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The Republican National Committee’s head of election security, Christina Bobb, a former attorney of Donald Trump, has been receiving ridiculed on social media following her arraignment for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in Arizona by sending a slate of fake electors from the state.

Bobb was a lawyer for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. When she worked for One America News, she reported on an audit of the Arizona election results while also raising money for the audit.

From there, the former Trump lawyer became a part of the fake elector plot and the “command center” at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., during the Capitol attack on January 6, 2021.

Her mugshot was taken this week after she and ten other people who appeared in court virtually were arraigned at a Maricopa County, Arizona, courthouse. At the same time, she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has launched a self-branded coffee line amid spiral legal woes and costs. The new brand seems to be an effort to raise money for his ever-growing list of creditors.

“By supporting Rudy Coffee, you’re not just treating yourself to exceptional coffee, you’re also supporting our cause – the cause of truth, justice, and American democracy,” Giuliani said in the video.

On Tuesday, the former mayor and several other state Republican leaders pleaded not guilty to charges of allegedly conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona.

Giuliani, who was ordered to post a $10,000 bond, was served with the summons on Friday at his 80th birthday celebration in Palm Beach, Florida after Arizona prosecutors had spent weeks trying to track him down. The former mayor claimed he had not been hiding from the authorities and cited security concerns and threats he had received.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and nearly a dozen other allies of former President Donald Trump have pleaded not guilty to felony charges related to a “fake elector” scheme in Arizona.

The plot allegedly aimed to falsely declare Trump the winner of the 2020 presidential election in the state despite Joe Biden’s clear victory.

Giuliani, who once served as Trump’s personal attorney, appeared at the hearing remotely and without legal representation. His trial date was set for October. Despite his insistence that he was “capable of handling” the proceedings, the judge ordered Giuliani to appear in person within the next 30 days for booking procedures, which include a mugshot.

Additionally, Giuliani was required to post a $10,000 secured-appearance bond, a standard measure for defendants considered flight risks. This could prove challenging for the former mayor, who filed for bankruptcy last year after he lost a $148 million defamation lawsuit.

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Donald Trump, once banned from YouTube, will return to the video site in an unexpected way after the Georgia judge overseeing the former president’s election interference case announced that the trial will be livestreamed on the Fulton County Court’s channel.

Judge Scott McAfee announced the trial’s broadcast Thursday, soon after Trump pleaded not guilty to the state racketeering and other charges related to efforts his and his 18 co-defendants’ attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in the Peach State.

Trump was officially booked on felony charges last week in Atlanta.

Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal counts brought against him in a Georgia Rico case targeting his and his allies’ efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state.

Via a waiver submitted to the court on Thursday, Trump declined his right to an in-person arraignment, and entered his “not guilty” plea.

Just in: Donald Trump pleads Not Guilty, waives arraignment in Fulton County, Georgia. pic.twitter.com/XfUutSU5tv

— Anna Bower (@AnnaBower) August 31, 2023

Trump was officially booked on felony charges last week in Atlanta. It was...

The House committee investigating Jan. 6 has named a second sitting Republican member of Congress: Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). The committee on Wednesday requested an interview with the Maga-friendly lawmaker who previously admitted to talking with former President Donald Trump on the day of the insurrection.

“We write to seek your voluntary cooperation in advancing our investigation,” Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in a letter asking Jordan to discuss “in detail” all communication between him and Trump on Jan. 6. In addition to his conversations with Trump, Thompson wrote that the committee...

As Alex Jones filed suit against the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 and indicated his intent to plead his Fifth Amendment right not to self-incriminate, the committee moved forward with its investigation, asking Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) to provide documents and testimony. Perry is the first known member of Congress to be asked to supply information to the committee.

The committee requested testimony from Perry, one of 21 Republicans who voted against a bill to honor Capitol Police officers who responded to the insurrection, in a letter requesting his voluntary cooperation.

Phil Waldron, the retired Army colonel who promoted an anti-democracy PowerPoint referenced in the material Mark Meadows turned over to the committee investigating Jan. 6, addressed a Louisiana voting commission this week. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that the election fraud conspiracy theorist was welcomed as an “expert,” and that his 90-minute address to the body included a suggestion that the commission should start counting paper ballots by hand.

The Louisiana Voting System Commission is leading the state’s efforts to update its voting system, so touting the expertise of...

The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The matter will now move to the Justice Department, which will decide whether to charge Trump’s former chief of staff. The more significant question, however, is to what extent the push to hold Meadows accountable will even matter as Republicans continue their work to subvert democracy.

The final vote tally was 228-208, with only two Republicans,...

Updated: Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham addressed the release of text messages they sent to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as the January 6 siege on the Capitol unfolded, in which they each urged him to get the president to speak out and get the rioters to stop.

Hannity insisted to viewers that he says “the same thing in private that I say to all of you,” after the release of the message. in which he wrote to Meadows, “Can he make a statement, ask people to leave the Capitol?”

On his show on Tuesday, Hannity said, “Surprise, surprise, surprise: I said to Mark Meadows the exact same thing I was saying live on the radio at that time and on TV that night on January 6 and well beyond January 6. And by the way, where is the outrage in the media over my private text messages being released again publicly?...

Fox News has spent the bulk of the year deflecting blame for the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol from former President Trump, while placing it onto left-wing activists the network’s hosts claim without evidence instigated the insurrection. The propaganda push was exposed for what it is on Monday night, when Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) read urgent texts some of network’s biggest stars sent Mark Meadows on Jan. 6, begging the White House chief of staff to get the president to make a national address imploring his supporters to go home.

Organizers of the Jan. 6 rally, hoping to keep Congress from obtaining their cell phone data, have sue telecom giant Verizon. The plaintiffs include former White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney’s niece, Maggie Mulvaney, as well as Justin Caporale, Tim Unes, and Megan Powers.

The organizers of rally that preceded the riot at the Capitol argue in the suit that the subpoena from the House committee investigating Jan. 6 requesting cell phone records “lacks a lawful purpose and seeks to invade the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights to privacy and to confidential political communications.

Two key organizers of the main Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C. are coming in from the cold.

Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence are set to testify next week before the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The pair will deliver testimony and turn over documents, including text messages, that indicate the extensive involvement members of Congress and the Trump administration had in planning the House challenge to certifying Biden’s election and rally near the White House where Donald Trump spoke — efforts that...

“It is really bad up here on the hill.”

“The president needs to stop this Asap.”

“Fix this now.”

Those were all text messages from Republican members of Congress to Mark Meadows during the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, according to testimony Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) gave on Tuesday morning.

Cheney reads the texts from Republicans to former Chief of Staff Meadows on 1/6:pic.twitter.com/2peJEHkcvi

— The Recount (@therecount) December 14, 2021

Fox News’ most prominent hosts also frantically texted Trump’s former chief of staff, begging him to compel the president...

The House committee investigating the Jan.6 attack on the Capitol voted unanimously on Monday to recommend that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows be held in contempt of Congress.

But the hearing revealed new information about what Meadows initially provided to the committee: thousands of pages of documents, including text messages he received as the siege unfolded.

The vice chair of the committee, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-wy) read a series of text messages that Fox News hosts sent to Meadows, urging him to try to get the president appear on TV and call a halt to the attack.

According to Cheney, Laura Ingraham wrote, “Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”

Brian Kilmeade wrote, “Please, get him on TV. Destroying everything you have accomplished.”

Sean Hannity wrote, “Can he make a statement,...

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a report on Sunday detailing its case to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. The report paints a damning portrait of the former White House chief of staff’s involvement in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, an effort that included Meadows saying that the National Guard would be at the Capitol on Jan. 6, ready to “protect pro-Trump people.”

The committee will vote Monday on whether to advance proceedings to hold Meadows in contempt. If it does,...

Philip Waldron, a retired Army colonel who shared a PowerPoint presentation titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 Jan” detailing options for how to overturn the 2020 election, says he briefed lawmakers in Congress ahead of Jan. 6, according to reports from multiple outlets. Waldron also says he met with Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, to discuss election fraud several times, according to The Washington Post.

Waldron told the Post that he went to the White House multiple times following the election and spoke with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on “maybe eight to 10” occasions.

Correction: Trump’s request that law enforcement “bust some heads” of Black Lives Matter protesters was made as they demonstrated during a June 22, 2020 protest in Lafayette Square. A previous version of this story incorrectly stated Trump made the remarks on June 1, the day he walked across Lafayette Square to a nearby church after protesters there were cleared by law enforcement.

Former President Donald Trump instructed Mark Meadows to “bust some heads and make some arrests” of Black Lives Matter protesters who had gathered outside the White House in the summer...

The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol on Thursday released slides from a PowerPoint calling for former President Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election. The presentation was referred to in an email provided to the committee by Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who’s had a rough couple of weeks, to say the least.

The revelation is the latest piece of evidence that Trump and his inner circle,...

“I love it.”

Mark Meadows so wrote in a Nov. 6, 2020, text message to a member of Congress who proposed a “highly controversial” plan overturn the election results by appointing alternate electors in certain states. The exchange was obtained by the House committee investigating the events of Jan. 6, and described in a letter informing the former chief of staff that the committee has “no choice” but to move forward with referring him for criminal contempt prosecution resulting from his refusal to testify.

The letter includes details about some of the thousands...

There are still three years to go until the 2025 presidential inauguration, and some restless Republicans are looking to give former President Trump some political power much sooner than that. Yes, Trump loyalists in Congress are batting around the idea of naming Trump speaker of the House should the party regain control of the chamber in the 2022 midterms.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was the latest to do so, telling reporters at a Tuesday press conference that he has spoken to Trump about the possibility of making him speaker, a title which...

The Jan. 6 committee said it will hold former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt if he does not show for a scheduled deposition Wednesday after he told the panel he no longer wished to cooperate with its investigation.

In a statement issued late Tuesday, Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) wrote: “Mark Meadows has informed the Select Committee that he does not intend to cooperate further with our investigation despite his apparent willingness to provide details about the facts and circumstances surrounding the Jan.

Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page broke her silence over the weekend, speaking to The Daily Beast to defend herself from the constant attacks she has received from President Donald Trump after anti-Trump text messages surfaced between her and FBI agent Peter Strzok. Trump has used the texts as proof the FBI was against him, but Page maintains that her personal opinions had no bearing on her work at the FBI and the Russia investigation. A report from the Justice Department inspector general is expected on December 9 and reportedly will exonerate her.