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MyPillow CEO pulls ads from Fox News
After Fox News rejected a promo from MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell for a live streamed event that seeks to prove that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, Lindell has pulled his ads from the network. CNN's Brian Stelter has the story.
[ cnn.com ]DOJ won't protect GOP Rep. Mo Brooks in insurrection lawsuit
The Justice Department on Tuesday rejected a request from GOP Rep. Mo Brooks to protect him from a civil lawsuit against him and former President Donald Trump concerning the January 6 insurrection.
[ cnn.com ]Where the fight to build a better democracy starts
During former President Donald Trump's rally in Arizona on Saturday, he, once again, asserted that the 2020 presidential election was rife with fraud when no such evidence exists. Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are not backing away from passing laws that attempt to dilute the voices of minority voters. And right-wing media channels like Fox News and Newsmax are keeping up their effort in spreading misinformation. Together, these various actors in the political arena and right-wing media have created the ultimate dangerous recipe for eroding trust in American institutions, elections, and worse, democracy itself.
[ cnn.com ]Surprise! Trump's 'election fraud' fundraising is not what it seems
Former President Donald Trump talked a good game about fundraising to fight "election fraud," but not all of the funds raised by his political PAC are being used for that purpose. In the latest episode of The Point, CNN's Chris Cillizza explains where the money is going — and why.
[ cnn.com ]See ER physician's exasperated response to packed, maskless Trump event
Maskless supporters packed a Phoenix theater for a chance to see former President Donald Trump as Covid-19 cases in the area have more than doubled due to the contagious Delta variant. CNN's Kyung Lah reports.
[ cnn.com ]Trump's appointees are turning the Supreme Court to the right with different tactics
The three appointees of former President Donald Trump have together sealed the Supreme Court's conservatism for a generation, but they have revealed strikingly different methods. They diverge in their regard for practical consequences, their desire to lay down markers for future disputes and their show of internal rivalries.
[ cnn.com ]Carl Bernstein: Trump is a 'war criminal'
Veteran journalist and author Carl Bernstein called former President Donald Trump a "war criminal" on "Reliable Sources" Sunday.
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Biden's approval rating simply hasn't moved in six months
President Joe Biden's presidency is now six months old. You'd be forgiven if you didn't realize how long Biden has been in office because Biden doesn't generate anywhere near the same news interest (see Google searches) as his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, did.
[ cnn.com ]Bernstein: We have to look at Trump in a different context
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein says we have to look at former President Donald Trump in a different context and calls Trump America's "own war criminal" that we've never seen before.
[ cnn.com ]Korean Americans separated by war have waited 70 years for a reunion. Their time is running out
Michael Roh remembers the tears that rolled down his grandmother's face as she watched former President Donald Trump meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un on TV.
[ cnn.com ]WaPo: This is what Trump's PAC is spending its money on
Former President Donald Trump's political action committee has raised $75 million in donations so far this year, but despite Trump's continued support of the sham Arizona election fraud audit, none of the PAC's money has been used to fund the audit.
[ cnn.com ]'Almost giddy': Author describes Donald Trump during the Capitol riot
Carol Leonnig, a co-author of the book "I Alone Can Fix It," describes how former President Donald Trump reacted while he was watching the January 6 Capitol riot unfold on TV from inside the White House.
[ cnn.com ]FBI says it got more than 4,500 tips on Kavanaugh, providing 'relevant' ones to Trump White House
The FBI disclosed that it received more than 4,500 tips on a phone line in 2018 as part of a background investigation into then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and provided "relevant" ones to former President Donald Trump's White House counsel.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: How Trump proved Nancy Pelosi right
As much as millions of Americans would like to move on, stop talking about -- even thinking about -- former President Donald Trump and the four years of relentless stress and outrage we endured during his presidency, that is simply not something that the country can do safely. That's because the threat to US democracy he unleashed has not passed, even though he was the loser of the 2020 election.
[ cnn.com ]'Like listening to Nixon drunk rambling': Anderson Cooper reacts to new Trump audio
Authors Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker of "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" share audio recordings of their interview with former President Donald Trump, where he shared his thoughts about the crowd during his January 6 speech before the deadly US Capitol insurrection.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: Pelosi exploded the myth of bipartisanship
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday rejected Jim Jordan and Jim Banks, two Republican members who Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had recommended for the select committee on the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. She argued that those members, who not only voted to overturn the 2020 presidential election but also spread conspiracies about the vote-counting process, threatened "the integrity of the investigation." McCarthy responded by pulling all of his people from the committee. When the committee holds a hearing next week (a spokesman told CNN it will not be delayed), it will contain no allies of former President Donald Trump.
[ cnn.com ]California businessman indicted on lobbying charges has counted Trump among his 'closest friends'
The illegal foreign lobbying charges brought against Tom Barrack on Tuesday punctuate a winding business and political career defined by his unique staying power in former President Donald Trump's constantly shifting orbit of advisers.
[ cnn.com ]Tom Barrack is accused of working on behalf of the United Arab Emirates to influence US foreign policy positions
Tom Barrack, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, was charged Tuesday with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates for what federal prosecutors described as an effort to influence the foreign policy positions of both the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the subsequent incoming administration.
[ cnn.com ]Read: Indictment of Tom Barrack, a onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, in foreign lobbying case
Tom Barrack, a onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump, and two others were charged Tuesday with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates.
[ cnn.com ]CNN reporter: Prosecutors say Barrack got Trump to do this
Tom Barrack, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, was charged with illegal foreign lobbying on behalf of the United Arab Emirates for what federal prosecutors described as an effort to influence the foreign policy positions of both the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and the subsequent incoming administration.
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