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Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), now a CNN contributor, said Monday on “CNN This Morning” that he believes Republicans were worshipping former President Donald Trump like Jesus, which is a “real threat” to the United States. Kinzinger said, “I’ll say this to my fellow Republicans and Christians is beware of false prophets. And I mean that very sincerely because what you have now is this kind of Trump as Jesus movement, I’m calling it. Where there are people comparing, you know, Jesus being crucified and rising in three days to this allegation from Alvin Bragg, and I’m serious. This is...

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that attacks from House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are inspiring death threats against him. Swalwell told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace on “Deadline: White House” that McCarthy plans to remove him from his committee assignments for “political vengeance.” Swalwell has emerged as a particularly controversial individual among House Republicans over his connection to a suspected Chinese spy during his 2014 reelection campaign, which became public in 2020. Swalwell ended his ties with the Chinese national when the FBI informed him of her identity, but Republicans have called for him to be removed from sensitive committee assignments...

The billionaire co-founder of Home Depot is slamming what he says is a poor work ethic among laborers today, claiming that “nobody gives a damn” about job performance in the present-day economy. “'Nobody works. Nobody gives a damn,” Bernie Marcus told the Financial Times in an interview this week. In a jeremiad against what he claimed were insufficiently motivated workers, Marcus mimicked them: "Just give it to me. Send me money. I don’t want to work - I’m too lazy, I’m too fat, I’m too stupid." The business tycoon claimed to the Times that his highly successful hardware chain would...