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Georgia MAGA/QAnon/Klan Mom Marjorie Taylor Greene told traitor Steve Bannon (she's apparently a regular now on his show?) how furious she is that Speaker Johnson will not put forth a bill to defund Special Counsel Jack Smith. First, Marge made sure to explain why Speaker Johnson makes her sick. MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: He made me sick to my stomach this morning, ma'am.

Trump soiling himself in court again has even Laura Ingraham complaining. Source: Newsweek Fox News host Laura Ingraham has said the courtroom where Donald Trump is on trial for alleged hush-money payments smells "musty." "To give you a sense of what the GOP front-runner has been dealing with the past three weeks: The air is musty," Ingraham said on an episode of The Ingraham Angle.

Elbridge Colby "is an American national security policy professional who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development from 2017 to 2018 during the Trump administration," Wikipedia told me. He's also the grandson of William Colby who was the Director of the CIA in the mid-1970s.

Speaker of the House (barely) Mike Johnson told the press that his office, along with MAGA cultists James Comer and Jim Jordan, are seeking to interfere with the Special Counsel's case against Donald Trump in the secret documents case. Johnson first claimed he was in Manhattan just acting as a friend when he decided to join Trump at the courthouse.

Boston Globe: “Maybe pencil in the dates, but don’t write it down with a permanent marker.” “Coming up with dates, times and a television partner is the easy part. Agreeing to everything else, including who will moderate, could be very thorny especially when it is two campaigns in direct negotiations. Before the commission would just tell the candidates how the debates would be run and who would moderate.” “These agreed-upon debates could go haywire for any number of reasons.” “Among those skeptical these debates will happen?

“A jury was selected and sworn in Wednesday for the bribery trial of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ),” ABC News reports. “Federal prosecutors in New York have alleged that the New Jersey Democrat accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, mortgage payments and a luxury convertible in exchange for the senator’s political clout.