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Amid reports that career Justice and State Department employees are already being fired as President Donald Trump's administration tries to appoint more political allies to serve in those positions, a former prosecutor lamented Wednesday on MSNBC that the right appears hellbent on chasing shadows — to the detriment of functioning government.

One of the pledges from "Project 2025" discussed the removal of all employment protections in place to allow a mass government firing. It's part of the Heritage Foundation’s initiative to install 50,000 conservative movement activists to work in government posts.

Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) struggled to justify the massive scope of President Donald Trump's pardons of Jan. 6 rioters when confronted by CNN's Jake Tapper on Wednesday — arguing that some of the rioters were treated unfairly, but appearing uncomfortable about those who were convicted of violent offenses against police officers.

Turner, who holds a much more traditional GOP view on foreign policy compared with Trump, was recently booted out of the powerful chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and was reportedly enraged about it.

President Donald Trump put former President Joe Biden on notice Wednesday that his failure to include himself as part of his flurry of last-minute pardons before departing from the White House could come back to haunt him.

The moment came during a preview of a Fox News interview with Trump set to air Wednesday night, which the network has billed as the president’s first “exclusive” Oval Office sit-down interview since his inauguration.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers who played a significant role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, reportedly returned to the scene of the crime on Wednesday.

Several Capitol Hill reporters spotted Rhodes at a Dunkin' in the Longworth House Office Building, seated with two women and a man.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) hit back at her fellow Armed Services Committee colleague, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA), after Ernst backed down from her opposition to Pentagon chief nominee Pete Hegseth, facing mounting pressure from MAGA allies.

MSNBC host Katy Tur read Ernst's statement saying Hegseth's ex-wife disputed the claims from her sister-in-law, but Duckworth noted that wasn't the case.

Even though he held the office for four years already, President Donald Trump doesn't appear to have any more sophisticated of an operation when it comes to the drafting of his executive orders, according to one expert's analysis.

Trump has been rolling out a flurry of executive orders since he was sworn in for his second term on Monday. His executive orders have been focused on everything from renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" to eliminating birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had some harsh words for the Jan. 6 rioters President Donald Trump just pardoned en masse.

"No pardon can change the tragic truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," Chutkan wrote in a new statement dismissing one of the cases, quoting from filings against several other defendants who are now being fully pardoned. "On that day, 'a mob professing support for then-President Trump violently attacked the Capitol' ... the dismissal of this case cannot undo the 'rampage [that] left multiple people dead, injured more than 140 people, and inflicted millions of dollars in damage' ... it cannot diminish the heroism of law enforcement who 'struggled, facing serious injury and even death, to control the mob that overwhelmed them' ... it cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake."

Elon Musk said Tuesday he was exploring a presidential pardon for "Bitcoin Jesus," who was arrested last year on fraud and tax evasion charges, after applauding Donald Trump for exonerating the founder of a dark web drug marketplace.

In a sign of the tech billionaire's influence over the new US administration, Musk said he was "honored to be in the Oval Office" when Trump granted a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the man behind the "Silk Road" platform that facilitated the sale of illegal narcotics using cryptocurrency.

MAGA influencer Steve Bannon lashed out at tech billionaire Elon Musk, chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), for undercutting President Donald Trump's announcement about an artificial intelligence initiative.

According to reports, Musk criticized the Stargate Project after Trump claimed after it would spend $500 billion on new AI infrastructure. Musk has a long running dispute with Stargate Project member Sam Altman of OpenAI.

President Donald Trump unilaterally paused the law passed by Congress from taking effect that mandates TikTok sell to an American owner. After sticking their necks out to oppose the Chinese-owned company, Republicans are now crossing their fingers that the president doesn't make them look foolish, Semafor reported.

“Go back to the details of the law,” Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) told reporters. “It’s very clear the whole purpose was divesture outside of the ByteDance ownership. So we cannot give even 10%, 20%, 50% to ByteDance. There is no gray area on this issue.”

Rev. Franklin Graham slammed Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde for a "sexual political agenda" after she pleaded with President Donald Trump to "have mercy" on "immigrants and LGBTQ Americans."

During a Wednesday interview on Newsmax, Graham criticized the bishop's Tuesday homily at the National Prayer Service with Trump.

A federal judge who oversaw several trials for January 6 rioters has a furious response to President Donald Trump's decision pardoning 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol, Politico reported on Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Bill Clinton appointee, made the remarks in a statement dismissing the charges against Dominic Box, a Georgia man convicted of felony civil disorder, who despite his arrest has maintained his conspiracy theories the 2020 election was stolen and proclaimed, “We’re going to take our country back.”