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'Scared into submission!' Legal experts take victory lap as Trump official resigns

A pair of legal advocates took a victory lap on Monday night after one of President Donald Trump's allies resigned from her office.

During a new episode of the "Norm and Katie's Legal Fight Club" podcast, Norm Eisen, founder of Democracy Defenders Action, and independent journalist Kate Phang discussed the abrupt resignation of Trump’s U.S. attorney in Delaware, Julianne Murray, on Friday. Murray is the former leader of the state Republican Party and was appointed on an interim basis over the summer.

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'Old Kash wrong again': Ex-prosecutor blasts Trump's FBI chief after massive 'blunder'

A former federal prosecutor slammed FBI Director Kash Patel on Monday for making the same mistake he made during a previous high-profile shooting.

Glenn Kirschner, a former Deputy U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., made the comment on a recent episode of his podcast, "Justice Matters," calling Patel's announcement "premature" about a person of interest who was detained in the mass shooting at Brown University on Saturday, which left two students dead and injured nine others.

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Mike Johnson ducks reporters on Trump's Reiner attack: 'I don't do ongoing commentary!'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) once again tried to duck reporters literally pursuing him for comment on President Donald Trump's attack on the slain Hollywood actor Rob Reiner.

Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Los Angeles home in what authorities are treating as a double homicide. The couple’s son, Nick Reiner, was booked into jail on suspicion of killing his parents.

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Right-wing extremists seethe as Trump 'missed' moment handed to him on a 'silver platter'

A pair of right-wing extremists seethed in a recent podcast interview that President Donald Trump may have squandered an opportunity to crush the left, which one of them said was handed to them "on a silver platter," according to a new report

Richard Spencer, an avowed white nationalist, and Nick Fuentes, a right-wing provocateur and Nazi sympathizer, discussed the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a recent podcast episode, Right Wing Watch reported on Monday. The discussion occurred at a time when MAGA figures like podcasters Candace Owens, Allie Beth Stuckey, and Matt Walsh had locked horns over conspiracy theories surrounding Kirk's death.

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Trump heaps blame on Brown University over his own FBI for failing to catch mass shooter

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Brown University over his own FBI for failing to catch the suspect in a mass shooting at the school.

Investigators on Monday were still searching for the gunman in the shooting that left two students dead and nine others injured over the weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, CNN reported.

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'Deranged!' Trump rips Rob Reiner as 'bad for our country' as he doubles down on attack

President Donald Trump refused to backtrack on his criticism of Rob Reiner following the Hollywood director's killing.

During an Oval Office event on Monday, one reporter told Trump that some Republicans had condemned him for attacking Reiner after his death.

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'Skyrocketed!' CNN data analyst taken aback as 'massive shift' spells bad news for Trump

There has been a “massive shift” in the party Americans trust more on inflation, one of the top issues in the country.

CNN forecaster Harry Enten revealed on Monday that a strong majority of Americans now believe that when it comes to fighting inflation, the country is on the wrong track: 56%, up from 36% when President Donald Trump took office.

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FBI officials in the dark about new 'terror group' targeted by Bondi's DOJ: reporter

An announcement by Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice of breaking up what she described as “what would have been a massive and horrific terror plot” in California received a small amount of skepticism on MS NOW Monday afternoon.

Earlier in the morning, the Donald Trump appointee announced on X: “The Turtle Island Liberation Front—a far-left, pro-Palestine, anti-government, and anti-capitalist group—was preparing to conduct a series of bombings against multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve. The group also planned to target ICE agents and vehicles. This was an incredible effort by our U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the @FBI to ensure Americans can live in peace. We will continue to pursue these terror groups and bring them to justice.”

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'This is a concern': GOP strategist Trump’s 'bubble' creating massive problems for party

President Donald Trump's second administration is radically different from his first. When he was in the White House before, Trump famously clashed with a long list of traditional conservatives he appointed — from then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to then-National Security Adviser John Bolton. But in his current administration, Trump is surrounded by MAGA loyalists who tell him what he wants to hear instead of challenging him.

As a result, Trump's second presidency is often described as a MAGA "bubble."

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'Damn it!' Ana Navarro has on-air meltdown over Trump attack

Conservative host Ana Navarro condemned President Donald Trump's harsh attack on Rob Reiner following the death of the Hollywood director and his wife.

During Monday's edition of The View, co-host Sonny Hostin noted that the president had blamed Reiner for having "Trump Derangement Syndrome" after the murders.

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MAGA senator exploits deadly Australia shooting to attack birthright citizenship

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for an end to birthright citizenship and gun control laws after an attack on Jews in Australia, reportedly by two Muslim gunmen.

"When you look at the kind of violence that happened over the weekend in Australia, you had a man of Pakistani descent and a son who had been born in Australia and yet had not seemed to assimilate into their culture," Cotton told Fox News on Monday. "It's another reminder, too, about why birthright citizenship is not a good idea."

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Cops 'throw FBI under the bus' in Brown move that stuns analyst: 'They said so explicitly'

CNN's Juliette Kayyem offered a harsh analysis of the investigation so far into the fatal shooting at Brown University, and she highlighted a significant break between local law enforcement and the FBI.

FBI Director Kash Patel trumped the detention of a person of interest in the case Sunday morning, only to see him let go by police after finding no evidence to continue holding him. Kayyem told "CNN News Central" the case was already a mess.

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Wall Street exec scrambles to backtrack after 'Freudian slip' suggests Congress corruption

Wall Street executive Kenny Polcari was called out on Fox Business Monday over a potential “Freudian slip” that left him saying "every House seat" was "up for sale" in the Midterm elections — before correcting himself.

Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo was raging about “Democrats” Sunday, accusing them of wanting “chaos all the time” around President Donald Trump’s agenda, a remark that Polcari – chief market strategist at the investment and wealth management firm Slatestone Wealth – concurred with.

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