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Key Republican figures spent some of the weekend mulling plans for the future of big tech at former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to a report by CNBC.The gathering last weekend saw Republican donors, lawmakers, and strategists discuss their plans for tackling big tech, social media...

Rep. Liz Cheney criticized former president Donald Trump for continuing to use the incendiary rhetoric that she claims provoked the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.Cheney was responding to a wild speech Trump gave at a Republican fundraiser which he hosted at his Mar-a-Lago resort Saturday. In an interview with CBS...

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Friday was defiant in his attempt to remain in office, brushing aside the damaging set of developments surrounding a federal sex trafficking investigation that has unfolded in the media over the course of nearly two weeks.While attending the "Save America Summit," part of a four-day...

Former President Donald Trump has tapped longtime Florida political operative Susie Wiles to help lead his post-White House political operation, Trump advisors familiar with the move tell Insider. Wiles was brought in last week to help structure Trump's effort to continue leading the Republican Party — and potential...

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of the most prominent Republican critics of former President Donald Trump's influence over the party, went after the former president again last week.When Trump called into the Fox News host Laura Ingraham's nightly show, he continued to push 2020 election-related complaints,...

The chair of Michigan's Republican Party has apologized after calling female Democratic lawmakers "witches" and joking about the assassination of GOP congressmen who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.Ron Weiser, the chair of the Michigan GOP, made the comments during a Northern Oakland Republican Club m...

Former President Donald Trump may be far from his old New York boardroom, but on Wednesday he gave four Ohio GOP Senate candidates the type of grilling famously depicted on his long-running reality television series "The Apprentice," according to Politico.Before a fundraiser at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Flor...

Summary List PlacementIn an interview with "Axios on HBO" that aired on Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham said former President Donald Trump has both a "dark side" and a "magic" that other Republicans don't. The South Carolina senator became a close ally of the president during his four years in office but doesn't always follow Trump the way some of his loyalists do. While he...

Summary List PlacementWhen former President Donald Trump lost his reelection bid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky became the most powerful Republican in Washington DC. With the upper chamber evenly split between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans, 79-year-old McConnell, who was reelected to his seventh term last year, will most certainly fight hard to regain the majority in 2022. However, McConnell, always a...

Summary List PlacementORLANDO, Florida — Mike Pence was pretty much an afterthought at CPAC 2021.  The former vice president didn't come to the central Florida event. His name barely registered a mention over three-plus days here, save a cameo video appearance on a TV displayed in a far-off corner of the conference.  Donald Trump's most faithful supporters mocked the ex-president's two-time running mate right...

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump on Sunday continued to repeat false claim that the election was stolen over a month after leaving the White House. During Trump's headlining appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida, Trump immediately lit into President Joe Biden, calling his tenure "the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history." While alluding to a...

Summary List PlacementArkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said that the GOP "can't" let former president Donald Trump "define" the party's future, and that he would not support him in his potential re-election efforts in 2024.  "He will define our party if we let him define our party. That's one of the reasons that my voice is important.. others voice is important in this debate," Hutchinson,...

Summary List PlacementDonald Trump has shown his intention to ensure that, even after his presidency, the conversation within the Republican party remains focused on his favorite topic: himself. Certainly, Trump was angry about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's Senate floor speech — a speech, mind you, in which McConnell was explaining his vote to acquit Trump — where McConnell called Trump "practically and morally...

Summary List PlacementSen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana has defended his vote to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, a vote for which Cassidy has faced backlash from his party. In an op-ed article for the Baton Rouge newspaper The Advocate, Cassidy wrote that he "voted to convict former President Trump because he is guilty." "Rather than defending the Constitution, President...

Summary List PlacementJason Miller, Donald Trump's former campaign strategist, said in an interview with The Times of London that the ex-president "feels happier" than he did in the White House and is glad not to be on social media anymore. After leaving office, Miller's picture of Trump's mood is contradicted by other reports coming out of the president's post-presidency home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.   One...

Summary List PlacementA former GOP staffer, who once designed campaign ads for Trump, has been arrested on child pornography charges. According to a press release from Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department, 27-year-old Ruben Verastigui was arrested on Friday on charges of distributing, receiving, and possessing images of child pornography, following an investigation that started last March.  Verastigui's LinkedIn page shows a long history of...

Summary List PlacementRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was stripped of her committee assignments Thursday after 11 House Republicans joined Democrats and voted in favor of the resolution, following reports detailing her expressing support for political violence. A day earlier, six times as many House Republicans voted to remove Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position over her support of Donald Trump's impeachment. (Cheney still kept...

Summary List PlacementThe Charlotte Observer's editorial board on Thursday slammed GOP Rep. Madison Cawthorn as "an embarrassment" in a stunning takedown of a member of Congress who has been in office for less than a month. Cawthorn, who challenged the 2020 presidential election by contesting President Joe Biden's wins in Arizona and Pennsylvania, even after the deadly Capitol riots on January 6, was recently...