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Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida—House chaos agent and primary attention seeker—asserted Monday that there are new “frivolous investigations” against him and that the Ethics Committee had already exonerated him on previous probes. “The House Ethics Committee has closed four probes into me, which emerged from lies intended solely to smear me,” he tweeted.

Donald Trump kicked off his rally in Wisconsin with some doozies. At this point, there is no good argument to make Felon 45's cognitive decline less of a problem than it is. In every rally, he's glitching out. For example, Trump recently claimed that comedian Joan Rivers, who has been dead for eleven years, voted for him in 2016.

New York’s highest court has declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal on the gag order in his hush money case, according to a decision list posted Tuesday. The gag order, issued by Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case against Trump, remains in effect. Separately, Trump has asked Merchan to terminate the gag order ahead of his sentencing scheduled for July.

Donald Trump’s transparent attempt to portray himself as a lover of Wisconsin came hard on the heels of reporting he had called Milwaukee, the host of the upcoming RNC convention called Milwaukee, the host of the upcoming RNC convention, a “horrible city,” Oh sure, Trump and the RNC furiously tried to spin his smear of the swing state as a lie, yet Trump all but owned up to it. In case you had any doubt that Trump really did stick his foot in his mouth about Wisconsin, his clumsy, obviously insincere and faint praise during a Tuesday rally in Racine should convince you. In the clip above, Trump was whining about the “beautiful life” he would have had with 200 fewer lawyers.

(BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. The GOP-drafted legislation mandates that a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” be required in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.