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Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called his congressional colleagues ‘kids’ for focusing more on Disney and culture war issues than the unfolding ‘genocide’ in Ukraine at Russian hands .

Mr Kinzinger said the “world order” was in question for the first time since World War Two, but his fellow Republicans were acting like “a bunch of children”.

The 45th president’s false claims began before he even took office and continued after he left, writes John Bowden.

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America’s largest conservative rally, founded on the ideals of personal freedom and limited government, is meeting in Budapest next month to celebrate a European leader accused of undermining democracy and individual rights.

The May meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is seen by some Republicans as a test of the willingness of American conservatives to align themselves with a global movement of far-right, pro-Russia strongmen. adopted by former US President Donald Trump. .

The keynote speaker for the event is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a longtime supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The European Union has accused Orban, who won re-election with a wide margin on Sunday, of restricting the independence of the media and the judiciary, enriching associates with public funds and overhauling electoral laws to entrench his power.

Hungary joined the EU sanctions imposed on Moscow in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But Orban refrained from directly criticizing Putin, banned arms shipments through Hungary to neighboring Ukraine and opposed proposed EU sanctions on Russian natural gas.

Ivanka Trump appeared before the Jan. 6 committee remotely on Tuesday, committee sources revealed, as the panel’s investigation into her father’s role in a violent assault on Congress continues.

The chairman of the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 confirmed Mrs. Trump’s appearance to reporters and said Politics that Mrs. Trump’s testimony was still ongoing as of mid-Monday afternoon with five hours already elapsed in the session. Mrs. Trump has not been subpoenaed and, like her husband, gives information to the committee by personal choice.

John Bowden reports for The Independent of Washington, DC.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin seemed so infuriated by Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz’s outlandish questions that he got into a shouting match with the Florida Rep at the end of the five-minute round of Mr Gaetz.

Mr. Austin was on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify at a House Armed Services Committee hearing regarding the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2023 budget request, but Mr. Gaetz had apparently decided to use his time to reprimand the former head of US Central Command on what he described as US defense failures caused by the Pentagon’s embrace of the “wake-up call”.

Andrew Feinberg reports from Capitol Hill.

Donald Trump was reportedly caught admitting to losing the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden during a Zoom meeting last summer, according to video recirculated in recent days.

The former US president was speaking with a group of historians at Princeton University in July 2021 when he appeared to admit losing the 2020 election to Mr Biden, whom he accuses of ‘stealing’ vote.

Matt Mowers, the former Trump administration official currently running for Congress from New Hampshire, voted twice during the 2016 primary election season, potentially violating federal voting law and leaving him at odds with the Republican Party’s Intense Focus on “Election Integrity”.

Rep. Dan Kildee summed up the mood on Capitol Hill for Politicsby Sarah Ferris:

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US Capitol Police have captured a fox suspected of biting a congressman in the leg.

The police department put a collar on the animal after warning politicians and Capitol Hill staffers to be on the lookout for “aggressive encounters with foxes.”

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois called his congressional colleagues ‘kids’ for focusing more on Disney and culture war issues than the unfolding ‘genocide’ in Ukraine at Russian hands .

Mr Kinzinger said the “world order” was in question for the first time since World War Two, but his fellow Republicans were acting like “a bunch of children”.