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RNC grifter Lara Trump said Sunday that Senate candiate Larry Hogan “doesn’t deserve the respect” of any Republican after he urged Americans to respect the verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money trial before it was delivered. Because The Family sticks together, amirite? Via CNN: Speaking with CNN’s Kasie Hunt on “State of the Union,” Lara Trump called Hogan’s comments “ridiculous” and said the former Maryland governor “should have thought long and hard” before releasing his statement. “I’ll tell you one thing, I don’t support what he just said there.

Groundswell psycho and a member of the hate group American Family Association Sandy Rios claimed Trump shows great character and respect for God because he's still married to Melania. These MAGAts are so laughable that it is frightening how corrupted they are. [Donald Trump] has such great respect. You know, he has respect for God. He has respect for him.

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ABC News host George Stephanopoulos grilled Will Scharf, Donald Trump's attorney, during an interview on Sunday. Throughout the interview, the host repeatedly rejected Scharf's suggestion that President Joe Biden orchestrated Trump's conviction in New York. "I vehemently disagree that the District Attorney in New York was not politically motivated here, and I vehemently disagree that President Biden and his political allies aren't up to their necks in this prosecution," Scharf told Stephanopoulos. "There's no evidence of that," the host interrupted.

Australia's The Juice Media on the state of democracy around the world. I've highlighted just the U. S. part, but it's interesting that they include Trump with the other ratfuckers who are actively working to undermine democracy in their own countries and around the world. Their full "ad" below. The Government™ has made an ad about the state of Democracy™, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Eric Trump warned that his father was becoming a "martyr" because he was convicted in a recent hush money trial. During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Trump complained about his father's sentencing, which is scheduled just days before the Republican National Convention. "I go into a courthouse, and I see absolute corruption from a judge, a judge whose daughter is apparently making millions and millions of dollars fundraising off of my father effectively going to jail, I mean, turning down every witness we have, a one-sided court," Trump recalled. "You just mentioned a second ago that the judge scheduled sentencing for four days before the RNC Convention in Milwaukee, the Republicans' biggest day of the entire campaign cycle, their big event, their big show," he continued.