk — a key member of Trump's inner circle and campaign — saying the NBC host "suddenly grows a conscience and gets angry at Joe and Jill Biden for selfishly running for President while Hunter was busy turning Beau's widow, Hallie, into a crack addict."

"Where was the outrage a few years ago, Chuck?" asked Kirk on X.

Kevin Smith, founder of The Loud Majority show on Rumble, echoed Kirk's sentiments.

"Chuck Todd has suddenly come to the conclusion that Joe Biden is the Most Selfish man in America, a terrible father, and an awful President," he wrote on X.

Todd's comments also outraged the left.

"My god it's @chucktodd and @ChrisCillizza - the Ruth and Gehrig of Trump Sanewashing - blaming Biden for the political crisis that NBC/CNN/et al fed and nurtured and these two brainless fools polished," former MSNBC and SportsCenter host Keith Olbermann wrote on X.

Democratic strategists Chris D. Jackson and Eric Ortner also slammed Todd.

"These are wholly inappropriate comments from @chucktodd. What the hell is wrong with you man?" asked Jackson on X.

He added in a separate post: "@NBCNews do you approve of such vile, personal comments from one of your jouanlists? (sic)"

Ortner replied: "I’ll take the over that Chuck came out on the bad side of the cuts at NBC and is taking advice from his reps on how to dip into the right wing honey pot X. Sad."

In another post, Ortnor pointed to Todd's remarks on Hunter Biden, saying: "Here’s some more dumb s--- Chuck said… (add it to the long list). The message feels commercially driven among other things."

Watch part of Todd's comments at this link.

An Iowa Republican senator acknowledged he was "concerned" Tuesday about the threat of a trade war following inflammatory statements from Donald Trump, but downplayed the president-elect's comments as merely a "negotiating tool."

Trump on Monday said heplans to impose a 25% impose a 25% tariffon all imports from Mexico and Canada, and a 10% tariff on goods from China on his first day in office. The move is meant to stem the flow of drugs coming over the border and illegal border crossings.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday called the threats a "negotiating tool," Politico reported. Even so, he admitted feeling apprehensive about the prospect of a trade war.

“I think you got to see it as a negotiating tool,” Grassley told reporters Tuesday morning, according to the report.

However, he said he felt "concerned about the potential of it,” when asked whether he was worried about a trade war.

“But right now, I see everything that Trump's doing on tariffs as a negotiating tool,” he insisted. “And we'll have to wait and see how successful he is about that.”

Rupert Murdoch's conservative New York Post took a swipe at President-elect Donald Trump's pick for the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday night, joking that Mar-a-Lago must be seeing an outbreak of brain-eating worms.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said that in 2010, a worm got into his brain, “ate a portion of it and then died.” At the time, he said he was suffering from cognitive difficulties. Doctors found it was a parasitic infection: A pork tapeworm larva.

The New York Post on Thursday night ripped Trump's selection for HHS secretary, noting that the "overriding rule of medicine" is "First, do no harm" — and that appointing Kennedy to the role "breaks this rule."

The Post pointed to their sit-down interview last year in which he espoused a "head-scratching spaghetti of what we can only call warped conspiracy theories, and not just on vaccines."

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"'Neocons' are responsible for America’s policy ills. 'Pesticides, cellphones, ultrasound' could be driving an upswing in Tourette syndrome and peanut allergies," the Post recalled he said, adding: "He told us with full conviction that all America’s chronic health problems began in one year in the 1980s when a dozen bad things happened."

While social media users might be "gullible" and "hungry" for conspiracy theories, the Post came away thinking "he's nuts on a lot of fronts." People could be harmed or die, the publication warned. Furthermore, it warned Kennedy could send the industry into a disastrous "tailspin."

"We fear the worm that he claims ate some of his brain some years ago is contagious and there’s been an outbreak at Mar-a-Lago," the Post concluded.

Kennedy has called vaccines into question, broadly questioning their safety and efficacy, including claiming, "There's no vaccine that is safe and effective" — and promoting the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism.

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a powerful concession speech Wednesday afternoon as she pledged to honor the peaceful transition of power — even as she vowed never to concede the "fight that fueled this campaign."

Speaking in Washington, D.C., and dressed in all black, Harris delivered a 12-minute speech to a tearful audience that erupted into chants of "Ka-ma-la!"

As supporters shouted, "We love you!" she replied, "And I love you back." Harris said her heart was "full" despite the election results.

"Hear me when I say, the light of America’s promise will always burn bright as long as we never give up and we keep fighting," she said.

After thanking her husband Doug Emhoff, President Joe Biden and her team, Harris declared she was proud of the race her campaign ran, highlighting that it was about building community and coalitions "united by love of country with enthusiasm and joy in our fight for America’s future."

"We did it with the knowledge that we have so much more in common than what separates us," said Harris.

She brought some levity to the speech as well, noting “I get it” referring to supporters feeling a dark range of emotions. Even so, she said she'll accept the results of the election.

"A fundamental principle of American democracy is that when we lose an election we accept the results," she said, a notable break from how now-President-elect Donald Trump handled his election loss in 2020.

Harris said doing so distinguishes a democracy from a monarchy or tyranny.

"Anyone who seeks the public’s trust must honor it," she emphasized.

She later added: "While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign."

That fight, she said, is for freedom, opportunity, fairness and the dignity of all people.

"The ideals that reflect America at our best," she said, adding: "That is a fight I will never give up."

As she closed her speech, Harris told supporters to ignore their doubters.

"Don't you ever listen if someone tells you something is impossible since it has never been done before," she said. "You have the capacity to do extraordinary good in the world."

She offered a gentle word of encouragement, too.

"Do not despair. This is not the time to throw up our hands. It's the time to roll up our sleeves," she said. "Organize and mobilize for the sake of freedom and justice."

She shared an adage that only when it's dark enough can you see stars.

"If it is, let us fill the sky with the brilliant, brilliant billion of stars. The light of optimism, of faith, of truth, and service," she said.

The Republican Party seized control of the Senate late Tuesday as Republican candidates flipped seats in Ohio and West Virginia and fended off a surprising challenge in Nebraska.

Bernie Moreno defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Gov. Jim Justice won in retiring independent Sen. Joe Manchin's seat in West Virginia. Incumbent Republican Deb Fischer held onto her seat in Nebraska.

The GOP now has control over the chamber that will confirm the next president’s cabinet, as well as any potential Supreme Court justices.

The news comes as former President Donald Trump led Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race late Tuesday.

Control over the House of Representatives remained unclear late Tuesday, with more than 100 races still uncalled.

A new report flagged what it called a "red flag" for the Trumpcampaign in a key battleground state that could decide the presidential election.

Donald Trump is trailing Kamala Harris in early voting among seniors in Pennsylvania, Politico reported, calling the finding a "warning sign" for him that mirrors data and polling across swing states.

The report comes after Republicans won the constituency in each election since 2004.

The report said adults over 65 account for nearly half of early voters in Pennsylvania. Registered Democrats account for about 58 percent of those votes, and about 35 percent are Republicans. While Republicans have noted that gap is smaller than it was when Joe Biden won in 2020, Politico noted those votes are "in the bank" for Democrats. Republicans are betting that seniors will hit the polls on Election Day.

Democratic strategist Tom Bonier told the outlet it represents a “silver surge."

“Our expectation going into the early vote was that it would, in general, skew substantially more Republican than in 2020,” Bonier said. “There is no more pandemic, Democrats were more Covid conscious … and Republicans have been pushing early voting.”

Pennsylvania recorded about 2.5 million total early votes in 2020, a significant increase over previous elections, partly due to the pandemic. Of those, about 1.2 million were adults over 60.

So far, the state has recorded about 1.6 million early votes, according to the University of Florida's Election Lab. About 56.5% were from Democrats and 32.6% were from Republicans.

The report comes after Marc Short, who served as Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, warned Thursday that an increase in Republican voters during early voting may not be something Donald Trumpshould celebrate.

"There's more evidence of Republicans crossing over than Democrats crossing over," Short told MSNBC. "You are looking at [higher] Republican numbers, but I'm not sure that tells a full story right now."

A former staffer of the Trump administration who shot to fame on "The Apprentice" told CNN on Tuesday her old boss' town hall turned dance party shows he has nothing to say to Americans — and suggested journalists ask specific medical questions as he refuses to release his medical records.

Omarosa Manigault Newman, former director of communications for the Office of Public Liaison during the Trump administration, joined CNN anchor Laura Coates on her show late Tuesday. The two discussed Trump's town hall event, in which the MAGA leader answered a few questions before playing music and dancing for more than 40 minutes.

Newman called the spectacle "one of the most bizarre displays I've ever seen from Donald Trump," emphasizing she's known Trump since 2003.

"It really shows that Donald Trump has nothing to say to America," she said. "He has nothing to offer to America. All he has to offer is weird swaying and dancing. And at a time like this in this nation, we need more than just that. And he cannot deliver."

Coates agreed, noting Trump could've used the time to go on the offense or talk about policy.

"Instead, I'm doing the Y-M-C-A," she said. "And that just seems a very odd waste of political capital 21 days before the election."

When Coates steered the conversation toward Newman's book suggesting that Trump was showing signs of mental decline as early as 2017, Newman shared that in the first year in the White House, Trump was "unable to recall basic figures."

"He would forget the names of his cabinet members. He would forget key details of policy issues that we were talking about as we were preparing for him to go out on stage," she said.

She theorized that Trump is canceling interviews because "once he starts to stumble, he starts to pivot" — and starts attacking.

Coates played a clip of Trump bragging he aced a cognitive test but noted he refuses to release the results of the test. In response, Newman said there's "more there, there." Trump dictated what part of his medical history was released, she said.

"The doctors weren't free to write what they want. They weren't free to write what was really seen in those evaluations," she said.

Savvy reporters, she added, ought to ask "very specific" questions regarding Trump's health.

"I think they should ask about his health in terms of his heart," she said. "They should ask, 'Has Donald Trump had any issues with, for instance, stents?' 'Has he ever had a stent?' I think a journalist should ask that and see if they'll answer the true question. 'Has he had any blockage in his heart?' Wonder if they'll give any true answers about that."

Raw Story reached out to the Trump campaign about Newman's questions and will update when we hear back.

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A CNN panel devolved into chaos and shouting on Thursday night during a discussion over former President Donald Trump's falsehoods, combatting them, and even whether to agree they were false.

Speaking to her panelists on "NewsNight," host Abby Phillip questioned whether Trump's falsities regarding hurricane relief represented "a different level of politicians behaving badly."

"To use a storm to say, 'Vote for me, not for the other guy,'" she trailed off.

"And suggesting that you have to wait until January for actual real relief when we know that relief is actually on the ground right now in Florida and the Carolinas," chimed in CNN's chief media analyst Brian Stelter.

He said misinformation reporters feel they've "lost" this week.

"There's nothing more to do," he said. "Like, it's become so extreme. So out of control. So many Americans have just lost the plot and lost connection to reality."

When Leigh McGowan, a social media host and content creator, suggested it's time to consider legislating against lies — a "fairness doctrine for the new millennium" because, she said, "you shouldn't be able to just lie to the American public" — the panel pushed back.

"Who decides the lies?" questioned Stelter.

"I'm all for truth but we tried that twice in American history and it was a horrific failure," said T.W. Arrighi, a former communications aide to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

As McGowan listed off right-wing falsehoods about Haitian immigrants and FEMA, she called it a "concerning reality," prompting Arrighi to respond her ideas of "censorship" represent a "concerning reality."

"Who draws the line? Like you said," Arrighi said, pointing to Stelter.

The panel devolved shortly thereafter when Arrighi asked, 'If somebody said, 'If this storm hit Charlotte or Palm Beach, not the hollers of western North Carolina, I think the response would be different,' is that a lie? Maybe not! It's an opinion."

He added, "Who's deciding?"

The question prompted the panelists to talk over each other for a few seconds, then devolved again after Marc Lotter, former strategic communications for the Trump campaign, said similar questions are also asked when citizens suggest millions are spent on sports arenas instead of on police and teachers.

"Guys hold on a second," Phillip tries to interject, to no avail. "Everyone, stop talking. Hold on a second. This is not what we're talking about. It's really just not."

Phillip then tired to correct the course of the conversation, and told her panel it's "not that hard to figure out."

"Trump says that they are not getting help in Republican areas. That is just false. It's just false. It's not an opinion. It's just a provably false thing. So let's just agree — can we agree that's a lie?"

Trotter didn't agree.

"I would say, what do the people think?" he asked.

The panel erupted into shouting — and groans — again.

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Critics were baffled by a New York Times headline on Wednesday night that they said missed the mark compared to the report, which put a spotlight on former President Donald Trump's long-held belief in racehorse breeding theory — that strong genes result in superior people.

The paper of record noted that former President Donald Trump is "reviving" an "old habit" — "invoking his long-held fascination with genes and genetics" in the weeks before the election.

"For decades, including long before he became a political figure, Mr. Trump has been publicly obsessed with bloodlines and his stated belief that genetics are the best predictor of a person’s success," he said. "He has repeatedly commented on what he described as his, his family’s and his supporters’ good genes, and on others’ bad genes."

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The report noted that Trump told a conservative podcaster this week that he believes murder is hereditary.

"You know, now, a murderer, I believe this, it’s in their genes. And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now," said Trump.

While the Trump campaign tried to clarify that the former president was "clearly referring to murderers, not migrants," the comment drew widespread condemnation from Democrats, including Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, who called Trump's statement “vile, disturbing, hateful."

But it wasn't the article's reporting that caught social media's ire. It was the headline, which critics argued wasn't strong enough given the racially-charged report.

"In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics," the Times headline read.

The headline was called out by the popular satirical "New York Times Pitchbot" account, which parodies headlines and article ideas from The New York Times.

"Hard to compete with this," the account wrote on X, attaching a screenshot of the headline.

"The sanewashing of Trump continues," wrote former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.

"Trump’s practically a scientist!!!" exclaimed David Corn, Washington, D.C. bureau chief of Mother Jones.

"This New York Times headline makes it seem as if Trump has a deep intellectual curiosity about genetics instead of stating the obvious fact that he’s simply a racist," wrote Mark Jacob, former editor at The Chicago Tribune & Sun-Times.

"My god," replied foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen.

"Wow. That can’t be real, although I’m sure it is," lamented Paul Biedermann, an adjunct professor of design and comic art.

"JFC @nytimes. JFC," wrote actor Bradley Whitford, who played Josh Lyman, the White House deputy chief of staff, in the 1990s hit show "The West Wing."