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Newsmax judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano insisted that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) did not have the authority to expel Democrats who fled the state to avoid a vote on redistricting.

In a statement on Sunday, Abbott said he would initiate the process to remove Democrats from office if they did not return by Monday afternoon, thereby giving Republicans the quorum necessary to pass a new redistricting map.

President Donald Trump scrambled to defend himself after firing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) administrator Erika McEntarfer over a poor jobs report.

"Last weeks Job’s Report was RIGGED, just like the numbers prior to the Presidential Election were Rigged," Trump insisted Monday in a punctuation-challenged post on Truth Social. "That’s why, in both cases, there was massive, record setting revisions, in favor of the Radical Left Democrats."

Fox News host Howard Kurtz argued that President Donald Trump was "airbrushing history" after he reportedly pressured a Smithsonian museum into removing references to his two impeachments.

"The Washington Post reports that the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian, has removed references to President Trump's two impeachments," Kurtz noted on Sunday. "This was done under pressure from the White House, the paper says, leaving just Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Bill Clinton."

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Brendan Carr suggested that late-night host Stephen Colbert was fired as "a consequence that comes from" President Donald Trump.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz noted that critics believed that there was an "orchestrated arrangement" to have Colbert fired so that the Trump administration would approve Skydance Media's acquisition of Paramount.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) called President Donald Trump a "petulant child" after he fired Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) administrator Erika McEntarfer over a poor jobs report.

"When he gets news he doesn't like, he needs someone to blame because he won't take the responsibility himself," Christie said during a Sunday panel discussion on ABC. "And this is the action of a petulant child. Like, you give me bad news, I fire the messenger."

White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett suggested that firing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) chief Erika McEntarfer over a poor jobs report would lead to future data that was not "propaganda."

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Shannon Bream noted that former BLS commissioners had condemned Trump for firing McEntarfer.

The Trump administration declined to provide a guest to ABC News after the leader of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) was fired over a poor jobs report.

On Sunday, This Week host George Stephanopoulos revealed that ABC had contacted the White House after President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer.

A C-SPAN caller floated a theory that Jeffrey Epstein was alive and that President Donald Trump was jealous because the sex offender was "better looking."

During Saturday's edition of Washington Journal, a caller named Richard offered his thoughts on Trump's Epstein scandal.

President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News correspondent Rachel Scott after she asked a question about his relationship with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

During a White House event on Thursday, Scott noted that the family of Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's victims, had expressed outrage after the president said that the sex offender "stole" women from him.

Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's special advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, predicted that former President Barack Obama would be "sentenced to time" because of the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

"I believe that accountability is coming," Lake told Real America's Voice host Eric Bolling on Thursday. "I believe you called it perp walks. I'd like to see justice, is what I call it."

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed to have "sources" within President Donald Trump's administration that were orchestrating a retroactive impeachment of former President Barack Obama.

During his Thursday program, Jones encouraged his audience to urge the Trump administration to move forward with prosecutions as retaliation for the probe into Russia's election interference in 2016.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called on the state legislature to "lock the doors" and then arrest any Democratic lawmakers who attempted to flee the statehouse in an effort to stop Republicans from going through with redistricting plans.

"The House rules and the Senate rules both allow for these people to be arrested if they leave and ... they try to break the quorum," Paxton told MAGA influencer Steve Bannon on Thursday. "The challenge is if they go out of state, we lose jurisdiction."

A confused President Donald Trump railed about Democrats and Russiagate before apparently veering off course and rambling about what appeared to be the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that's filled the headlines for more than a week.

During a White House bill signing event on Wednesday, a reporter noted that FBI Director Kash Patel claimed to have found "burn bags" with documents about the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.