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Donald Trump is threatening to turn the Supreme Court's biggest fear into a reality, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

Trump and his officials have stirred controversy in recent weeks by flirting with the notion that they might defy lawful court orders, especially as it relates to Elon Musk's authority to make changes to the federal government.

Following an abrasive speech delivered by Vice President J.D. Vance at the Munich Security Conference, the former defense minister for Germany called what the U.S. is proposing "nonsense" and complained the U.S. is only sowing more confusion.

Speaking with MSNBC host Ana Cabrera, Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg lashed out at the Trump administration for doing nothing to clear up how the Russian invasion of Ukraine should be resolved.

"We're all puzzled, Ana," he stated. "It's a messaging that changes almost on an hourly basis. In the last few days we have been surprised by the call that the president had with Vladimir Putin and then especially by the fact that his newly appointed secretary of defense is obviously taking negotiation tokens off the table."

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"So and all of these things without without having the European allies and partners somehow included," he continued. "So there is confusion –– probably the mildest word I can find for that."

Asked about Trump's assertion that he doesn't see any way Ukraine could be admitted to NATO as he defended Russia, Guttenberg replied, "It's nonsense and we all know that that the war started out of very, very, different reasons. And the problem we are facing right now with that phone call Trump had with Vladimir Putin is that in our perception, it legitimizes aggression."

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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance Friday urged Germany's mainstream political parties to drop resistance to cooperating with the far right, hours after Berlin rejected American "meddling" ahead of its election.

"Democracy rests on the sacred principle that the voice of the people matters," said Vance in a speech to the Munich Security Conference.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance launched a withering attack Friday against European policies on immigration, populist parties and free speech, echoing the views of President Donald Trump, whom he called Washington's "new sheriff in town".

Vance also stressed Europe must "step up" in managing its own security, a key bone of contention.

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The motive behind Sweden's deadliest mass shooting may never be known but the fact that almost all of the victims had foreign backgrounds has sparked concern among the country's immigrants.

The lead prosecutor in the criminal investigation against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has officially stepped down from the case and has left a scathing resignation letter on his way out.

He becomes the seventh attorney to quit over the case.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams appeared on "The Fox & Friends" Friday morning with the so-called "border czar," Tom Homan, and left people scratching their heads.

A little over 17 hours previously, former acting Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned with an explosive letter accusing top Justice Department officials of a quid pro quo to drop Adams' corruption charges if he cooperates with the administration's mass deportations plan.

Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove was raked over the coals on Friday morning for interfering with the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's office prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, which led to mass resignations

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," former State Attorney for Palm Beach County Dave Aronberg lashed out at Bove, and the entire Donald Trump Department of Justice, for letting Adams off the hook on corruption charges in return for helping the president's administration round-up undocumented immigrants.

That, in turn, led to the resignation of acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon and five other prosecutors to also step down after also refusing to take part of the dropping of charges.

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Pressed to weigh in, Aronberg fired off a furious response.

"The whole thing stinks!' he told "Morning Joe" co-host Jonathan Lemire. "So let's go back to what Eric Adams said on Fox News. He said I have a lawyer, Alex Spiro who's a really good lawyer, he would never do something like this. Well, Alex Spiro is a very good lawyer, but he's also known for being hyper-aggressive."

"He was criticized by the judge in the Jay-Z matter, he represents Jay-Z for his over aggression, attacking the other lawyer," he continued "He's also the same lawyer for Elon Musk, so I'll leave that there."

"So, as if to prove that this was part of a corrupt deal, Eric Adams is not only appearing with the border czar [Tom Homan] but he's also assuring publicly the border czar that he will use his executive powers to allow federal immigration authorities to back into Rikers Island. That's like a 180 degree turn from the typical sanctuary city policies that New York City had."

"So, you know, it sure looks like there's a quo in exchange for the quid here," he continued. "And then you have Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, who I think is doing Attorney General Pam Bondi a disservice by his actions. He wasn't even approved by the Senate yet and he was Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, and he's not even trying to hide his motivations here."

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Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference in which he lobbed culture-war criticisms at European allies but said very little about the core security issues facing the continent, most prominently the United States government's position on the war in Ukraine.

In analyzing the speech on CNN, foreign correspondent Nick Paton Walsh predicted that Vance's speech would mostly fall upon deaf ears among Europeans.

Trump White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is reportedly not happy with the way X owner Elon Musk has run roughshod over federal agencies without keeping her informed of what he's really been doing.

Sources tell Reuters that "Wiles, and her team have at times felt out of the loop as Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeks to fire thousands of federal workers while accessing sensitive data and disrupting operations."

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday warned NATO allies in Europe against assuming that the American troop presence on the continent would "last forever", as he urged them to spend more on defense.

"Now is the time to invest because you can't make an assumption that America's presence will last forever," Hegseth told reporters alongside his Polish counterpart in Warsaw.

Former prosecutor turned U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) hammered Donald Trump's Department of Justice for forcing a U.S. attorney to resign rather than drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," McCaskill was asked about the resignation letter written by then-acting U.S Attorney Danielle Sassoon to AG Pam Bondi and the blistering response that Sassoon received from Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove.

McCaskill responded by flagging what she felt was an alarming part of the exchange.

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Speaking with co-host Mika Brzezinski, she explained, "Prosecutors across the country are tremendously proud of this woman. I think that the cold bucket of water that was dumped on prosecutors all across the country, state, local, federal was the letter from Bove instructing her to dismiss the case."

"And here's what about that letter was so alarming," she continued. "Typically, Mika, there's only two reasons that a case would be dismissed after filing, and those are based on either the soundness of the legal arguments in terms of where the facts apply to the law, or secondly the quality and quantity of the evidence –– there has to be a problem with one of those two for a case to be dismissed ethically."

"This guy Bove admitted in his letter they had not considered either one of those things –– that's called political corruption," she added. "That's called using politics to influence the application of a law in this country, and it was startling when I read that letter because, you know, having been in the position to make terribly hard decisions about charging someone you have to be guided by the law and the evidence and not all of this BS that the Trump Justice Department is using."

"I mean the greatest city in the world deserves better than Eric Adams," the former senator added.

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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday said the Trump administration "has no regard for established rules" as he opened the Munich Security Conference.

"The new American administration has a very different world view to ours," Steinmeier said. "One that has no regard for established rules, partnership and established trust."