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CNN's Harry Enten expressed shock at new polling that shows voters are losing trust in Donald Trump's handling of the economy.

The senior analyst for the network examined the aggregate findings of numerous surveys taking the temperature of voters a month into the president's second term, and found him bleeding support — especially on the economy.

Contradictory comments made by Donald Trump on Wednesday had both his own staff and Republicans working overtime to get on the same page on where the party stands on Medicaid.

According to a report from Politico's Ben Leonard, Adam Cancryn and Robert King, the president at first reaffirmed his belief that the program that provides help for millions should not be touched and then, hours later, threw his support behind a House proposal that would severely gut the program.

Donald Trump's former special envoy to Ukraine reacted to the president's "strange and divergent" comments about the country and its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Kurt Volker, who had been a key witness in Trump's first impeachment inquiry over his Ukraine extortion scheme, pointed to a Truth Social post the president made shortly after his inauguration threatening taxes, tariffs and sanctions against Russia if an agreement couldn't be reached to end the war – which stands in stark contrast to his threats against Zelenskyy.

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Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen has told AFP that Europe must massively rearm in the face of "mixed signals" from the United States under Donald Trump.

Any hope that Donald Trump may have that the conservative majority Supreme Court will give a thumbs-up to his makeover of the federal government and grant him unlimited power is fading by the day.

That is according to former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori in his column for Politico where he claimed that, as much as Trump can be his own "worst enemy" when it comes to legal matters, Elon Musk is on a whole different level when it comes to creating chaos that has the potential to make a favorable ruling almost impossible.

CNN's chief international correspondent busted president Donald Trump in an easily disproven lie as he tries to bully Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy into handing over half of his country's resources.

Nick Paton Walsh, reporting from Kyiv, said Ukrainians are disoriented by Trump's abandonment of their country as they fight back against Russia's full-scale invasion, which was launched just short of three years ago, and he added that Trump had been lying about Zelensky and negotiations on a deal to end the war.

Attorney Marc Elias, the founder of Democracy Docket, is hitting back at Elon Musk after the X owner targeted him in social media posts.

In response to a Musk post that accused him of "undermining civilization" and of suffering "generational trauma," Elias wrote Musk a letter explaining why he will never be intimidated by the richest man in the world.

An MSNBC legal analyst had the panel laughing on Thursday morning as he described how Donald Trump DOJ appointee Emil Bove tried to explain away his desire to let New York City Mayor Eric Adams walk away from corruption charges in a Manhattan courtroom on Wednesday.

Speaking with "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire, former Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg explained his view that things did not go well for Bove when pressed by United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Dale Ho whether he was engaged in a quid pro quo offer to advance Trump's anti-immigrant policies in New York City.

"It was quite a spectacle yesterday because you had the number two person, Emil Bove at the Department of Justice, Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, showing up himself to court — that's really unusual," Aronberg told the host.

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"It was the right thing to do, though, because he broke it he owns it — this is his baby," he elaborated. "And in court he said that there was no quid pro quo, he said that under oath. But then his reason for the dismissal of the charges sure sounded like a quid pro quo. He essentially said 'It's not a quid pro quo, your honor, we just gave Eric Adams something in exchange for something.'"

Donald Trump has floated the possibility of sending out refund checks to Americans with some of the savings he says the Department of Government Efficiency have cut from the budget, but a Wall Street Journal reporter said that plan was laughable.

MAGA-aligned investment manager James Fishback first promoted that idea of a "DOGE dividend," which he says came to him in a dream, and it gained traction online Tuesday after Elon Musk posted on his X platform that he would "check" with the president about the possibility, which Trump acknowledged the next day by saying he would consider giving 20 percent of those savings back to Americans.

President Donald Trump's decision to call Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "dictator" and accuse him of starting the war with Russia President Vladimir Putin after the Russian strongman invaded his country appears to have initiated a revolt among key Republican lawmakers.

That is according to Washington Post columnist David Ignatius who told an MSNBC panel of political observers that, after 30 days in office, Trump has pushed members of his own caucus too far.

After MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski shared clips of key Republicans including Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD), Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kennedy (R-LA) shooting down the president's remarks and calling out Putin as a "murderer," Ignatius claimed Trump has pushed them too far.

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With former Vice President Mike Pence and 2024 GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley also joining the chorus of Trump critics, Ignatius explained, "The striking thing to me, Mika, is that Republicans finally seem to have found their voice in directly, clearly disagreeing with Donald Trump in his criticism of Zelenskyy and this absurd claim that Ukraine started the war."

"That seems to have blown a circuit for the Republicans and it's about time," he added. "The concern I'm hearing from strategists and military people who follow this is this negotiation heading into a sort of rough accommodation between the United States and Russia? Two big guys who are going to figure out how they resume their relationship and then a decision by Europe, whether Europe stands with Ukraine and Europe provides the defense going forward."

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President Donald Trump's rant about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy being a "dictator" sent outraged shockwaves throughout European capitals this week, although one country found itself pleasantly surprised by the president's tirade.

Politico reports that "the Kremlin seemed barely to believe its luck" when Trump raged against Ukraine while his administration was negotiating directly with Russian officials as Ukraine watched from the sidelines.

Donald Trump's labor secretary nominee on Wednesday distanced herself from previous pro-union stances that sparked Republican criticism, as she called herself a champion of the U.S. president's "America First agenda."

Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former Oregon congresswoman, was one of just three Republicans to cosponsor the Pro Act -- the cornerstone of legislative efforts to strengthen US labor law and reverse the longtime decline of private sector unionization.