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MAGA conservatives constantly try to rewrite history, and Newsmax guest Jessie Jane Duff went there, too. As much as MAGA would like to change the fact that former President Donald Trump was impeached twice, they cannot do that. They tried in retaliation to impeach President Joe Biden, but that failed.

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. For about half of this country, former President Donald Trump’s boorish behavior is reason enough to pass on signing up for another four years of his bombast in the White House.

Mike Johnson has just named two congressmen with checkered histories to receive daily briefings on the United States' more sensitive intelligence information. One was Trump's drug dealer and the other was an insurrectionist for January 6th against the government of the United States. It's unlikely either could even pass a real background check to get onto that committee. "News that should sound alarm bells for anyone and everyone who cares about our national security," said Nicolle Wallace in her opening. Source: NBC News WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson named two conservatives to the House Intelligence Committee Wednesday, downplaying concerns about their past criticisms of the intelligence community. Johnson tapped Reps.

Hunter Biden, the second son of U. S. President Joe Biden, is currently on trial for charges of lying about his drug use on background check documents when purchasing a handgun in 2018. The President’s son has struggled with addiction for much of his adult life, and went through a particularly intense period after his brother, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer in 2015. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] In 1972, when they were just toddlers, Hunter and Beau survived a tragic car accident that left their mother, President Biden’s first wife Neilia Hunter Biden, and their younger sister Naomi Christina Biden dead.

Donald Trump's former campaign manager and advisor Steve Bannon cried crocodile tears at the courthouse today after being ordered to begin his prison sentence on July 1 for his conviction for contempt of Congress. The scurrilous Real America's Voice host was sentenced to four months in prison, but was out on appeal. Bannon whined that the Justice Department and Merrick Garland were putting him behind bars to silence him, which is a lie. Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, the entire Justice Department, they're not going to shut up Trump, they're not going to shut up Navarro, they're not going to shut up Bannon, and they're certainly not going to shut up MAGA. Bannon had refused to provide "documents and testimony to the House Select committee that investigated the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack.

Coming later this year: The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party by Michael Tackett. “In the long history of American government, few senators have wielded as much power as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell. That’s no accident; he worked his entire life to cultivate his dominance.” The Price of Power: How Mitch McConnell Mastered the Senate, Changed America and Lost His Party Hardcover BookTackett, Michael (Author)English (Publication Language)416 Pages - 10/29/2024 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher) Check Price on Amazon