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Reuters/Shannon StapletonDonald Trump once again went scorched earth against the daughter of the judge overseeing his New York hush-money trial on Thursday, posting a fiery rant to Truth Social that called her out by name.
That woman, Loren Merchan, has become the focal point of Trump's attacks against her dad, Judge Juan Merchan, in his longshot attempt to have him ousted as the judge presiding over his criminal case in New York.
Trump has decried that Loren's position as president of a political consulting firm that's worked with Democrats, as well as anti-Trump social media posts he wrongly attributed to her, should disqualify Judge Merchan from his case because it somehow shows he's biased.
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The Daily Beast/Brian Pritchard for GeorgiaA judge ruled on Wednesday that the first vice chairman of Georgia's Republican Party, who'd made public claims about widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, voted illegally nine times.
Brian K. Pritchard, who hosts a conservative talk show, was accused of illegally voting in Georgia while on probation after pleading guilty to felony check forgery in Pennsylvania in 1996.
Pritchard claimed that he believed his probation had already ended when he registered to vote in Georgia, but Senior District Attorney General Russell Willard argued that was not true.
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Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via Getty ImagesFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law Wednesday aiming to crack down on residential squatters in his state by radically shortening the process by which homeowners request the removal of unauthorized people from property.
"The squatter scam ends today with my signature on this piece of legislation and the state of Florida will be better for it," DeSantis said, according to WTVJ. As well as making it simpler to evict squatters, HB 621 also "creates harsh penalties" for people who take part in squatting and "those who encourage squatting and teach others the scam," DeSantis' office said in a news release.
The law, which comes into effect on July 1, means that homeowners will now be able to "fill out a form, give it to your local sheriff and the sheriff is instructed to go and remove the people who are inhabiting your dwelling illegally," DeSantis said. Before the bill, squatters were afforded certain rights as tenants that meant a longer process was required to evict them.
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Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen conservative icon Matt Schlapp announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him was dropped, he and his allies were quick to note that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar.
But what Schlapp didn't disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was, in fact, paid to drop the lawsuit, according to two people with knowledge of the payout. It was just that the money came from ACU's insurance company, these two people told The Daily Beast.
(Minutes before this article published, CNN ran a story also revealing that the lawsuit was dropped only after Schlapp's accuser was paid $480,000 from ACU's insurer—an amount one of the sources confirmed to The Daily Beast.)
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