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'Make it make sense': Bongino's flip-flop on pipe bomber ripped apart on MS NOW

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino was raked over the coals on Saturday morning for changing his tune on the Washington, DC, pipe bomber after spending years spreading conspiracy theories that have now fallen flat after an arrest.

As a podcaster, the now-senior FBI official claimed the attempted attack was an “inside job,” telling his fans, “It is a Democrat insider or an anti-Trump lunatic who was trying to stop on Jan. 6, four years ago, the Republicans from objecting to the election. So they figured if they planted a bomb there that they could rush into the Capitol and go, ‘Stop the objections! Kamala Harris was almost killed by you!’”

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‘Not acceptable!’ Pro-Trump Somali migrant breaks with president over 'racist' remarks

A Somali immigrant who aggressively campaigned for President Donald Trump in 2024 is severing all ties with the president over his recent remarks where he referred to Somali migrants as “garbage,” condemning them as “racist” in an appearance Saturday on CNN.

“It was very dehumanizing and very un-presidential coming from the commander in chief to dehumanize an entire community by calling them garbage,” said Salman Fiqy, who immigrated to the United States from Somalia in 2009. “This is not acceptable by any means.

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'Facts matter': Supreme Court justices called out by NYT over 'dangerous Trump' agenda

With a series of critical cases still to be heard, the six conservative justices seated on the Supreme Court were admonished by the New York Times editorial board that they need to listen to one of their own and rein in Donald Trump.

In an editorial published Saturday morning, the board pointed out that the lower courts have done a better job of explaining their rulings — many of them restraining the president’s worse impulses — than the nation's highest court which has been hiding behind the so-called content-less “shadow docket.”

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‘Go for it!’ MAGA radio host backs sending own son to war to enact regime change

Lourdes Ubieta, a conservative radio host from Miami, Florida and major backer of President Donald Trump, said recently that if it took sending U.S. troops – which may include her own son and cousin – to Venezuela to enact regime change, then the Trump administration should “go for it.”

“If to free Venezuela and for the best interest of the national security of the U.S., you need to do it, you go for it,” Ubieta told The Washington Post in its report published on Saturday, telling the outlet that she would support a full U.S. invasion of the South American nation as a last resort.

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‘Always stupid and nasty!’ Trump snaps at CNN host when pressed on rising ballroom costs

President Donald Trump snapped at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Saturday morning over being asked about the price tag of his White House ballroom, the cost of which has increased by at least $100 million since first announced.

“Caitlin Collin’s of Fake News CNN, always Stupid and Nasty, asked me why the new Ballroom was costing more money than originally thought one year ago,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, spelling Collins’ name incorrectly.

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'I'm fixing it!' Trump melts down on Fox and Friends over 'jerk' guest making him look bad

Donald Trump started off his Saturday morning by flipping out on the hosts and producers of Fox and Friends for booking a guest who pushed back at the president's insistence that he has turned the economy around.

The president, who stayed in snowy Washington, DC, this weekend, took to his Truth Social account to complain about the appearance of Peter Schiff, a financial commentator and radio personality who has been raising alarms about America’s affordability crisis.

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Trump facing a 'new reality' as White House 'appears to sense political danger': report

Donald Trump is facing increasing sniping from members of his own party that he is ignoring the mood of the country when it comes to the economy and voters turn on him.


According to a report from the Washington Post’s Naftali Bendavid, the president is now faced with a “new reality” that he can no longer convince even some of his most ardent supporters that his words are turning into deeds as prices rise and he ridicules the idea of “affordability.”

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Trump family inflicting new kind of Saudi-style 'royalism' on the US: experts

The Trump administration acts less like a presidential administration and more like a royal family in medieval Europe — a kind of American “neoroyalism,” Joshua Keating tells Vox.

“Signs of neoroyalism [include] the degree to which the administration mixes private enterprise and diplomacy,” said Keating. It’s also clear in Trump’s habit of handling negotiations through family members and old business partners rather than the traditional bureaucracy.

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Power struggle erupts as establishment GOP struggles to 'expel the lunatics': analysis

“There was never that much distance between the Establishment and the extremists of the right, even in [William F.] Buckley’s era; now they are even closer,” reports Intelligencer Senior writer Sarah Jones.

In October, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts publicly cast his lot in with entertainer Tucker Carlson hours after Carlson had a cozy, normalizing interview with influencer Nick Fuentes, king of the white nationalist groyper army, without pressing him on his radical claims about the merits of Adolf Hitler and killing “perfidious Jews.” Roberts disavowed Fuentes in his video, but Jones said he was also careful to make a “big tent” argument in favor of including even bigoted elements in the conservative movement. “Canceling” Fuentes, he argued, “is not the answer either.”

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Anger as National Parks grant free access on Trump's birthday — and end it for MLK day

“Why is MLK Day not worthy of a fee-free day anymore?”

That’s what Kati Schmidt, communications director for the National Parks Conservation Association, wondered in an email to SFGATE, which reported Thursday on the National Park Service’s recently announced free admission days for 2026.

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'Calamity waiting to happen': WSJ begs Trump to back off massive 'boondoggle'

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to get involved in what they called a "boondoggle" of a liquefied natural gas project in eastern Africa.

The project is run by the French company TotalEnergies, and backed by the U.S. Export-Import Bank — but there are numerous red flags that have caused the British and Dutch governments to pull out, and, the board argued, the Trump administration should follow their lead.

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Kristi Noem fesses up to role in defying court order as judge weighs jail proceedings

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem fessed up on Friday over who was responsible for the Trump administration's brazen defiance of a court order.

In March, the Trump administration made the controversial decision to transfer Venezuelan detainees to El Salvador despite a judicial order temporarily blocking their removal. The move ignited a confrontation between the Trump administration and Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who was weighing whether to hold officials in contempt of court.

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Trump hit with court smackdown in bid to hold deportees in Guantánamo Bay

A federal judge said on Friday that President Donald Trump did not have the legal authority to hold immigrants at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility in Cuba before shipping them out for deportation, The New York Times reported.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, did not immediately order the operation to be shut down, but denied the government's motion to dismiss a class-action lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union, which has vowed to seek a closure order.

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