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'You're going to jail': Ex-GOP Trump foe says president's 'dementia' won't excuse crimes

A well-known former GOP insider dropped an ad that criticizes Donald Trump for his medical status, and raises the prospect of the president being held accountable in a criminal court.

George Conway, a former Republican who used to pal around with Trump but is now running for Congress as a Democrat, teased the president over the repeated cognitive tests he has taken.

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Epstein survivors hit Trump with a birthday gift he won't want to open

Jeffrey Epstein survivors are marking Trump's 80th birthday with a pointed gesture that he will not want to see.

Marina Lacerda and Andrea Sterling called out Trump's ties to Epstein as his 80th birthday present in a recent interview with journalist Aaron Parnas.

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Trump's niece uses their family history to demolish his 'real man' image

Mary Trump, the president's niece and a frequent critic, drew on her own family history this week to argue that her uncle is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about masculinity.

In the latest edition of her newsletter, "Trump Trolls Trump," the clinical psychologist took aim at the spectacle of Republicans posturing over who counts as manly enough, and used her firsthand knowledge of the family that raised Donald Trump to puncture it.

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Trump dealt 'shock' immigration defeat as fight barrels toward Supreme Court: legal expert

A sweeping defeat of Trump's immigration policies will likely end up in the Supreme Court, a legal expert flagged.

Last week, a federal judge in Rhode Island struck down four Trump policies that froze immigration benefits for nationals from 39 countries, attorney Rachel Cohen said on Legal AF. Cohen is now expecting that challenge to land in the Supreme Court.

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'Wait, is this for real?' Senator floored by White House UFC cash grab

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) reacted with open disbelief this week to President Donald Trump's plan to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn while his family hawks commemorative coins off the spectacle.

"Wait, is this for real?" Merkley wrote in a post on X, accusing Trump of spending $60 million to host the bout and then "selling UFC coin to line his family's pockets."

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MAGA influencer mocked as video shows her asking sponsors what 'I feel passionately about'

MAGA influencer Riley Gaines is facing ruthless ridicule after a new video showed her asking what her core beliefs are.

The reportedly leaked video shows Gaines asking her sponsors from the MAGA-friendly Patriot Mobile what the "pillars" are of her beliefs and counting on her fingers, as she says, "the First Amendment, the Second Amendment."

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Melinda French Gates blasts justice system over Epstein: 'It could have been stopped'

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates says Jeffrey Epstein should never have been able to do what he did, arguing that the American justice system failed at every turn.

In an interview with The Guardian, French Gates delivered a blunt verdict on how authorities handled the late financier and sex offender. "The justice system didn't do its job," she said. "It did not do its job. Full stop. This could have been stopped."

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White House fires back as Ted Cruz bucks Trump in preparation for White House run: report

Sen. Ted Cruz is openly defying President Donald Trump in two marquee Republican primaries, a move that doubles as an early test of whether the Texas Republican can carve out room for himself in a party Trump has dominated for a decade, new reporting suggests.

According to Axios, Cruz this week threw his support behind candidates running directly against Trump's picks in a pair of governor's races. He endorsed Rick Jackson, a wealthy health care executive challenging Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in Georgia's June 16 runoff, and Alan Wilson, South Carolina's attorney general, who is up against Trump-endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette in a June 23 runoff.

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Trump Reflecting Pool's 'disgusting' new color horrifies onlookers: 'What a disaster'

The Reflecting Pool's new murky, green color is leaving onlookers disgusted and angry after a costly renovation.

"The Reflecting Pool is VERY green and VERY disgusting," posted Brianne Chapman, who runs the left-wing political X account Anarc-y princess. "Even on the worst days, I never saw it look this bad before."

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Trump shuts down aides for bringing up 'difficult and awkward' age-related subject: report

President Donald Trump reportedly refused to let his own staff strategize around his age as he barrels toward his 80th birthday, according to his longtime biographer Michael Wolff.

Speaking on the "Inside Trump's Head" podcast, Wolff said the question of how to handle the milestone has become a touchy subject inside Trump's orbit. He described it as a "difficult and awkward discussion inside the Trump circle," one that aides recognized they needed to get ahead of after watching former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline come to define his term.

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Agent who inspired HBO's 'Entourage' is behind Trump's tough-guy image: MMA writer

The super agent who inspired HBO's "Entourage" is behind Trump's tough-guy image and UFC spectacle, according to an MMA writer.

Ari Emanuel, the brother of former Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, is known as the basis for Jeremy Piven's character Ari Gold. Behind the scenes, he's also been bankrolling a yearslong effort to give Trump "macho cred," Nate Wilcox, who writes about Mixed Martial Arts and UFC, said in a recent interview.

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Trump voters 'at a loss for words' trying to defend him amid 'watershed moment': pollster

The voters who powered Donald Trump back into the White House are increasingly unable to explain why they did it — and pollsters who sit in on focus groups say the war in Iran is what finally broke the spell.

Molly Murphy, a Democratic pollster who worked on Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign, told The New York Times that the turn against the president picked up speed once he launched the war. Working-class voters who had backed Trump were "at a loss for words" when asked to justify the move, she said, particularly as gas prices climbed and they felt the cost in their own budgets.

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Susie Wiles 'on her last leg' amid White House turmoil: political experts

Susie Wiles is running out of patience with Trump amid mounting White House turmoil, a couple of political experts said.

Dean Blundell, a Canadian political commentator, detailed what insiders had told him about the Trump White House Chief of Staff during an interview with ex-GOP operative Steve Schmidt. Wiles was rumored to be looking for the exit, but she and other White House officials shot down the claim, which came from a Daily Mail report based on insider insight.

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