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GOP strategist rips MAGA pastor as 'narcissistic sleaze' after scandal sinks his campaign

A conservative commentator unloaded on a former Trump-endorsed congressional candidate, branding him "an absolute narcissistic sleaze" after a sex scandal torpedoed his bid for office.

Daily Wire contributor Carly Bird, a Republican strategist and former national spokeswoman for Ron DeSantis's presidential campaign, took to X to rip Oklahoma megachurch pastor Jackson Lahmeyer, who founded the Pastors for Trump group.

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Republicans pin 'surrender' anger on Vance as Iran deal finger-pointing flies: report

President Donald Trump joked that Vice President JD Vance would shoulder the blame if his Iran peace deal doesn't work out, but Republicans are already projecting their dissatisfaction with the agreement onto him.

The 80-year-old president returned to Washington, D.C., after meeting with world leaders in France and signing the memorandum of understanding at the Palace of Versailles, and Politico's Playbook reported that oil industry insiders and GOP lawmakers aren't happy with the terms.

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'Revolt': Trump's self-destructive habit threatens to blow up Senate GOP support

President Donald Trump has a habit of punishing Republicans who tell him no, and his standoff with his party's Senate majority leader may cost him the most.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, has delivered a string of unwelcome answers to the president — rejecting Trump's demands to fire the Senate parliamentarian, kill the legislative filibuster, and pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, a voter ID bill that lacks the votes to move forward.

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NBC journalists seethe as exec reportedly floats a Universal ride named for Trump

A candid admission from a high-ranking NBCUniversal executive that Comcast's multi-million dollar contribution to President Trump's ballroom project was merely the "cost of doing business" sparked outrage among journalists at a company retreat this week.

According to media watchdog Status, NBC-owned stations' news directors and NBC News investigative reporters gathered for a network training day ahead of the 2026 Investigative Reporters & Editors conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

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'You're welcome!' Defiant Trump shrugs off Iran blowback

President Donald Trump publicly congratulated himself for the memorandum of understanding to end his war in Iran.

The president signed the agreement Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping and pause hostilities for 60 days while details are negotiated on Iran's nuclear program, and just hours later, Trump claimed in an all-caps social media post that the benefits were already flowing.

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'Bet everybody's farm': Veteran reporter predicts Stephen Miller to face probe within days

A veteran Washington reporter said Wednesday he'd "bet everybody's farm" that Congress will launch an investigation into Stephen Miller by week's end.

Scott MacFarlane made the prediction during a panel on MS NOW. The MeidasTouch Network's chief Washington correspondent was reacting to New York Times reporting on secret White House memos showing Miller had pushed to suspend habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants.

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'Ominous signal' for Trump spotted as war winds down: 'What was the point of all that?'

CNN's Harry Enten presented fresh polling data measuring public opinion on President Donald Trump's war in Iran.

The 80-year-old president signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic and pause fighting for 60 days while negotiating the terms of a final deal on nuclear weapons, and Enten said Americans will likely wonder why he launched the war in the first place.

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Trump's own appointees turn on him in new Supreme Court gun ruling

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a unanimous loss Thursday, ruling that a 1968 law barring drug users from owning firearms cannot be used to prosecute a Texas marijuana user — a rare rebuke that also resurrects the ghost of Hunter Biden.

The justices sided with Ali Danial Hemani, who argued the prohibition violated his Second Amendment rights. Hemani had not been charged with any other crime and was not accused of using the weapon while under the influence.

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Key cabinet member now in a dangerous spot after Trump's international humiliation: MS NOW

While Donald Trump is being excoriated by Republicans over his Iran deal, which one GOP lawmaker called “… a tremendous foreign policy blunder,” MS NOW’s Bill Rohde stated on Thursday morning that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth can expect that his role in advising the president to launch the war has put his job at risk.

Discussing the blowback Trump is facing over the war that, for the moment, has ended in a stalemate, Rohde claimed that Hegseth is already a prime target instead since he is already on the outs with a substantial number of Republican lawmakers.

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Trump-backed pastor drops Congress bid amid flirting scandal

Jackson Lahmeyer, the candidate previously backed by President Donald Trump in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, dropped out of the race one day after advancing to a runoff in the GOP primary.

NOTUS first reported earlier Wednesday that he was expected to drop out of the race.

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Conservative radio host stings GOP with surprise endorsement in Georgia Senate race

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) got a shot in the arm for his campaign this week, as he picked up a surprising endorsement from a conservative talk radio host.

Shelley Wynter, a prominent Black conservative radio personality, was a significant backer of right-wing Gov. Brian Kemp in 2022. This time, however, he is crossing the aisle, according to Patricia Murphy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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CNN puts Trump on blast with slew of withering reviews on 'tremendous blunder'

President Donald Trump is only seeing the backlash mount from his own party against the Iran agreement he signed to end the war largely on Iran's terms, CNN's John Berman reported on Thursday morning.

Trump, said Berman, is facing "a lot" of anger from conservatives — and the long list of social media posts put up on the display behind him, he added, is "just a smattering" of what they are saying about him.

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'Stunning to hear': CNN anchor amazed by Trump 'admission' on peace deal

President Donald Trump admitted that he was motivated to end his war in Iran to prevent a global depression, and CNN's John Berman was flabbergasted by one particular aspect of those remarks.

The president signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran to wind down the war he launched Feb. 28, which disrupted global trade, rattled markets and sent fuel costs soaring, and he told reporters that he feared being saddled with a depression.

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