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GOP senator: Kash Patel will lead FBI by 'taking it apart'

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) revealed Sunday that he supports Kash Patel as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director because he would dismantle the agency.

During an interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker told Hagerty that former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr had called Patel unqualified for a senior role at the FBI.

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Fox News host dubs Trump nominees 'The Justice League' after Kash Patel named FBI director

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy dubbed President-elect Donald Trump's nominees "The Justice League" after Kash Patel was named as incoming FBI director.

"Now, this has been rumored, I think, for a week or two," co-host Will Cain announced on Sunday's edition of Fox & Friends Weekend. "And there was already some hyperventilating on the left about this potentiality, because Kash Patel represents another disruptor added to the cabinet."

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'Nice work, John Roberts': Trump's latest move said to be 'middle finger' to Supreme Court

Donald Trump Saturday made a move that is being seen as a middle finger to both the Supreme Court and the intelligence community, experts say.

Trump over the weekend announced his appointment of Kash Patel as the director of FBI, leading critics to lash out and causing a pre-emptive strike against Senate Republicans by a top MAGA lawyer who said he would make their political lives hell if they opposed Patel.

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'Red line': Trump legal ally threatens to make Senate Republicans' 'political lives hell'

Donald Trump on Saturday announced he would appoint Kash Patel to be director of the FBI, causing outrage among critics and leading to a pre-emptive strike to Senate Republicans from an ally of the president-elect.

Former GOP staffer Mike Davis has made headlines for his social media comments in the past, and was rumored to be on Trump's list for attorney general.

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Pollsters who got Trump wrong say they've 'cracked challenge of pinning down his voters'

Political pollsters who underestimated Donald Trump's popularity in 2016 and 2020 said they finally cracked the challenge, a report suggests.

Trump won in 2016 despite many polls saying he would lose to Secretary Hillary Clinton, and came close to President Joe Biden when some analysts said it would be more of a blowout for Biden. In 2024, the polls were within a margin of error of the final election results.

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'Absolute garbage': Onlookers stunned as Trump appoints 'guy he pardoned' to key post

Donald Trump on Saturday appointed Jared Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, to an ambassador position, resulting in political experts and observers bringing up the appointee's past alleged criminal wrongdoings.

Trump over the weekend took to Truth Social to announce the appointment of Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law Jared Kushner, as ambassador to France.

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'MAGA mistress': Report profiles 'Real Housewives' of TrumpWorld — including Melania Rival

President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks aren’t the only cast of characters that will be heading to Washington in his new administration with the potential for drama.

Their spouses will follow, according to a new report, which profiled more than a dozen spouses of high-level Trump appointees who are also likely to turn heads in D.C. And notably, that list includes TV producer Jennifer Rachet, who is married to Pete Hegseth, intimacy expert Lisa Oz – wife of Dr. Mehmet Oz – and actress and director Cheryl Hines, who is married to Robert F. Kennedy Jr, according to the Daily Mail.

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Ex-GOP lawmaker offers 'two options' for how to deal with new Trump administration

Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory allowed him to consolidate his power within his own party, but the Republican resistance to the incoming president is starting to take shape, and those a part of it are scrambling for ideas on how to move forward, according to a new report.

Trump's broad support among congressional Republicans has taken reforming the party “off the table,” and cast doubt that a new party by disaffected Republicans could emerge, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-FL) told POLITICO.

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'Prediction': MAGA fans panic as they say Obama aides are 'infiltrating' Trump's team

Barack Obama's aides are infiltrating Donald Trump's upcoming administration, according to the president-elect's MAGA allies.

The "prediction" comes as Trump is reported to have met with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, at Mar-a-Lago, leading to one anti-Trump conservative saying the tech leader had "kissed the ring." After that reporting, a self-described "die hard Trump supporter" spoke out against a budding relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg.

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'Unconscionable': Death threats mailed to House Democrats reportedly 'signed with MAGA'

Several House Democrats have been subjected to bomb threats and swatting in recent days, and the threats all reportedly included President-elect Donald Trump's catchphrase.

On Friday, the Washington Post reported that three lawmakers — Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Jahana Hayes (D-CT) and Jim Himes (D-CT) — were "targeted with bomb threats." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the threats ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting," the latter of which is the term used for an anonymous caller alerting police to a situation at an address that requires an immediate armed response. Jeffries noted that the threats were "all signed with 'MAGA' at the conclusion of the message."

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Warning signs for GOP as red-state voters reject MAGA school agenda: WSJ

Donald Trump has fully embraced the school voucher agenda in his platform, of defunding public schools to divert public money to private institutions with less oversight — but in many red states, his voters aren't on board, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Ballot measures to expand the "school choice" agenda "lost in three states in the November election, including in two that went strongly for Trump, Kentucky and Nebraska. The results suggest a divide between Republican lawmakers and voters, many of whom have said in opinion surveys that they are generally dissatisfied with what they view as a 'woke' agenda in public education but still like their own children’s local schools," said the report.

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'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda

Despite distancing himself for months from the highly controversial Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections show his stance on the ‘right-wing manifesto’ giving Democrats worries is shifting.

And that means Trump’s vision for America when he returns to the White House could soon include many of the plans spelled out in the 900-page policy blueprint known as Project 2025, according to a New York Times report. The publication cited his recruitment of at least half a dozen “architects and supporters of the plan to oversee key issues, including the federal budget, intelligence gathering and his promised plans for mass deportations.”

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Joe Biden rushes to 'Trump-proof' one of his legacy achievements: report

Donald Trump's inauguration is approaching, and outgoing President Joe Biden is at work trying to protect some of his flagship policies that have been passed in the last four years.

Among them, the Wall Street Journal pointed to the CHIPS and Science Act, which helped increase domestic manufacturing for memory chips built in the United States. One economic expert even warned that if Trump were to kill the Biden program it could cost the U.S. up to $1 trillion.

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