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Far-right podcast host Steve Bannon warned of a "ticking time bomb" in the U.S. Senate that could sink President-elect Donald Trump's nominations.

On his Wednesday War Room podcast, Bannon blasted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as the major roadblock to the nominations of former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI), former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Pro-MAGA TV host Gina Loudon accused the movie "Wicked" of "racism" against white people after she mistakenly claimed actress Ariana Grande was Hispanic.

"Wicked, the movie broke box office records," Loudon announced Tuesday on her Real America's Voice program. "I saw it, but I was very excited at the idea of seeing the interpretation of this. But I should have known it's Holly-weird."

Alina Habba, an attorney and advisor for Donald Trump, argued Tuesday that it was a "tremendous tragedy" that writer E. Jean Carroll won a defamation case against the president-elect after he denied sexually assaulting her.

While speaking to right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, Habba claimed that Trump would have been imprisoned if he had not won the 2024 presidential election. The remarks came after special counsel Jack Smith dropped cases against Trump for election subversion and the mishandling of classified documents on Monday.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) called for Joy Reid to be taken off the air because she claimed the MSNBC host's opposition to President-elect Donald Trump meant she supported murder.

During a Monday interview on Real America's Voice, Greene slammed Reid for warning that Trump would replace military officials with people who believe American protesters can be shot. Reid cited Trump's decision to nominate Project 2025 architect Russ Vought, who has called to deploy the military inside the country.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) revealed that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (R-HI) doesn't yet have enough Republican votes to be confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's director of national intelligence.

During a Monday interview with right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, Mullin said that Gabbard faced an uphill battle in the Senate because she was "compromised for a second" while traveling to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, a former pro wrestler who went by the name Kane, argued that his fake body slam of WWE co-founder Linda McMahon "prepared" her to take on teachers as President-elect Donald Trump's education secretary.

During a Monday interview with Newsmax, Jacobs recalled body slamming McMahon in a stunt at a WWE event.

Fox News medical contributor and forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden contradicted the defense of Daniel Penny, a former Marine on trial for allegedly killing street artist Jordan Neely with a chokehold in 2023.

Penny's defense, which rested Friday, argued that Neely's sickle cell trait and marijuana use led to his death. But during a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Baden said that it was Penny's chokehold that had "caused the death" of Neely.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said he opposed President-elect Donald Trump's plan to place tariffs on imported goods because it would be "a tax on the consumer."

The Republican lawmaker came out against the proposal during a Sunday interview on CBS after host Margaret Brennan asked if he supported billionaire hedge fund CEO Scott Bessent to be Treasury secretary.

Fox News contributor Leslie Marshall revealed she had worked with former host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for defense secretary, and she believes that he is a rapist.

In a Fox News segment on Sunday, host Howard Kurtz noted that Hegseth was accused of rape in 2017 by a woman who went to the police, "and a rape kit confirmed the sexual encounter."

Fox News pundits Ben Domenech and Leslie Marshall agreed that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was unqualified to be a babysitter or drive teenage girls in an Uber because he had been accused of having sex with a 17-year-old girl.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, Domenech agreed with Gaetz's decision to withdraw as President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) vowed to support Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by investigating NPR and "toilets in Africa."

"Elon Musk will be leading the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, under the Trump administration, aimed at cutting at least $2 trillion said to be government waste of taxpayer money," Fox News host Maria Bartiromo explained during an interview with Greene on Sunday.

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy told Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) that she didn't need to see women's private parts to enforce anti-transgender bathroom bans because she could tell who was a biological woman by looking at them.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, Mace explained her crusade against Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (R-DE) by suggesting she had a fear of being raped in the bathroom by the first transgender member of Congress.