The TAKE with Rick Klein
Just because the grievances are familiar and false doesn't make them less relevant -- sometimes even in new and surprising ways.
Former President Donald Trump is set to speak in Georgia on Saturday, two months ahead of primaries in which Trump himself has put his false claims about 2020 before Republican voters. His favored candidates will be on hand to introduce him, and he will almost certainly attack incumbent Republicans who rightly say he lost.
What that means to GOP lawmakers has come into even sharper focus in recent days. A group of Georgia voters has filed a challenge to the right of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., to run for reelection, citing the 14th Amendment's disqualification from Congress of anyone who "shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion" against the United States.
Similar challenges are also facing Trump-loyal candidates in North Carolina and Wisconsin. And those cases got a new twist courtesy of a separate development this week.
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., says he lost Trump's endorsement after refusing the former president's demand that he "rescind" the election and reinstall Trump as president. That's getting attention inside the Jan. 6 committee and begs the question of what other Trump-endorsed candidates have committed to.
The committee's work also got more interesting with the revelation of post-election text messages between then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Ginni Thomas, the conservative...
Renowned human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has criticised President Bola Tinubu for relying on claims by United States President Donald Trump regarding the reported killing of senior Islamic ...