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Trump's 'public knifing' of GOP Senate leader spurred by swipe on Fox News: report

President Donald Trump's move to pull the hearing for his own Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay Clayton at the last minute was driven by fury over Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Politico's Meredith Lee Hill reported on Wednesday.

This comes as Republicans are eager to get Clayton confirmed before current DNI Tulsi Gabbard officially resigns her position, at which point Bill Pulte, a controversial Trump loyalist with no qualifying experience in national security, would take over the office on an acting basis.

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'It's not final!' Trump rages when pressed on Iran deal details

President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Wednesday while in France when pressed on the tentative peace deal his administration reached with Iran last weekend, the supposed details of which, while not officially released, have leaked and sparked outrage among hawkish figures.

“No, it's not final, it's a memorandum of understanding!” Trump is heard saying while attending the Group of Seven summit in Évian-les-Bains, France.

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'When you've lost the NY Post': MS NOW panel piles on Trump's Iran disaster

At the end of a segment on Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which is being highly criticized across the board as a disaster, MS NOW host Willie Geist made a point of holding up in the front page of Wednesday’s edition of the New York Post featuring a blaring headline criticizing the president.

Prior to Geist’s display, each member of the “Morning Joe’ panel took a shot at the president now that details of his memorandum of understanding (MOU) have been leaked, with the Financial Times’ Ed Luce offering, “It doesn’t even pass the laugh test.”

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Fox News throws JD Vance under the bus for weak Iran deal: 'Wasn't the right person'

A Fox News host blamed Vice President JD Vance — and not President Donald Trump — for a deal with Iran that he deemed too weak.

Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade made the remarks Wednesday during an interview with Alex Gray, who served as chief of staff of the White House National Security Council under Trump.

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Trump Supreme Court case 'we should all be worried' about detailed in new analysis

The Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up a case that "we should all be worried" about, Alexis Romero wrote for Slate on Wednesday — and it concerns a power the Trump administration has long sought, and lower federal courts have long curtailed.

Specifically, the case could decide just how long the federal government is allowed to hold migrants in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention — which the Trump administration believes it can do indefinitely.

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Trump admin begs critics not to 'read too much' into Iran deal leak amid panicked scramble

The Trump administration appeared to scramble Wednesday morning after CNN obtained new details on the tentative peace deal between the United States and Iran, with one White House official dismissing it as inaccurate, and another urging people to not “read too much into the language.”

The 14-point memorandum of understanding (MOU) reached between Washington and Tehran Sunday was obtained by CNN from a U.S. official, and suggests that Iran would gain access to a $300 billion development fund, have all U.S. sanctions lifted, and have all funds frozen or restricted by the United States be released.

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CNN plumbs depths of 'green as heck' Reflecting Pool's algae infestation

President Donald Trump poured more than $14 million into a Reflecting Pool renovation that was completed earlier this month, but its refilling has been plagued by an intense algae bloom, and CNN wanted to get to the bottom of it.

The 300,000-square-foot pool has turned an increasingly murky shade of green, and the Department of Interior has sent crews to dump gallons of hydrogen peroxide and deploy special equipment to clean up the problem that's been a scourge to administrations for decades, reported CNN.

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Trump hit with another 'embarrassing and high-profile' loss from GOP voters: Politico

President Trump's carefully cultivated aura of political invincibility took another hit Tuesday when his handpicked Georgia gubernatorial candidate crashed in the Republican primary—marking a stark reminder that his endorsements no longer guarantee a victory, Politico is reporting.

Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Trump's chosen candidate for Georgia's open governor's seat, failed to advance. While the GOP primary winner, businessman Rick Jackson, is also a Trump supporter, Jones's defeat signals deepening cracks in Trump's political machinery.

The loss follows Trump's humiliating endorsement failure in Iowa just two weeks earlier, when Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) lost his gubernatorial bid despite Trump's last-minute backing. Politico described Tuesday's Georgia result as "the latest embarrassing and high-profile blemish in what had been a near-perfect record this year for the president."

Georgia Republicans are alarmed despite Jackson's Trump alignment. The underlying message is clear: Trump's endorsement no longer carries the weight it once did.

According to former Cobb County Republican chair Jason Shepherd, "The Trump endorsement has an effect, but it's not overwhelming. It's not the end-all-be-all for politics in Georgia."

Even Trump supporters acknowledge the endorsement's limitations. One Jones backer told Politico: "[Trump] absolutely moved the needle. He just moved the needle 15 points when we needed him to move the needle 25 points."

Jones supporters view his loss as "a warning in other GOP primaries," and the warning signs are multiplying across the country, according to Politico.

In South Carolina's gubernatorial runoff next week, Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette is "struggling" to maintain her lead as other Republicans rally behind her opponent. In Louisiana, GOP Rep. Julia Letlow knocked off Sen. Bill Cassidy—a critic of the president—but still faces state Treasurer John Fleming, another MAGA ally, in a Senate runoff later this month. In Oklahoma, Trump's candidates may need additional presidential assistance to win their August runoffs.

Trump's 'strange behavior' on DC project bewilders Morning Joe hosts: 'Is he scared?'

When discussing the legacy President Donald Trump is likely to leave behind regarding his deeply unpopular war against Iran, the cast of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” pivoted Wednesday to another legacy project of the president’s, one that host Mika Brzezinski said Trump had been exhibiting “strange behavior" over since last week.

The legacy project in question was the rebranding of the Kennedy Performing Arts Center to feature Trump’s name on the building in Washington, D.C. A federal judge ordered Trump’s name be removed from the building, with workers finally taking the president’s name down last weekend.

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'Let's pause for a second': CNN host scolds MAGA pundit over wild swerve off-topic

CNN's Audie Cornish tried to rein in a MAGA pundit after he derailed a political debate with his own personal obsession.

Arch-conservative billionaire Rick Jackson defeated Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia’s GOP gubernatorial primary Tuesday, and Cornish showed "CNN This Morning" panelists a campaign ad Jackson aired that showed him warning undocumented migrants who commit violent crimes that they would be "deported or departed."

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Buried evidence in Epstein files names Trump Tower as sex recruiter hunting ground

Donald Trump had a team of recruiters roaming Trump Tower searching for women for him to have sex with, according to an explosive FBI interview buried in the Epstein files.

In a 2021 interview, a woman told agents she was approached in the 1990s as she sat in the public atrium at the base of the Fifth Avenue skyscraper in New York City.

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GOP icon drops bold midterm 'prediction' that defies the polls

A conservative legend has a "prediction" for November, and it is the opposite of what nearly every forecaster is seeing.

In an email sent on behalf of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told his supporters that Republicans are headed for a banner midterm that will leave Democrats reeling.

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Trump derails entire GOP agenda – and creates 'living hell' for Senate leader: journalists

While the Senate had planned to confirm Jay Clayton as the new Director of National Intelligence (DNI) as soon as Wednesday, President Donald Trump derailed those plans overnight after announcing he was “cancelling” the confirmation hearing, thereby creating a “disaster” and “living hell” for Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), some journalists said.

“It’s almost as if Trump wakes up every day and thinks to himself, ‘How can I make John Thune’s life a living hell?’” noted Punchbowl News senior congressional reporter Andrew Desiderio in a social media post on X.

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