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After it was revealed that an upside down American flag was spotted outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in the days leading up to President Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, the longtime jurist had several chances to correct the record on why, exactly, a symbol favored by right-wing extremists to signal their false belief that the 2020 election had been stolen turned up outside the home of a supposedly nonpartisan judge.
Alito has since blamed both his wife and a neighborly dispute for the brewing scandal in a pair of interviews—but he hasn't once disavowed the symbolism behind the flag or even suggested that he didn't know what it meant.
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 Mark Peterson/Getty ImagesAs if Donald Trump wanted to actually spend more time in court, his campaign is now threatening to sue the makers of The Apprentice after it was reported the biopic, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, features a scene in which Sebastian Stan's Trump violently rapes his first wife.
"We will be filing a lawsuit to address the blatantly false assertions from these pretend filmmakers," campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told The Daily Beast on Monday night. "This garbage is pure fiction which sensationalizes lies that have been long debunked."
Cheung went on to blast the film as "election interference by Hollywood elites" on the same level as the criminal charges brought against Trump in four separate cases over the last year, which Cheung termed "the illegal Biden Trials."
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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