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J.D. Vance and Elon Musk were among the MAGA leaders to weigh in on a CBS News interview this weekend.

Margaret Brennan of CBS News, who butted heads with Vance during a debate during the 2024 presidential election, interviewed Secretary of State Marco Rubio Sunday.

MAGA rocker Ted Nugent proclaimed recently that "the good Blacks" had left the Democratic Party.

During his Friday Real America's Voice program, Nugent opened by announcing the show had been sponsored by Wood Rocket's air freshener in the shape of a Black middle finger.

CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Sunday hit back at the conservative New York Post over its reporting about her.

The Post recently reported that Collins, a past target of Donald Trump, "deleted a post promoting Luigi Mangione's defense fund after backlash."

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) defended the so-called young tech bros staffing Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) by comparing them to the "greatest generation" of American soldiers who sacrificed in World War II.

During a Sunday interview, Fox News host Kevin Corke pushed Burchett to agree that DOGE was making worthwhile cuts to government.

CBS host Margaret Brennan grilled Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) about whether he thought President Donald Trump was "winning" when he flattered Russian President Vladimir Putin, who she described as a "brutal dictator."

"Vladimir Putin, it sounds like you would agree, is an accused war criminal," Brennan told Crenshaw in a Sunday interview. "He is a dictator. There is a warrant out for his arrest, as you know."

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Reince Priebus downplayed President Donald Trump's suggestion that anything he did was legal — including violating the U.S. Constitution — as long as he "saves the country."

Trump made the remarks during a Saturday post on Truth Social: "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law."

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy suggested Manhattan's former top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, was a "snake" with questionable morals because she resigned instead of dropping a corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams after President Donald Trump's Justice Department ordered her to.

During a "snake story" Sunday morning on Fox & Friends, co-host Lisa Boothe noted Sassoon refused to drop the charges because she was "confident" Adams had committed crimes.

A former White House reporter on Saturday blasted Donald Trump for a purported "effort to stifle free speech."

Brian J. Karem, who famously asked Trump if he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost the 2020 election, wrote in a piece for Salon over the weekend that the President has pushed the news media "down a slippery slope."

MAGA activists Steve Bannon and Laura Loomer blasted Elon Musk and President Donald Trump for distracting from the budget deficit and national debt by focusing on internet memes instead.

As the House Budget Committee was marking up a budget likely to have few cuts in the next year, Bannon suggested Republicans were more interested in slashing taxes for the rich.

President Donald Trump complained about a "new theory" on magnets in a rant against waste, fraud, and abuse.

During Wednesday's remarks at the White House, Trump was asked how he could be sure Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency was properly cutting spending.

Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader pardoned by President Donald Trump, said he was considering a run for Congress.

In an interview with The Miami New Times this week, Tarrio revealed that "a lot" of pardoned Jan. 6 rioters had asked him to run for office.

The Washington Post is being criticized for a recent profile on a conservative lawyer that neglected to mention he supports a 150-year-old abortion ban.

Calling him "a legal renegade," The Post profile on Jonathan Mitchell referred to him as "an originalist of sorts," referring to his belief that the Constitution should be interpreted based on its original meaning. As part of that, Mitchell said he quibbles with the idea that Supreme Court Justices write rulings "for ages," calling the top Court nothing more than a "referee."

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Trump administration retaliated against The Associated Press because the news agency declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America despite President Donald Trump's executive order on the body of water.

During Wednesday's White House briefing, CNN's Kaitlan Collins noted that officials refused to allow the AP's reporter to cover an event on Tuesday.