Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says her company received a pipe bomb threat and suggested President Donald Trump's attacks on her could be the cause.
House Republican leaders aim to put a resolution to order the Justice Department to release Epstein-related case files on the floor Tuesday, a Republican source familiar with the plan said.
A conservative House ally of Trump, meanwhile, said Republicans have been widely frustrated with the White House’s dismissive handling of the Epstein saga and have privately encouraged them to shift strategy, including as recently as Friday — just days before Trump wound up pivoting and supporting the House vote. The White House was also warned that there would likely be Republican defections on the floor, as NBC previously reported.
Sen. Bernie Sanders today endorsed Democrat Randy Villegas, a 31-year-old school board trustee and auto shop owner, in a hotly contested battle in California to take on one of the GOP’s most vulnerable House members.
Villegas and Jasmeet Bains, a doctor and moderate member of the California state Assembly, are both competing in the all-party primary for Republican Rep. David Valadao’s seat. Villegas has centered his campaign around economic populism and is affiliated with the progressive Working Families Party.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., blasted Trump last night for his attacks against her in recent weeks, suggesting his rhetoric could be responsible for a recent pipe-bomb threat at her construction company as well as hoax pizza deliveries.
“President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog whistle to dangerous radicals that could lead to serious attacks on me and my family,” Greene wrote in a post on X.
Greene warned that Trump and other conservatives calling her a “traitor” to the Republican Party “puts blood in the water and creates a feeding frenzy. And it could ultimately lead to a harmful or even deadly outcome.”
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An Indiana state senator was the victim of a swatting incident Sunday just hours after Trump criticized him and other Republican lawmakers for not redrawing the state’s congressional map, according to the lawmaker and the local sheriff.
Vigo County Sheriff Derek Fell said in a post on his office’s Facebook account that an email was sent to a police department “advising harm had been done to persons inside a home,” which was Goode’s address.
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Trump yesterday brushed aside concerns about conservative commentator Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with a far-right activist known for his antisemitic views, which has caused a schism within the Republican Party.
Trump defended Carlson, saying the former Fox News host has “said good things about me over the years.” He said if Carlson wants to interview Nick Fuentes, whose followers see themselves as working to preserve America’s white, Christian identity, then “people have to decide.” Trump did not criticize Carlson or Fuentes.
Fuentes appeared to appreciate Trump’s sentiment, posting “Thank you Mr. President!” along with video of his interaction with reporters.
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Trump said yesterday that he may hold talks with Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, even as the United States intensified its military pressure with the latest strike on an alleged drug boat and the arrival of its most advanced aircraft carrier.
The suggestion of a possible diplomatic path to defuse the mounting tensions with the South American country came after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the U.S. would designate the Cartel de los Soles, a group Washington alleges is run by Maduro, as a foreign terrorist organization.
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The Federal Aviation Administration will end its flight reduction emergency order today, meaning flights will resume operations as normal, officials announced yesterday.
The emergency order will officially lift Monday at 6 a.m. ET, ending the reductions that caused mass cancellations and delays at airports. The cuts, which started with a 4% reduction in flights at 40 major airports on Nov. 7, were designed to address fatigue and staffing issues among air traffic controllers amid the record-long government shutdown.
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Trump yesterday called on House Republicans to support the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, dramatically changing course on a flashpoint issue he has long opposed.
“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide, and it’s time to move on from this Democrat Hoax perpetrated by Radical Left Lunatics in order to deflect from the Great Success of the Republican Party,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Just last week, Trump had called the efforts to release the files a “hoax,” saying Democrats were bringing them up to “deflect how badly they’ve done on the Shutdown.”
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