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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 PlacementMichael van der Veen, a lawyer who represented former President Trump in his second impeachment trial, ranted against the media in a CBS News interview after Trump was acquitted. Van der Veen baselessly accused prosecutors of doctoring evidence in the impeachment over the January 6 Capitol riot. "Because they hadn't done any investigation, they doctored evidence. It's absolutely shocking," he said Saturday...

Summary List PlacementHouse Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy told Rep. Liz Cheney to apologize after she voted to impeach President Donald Trump, Axios reported. Cheney, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for a second time in January following the Capitol insurrection on January 6. She has been the subject of extensive criticism from some GOP colleagues for crossing party lines...

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election by propagating baseless claims of mass voter fraud have cost taxpayers more than $519 million, an analysis by The Washington Post found.  The Post tallied the cost from reviews of local, state, and federal spending records, and interviews with government officials. The costs included legal fees, damage costs from the Capitol siege in...

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump has shifted money raised from campaign donors into the Trump Organization, according to documents from the Federal Election Committee (FEC) seen by Forbes. He moved around $2.8 million into his private businesses throughout the duration of his presidency, Forbes's Dan Alexander reported. Trump funneled an additional $81,000 into the Trump Organization after his election loss, the magazine said....

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump made his social media comeback on Friday with a post on Gab in which he called his second impeachment a "public relations stunt." In his first post to the site since January 8, Trump put up a letter addressed to Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin, who recently called on the former president to testify at his second impeachment hearing next...

Summary List PlacementIn an interview with CBS Evening News' Norah O'Donnell, President Joe Biden said he doesn't believe Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings. During the interview, when O'Donnell asked the president's opinion, he responded, "I think not," adding, "Because of his erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection." Currently, Trump can receive classified intelligence briefings, following a tradition carried on by former presidents.  When...

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump's chances of living full-time at Mar-a-Lago are looking more promising, according to a new report. The Washington Post obtained a new memorandum issued by an attorney for the town of Palm Beach, where he recommended that the town council permit Trump to live at the club. As it stands, an agreement signed by Trump in 1993 with the...

Summary List PlacementThe collapse of Donald Trump's impeachment legal team — a week before his second trial is set to start — was prompted by money disagreements between the former president and his lead lawyer, according to a new Axios report. The rift between Trump and Butch Bowers, which was thought to be caused by a disagreement over defense strategy, was also reportedly brought...

Summary List PlacementFormer President Donald Trump's Save America political action committee took in $31.2 million by the end of 2020, a new financial report filed with the Federal Election Commission showed.  The PAC was created on November 9 a few days after the presidential election and has so far only spent a little over $200,000 towards underwriting merchant fees at the online fundraising platform,...

Summary List PlacementPresident Biden has ambitious pandemic plans for his first few months in office: By mid-February, he wants 100 federally supported coronavirus vaccination centers up and running. By the end of April, he wants 100 million doses in Americans' arms, which requires an average of 1 million shots to be given per day. But his administration has already hit a snag during its...

Summary List PlacementIllinois Congressman Adam Kinzinger said the GOP is not a "Trump-first party" in response to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy's visit to the former president's home on Thursday.  "The former president is desperate to continue to look like he's leading the party. And the problem is until we push back and say, you know, this is not a Trump-first party, this is...

Summary List PlacementA former top economic adviser to President Donald Trump says he supports President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package and thinks Congress should pass it, CNN reported.  Kevin Hassett told the network on Friday that the package is a way to keep the economy afloat, and that he feared the GDP could shrink again without it.  "There are so many businesses...

Summary List PlacementIt's a new day for the venture capital industry. With President Joe Biden officially in office, there's finally a chance for VCs to push policies that the previous administration recoiled from. From investment in climate change technology to immigration policies that grant visas specifically for startups, the venture industry's premier trade organization has announced the startup-friendly policies they'll be lobbying for immediately....

Summary List PlacementDifferent cities are vying for a coveted pandemic title: the next Silicon Valley. By all accounts, there are two definitive frontrunners. Texas and Florida have both pulled ahead, as tech tycoons and venture capitalists alike announce their intentions to pack their bags and head to warmer pastures. In Miami, Mayor Francis Suarez has been actively trying to lure Silicon Valley mainstays to...

Summary List PlacementStreaming platform Twitch has banned former President Donald Trump "indefinitely." The Verge first reported the news. In a statement to Insider, a Twitch spokesperson confirmed that the Amazon-owned company has " indefinitely suspended President Trump's Twitch channel due to the ongoing risk of further incitement of violence. The President's statements continue to be interpreted as calls to action, and we are taking...

Summary List PlacementIn the wake of Trump's permanent ban from Twitter and indefinite ban from Facebook, right-wing public figures cried censorship. Media personalities and politicians alike claimed the situation was Orwellian, akin to the events of "1984"; on right-wing cable news networks, show hosts wryly welcomed their viewers to "Communist China." As an academic who researches social media platforms and the extremist groups that...

Summary List PlacementHistorians are growing increasingly concerned about collecting Trump's White House records because of the administration's inconsistency with preserving documents and the president's long-standing habit of ripping up papers, the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday. With three days left in office, Trump is expected to handover documents from his administration as is customary for any departing president. However, according to several reports, this...