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Donald Trump's decision to take the lead in negotiating business deals while making bold announcements about how he is turning around a faltering economy could end up blowing up in his face.

That is according to the Washington Post's Naftali Bendavid who wrote on Sunday that Trump is going where few presidents have gone before — and he's playing a risky game because it could lead to becoming the poster-child for failure, particularly in a volatile economic climate he had a major hand in creating.

As the Post report highlights, Trump is no more than dabbling in attempts to control drug prices, pressuring the Fed — sometimes with insults — to bring down interest rates and "touting" foreign investment deals that may or may not pan out.

A Republican senator came out swinging for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency Sunday, complaining that it slashed workers and funds without showing compassion.

Utah Sen. John Curtis told CNN’s Manu Raju that much of the work DOGE has done to cut government spending was needed.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the former ambassador to South Africa blistered Donald Trump for speeding up the immigration status of Afrikaners by claiming they are fleeing "genocide" in their home country.

In short, Ambassador Patrick Gaspard bluntly stated the president is a liar.

Speaking with "The Weekend" host Elise Jordan, the former diplomat began by stating for the record, "You know, I'll say a couple of things. First, you know, when I come on shows like this, I'm trained to kind of retain my anger. It's hard to do that on this. On this issue, I'm absolutely furious."

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"One, Trump is playing to a domestic U.S. fringe political audience which I'll talk about in a second,' he explained. "There's a geopolitical impact, because there's an attempt to punish South Africa for the posture that it's taken internationally on the war in Gaza and its claims against Israel."

"And Trump is very clear about the need to punish South Africa in that regard," he added before continuing, "But there's a third thing that's happening. Donald Trump is the master of distraction and he knows that while we're having this conversation we're not talking about the prices that are going up for average Americans in Walmart and he loves that."

Addressing Trump's claim about the mass seizure of land aimed solely at the Afrikaners, he later stated, "It's just not happening. It is a fiction from Donald Trump, from Elon Musk and so many of their friends in the fringe, right, like Tucker Carlson."

"So now you have a president who is overturning the long-term asylum procedures that we have here in the U.S. for people who are fleeing violence, real political violence from countries like Afghanistan," he elaborated. "But he's throwing it open to a group of people who are political pawns right now; Afrikaners from South Africa who may or may not feel physically threatened in some way."

A former Department of Justice lawyer who was unceremoniously fired by the Donald Trump administration absolutely stunned one of the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" when she revealed the contents of a memo she had received from Attorney General Pam Bondi before she was ousted.

According to Liz Oyer, who advised on pardons at the DOJ, Bondi buried employees with a flood of memos that began with one explaining that their mission going forward was to work for Trump.

They then proceeded to grow more detailed.

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"If I could just share a quick anecdote," she began. "You know, when I was at the department before I was fired, we were getting bombarded daily with these orders from the attorney general."

"Pam Bondi signing memos to the workforce that are giving us our marching orders, telling us you are all the president's lawyers, carry out his his mission," she elaborated. "And it got down so far into the minutiae that we got a memo to the 115,000 employees of the department saying the Department of Justice is abolishing paper straws because the president doesn't like paper straws so it is our obligation as attorneys in the Department of Justice to eradicate the scourge of of paper straws and replace them with plastic."

She then added, "That is loony tunes."

"Liz, there are real things happening in this country," co-host Eugene Daniels interjected. "Serious things that people are dealing with, doesn't matter what side of the spectrum you're on politically. And so, I mean, I'm gobsmacked that the people who are, who spend their lives thinking about the rule of law, defending and protecting the rule of law, the Constitution are being asked to do things just because, you know, Donald Trump doesn't want to do them."

Waving his hands, he added, "I guess i probably shouldn't be as shocked as I am because of where we are politically, but ... what?"

Donald Trump posted a bizarre video of himself playing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” on a stage before devoted fans.

The clip, which was produced by artificial intelligence, shows the president sitting on a stage in front of a piano festooned with an American flag.

Moments after Donald Trump lashed out at Walmart executives for admitting they will have to raise prices to compensate for higher costs due to his tariffs, two former GOP lawmakers unloaded on the president.

Early Saturday Trump threatened on Truth Social, "Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected. Between Walmart and China, they should, as is said, 'EAT THE TARIFFS,' and not charge valued customers ANYTHING. I’ll be watching, and so will your customers!!!

A decision to send Solicitor General John Sauer to defend an executive order signed by Donald Trump before the Supreme Court this week was a massive mistake that could haunt the president going forward.

That is the opinion of conservative lawyer George Conway who appeared on MSNBC's "The Weekend" Saturday morning where he was asked to weigh in by co-hosts Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels and fill-in host María Teresa Kumar.

Discussing Trump's attempts to undermine birthright citizenship enshrined by the 14th Amendment, Conway asserted the DOJ used the wrong case at the wrong time.

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"This is the worst possible case and that was Justice [Elena] Kagan, former Solicitor General Kagan's point," he began. "To bring up to the Supreme Court on the procedural technical issue of when you can issue a nationwide injunction."

"You want to go up on a case where you're going to you have a chance of winning, where the court thinks that, ultimately, your position is right," he stated.

"So why did they bring this case?" co-host Daniels asked.

"Donald Trump!" Conway immediately shot back.

"Because you, let's say you work for Donald Trump," he proposed. "You're the solicitor general, okay? And you want to go and say 'Donald Trump, look. I won something for you!' okay? Because you don't want to go and see the president and say and explain, like, 'Well, we lost. Because you took a stupid.effing position.' That wouldn't go over very well."

He later cited conservative Justice Amy Comey Barrett putting Sauer on the spot, saying she was, "... looking at John Sauer like he had a hole in his head. Like, you know, basically, she's was asking, 'OK, let's say you lose the case. Are you going to obey it in the next case?' And he's like, 'Well, generally.' And basically, the answer is we're going to do whatever the heck we want. And they realize that killing nationwide injunctions, killing universal injunctions, at this moment in time, is just the prescription for utter chaos and lawlessness."

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During an appearance on CNN early Saturday morning, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin resorted to personal attacks on host Victor Blackwell as he peppered her with questions about allowing white immigrants from South Africa to jump the line to enter the U.S.

The interview became combative when Blackwell confronted McLaughlin with the Donald Trump administration referring to the persecution of the white South Africans as "genocide," which, in turn, made her lash out.

"Victor, can we take a pause and recognize that fact that you are defending race-based discrimination," she complained. "You're defending --."

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"I'm not defending race-based discrimination in any way," the CNN host interrupted before reminding her that President Trump has used the term "genocide," and then reminded her of countries that have actually been condemned internationally for genocide.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, attorney Kimberly Atkins Stohr predicted Donald Trump's administration can expect to face contempt hearings after infuriating a federal judge again.

Speaking with "The Weekend" co-host Jonathan Capehart, Atkins Stohr cited a demand from U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Judge Paula Xinis to provide her with information she has been asking for in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, giving the DOJ's lawyers one last week.

According to attorney Stohr, she sees trouble ahead for the DOJ.

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"What I am seeing from this, you know, now we're now that state secrets has entered the chat, this seems like someone at DOJ is going through a book and saying 'What possible defense? Okay, what have we done yet? Let's try state secrets.'"

"I mean, they seem to be throwing anything at the wall and seeing if it will stick in an effort to obstruct the orders from district court judges writ large," she added. "What I'm concerned about, beyond the safety of Mr. Abrego Garcia at this point, is the fact that when it comes to trial court judges, specifically the administration seems to just be saying we don't have to do what you say, you can't stop us, which is in itself part of the constitutional crisis, right?"

"The executive is supposed to abide by the judiciary," she elaborated. "But I think the increasingly lack of patience on the part of judges like Judge Xinis, on the part of the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, which just last night slapped the administration again, saying, 'We said what we said, stop deporting people without process. We're not going to say it again,' is really building up to a point that you're going to get a showdown and I'm expecting at least contempt hearings to start soon."

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A former prosecutor said President Donald Trump's social media outburst shows the Supreme Court "wounded" him Friday.

The high court blocked Trump from moving forward with deporting Venezuelan migrants under a rarely used 1700s-era law known as the Alien Enemies Act. The court extended its previous order temporarily blocking Trump's administration from deporting dozens of Venezuelan men held in North Texas.

CNN’s Jake Tapper delivered a fierce pushback Friday after Joe Biden's team attempted to downplay newly released audio of the former president appearing to struggle with memory lapses during a special counsel interview.

The audio, obtained by Axios, captures Biden occasionally slurring his words and losing his train of thought during questioning by Special Counsel Robert Hur, who infuriated the Biden White House when he concluded that the Democrat was “a well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

The internet let out a collective gasp as President Donald Trump referred to the word "nuclear" as the "N word" during a light moment with Fox News anchor Bret Baier.

Baier and Trump's interview aired Friday night, in which Trump talked about a ceasefire between India and Pakistan.

Reacting to conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett jumping in and siding with liberal Justice Elena Kagan during a hearing on birthright citizenship, a CNN analyst noted her tendency of late to deviate from the policies of the man who gave her a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

Sitting on a panel with host Audie Cornish, CNN analyst Edward-Isaac Dovere sat and listened to clips of Coney Barrett grilling Donald Trump's Solicitor General John Sauer about the president's executive order which is at the heart of the historic legal case.

Following the clip, host Cornish asked, "I'm going to translate a little. There's been this conversation about whether there can be kind of class action lawsuits, and that's the way people can get relief rather than going to a judge in any particular state. But it's the tone, right? Let's pretend we don't know the words, but the tone of her jumping in and saying, are you really going to do that? What did you hear in these moments?"

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"I would say that from years of watching or listening to supreme court proceedings and trying to guess where they're going, we should all learn that," Dovere offered. "It's a tricky game."

"Amy Coney Barrett was put on the Supreme Court by Donald Trump," he reminded the panel. "She is a has a pretty strong record of voting in the way that one would expect a Trump nominee to vote. On decisions she has diverged a little bit, but not in this way that gets her –– that seems to me to validate this idea that she has completely left the Trump side."

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