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A new YouGov poll for Yahoo News shows that 52% of Americans now believe the central premise of Donald Trump’s hush money trial: that he did "falsify documents to conceal a hush money payment to a porn star." Just 22% say he did not, while roughly one-quarter say they don't know. Nearly half of Americans said they were following the trial at least somewhat closely, at 48%, while 52% said they were not.

[Above: The last time Trump got a medal that DIDN'T include cheating at his own golf course, it was from the Saudis. -- eds.] The first Congressional Gold Medal was struck in 1776 as a way of saying thanks to George Washington. Since then, the medal has been awarded just 184 times to hallowed figures including Mother Teresa, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama.

The disgraced former Republican Congressman, now CEO of Truth Social, Devin Nunes joined Real America's Voice. He claimed there's a massive conspiracy against Trump's media site, causing the stock to plummet. It can't be that the site is losing millions of dollars while not having the kind of engagement a thriving social media site needs to survive.

Don't you love it when a couple of millionaire Fox News hosts weigh in on the homeless situation as if they are experts on the issue? Yeah, me neither. But that's what Jesse Watters and Jeanine Pirro did, according to Media Matters. "A lot of these people, when they're asked and given a home, they don't want to go into the home," Watters insisted.

New York Times: “Two years into President Biden’s term, his aides began negotiating with Saudi leaders to have the kingdom establish diplomatic relations with Israel. But when the Israel-Hamas war began last October, the talks withered. American and Saudi officials have tried to revive prospects for a deal by demanding more from Israel — a cease-fire in Gaza and irreversible steps toward the founding of a Palestinian nation.” “Now those officials say they are close to a final agreement on the main elements of what the Saudis want from the deal: a U.