| Portman Retiring Shockwaves were felt throughout the nation’s capital Monday morning when Ohio Republican Senator Rob Portman announced he would not seek another term in 2022.
Acosta-Huckabee CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta jabbed at Sarah Huckabee Sanders — after his former Briefing Room nemesis confirmed she will run for governor of Arkansas.
"This campaign is going to be gaslit," he said, among other jabbing comments.
Cruel Defiance
Cobb County teacher Patrick Key, who was vocally adamant about the importance of mask wearing, died of the coronavirus on Christmas Day — yet several school board members still refused to wear masks to honor their colleague’s dying wish. And it's on video.
Trump 2024 Former President Donald Trump is interested in running for the White House again in 2024, former National Intelligence Director Ric Grenell said over the weekend. “He’s going to decide what he wants to do,” Grenell said in a weekend interview on Newsmax. “He’s told me, personally, multiple times that he does want to run again, so we’ll see if that holds, and how that comes about.”
Russian Crackdown Leader of Russian opposition to Vladimir Putin and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny, who was poisoned in a failed assassination attempt, was dramatically taken into custody immediately upon his return to Moscow a week ago. On Saturday, in even more dramatic footage, Navalny’s attorney Lyubov Sobol was seized in the middle of a live interview and dragged off by riot cops in the midst of massive protests.
1 in 5 Republicans Wans Trump Convicted Support for impeaching, removing, and banning former President Donald Trump from federal office for life is at 55 percent, with just 31 percent strongly opposed to those penalties.
This week’s Morning Consult poll shows a large majority of Americans — including a significant minority of Republicans — support impeaching and banning Trump from future office.
Gamestop Stock Gamed CNBC’s Jim Cramer warned Monday that a shock boom in the price of GameStop’s stock illustrated the “mechanics” of the stock market are “breaking down.” “We’re seeing a phenomenon that I have never seen,” Cramer said, referring to the soaring price of shares in GameStop, a brick-and-mortar company that sells video games. The price of those shares more than tripled briefly this month, from the $40 range in early January to more than $150 on Monday morning.
$1 BILLION
Dominion Voting Systems has filed a 107-page lawsuit accusing Rudy Giuliani of carrying out a disinformation campaign against its company, comprised of “demonstrably false” claims that endangered the health and safety of its employees. In a publicly released statement, CEO John Poulos stated that “Rudy Giuliani actively propagated disinformation to purposefully mislead voters. Because Giuliani and others incessantly repeated the false claims about my company on a range of media platforms, some of our own family and friends are among the Americans who were duped.”
It's a big one, and there is a lot of detail revealed.
Death Threats
Among those details, the lawsuit against Giuliani has revealed the shocking death threats that have been made against employees of the company in the wake of the 2020 election and the targeting of Dominion.
Fox News’ Peter Doocy Pushed A Lie About Mask Mandate During Briefing — Here’s Why That’s Dangerous OPINION Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy slipped a dangerous lie past White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at Thursday’s briefing, claiming that President Joe Biden’s executive order mandates that masks be “worn at all times on federal property.” Just hours after White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield warned that lying could have consequences for networks like Fox News, Doocy tried to undermine Biden’s consistent pleas and policy prescriptions to prevent the spread of Covid-19 by falsely portraying the president as a hypocrite. [It's a dangerous lie, says Mediaite's Tommy Christopher, and here's why...] 6.5.0 | 
