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Breck Worsham, a prominent right-wing influencer and independent journalist who has since turned on President Donald Trump, warned Sunday night that the commander-in-chief had become a "direct threat” to the United States and called for his immediate removal."At this point Trump is no longer just a global novelty. He's no longer simply an...
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Republican Texas state Rep. Jeff Leach, who's "proudly endorsed by President Donald Trump,” bucked the president Sunday night over his endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in his race for U.S. Senate, and suggested that voters support Paxton's GOP opponent instead.Leach's reasoning for breaking with the president, he explained in a...
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Outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who last week lost his re-election bid after serving seven terms, vowed on Sunday that during his remaining seven months in office, he would publicly identify individuals linked to Jeffrey Epstein whose names, critics have said, had been unlawfully redacted in Justice Department files."I've got seven more months...
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President Donald Trump demanded on Saturday that Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) not be allowed back on the Fox News, but on Sunday, not only was Khanna invited back on the right-wing network, but the California Democrat expressed hope that the president may be watching and extend him an invitation to the White House.Trump's demand to Fox News was made on...
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A Sunday report in The New York Times revealed how the Trump administration is using a key government agency to shut down any efforts to regulate online betting markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.According to the Times, the administration has stacked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with industry insiders who have systematically...
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Is the United States headed for a second Civil War? According to a survey of likely midterm voters published by the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, 57% of Americans believe it is. Sixty-nine percent say democracy is under serious threat; and an equal percentage of non-white voters say they fear rising white supremacy.While...
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Veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, who last week revealed she was "fleeing the country" after claiming to have been targeted by "direct energy weapon attacks" linked to her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein, said Saturday that the alleged attacks have since left her "permanently injured.""We should all understand this is real. These are the most...
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President Donald Trump revealed on Saturday that he is mulling a deal that would end his illegal war with Iran, and some hawks within the Republican Party are expressing alarm.According to a Sunday report in The New York Times, many details of the agreement to end the war remain murky, with the fate of Iran's enriched uranium up in the air. US and...
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The 2026 Fifa World Cup is set to take place next month across 11 cities in the United States, but comments from the Trump administration have sparked fears among human rights groups that soccer fans – particularly non-English speakers or those with accents – may be at "risk.”"We wanted to warn visitors and tourists of the risks of coming to...
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With the midterm elections fast approaching in November, outgoing Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) issued a bleak prediction for his party's chances at the ballot box, and laid most of the blame on the Trump administration and Republican lawmakers he argued were overly loyal to the president.Appearing on NBC News' "Meet the Press,” Massie was asked by...
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Conservative commentator Dave Rubin, who for months has been a top booster of President Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran, was inundated with mockery on Sunday after a viral video exposed months' worth of his failed predictions about the conflict.The video, which was posted on social media Saturday, begins with Rubin telling viewers to not...
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On Saturday, President Donald Trump announced via social media that a negotiated settlement with Iran to end the war had "been largely negotiated," but on Sunday, a foreign policy expert raised doubts about whether the president himself authored the post, and what that may reveal about the ongoing negotiations."First of all, there's no...
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President Donald Trump has remained defiant amid a wave of criticism from right-wing figures urging him to resume hostilities with Iran and walk away from peace negotiations, but according to Israeli-American academic and podcast host Shaiel Ben-Ephraim, that pressure may be gaining traction."I am currently talking to two sources I really respect....
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As the Trump administration reportedly nears a deal to end the U.S. war against Iran, a wave of criticism from right-wing figures has emerged, and on Sunday, President Donald Trump lashed out at those critics as "losers” who knew "nothing” about the ongoing negotiations."If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the...
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An analyst says a rock legend handed us a roadmap to fighting Donald Trump.Bruce Springsteen's current tour isn't just a concert — it's a masterclass in resistance, and other celebrities should be taking notes, according to a labor journalist who attended one of the Boss's recent shows.Writing in the Guardian, Steven Greenhouse argues that...
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Donald Trump announced a potential deal with Iran Sunday, citing successful negotiations with Middle Eastern nations, and the reaction from hawks, analysts, and even some Trump allies was immediate and withering.Trump posted on Truth Social that he would work out a better deal than Obama had done, but was vague on the details. For many onlookers,...
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A prominent MAGA-aligned physician publicly exposed what she described as a furious texting campaign by far-right activist Laura Loomer on Sunday — triggering a spectacular public meltdown that played out in real time on social media.Dr. Mary Talley Bowden posted screenshots of text messages from Loomer, who had challenged her over a post...
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Rep. Ro Khanna raised a suggestion over the weekend that Donald Trump might be "intentionally sabotaging" JD Vance.Khanna appeared on NBC News, where he pointed out that Vance is being tasked with defending things he has spoken out about for years. He was asked about Vance's recent decision to defend the purported IRS Jan. 6 "slush fund."Laughing,...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a war powers resolution from the floor after Democrats secured enough Republican support to pass it, according to Rep. Greg Meeks — a stunning allegation that Johnson personally intervened to prevent Congress from reining in Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran."We had the votes to stop this war," Meeks...
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Martin Sheen is trading his fictional Oval Office for the campaign trail — and he's doing it in the same state where President Josiah Bartlet once governed.The actor, best known for playing the beloved Democratic president on NBC's "The West Wing," is throwing his support behind Chris Pappas in New Hampshire's Senate race, framing the contest as...
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When Rep. Ro Khanna began pushing to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his own party thought he was wasting everyone's time."The establishment class thought I was crazy," Khanna told Axios. "They said nobody would care. Nobody would vote based on it."They were wrong. With midterm elections approaching, Democrats across the country are pouring...
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Retired General Mike Flynn, one of Donald Trump's most prominent military supporters, issued a dramatic public warning to the president Sunday, urging him to walk away from his Iran nuclear negotiations and accusing the Tehran regime of lying directly to Trump's face."Dear Mr. Trump — the regime in Iran is lying to you and your negotiators....
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Donald Trump's Truth Social post praising negotiations with Iran as "productive and professional" triggered an immediate backlash Sunday — not from Democrats, but from his own most fervent supporters, who accused him of repeating Barack Obama's mistakes and demanded military destruction of the Iranian regime instead."You cannot trust anything...
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A senior House Democrat predicted this weekend that Republican members of Congress will increasingly distance themselves from Donald Trump once they return home during recess and face their constituents — and he says the signs are already there."I think that as Republicans come back home after this recess and hear from their constituents, and as...
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Donald Trump took to Truth Social Sunday morning to praise what he called a "much more professional and productive" relationship with Iran — the same country he spent years branding the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism."Our relationship with Iran is becoming a much more professional and productive one," Trump wrote, describing ongoing...
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President Donald Trump's niece is publicly mocking the president after he gave a strange answer to a basic question: Was he going to attend his own son's wedding?Mary Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle, used her Substack newsletter Trump Trolls Trump on Saturday to skewer the president over his response to reporters who asked about Donald Trump...
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Texas' runoff primary elections are Tuesday. The race generating the most attention – and money – is the Texas Republican U.S. Senate primary between incumbent Senator John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. President Trump finally waded into the race last week and endorsed Paxton, even as ballots were already cast.
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Friends,I keep hearing that one of America's biggest problems is we're "divided and polarized.” For example, New York Times columnist David French: "We've known for a long time that America is deeply polarized, and we've known the problem is only getting worse.”This is bulls---. The problem is not that we're divided and polarized.The problem is...
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"Unblock me," a longtime Trump confidant said to someone dubbed "Trump Whisperer" as the two fought publicly.A bitter feud has broken out between two prominent Trump allies, with longtime Republican operative Roger Stone unleashing a torrent of vulgar attacks at right-wing influencer Laura Loomer over the departure of Tulsi Gabbard from the Trump...
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There are a million ways that prove Donald Trump sucks more than all of his predecessors, but there's no bigger difference, personality-wise, than his complete lack of a sense of humor. Think of President Joe Biden's Irish humor, where he makes fun of himself before others can. Or President Barack Obama adopting his critics' sarcastic "Thanks,...
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There's an effort on Capitol Hill to increase funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which awards funding to houses of worship to harden their defenses. In 2024, roughly a third of those who applied actually received funding.
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Donald Trump posted an image Sunday morning on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and several of his top national security officials dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, in what appears to be a direct threat against a former president and his allies.The image, styled as a Brady Bunch-style grid of mugshots, showed Obama — labeled...
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A GOP senator's call to stop comparing Donald Trump to Hitler backfired this weekend — because JD Vance did it first.Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to put Democrats on the defensive over comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler blew up in his face on Saturday and into Sunday when critics quickly pointed out that the most prominent person to...
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Hours after a deadly shooting incident outside the White House, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social just after midnight to thank the Secret Service and, in the same post, push for the construction of his controversial White House ballroom.In a post published shortly after 12 a.m. Eastern, Trump opened with praise for the agents who killed...
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White House communications director Steven Cheung unleashed a profanity-laced broadside against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after Pompeo criticized the Trump administration's emerging deal with Iran — setting off a wave of condemnation from commentators across the political spectrum.Pompeo had posted that the deal "being floated with...
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Under the heading of Fiddling While Rome Burns, a new potential viral plague is gaining steam in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda – a strain that has no targeted vaccine to prevent it nor treatment to cure it, making it a nightmare to try to contain.But you know our president is too focused on his ballroom to give it much thought.The...
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Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) sounded the alarm this weekend over a purported sweetheart deal that gave President Donald Trump direct financial control over a public Florida airport, telling his X followers the story has not received the attention it deserves.In a post on social media, Levin laid out how a Florida county effectively handed Trump the...
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Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, posted a striking prediction on X this week. When he dies, Scaramucci said, he fully expects Trump to insult him from beyond his grave.In a post on X, the former Trump insider unloaded on his ex-boss with a blanket assessment of...
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The White House keeps undermining an issue that could give way to a rare bipartisan win in Congress, according to a new report. According to a Saturday article by Politico, permitting reform is an issue that "enjoys wide support" among Republicans and Democrats, but a bipartisan deal is threatened by Trump's "crusade against renewable energy,...
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Andrew Weissmann, the former federal prosecutor who served as a top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller, said this week that President Donald Trump's controversial $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund may have inadvertently exposed him to criminal liability that the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling will not save him from.Weissmann,...
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is being forced to eat his own words after he praised Trump in a social media post as the "ONLY" person who could get Iran to the negotiating table."President Trump is the ONLY one who could have gotten Iran — the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism — to the negotiating table," Johnson wrote on X. "We...
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The Trump administration is going after a pair of influencers because of their support and visits to Cuba, according to reporting by Fox News. Progressive influencers Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin were served subpoenas by the Treasury Department on Saturday, Fox News reported. The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign...
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The physician who administered the same cognitive screening that President Donald Trump keeps publicly bragging about says he sees something that should worry the country.Dr. Rob Davidson, head of the Committee to Protect Healthcare, walked former CNN reporter Jim Acosta through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Acosta's show this week. Davidson...
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The 21-year-old gunman who opened fire at Secret Service agents outside the White House on Saturday was named Nassir Best, according to MS NOW.The suspect took out a revolver and opened fire at a security checkpoint. He also claimed he was Jesus Christ and had noted mental health issues, according to MS NOW. He was known by the Secret Service, as...
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The 21-year-old who pulled a revolver out of a bag and opened fire at Secret Service agents outside the White House died after being shot, according to CNN.CNN gave an update based on a statement from the Secret Service. Two people had been shot and wounded during an "encounter" with Secret Service, CNN reported earlier, but law enforcement later...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday issued a sharp warning about President Donald Trump's emerging Iran peace framework, saying it could "pour gasoline" on regional conflicts and supercharge Iranian-backed militant groups.The South Carolina Republican, who is normally one of Trump's most reliable allies on foreign policy issues, took to X to...
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Some of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters are publicly turning on the president over his emerging Iran peace framework, posting attacks that range from disappointment to outright fury.The criticism, which intensified after Trump announced from the Oval Office that an agreement involving the United States, Iran, and a coalition of Arab and Muslim...
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Two people were shot and wounded in an "encounter with Secret Service" outside the White House, according to breaking reports from CNN.John Miller, the chief law enforcement analyst for CNN, said while speaking live on TV that law enforcement reported one person was "taken down" in the firefight.Dozens of gunshots rang out just outside the White...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday publicly attacked the Iran agreement that President Donald Trump is reportedly close to finalizing, comparing it unfavorably to the Obama-era nuclear deal and demanding more aggressive action against Tehran.In a post on X, the former Trump official from term one took direct aim at the framework that...
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A video by ABC reporter Selina Wang reveals the moment dozens of gunshots started ringing out just outside the White House."I was in the middle of taping on my iPhone for a social video from the White House North Lawn when we heard the shots," Wang wrote in a post on X describing the scene. "It sounded like dozens of gunshots. We were told to...
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Trump biographer Michael Wolff remains unfazed after a MAGA-appointed federal judge tossed his lawsuit against Melania Trump on Friday."She may have actually effectively ruled against the Trumps without saying so," Wolff said in a podcast episode on Saturday, referring to the federal judge who dismissed his suit against Melania. "Kicking the case...
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Gunshots were heard ringing out just outside the White House, multiple journalists are reporting on Saturday."Many gunshots were heard when we were at the White House," wrote ABC senior White House correspondent Selina Wang. "We were told to run into the press briefing room."Accounts on X, citing NBC and ABC, reported that as many as 20 to 30...
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Former Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who was famously crushed in a doorway while defending the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, responded with disgust this week to a Republican congressman's claim that the deadly riot was "staged."Hodges appeared on MS NOW to discuss the Trump-created $1.8 billion slush fund that could...
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FBI Director Kash Patel's latest training gimmick will be a competition to find the fittest male and female agents, according to new reports. The Daily Mail and Washington Examiner confirmed with bureau officials that the internal contest will look for the 'fittest' agents. The FBI will host a two-day event in early July at its Quantico Training...
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A frequent target of Donald Trump took the same cognitive test that the president keeps bragging about, and came away from it with a major warning for the entire country.Jim Acosta, the former CNN reporter Trump repeatedly attacked from the White House podium, walked through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on his show this week. He passed it. He...
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President Donald Trump confirmed Friday afternoon what set off hours of online speculation, posting to Truth Social with an Oval Office statement about a major foreign policy development.In the post, Trump said he had spoken with a long list of Arab and Muslim world leaders about a possible peace agreement involving Iran."I am in the Oval Office at...
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Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) revealed Friday that House Republicans on the Appropriations Committee voted to make themselves eligible to collect from President Donald Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, triggering immediate outrage online.Levin took to X to announce that he had introduced an amendment to block members of Congress, the...
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Rep. Elise Stefanik's short-lived bid to be the Republican governor of New York wasn't a long-planned campaign for higher office. According to a New York Republican who knows her well, it was a tantrum.A plugged-in New York Republican told Politico's Ben Jacobs in a piece published Friday that Stefanik launched her run for governor "almost out of...
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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt weighed in on what he sees as a major threat to the U.S. Schmidt said on the latest episode of his program that, "47 percent of the country doesn't have $400 available for an emergency, and that is a foremost threat to the stability of the Republic." He was commenting on Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and...
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Vice President JD Vance reportedly made an unplanned return to Washington DC on Saturday, with his motorcade racing back toward the White House as President Donald Trump pulled his national security team in for an apparent emergency meeting on Iran. The sudden reversal set off a wave of online speculation about what is unfolding behind closed...
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) turned heads on Saturday after openly questioning why the U.S. war against Iran "started to begin with,” despite having personally lobbied for the United States to launch it.Graham's remarks come amid reports that President Donald Trump – who Graham notably didn't name in his comments – is "close to a deal to end...
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A dissent by 77-year-old Supreme Court Clarence Thomas in an Alabama death penalty ruling this week found two conservative justices siding with the minority liberal wing, and three other conservatives wanting nothing to do with his recommendations.According to a report from Slate, Thomas's dissent and urging to overturn precedent may have been too...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivered a "last-minute” commencement speech Saturday in New York to West Point graduates, during which he made the startling admission that the Trump administration could very well be sending those graduates "to war,” and soon."Now, today, we are going to send you – we're sending you to lead, we're sending you...
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President Donald Trump went on the attack Saturday morning with eyes on a fresh target: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), who he labeled a "Dumocrat” and a "lying sleazebag,” but was soon hit back with a scathing rebuke from the California Democrat.Posted on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump's attack on Khanna included an image that appeared...
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Brought on to discuss acting Attorney General Todd Blanche using his DOJ position to boost the fortunes of Donald Trump, the president's niece lashed out at Trump's kids who are also benefiting.Speaking with MS NOW host Ali Velshi, psychologist Mary Trump attempted to explain why Blanche is gaming the system for his boss, particularly by approving...
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As President Donald Trump appears to inch closer toward authorizing a major U.S. military operation this weekend, renowned international security expert Robert Pape warned the president on Saturday that he may very well be walking directly into what he called "the biggest trap yet.”Reporting suggests that the Trump administration is actively...
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Appearing on MS NOW on Saturday morning, the New York Times' Glenn Thrush claimed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has no one to blame but himself as he gets battered by Democrats, Republicans and in the press as he does Donald Trump's bidding.And it shows in his face, he noted.As bad as Donald Trump's week was, the man who took fired Attorney...
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Ohio Senator Jon Husted (R-OH) can't be too thrilled with John Kasich's appearance on MS NOW on Saturday morning after the popular former Republican governor refused to say if he would vote for him and questioned if he will be re-elected.Brought on to talk about the Republican infighting over, among other things, Donald Trump's angering GOP...
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Amid growing speculation that the Trump administration is preparing to resume hostilities with Iran this weekend, President Donald Trump revealed Saturday that a final decision would likely be made by Sunday, with there being a "solid” chance that the United States would "blow [Iran] to kingdom come,” according to Axios.Axios reporter Barak...
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Could we really be at the point where Republicans have had enough? Or will they regroup after the holiday, after getting fresh threats from Donald Trump—and perhaps violent warnings from his thugs—and once again bow to him?That remains to be seen. But this week we saw something we've yet to see in Trump's second term: The GOP completely melting...
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While American voters have increasingly soured on President Donald Trump's handling of the economy, Republican voters have largely remained consistent in giving the president passing marks on the issue – that is, until a new survey revealed the first cracks among GOP voters, Axios reported Saturday."Trump's approval rating has been dropping for...
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When asked about the Trump administration's new $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded settlement for those alleging unfair targeting by Biden's Justice Department – including violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters – a GOP strategist told CNN Saturday that not only was it a "political miscalculation,” but that the fund could be politically toxic in the midterm...
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As part of an interview with Kentucky Democrat Charles Booker, who is running for the seat now held by retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell (R), MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart was left, as he put it, "bereft of words,” after watching a flagrantly racist ad being run by GOP nominee Andy Barr.Capehart told his guest, "Well, Mr. Booker, in order to win,...
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Any hope that fired Department of Homeland Security head Kristi Noem might have had about running for office once again in her home state of South Dakota likely died a quiet death on Friday after new polling showed voters want no part of her anymore.According to a KELOLAND Media Group/Emerson College poll, 67 percent of surveyed voters — 586...
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President Donald Trump floated the idea of a U.S.-takeover of Iran Saturday with an image of a map of the Middle East nation overlaid with the American flag, and the caption in the form of a question: "United States of the Middle East?”Trump shared the image on his social media platform Truth Social, and amid growing speculation that his...
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Your Honor, I'm here to claim my share of the Trump Administration's $1.8 billion slush fund payouts based on the severe emotional trauma I experienced on January 6th. The residual PTSD from that day has left me incapable of finding a full-time paying job in politics, and I still haven't landed a book deal yet. I realize neither of those things has...
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A combination of bad Donald Trump polling and highly controversial proposals like his so-called "slush fund” to compensate allies who feel they were victimized by President Joe Biden's DOJ for their criminality has finally given GOP lawmakers the nudge they needed to abandon him and save their own careers.According to MS NOW, a single week of...
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British media personality Piers Morgan pleaded with President Donald Trump Saturday morning amid growing speculation that his administration was preparing to launch a massive operation overseas this weekend, one that Morgan said, if carried out, would unleash "mayhem.”"All the signs are pointing to the U.S. and Israel launching another huge...
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The Trump administration went on the defensive Friday night after getting exposed for scrubbing online Justice Department (DOJ) records of those convicted of violent crimes related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including one Texas man who was later convicted of online solicitation of a minor.In June of 2024, the Biden administration's DOJ published a...
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South Carolina is the latest Southern state that may redraw congressional maps after the Supreme Court weakened a key section of the Voting Rights Act. The new district lines could squeeze out an institution in South Carolina and national politics: 17-term Congressman Jim Clyburn.
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In a deep dive on Donald Trump's "bad week” that prompted a massive Republican Party revolt against the president who is used to having his way, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the outburst against the president's proposed "slush fund” was a direct result of their existing discontent with his GOP primary meddling.According to the...
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I think Mike Johnson is one of the most loathsome human beings on the planet, and I have license to say anything I want about him. That's because, as a gay man, Johnson has attacked me in more ways than I can count.But this isn't about my dislike of Johnson. Putting personal feelings aside, I can state that Johnson will go down as the worst Speaker...
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Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang received the maximum 10-day contempt sentence under Tennessee law Thursday after being removed from a bond hearing for Dalton Eatherly, a white livestreamer known as "Chud the Builder" charged with attempted murder, according to NBC News. Judge H. Reid Poland III ordered Lang removed after he attempted to speak...
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A series of explosions tore through a barge at a Staten Island shipyard Friday afternoon, killing one person and injuring 34 firefighters and emergency medical workers in a chaotic emergency that Mayor Zohran Mamdani called "complex" and "fast-developing."The initial blast struck the barge at 3:25 p.m. in Arlington, an industrial neighborhood along...
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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is getting love from an election denier, and the internet can't help but roll its eyes at the merry display. "If you needed proof that Tina Peters lacks remorse, read the post below," wrote Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, who's running for governor. "Commuting her sentence was a historic mistake." The aforementioned...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared to run away Friday when reporters asked about President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund." DeSantis broke into a sprint up stairs to exit onto the street. The fund in question was created as a settlement for Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit, despite the constitutional irregularity of Trump...
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President Donald Trump has put up multiple excuses for not being able to attend his eldest son Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding in the Bahamas — and the explanation he settled on was that it is "not good timing" with all his responsibilities and with Memorial Day coming up.But according to an analysis by The Daily Beast, Trump has taken time to golf...
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President Donald Trump is dragging the Republican Party down at a moment when it could cost them everything, the conservative-leaning Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote in an analysis published on Friday evening."Republicans don't want to say this publicly, but privately they do," wrote the board, an increasingly frequent critic of the...
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The end of The Late Show and the ouster of host Stephen Colbert could backfire on CBS, an insider warned. According to reporting by Status, a CBS network insider expects "various hard-to-measure costs baked into the 'Late Show's' absence, including its impact on other CBS programming."The last episode of The Late Show aired on Thursday. CBS blamed...
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An Iraqi terrorist with ties to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps allegedly pledged to kill Ivanka Trump in retaliation for her father's 2020 assassination of Iranian military chief Qasem Soleimani, and had a blueprint of her Florida home to prove he was serious, the New York Post reported Friday.Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, a senior...
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A judge has dismissed Donald Trump biographer Michael Wolff's lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, accusing him of employing "gamesmanship" and "forum-shopping" tactics.According to TMZ, "Wolff — the longtime Trump biographer behind books like 'Fire and Fury' — sued after Melania's lawyers threatened him with a $1 Billion defamation...
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Virginia Lt. Gov. Ghazala Hashmi published an op-ed in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Friday criticizing Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA) for xenophobic and anti-Muslim remarks targeting Virginia state Sen. Saddam Salim, an immigrant from Bangladesh who authored gun violence prevention legislation. Clyde's social media post called for denaturalizing and...
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A legal expert relished how Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche got a high-profile case thrown out because of his own words.Glenn Kirschner spoke on Friday about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case that was thrown out earlier in the day by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw because it was deemed a "vindictive" prosecution. "The judge made a special...
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The Trump administration is ordering federal agencies to install the White House's new app on the government-issued phones of millions of employees in a move IT experts are calling "dangerous" and unprecedented, according to a report from Government Executive published Friday.The app, launched in March, promises users "unfiltered" access to the...
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A Republican strategist says that Trump is hurting politically right now and warned a GOP lawmaker who appeared with the president."This is a really terrible week for this Trump administration," Rina Shah said during an appearance on CNN. She added that Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) "should not have trumped" the president at a campaign event on...
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Mary Trump, the president's niece, ripped her cousin, Donald Trump Jr., while responding to news that Trump senior skipped his son's wedding."For those feeling sorry for Donny, Donny is a horrible human being," Mary said during an appearance on the Dean Obeidallah show. "He's a little Nazi. He's totally unaccomplished, and he's a racist and a...
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Trump biographer Tim O'Brien made clear on MS NOW Friday that he doesn't remotely buy the Trump administration's excuse for the recent series of suspiciously timed stock trades coming from within the White House that profited off major government decisions before they happened."Tim, let's start there," said anchor Antonia Hylton, quoting a...
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Tulsi Gabbard resigned as Director of National Intelligence on Friday after months of pressure from President Donald Trump, with her last day set for June 30. In her resignation letter, published by Fox News, Gabbard cited her husband Abraham's recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer, stating she could not ask him to face the battle alone...
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An estimated 40,000 residents in Orange County, California, were ordered to evacuate Friday after authorities lost control of a valve on a tank containing a highly toxic chemical at an aerospace manufacturing facility — raising fears of a catastrophic explosion.The tank at the GKN Aerospace site in Garden Grove holds methyl methacrylate, a...
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Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) has fired Brandon Phillips, a top staffer on his Senate campaign, after an explosive post from his "War Room" campaign account attacking an opposing staffer's wife for being sexually assaulted.The staffing shakeup was reported by congressional reporter Juliegrace Brufke on Friday evening.The offending post came in response...
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A media analyst who closely tracks Fox News says the network just published the most damaging poll of Donald Trump's presidency.Writing in The New Republic, columnist Greg Sargent cited the reaction of Media Matters analyst Matt Gertz, who called this week's Fox News survey "certainly the most devastating Fox News poll of this presidency" and said...
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) spilled the tea on the red-hot meeting between Republican senators and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche earlier in the week. "There were fireworks at an epic level," Cruz said on a Friday episode of his podcast. "I got to say it's one of the roughest meetings that I've seen in my entire time in the Senate. There are a lot...
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