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NBC News's Vaughan Hilyard reports on an event at Mar-a-Lago Saturday night where Donald invited the architects of the attempt to overturn the 2020 election results to his gaudy Florida home. Donald has been trying to normalize the violent attack on our Capitol four years ago, but this tops the crooked cake with his list of miscreants celebrating the storming of our Capitol, feigning to be victims in proper MAGA form. "Let's be very clear; it was no coincidence that this event in which he welcomed not only John Eastman but Michael Flynn, Jeffrey Clark, the man who had urged the DOJ to put out false statements about the 2020 election and who Donald Trump considered to make its acting attorney general before January 6th, they were up on stage," Hilyard said.

On January 6, 2021 the first attack against the US Capitol by Americans on American soil took place at the behest of Donald Trump and his treasonous cadre of sycophants. Since then, they've spent the last four years sugarcoating, denying, shrugging away, blaming the FBI and the entire faux deep state for this heinous act of sedition. On that day I was flipping the channels to Newsmax, Fox News, and OANN to view how they were covering the day when the insurrection began.

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for America? This morning Justin Trudeau Announced his Intention to resign as Prime Minister of Canada. As millions of people in the United States and around the world dread the second Trump administration,Trudeau's announcement is a blow. CBS News reported that the leader of Canada's Liberal Party will resign after the party chooses a new leader.

Newly elected Speaker Mike Johnson told MAGA Queen Maria Bartiromo that he will pass one big beautiful bill that will encompass border security, massive deportations, tax cuts, raising and then eliminating the debt ceiling in one fell swoop. See, governing is easy-peasy. With such a small majority in the House his ideas are delusional.

On CBS' Face The Nation, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi castigated Trump for trying to relitigate the 2020 General election when he knows he lost. FTN host Margaret Brennan discussed Trump screening a documentary called "The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice,” about Eastman's attempts to overthrow the 2020 election at Trump's behest.

President Zelensky sat down for a three-hour interview recently with Russian-American podcaster Lex Fridman. For the most part, it was cordial and Zelensky patiently answered each question, though refused to do the interview in Russian. The translated version heard here captures the gist of it. Some moments of exasperation were inevitable, especially when interviewed by a Russian apologist, and that came out when naively asked by Fridman if Ukraine could ever forgive Putin and Russia. Source: Indy100 The three-hour interview also saw Zelensky clap back at ideas of a compromise and forgiveness, with the president telling Fridman: “To forgive?