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'Red flag' in Trump DOJ's Letitia James indictment singled out by legal experts

With one former federal prosecutor labeling the amount New York Attorney General Letitia James is accused of defrauding a bank out of as “small peanuts,” legal experts contacted by the conservative Wall Street Journal expressed skepticism that the DOJ’s bank fraud case filed on Thursday will be successful.

Late in the day, newly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan levied two charges in a five page indictment against James alleging she defrauded a bank when she acquired a mortgage on a second home in Norfolk, Virginia for $109,600.

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'Setting themselves up for a hard fall': GOP warned Trump act will come back to haunt them

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough warned Republicans are setting dangerous precedents for themselves by allowing President Donald Trump's anti-democratic abuses.

Republican lawmakers have stood aside as the president deploys troops into Democratic-run cities purportedly to crack down on immigration and crime, but some GOP elected officials like Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt are expressing concern about what might happen when the "shoe is on the other foot."

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'GOP will struggle': Trump ally panics over 'deliberate sabotage of MAGA' from within

A controversial Donald Trump ally is sounding the alarm, warning on Friday about a "deliberate sabotage of MAGA."

MAGA activist Laura Loomer, who has the ear of the president and has been dubbed the Trump-whisperer, melted down over the weekend about a weakening of MAGA. She specifically noted that she was worried about what would happen "after Trump."

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'May end up biting us big time': Ex-FBI official warns about threat of another 9/11

Reacting to a new report that the FBI under Director Kash Patel is shifting a massive amount of manpower to helping the Department of Homeland Security track down undocumented immigrants, two former bureau officials claimed there is now an increased risk of a terrorist attack in the US.

According to a report that was issued by Sen. Mark Warner (R-VA), who sits on the Senate Intelligence committee, which he shared with the Guardian, an estimated 45 percent of FBI agents in the country’s 25 largest field offices are now working on immigrant roundups, and 23 percent of the nearly 13,000 total agents are assisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

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'Blood in the water': Typically low-key race has Georgia Republicans 'terrified'

A typically low-key statewide race in Georgia has Republicans campaigning in a panic, according to a new report.

"Terrified" Republicans are tossing out red-meat culture war issues to voters as they defend a pair of seats on the Public Service Commission, which regulates Georgia Power and other utilities, to avoid an upset that would jolt the state's politics heading into next year's midterm elections, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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'What an absolute joke!' MAGA melts down after Nobel Peace Prize Trump snub

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its annual Nobel Peace Prize Friday to one Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan politician and leader of a resistance movement against President Nicolas Maduro, sparking absolute fury from supporters of President Donald Trump who argue he was more deserving of the award.

“Imagine thinking a woman who cries nonstop about Nicolas Maduro has done more for the world than President Trump,” wrote right-wing influencer Laura Loomer, a powerful Trump ally that wields “breathtaking influence” in the White House, in a social media post Friday on X.

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'Toxic' war breaks out between Trump White House and Cabinet head: report

An internecine war has broken out between Donald Trump’s White House and one Cabinet head over budget cuts that led one official to admit in a text, “It’s toxic af over there. The boys are fighting.”

According to a report from Politico’s Sophia Cai and Ben Lefebvre, there is battle over spending cuts proposed by Department of Energy chief Chris Wright and Trump officials centering on his plan to hack away up to $30 billion in federal clean energy grants left over from President Joe Biden’s tenure.

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'He displayed them': Controversial Trump biographer digs in on major Epstein-Trump claim

A controversial writer who has published books about Donald Trump on Thursday repeated his contested claim that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein used to keep pictures of Trump with young girls in his safe, and would display them like playing cards.

Officials in the Trump administration have denied the existence of these photos in recent hearings before Senate committees. But Michael Wolff, a journalist who has written four books about Trump, claimed on a recent episode of the podcast "Inside Trump's Head" that he is one of a few people in the world who have seen the photos.

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Englishman raffling his 'safe haven' from Trump to Americans for $10 per ticket: report

An Englishman is raffling his home to Americans who are looking for a foreign "safe haven" from President Donald Trump for just $10 per ticket, according to a new report.

The Guardian reported on Thursday that Tristram Biggs is raffling his nearly $1 million property in a Buckinghamshire, England village to Americans who are "uneasy about the political temperature at home."

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'Really nuts': Observers bash MAGA gubernatorial candidate over 'discrimination' claim

Winsome Earle-Sears, a MAGA-aligned candidate for the Virginia governor's office, claimed during a debate on Thursday that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying is not "discrimination," a claim that observers quickly bashed online.

Earle-Sears debated her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, on Thursday night. It was the first debate for either candidate since reporters uncovered violent texts from Jay Jones, a Democratic candidate for Virginia Attorney General. The Hill reported that Earle-Sears gave an "aggressive" performance, and LGBTQ+ rights were a flash point of the debate.

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'More cruel than they wanted': Joe Rogan breaking with Trump on ICE stuns ex-GOP analyst

Popular podcaster Joe Rogan appears to have broken with President Donald Trump on one of the president's key policy platforms during a recent episode, a move that stunned one former GOP analyst.

During a recent episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan said Trump's effort to send people to deport immigrants to foreign countries "shows no heart."

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Norway preparing for Trump to seek revenge if spurned for Nobel Peace Prize: report

President Donald Trump has repeatedly and publicly demanded to be given a Nobel Peace Prize — and the government of Norway is starting to prepare for the risk he could exact revenge on their country if it doesn't happen.

According to The Guardian, "The Norwegian Nobel Committee pointedly said on Thursday that it had reached a decision about who would be named 2025 peace prize laureate on Monday," which would mean they did not take into consideration the ceasefire agreement from Israel and Hamas that, while still in tentative preliminary phases, Trump had a hand in brokering.

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'Stinging rebuke!' CNN legal analyst floored as judge shreds Trump admin as 'unreliable'

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig had much to say on CNN Thursday evening about President Donald Trump's latest loss in court over his use of the military to keep order in U.S. cities.

A federal district judge in Illinois, April Perry, put Trump's plans to send the National Guard to Chicago — long threatened as he has escalated his rhetoric against America's third-largest city — on hold for two weeks. And she did so while tearing into Trump's reasoning for the planned deployment in the first place.

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