The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2:

• In an explosive interview with Mehdi Hasan on MSNBC, independent journalist Matt Taibbi defended his work on the “Twitter Files” and blasted Hasan’s network for promoting “fake Russiagate stories” while ignoring credible stories like Hunter Biden’s laptop.
• Do you want to have a beer with Senator Elizabeth Warren?
• FACT CHECK: According to a misleading headline from the Miami Herald the “13-year-old son of Rebekah Jones, whistleblower who clashed with DeSantis, arrested over memes.” Christina Pushaw, a political aide for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, notes that “he threatened to shoot up his middle school and stab classmates who angered him.”
• While appearing on MSNBC, former Federal Prosecutor Carol Lam called it “troubling optics” that State Supreme Court Justice Juan M. Merchan—the judge overseeing the Donald Trump criminal case in New York City—donated money to President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.
• The Tennessee House voted to expel State Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson for their involvement in a gun-control protest outside of the state’s Nashville Capitol building which resulted in aggressive activists forcing their way into the House chamber.
• In his latest editorial, National Review’s Rich Lowry argues that former President Donald Trump was extorted by adult film star Stormy Daniels. Lowry writes: “There’s been a lot of focus on the timing of the $130,000 payment to Daniels near the end of the 2016 campaign. Trump’s pursuers say this shows how the hush money was all about making the story go away right before the election. But the timing was also a function of Daniels and her side realizing that right after the release of the Access Hollywood tape was the point of maximum leverage to make an extortionate demand. ‘Pay me or I will expose you’ is undoubtedly a form of blackmail.” You can read Lowry’s full editorial here: https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/04/yes-trump-was-extorted/