After chaotic rounds of voting last year to select a House Speaker, Republican firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene is hoping this year is a little smoother.
Rep. Greene (Ga.) who unsuccessfully sought to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson from the speakership last year, said that she will vote on Friday for Johnson to retain the gavel.
Last year, the congresswoman lambasted Johnson as “the Uniparty Speaker,” asserting that he “is exactly what is wrong with the Republican establishment” and had “done nothing for conservatives and given everything to Joe Biden and Democrats.”
But she now plans to vote on Friday for Johnson to remain in the leadership post.
“Let’s put aside our pride, let’s put aside our egos, and let’s put aside the infighting,” she said in a video, adding that it is time for the GOP to join together and “do whatever it takes to make sure that we deliver the mandate that the American people told us to do.”
However, despite the Congresswoman’s newfound support, Johnson’s path to the Speaker’s gavel isn’t clear.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) who supported the effort to oust Johnson last year, has declared that he will not support the speaker’s bid to remain in the role.
“You can pull all my fingernails out, you can shove bamboo up in them, you can start cutting off my fingers, I am not voting for Mike Johnson tomorrow,” Massie declared during an appearance on “The Matt Gaetz Show.”
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Rep Thomas Massie (KY) says he’s not voting for Mike Johnson.
“No. You can pull all my fingernails out. You can shove bamboo up in them. You can start cutting off my fingers. I am not voting for Mike Johnson.” pic.twitter.com/RHJ1wkFhFa
President-elect Donald Trump endorsed Johnson for the job earlier this week.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump, in a Truth Social post, praised Johnson as a “fine man of great ability, who is close to having 100% support.”
“A win for Mike today will be a big win for the Republican Party, and yet another acknowledgment of our 129 year most consequential Presidential Election!!” Trump wrote.
Johnson responded to the post and thanked Trump for his support.”Thank you, President Trump! Today is a new day in America,” Johnson wrote in a post on X Friday morning.
“Congressional Republicans must stay united to quickly deliver President Trump’s America First agenda. Let’s get it done.”
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The true election denier is not Donald Trump, it’s Stacey Abrams.
The Georgia gubernatorial Democrat candidate claimed to CNN that she “never denied” the outcome of the 2018 race she lost to current Governor Brian Kemp (R).
Appearing on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” Monday, Abrams spoke about a federal judge rejecting the lawsuit brought by her organization Fair Fight Action which challenged Georgia’s election practices. Burnett asked the gubernatorial hopeful if this loss would lead to her acknowledging Kemp’s victory after she refused to concede four years ago.
“I acknowledged that I was not the governor,” Abrams replied, pointing to the beginning of her post-election speech. “What I said is that the process denied access to too many voters.”
Abrams added that she has “never denied the outcome,” but that she has “always questioned the process and the access.”
“Outcome is about who wins,” she continued, “and no one is entitled to victory, not even myself. I’ve never been unclear about the fact that I did not win the race.”
Abrams must have conveniently forgotten the truth to her claims. The Georgia politician not only denied the election repeatedly but also went as far as to claim the election was “stolen” from her.
According to Post Millenial, Abrams has reiterated false claims that she actually won the 2018 race for years but now that she’s on the ballot once again she’s attempting to squash the narrative that she is an election denier.
“This is not a speech of concession because concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper,” she said at the time. In the months that followed, Abrams remained steadfast that the election was “not free and fair,” on numerous occasions suggesting that she had actually won.
“I did win my election, I just didn’t get to have the job,” she told Color of Change’s Rashad Robinson.
Speaking in London in 2019, Abrams stated that Kemp “got to be the contestant, the referee and the scorekeeper — and shockingly, he won, or at least that’s what he tells us.”
“I know in my heart of hearts, we won,” she added, a statement she echoed at the National Action Network convention later that year. During that same convention, she even went so far as to suggest that the election had been “stolen.”
Prominent Democrats, including Abrams, have attacked former President Donald Trump for his own claims the 2020 presidential election was rigged to help Democrats but so far Abrams has largely gone unscathed for her dangerous rhetoric.
Abrams is facing off against Brian Kemp in November’s gubernatorial race.
Many prognosticators, such as RealClearPolitics, have predicted a highly competitive race as Abrams desperately attempts to clench the office which has long alluded her but Gov. Kemp remains in the lead.
The most recent FOX News poll reported Governor Kemp with a seven-point lead over the Democrat challenger.
On Wednesday, Governor Kemp responded to Abrams’ ongoing election claims in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
Stacey Abrams lost her bid to become Georgia’s governor in 2018. Almost overnight she devoted herself to peddling the fiction that her defeat was the result of voter suppression. She peddled it in talk-show appearances, interviews and magazine articles and on glitzy book tours. Ms. Abrams created a false narrative that much of her target audience was willing to accept and echo over the past four years.
After a four-year legal battle costing Georgia taxpayers more than $6 million, Fair Fight and its fellow plaintiffs were slapped down by a federal court last week. In a Sept. 30 decision, U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones rejected all of Fair Fight’s claims about the 2018 elections. These included accusations that Georgia’s voter-list maintenance, citizenship verification and absentee-ballot cancellation processes were discriminatory. Among Fair Fight’s allegations were that the state violated voters’ rights under the First, 14th and 15th amendments and under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Judge Jones, an Obama appointee, had previously dismissed Fair Fight’s claims regarding long lines at polling places and precinct closures, as well as its unsupported claims that thousands of voters were unlawfully “purged” from the voter rolls.
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The top communications official at Health and Human Services has stepped down after just weeks on the job — as it was revealed he clashed with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over the deadly measles outbreak gripping Texas, according to multiple reports.
Thomas Corry, the assistant secretary of public affairs, who has only been on the job for a few weeks, announced he was quitting Monday, according to Politico.
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President Donald Trump answers questions from members of the media aboard Air Force One en route to Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, for a rally on the economy, Tuesday, December 9, 2025. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
President Donald Trump is keeping the door open for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to become the nation’s next attorney general, offering warm praise for his former Republican rival during a recent podcast interview.
Speaking Tuesday with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on her “Pod Force One” podcast, Trump said DeSantis is among several Republicans being discussed as a potential replacement for former Attorney General Pam Bondi, though he stopped short of making any commitment.
“People thought of different names. There are some good names,” Trump told Devine.
Trump noted that DeSantis has never approached him about the position.
“He’s never talked about wanting the job,” the president said.
The comments highlight how dramatically relations have improved between Trump and DeSantis since their bruising 2024 Republican primary showdown. During that campaign, Trump frequently mocked the Florida governor as “Ron DeSanctimonious.” Today, the president is singing a very different tune.
“He’s a governor and doing a very good job,” Trump said. “He’s a friend of mine.”
Trump also pointed to a recent honor bestowed by Florida lawmakers and signed into law by DeSantis.
“He just named an airport after me,” Trump said. “They named the Palm Beach International Airport the Donald J. Trump International Airport.”
The airport renaming became official after DeSantis signed legislation earlier this year. Trump called the designation “a great honor.”
The president also referenced DeSantis’ support for plans involving Trump’s future presidential library.
While DeSantis’ name is generating buzz among conservatives, Trump suggested he’s pleased with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who currently leads the Department of Justice and previously served as Trump’s personal attorney.
“I wanted to see how he’s received,” Trump said of Blanche. “He’s done a very good job.”
Trump indicated that no final decision has been made.
“There are a lot of great people,” the president said. “The Republican Party — we have great people.”
For his part, DeSantis has publicly downplayed speculation about a possible role in the Trump administration.
According to Florida Politics, the governor recently said, “No one’s ever asked me to do anything, and I’ve never asked to do anything.”
Still, some Republicans believe DeSantis would be a strong fit for the nation’s top law enforcement post.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) who is running to succeed DeSantis as governor, told conservative commentator Benny Johnson last month that he believes DeSantis would “make a very good attorney general.”
“Knowing Gov. DeSantis, he will make sure that he looks through everything with a fine-tooth comb to hold people accountable and I think that’s a spot he could be incredibly well-suited for,” Donalds said, while also praising Blanche’s performance.
For now, Trump appears content to keep his options open — and DeSantis’ name firmly in the conversation.
Former President Donald Trump is right: There’s no reason he should sign a GOP loyalty oath in order to participate in the candidates’ debates.
Such oaths, which the Republican National Committee employed in the 2016 presidential primary – only to see the last remaining candidates, including Trump, abandon it – aren’t just signs of a party’s weakness; they are also profoundly silly and even un-American.
Yes, we swear plenty of legally enforceable oaths – in court cases, for example, or declarations on tax forms and other legal documents. But oaths binding candidates to support someone who they’ve campaigned against, throwing elbows, mud and other rhetorical barbs at them for months to convince voters the guy was a bum?
I’ll defer to what Sen. Ted Cruzsaid of such an oath back in the 2016 presidential primary:
Cruz has dodged the question of whether the pledge still holds by insisting he will be the nominee. Though on Friday, in an apparent reference to Trump, Cruz said, “I don’t make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family.”
We all know that Cruz eventually did support Trump’s candidacy and became one of his biggest defenders in the Senate (which was amusing).
But the oath? Nah. The 2016 primary should have been instructive to party leaders that such commitments are transactional at best and unenforceable in fact. Which brings us to the state parties.
They have been long-time players in loyalty oaths, often attempting to bind voters to the party’s eventual nominees. While such pledges are even sillier and utterly unenforceable, that hasn’t stopped new ones from cropping up this year. Consider the case of Florida‘s pledge:
Christian Ziegler, the chairman of the Florida GOP, said in an email that the loyalty pledge is an effort to “ensure maximum unity” headed into the 2024 general election.
“The days of outlier party grifters – such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger – using Republican Party resources to secure a title and then weaponize that title against our own team must end,” Ziegler said, referring to two former House members, who are among Trump’s most vocal GOP critics.
“Contested primaries are part of the process,” he said, “but we must always remember that the Democrats are the true threat to the America we love and we must be unified to defeat every single one of them.”
The true threat to America is noxious oaths that bind us to men rather than pledges or oaths that bind individuals to uphold the law or tell the truth.
You know, like the only oath that should ever matter for a presidential candidate: the one the Constitution requires:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Every other partisan oath is legally dubious, intellectually suspect and, in the end, not worth the paper it’s printed on.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of Great America News Desk. It first appeared in American Liberty News.
Former President Donald Trump has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize yet again.
New York. Rep. Claudia Tenney (R) nominated Trump for the prize over his “historic” Abraham Accords treaty.
“Donald Trump was instrumental in facilitating the first new peace agreements in the Middle East in almost 30 years,” Tenney told Fox News Digital in a statement. “For decades, bureaucrats, foreign policy ‘professionals’, and international organizations insisted that additional Middle East peace agreements were impossible without a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Trump proved that to be false.”
Tenney also noted that the prize has been awarded in the past for the peace accord between Israel and Egypt in 1978 as well as the Oslo Accords in 1994. However, there has been no recognition for Trump’s role in brokering an agreement between Israel and four of its Arab neighbors.
“The valiant efforts by President Trump in creating the Abraham Accords were unprecedented and continue to go unrecognized by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, underscoring the need for his nomination today. Now more than ever, when Joe Biden’s weak leadership on the international stage is threatening our country’s safety and security, we must recognize Trump for his strong leadership and his efforts to achieve world peace. I am honored to nominate former President Donald Trump today and am eager for him to receive the recognition he deserves,” Tenney said.
Trump, who is currently leading in the Republican primaries, has been nominated for the Abraham Accords peace agreement several times but did not receive the award during his presidency.
In 2020, Trump was nominated a third time by a group of Australian lawmakers.
“What he has done with the Trump Doctrine is that he has decided he would no longer have America involved in endless wars, wars which achieve nothing but the killing of thousands of young Americans and enormous debts imposed on America,” Australian legal scholar David Flint told Sky News Australia at the time. “He’s reducing America’s tendency to get involved in any and every war.”
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in October.
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R) have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to keep Donald Trump on Colorado’s primary ballot.
Daines’s amici curiae — or friend-of-the-court — brief is part of a broader Republican backlash against the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump violated the Constitution’s insurrection clause.
Daines, the chair of the Senate Republican campaign arm, argues the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling “breaches” the Constitution’s “bedrock guarantee of American democracy.”
According to The Hill, Daines and the NRSC wrote that they have “a unique and profound interest” in the case because they support and seek to uphold the rights of all American citizens to vote for the candidate of their choice, arguing the Colorado court decision deprives Americans of that right.
They argue that even if Section 3 of the 14th Amendment bars Trump from holding office, it does not bar him from appearing on the ballot, and that it is solely the prerogative of Congress to disqualify him from the Oval Office if he wins the election.
“So even if the Colorado Supreme Court were correct that President Trump cannot take office on Inauguration Day, that court has no basis to hold that he cannot run for office on Election Day and also seek removal for any alleged disqualification from Congress if necessary,” they wrote.
Daines announced last month he would file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse the Colorado court’s decision, which he called “a disgrace to our country and our democracy.”
In the wake of the federal indictment of informant Alexander Smirnov President Biden is demanding Fox News issue retractions regarding its coverage of “bribery” allegations against President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
Smirnov, who was originally a key informant behind Republicans’ recent investigation into the Bidens, was recently indicted for lying to the FBI. (RELATED:FBI Informant Indicted Over Hunter Biden)
In a letter to Fox News Chief Executive Suzanne Scott, President Jay Wallace, and Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton this week, White House spokesperson for investigations Ian Sams demanded the network make immediate changes:
We feel strongly that all Fox News Digital articles on this topic should at a minimum be updated with editor’s notes informing readers that the source of this allegation has been federally indicted for making it up. We also feel strongly that Fox News Channel television personalities like Hannity and Watters, among others, should inform their viewers on air that they have been sharing a discredited allegation from a source who has been federally indicted for making it up.
A Fox spokesperson told Mediaite “FOX News Media has reported on all key developments since the announcement that Alexander Smirnov was charged with lying to the FBI, featuring the story prominently. We will continue to report on developments in all aspects of the ongoing investigations, hearings, and trials.”
Read the official letter with links and citations below.
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Former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene married conservative media personality Brian Glenn in Las Vegas on Tuesday, beginning a new chapter after her dramatic break with President Donald Trump and departure from Congress.
“Last night, surrounded by our families, @brianglenntv and I said ‘I do,’” Greene announced Wednesday on X, sharing several photographs from the ceremony.
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) July 29, 2026
The images showed Greene carrying a colorful bouquet and wearing a white wedding dress as she embraced Glenn, a former White House correspondent for the conservative Real America’s Voice network.
The couple held their ceremony at the Bellagio’s Terrazza di Sogno after having dinner at Spago, according to TMZ. Family members joined the newlyweds as they celebrated by playing craps, roulette and slot machines inside the resort.
Clark County records reportedly show that Greene and Glenn applied for a marriage license on July 24.
The pair announced their engagement in December, shortly before Greene’s departure from Washington.
“She said ‘yes,’” Glenn wrote at the time.
“Happily ever after!!!” Greene responded. “I love you @brianglenntv!!!”
Trump’s Cutting Remark
Glenn stepped down from his position at Real America’s Voice in May, one week after Trump took a public swipe at Greene while praising Glenn inside the Oval Office.
“You know, you act so good. I love this guy. He’s a great guy, even though I don’t love his girlfriend too much,” Trump said after Glenn asked him a question, according to Mediaite.
When Glenn later announced that he was leaving the network, he said he wanted to focus on his health, neglected family relationships and his future with Greene.
“And of course, Marjorie and I, planning a wedding likely before the end of the year,” Glenn told Real America’s News host Eric Bolling. “Focus on that, but really focus on each other.”
The couple reportedly met at a Trump rally in 2022 and began dating in 2023 after their respective marriages ended.
From Trump Loyalist To Fierce Critic
The wedding follows a tumultuous political year for Greene, who entered Congress in 2021 and quickly became one of Trump’s most recognizable and combative supporters.
That alliance collapsed in spectacular fashion in late 2025.
Greene publicly challenged the president over his foreign policy, the conflict in Gaza, health insurance costs and the release of government records connected to Jeffrey Epstein. She also accused Republican leaders of sidelining Congress and allowing bills she championed to sit “collecting dust.”
Trump withdrew his endorsement and branded Greene a “traitor,” while signaling that he would support a primary challenger against her in Georgia’s deeply Republican 14th Congressional District.
Greene responded by announcing that she would resign on Jan. 5, 2026—approximately one year before the end of her term.
“I have too much self respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for,” she wrote in her resignation statement, according to CBS News.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” Greene added.
The resignation temporarily narrowed the Republican Party’s already fragile House majority and ended Greene’s five-year career on Capitol Hill.
Her feud with Trump, however, did not end there. Greene has continued criticizing the president’s foreign policy and accusing Republican leaders of abandoning the “America First” voters who put them in power.
In June, she declared that she was finished supporting what she called the “America LAST Republican Party,” while stressing that she had no intention of becoming a Democrat.
Is A Political Comeback Coming?
Despite leaving Congress, Greene may not be finished with politics.
TIME reported in November that Greene had privately discussed the possibility of running for president in 2028 with allies. Greene did not publicly confirm the report or announce a campaign.
More recently, she revealed that she has participated in conversations about launching a new political party capable of challenging both Republicans and Democrats.
“I am in talks with people and there are serious conversations happening, looking at what are the mechanics of that and the reality of it,” Greene told Piers Morgan in June, according to Mediaite.
Greene said such an effort could unite “serious players from the right and the left” around what she described as a genuinely America-focused movement, although she acknowledged that building a competitive third party could take multiple election cycles.
The former congresswoman has also launched a video series called “Life With MTG,” allowing her to remain visible and continue weighing in on national politics from outside Washington.
For now, Greene insists she does not miss Congress and is enjoying what she calls “Normal People World.” But her ongoing political commentary, reported interest in a presidential campaign and involvement in potential third-party organizing suggest her time outside the arena may not be permanent.
Even Trump appeared to leave that possibility open after her resignation.
“It’s not going to be easy for her” to revive her political career, Trump told NBC News in November. “But I’d love to see that.”
He added that Greene first needed to “take a little rest.”
With her congressional career behind her and her Las Vegas wedding now complete, Greene may soon have to decide whether that rest is coming to an end.
A Georgia state court has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to conduct a new search for records related to her criminal case against President Donald Trump after finding that her search methods were inadequate.
The recent order from a Fulton County Superior Court judge stems from a months-long pursuit by the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch to obtain communications between Willis’ office and the Jan. 6 select committee, as well as former special counsel Jack Smith’s team.
The order marks the latest setback in the case for Willis after a judge ordered her office in January to pay nearly $22,000 in legal fees to Judicial Watch, finding that she failed to fully respond to the watchdog’s initial open records requests.
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told Fox News his organization has been searching for Willis’ communications because he believes the district attorney improperly coordinated with the federal government to charge Trump over the 2020 election.
“The lawsuit is about any collusion and collaboration with Congress and the Justice Department, Jack Smith, and we haven’t seen the documents, but they show that there has been because their very existence shows that they were talking to them,” Fitton said.
Asked about why Willis communicating with the Jan. 6 committee or Smith would be out of line, Fitton said the mere existence of the interactions showed Willis’ work lacked independence and that her indictment against Trump and 18 others was a “political operation” rather than an “honest, good-faith process.”
“Look, if Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff are running this investigation, you can be darn sure it’s not credible,” Fitton said in reference to the former Democratic House speaker and member of the Democrat-led Jan. 6 committee, respectively.
The judge said his order was a response to an affidavit by Willis that failed to address searches of devices belonging to former Fulton County special prosecutor Nathan Wade and chief investigator Michael Hill, both of whom were integral to the investigation into Trump’s alleged subversion of the 2020 election in Georgia.
The judge raised questions about whether their records had been properly searched, saying he noticed “omissions” and that communications may have been overlooked. Willis must respond within 14 days with a more comprehensive report of her search methods, the order stated.
In March 2025, the court ordered Willis to produce 212 pages of records, which Willis’ office later said it found only after searching for them several times and after initially denying their existence. The new order directs Willis to clarify the search protocols used for Hill’s and Wade’s records.
In 2023, Willis charged Trump and 18 co-defendants with racketeering and other violations over the 2020 election, but the case was significantly slimmed down significantly because of plea deals and dismissed charges.
Ultimately, the Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Willis from the case, finding her private romantic relationship with Wade presented a conflict of interest. The case has since been shelved indefinitely.
