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One of President Donald Trump's former advisors said on Thursday that the president's prosecution of his political enemies is "bad for America."

David Urban, one of Trump's senior advisors during his 2016 campaign, said during an interview on CNN that prosecuting New York Attorney General Letitia James for alleged mortgage fraud is causing people to lose trust in the American justice system. His comments came just hours after Trump's hand-picked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, returned an indictment against James from a grand jury.

Observers were stunned by a new report revealing President Donald Trump's plans to send about 200 American troops to Israel to support ceasefire monitoring operations in the war between Israel and Hamas.

The Associated Press reported on Thursday that "U.S. Central Command is going to establish a 'civil-military coordination center' in Israel that will help facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid as well as logistical and security assistance into the territory wracked by two years of war."

Liberal analyst Cenk Uygur scoffed at MAGA pundit Dinesh D'Souza during a recent episode of "Piers Morgan Uncensored" over the peace deal President Donald Trump announced to end the war between Israel and Hamas.

Trump announced that Israel and Hamas agreed to the "first phase" of a peace deal in a Truth Social post on Wednesday. The 20-point plan involves Hamas returning all hostages and Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza.

MAGA commentators erupted on Thursday after a video surfaced on social media showing a man in a red hat being removed from a Delta airplane.

In the video, the man claims he was asked to step off the plane because of the red Trump hat he was wearing. The hat reads "Build Back Better My A--," a common slogan used by MAGA to deride one of former President Joe Biden's signature legislative pieces.

Following the indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, Washington Post investigative reporter Carol Leonnig flagged a curious anomaly about the grand jury process that was used by President Donald Trump's chosen prosecutor to secure the charge.

"A few minutes ago, we confirmed that she was indicted by a grand jury in Alexandria on at least one count of bank fraud, Nicole," said Leonnig. "And the return was rather speedy. Four o'clock was when the grand jury was supposed to come back out and present their information to [acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey] Halligan. There was a four person in, in the courtroom, along with Halligan, and they released their decision."

President Donald Trump boasted Thursday that he earned a "perfect score" on a recent cognitive exam, a remark that observers slammed on social media.

Trump made the comments during a press conference in the Oval Office. He claimed that the test was "risky" and said other presidents like Barack Obama and George Bush refused to do it.

A conservative analyst urged observers to be cautiously optimistic about a peace deal brokered between Israel and Hamas that some reports indicate could be signed on Thursday.

President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Hamas had accepted the "first phase" of a peace deal that would end the more-than two-year war that has decimated Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to think the deal is insubstantial. A U.S. official told Axios that the Israeli leader told Trump that the deal "is nothing to celebrate, and that it doesn't mean anything."

President Donald Trump casually suggested that Spain should be thrown out of the NATO alliance while speaking with the President of Finland at the White House on Thursday.

The remark came while Trump was boasting about how he made most other NATO member states commit to paying 5 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, with Spain being an exception.

Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman was animated, speaking to MSNBC on Thursday about Republican members of the U.S. House being missing in action during the government shutdown.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has argued that there's no reason for the House to be on hand to negotiate on healthcare subsidies because the House already passed its portion of the measure that would continue to fund the government.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) suggested that Muslims did not have the right to pray outdoors in the United States.

During a Thursday interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Tuberville expressed outrage at Muslims expressing their faith.