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Hallmark Asks Sens. Hawley and Marshall to Return Donations Over Post-Riot Election Challenges
Hallmark, based in Kansas City, Missouri, has asked Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley and Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall to return its political donations.“HALLPAC, Hallmark’s political action committee, supports elected leaders from a wide variety of viewpoints–including Democrats, Republicans and Independents,” said a statement from a Hallmark representative.The statement continued: “Hallmark believes the peaceful transition of power is part of the bedrock of our democratic system, and we abhor violence o
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Trump Falsely Suggests He’s Won the Nobel Peace Prize – With the Wrong Medal
Outgoing president Donald Trump tweeted out a video Monday night that had a Nobel Prize superimposed over it, though he’s never won one.The video didn’t include the correct medal, either.The clip tweeted by the president — who has so far refused to concede that he lost the 2020 election to President-elect Joe Biden — lauds him for “[standing] for America,” among other things. The unexplained Nobel Prize appears toward the end of the minute-long video, after a title card that declared, “Trump sta
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NewsMax Admits No Evidence of Voting Machine Fraud After Smartmatic Threatens Lawsuit
Newsmax’s John Tabacco read a statement on air Monday clarifying that the conservative commentary network’s hosts “never reported as true certain claims” about Smartmatic and Dominion voting machines.The walk-back comes after Smartmatic sent a letter to Newsmax, One America News Network and Fox News threatening a lawsuit over on-air claims that the company is linked to the voter fraud that outgoing president Donald Trump has baselessly insisted took place during the 2020 election.Tabacco said in
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CNN’s Jim Acosta Grills Kayleigh McEnany on Her ‘Disinformation’
CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta fired off a final question as White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany left her briefing Tuesday, asking her about the “disinformation” he accused her of spreading “every day.”McEnany was attacking the media just before halting her briefing, accusing reporters of not paying enough attention to stories involving Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell and President-elect Joe Biden’s son Hunter.“Good for those who covered what was a story all along, and n
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Rush Limbaugh Suggests Conservative States Are ‘Trending Toward Secession’
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that “there cannot be peaceful coexistence” between liberals and conservatives and right-leaning states are “trending toward secession.”Asked about the chances that Republicans could win major national elections without the need for “taking back blue cities,” the host responded that his party had already done so in the past.“I actually think that we’re trending toward secession,” he stated. “I see more and more people asking, ‘What in the worl
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Kellyanne Conway Electoral Vote Tweet From 2016 Comes Back to Haunt Her
File under Tweets With a Bad Shelf-Life: Kellyanne Conway’s 2016 tweet hyping President Donald Trump’s 306-vote electoral college victory as a “landslide” has come back to haunt her now that CNN has projected president-elect Joe Biden has defeated Trump with, yes, 306 electoral votes.“306. Landslide. Blowout. Historic,” wrote Conway, who was Trump’s campaign adviser when he won. She was quoting a tweet from CNN Politics, which announced the final electoral college tally at the end of November 20
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Fox News Cuts Away From Kayleigh McEnany’s Baseless Claims of Democratic Party Voter Fraud
Fox News’ Neil Cavuto cut away from White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany’s briefing Monday in which she accused the Democratic party of “welcoming fraud” and “welcoming illegal voting,” saying he could not continue showing her statements “in good countenance.”The press secretary accused the “Democrat party” of opposing fair voting procedures: “You don’t take these positions because you want an honest election. You don’t oppose an audit of the vote because you want an accurate count. You
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