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Utah Senator Mike Lee, a raving hypocrite who abandoned his stated principles to play lackey to Donald Trump, is fond of saying, “We’re not a democracy.” Lee thinks that’s a good thing. He’s written: “Democracy isn’t the objective: liberty, peace, and prospefity are.” When Lee says these things, he’s not…

An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a statement put out by former President Donald Trump calling Tom Brady “shady” after the NFL quarterback made a joke about people denying the 2020 presidential election results. Verdict: False There is no evidence Trump released the statement. The fabricated press release appears…

The Jan. 6 investigation, yet to begin, has already met more Republican resistance than the actual insurrection it’s meant to investigate but nevertheless Nancy Pelosi is persisting. First, the Speaker couldn’t get the bipartisan commission she wanted because Mitch McConnell deemed that “It’s not at all clear what new facts…

Thomas Barrack, a private equity investor who is a close friend of former President Donald Trump, was arrested Tuesday morning in Los Angeles on federal charges of illegally lobbying Trump on behalf of the United Arab Emirates. Barrack, who was charged with two other men in a seven-count indictment in…

This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Author of the article: Article content The White House welcomed the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a visit with President Joe Biden on Tuesday. It marked the first visit by an NFL team to the White House…

Trump supporters near the U.S Capitol, on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Shay Horse | NurPhoto | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump told reporters he wanted the same thing that members of the mob during the violent Jan. 6 Capitol riot wanted: overturning the election of President Joe…

President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, according to an investigation from the Office of Inspector General, but Trump’s Justice Department decided not to prosecute. The watchdog agency’s probe showed that Wilbur Ross misrepresented the reason for…

The Riverside Press Enterprise reports that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz staged a brief “free speech rally” outside Riverside City Hall on Saturday The ever-controversial Republican Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to show up in southern California on Saturday for a “free speech rally” despite the…

Former White House advisor Peter Navarro on Friday afternoon claimed that ex-President Donald Trump easily won the 2020 election, citing his own dubious voter fraud report released last December. Navarro, one of the first Trump administration staffers to publicly support the former president's baseless voter fraud claims, continued to insist…

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, we assess the state of American democracy with the help of a new survey from Bright Line Watch, a group of political scientists who monitor threats to our democratic systems. Former President Donald Trump’s false message that American elections are fraudulent has…