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Donald Trump's record on immigration is that of "failure," according to Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier.

Bier, who has previously commented on Trump's family separation policy during the first Trump administration, took to social media on Saturday to make a prediction about Trump's deportation scheme roll-out.

Loyal MAGA ally Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is taking a "highly unusual step" to take on Speaker Mike Johnson, according to CNN.

Paulina, a Florida lawmaker who early on supported Trump over Governor Ron DeSantis, is pushing for a rule change that would allow pregnant women lawmakers to vote remotely.

Republican lawmakers are hinting at an "important weakness" of which Democrats can take advantage, a columnist argued Saturday.

Political columnist Paul Waldman, who has previously commented on the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, weighed in over the weekend on Trump's false bravado. Specifically, Waldman makes the argument that Republicans are overstating Trump's electoral victory to hide the truth: Trump is still a deeply unpopular politician.

There has been a brewing war between Donald Trump allies Steve Bannon and Elon Musk, and Republican lawmakers are said to be handing Bannon a weapon to use.

Columnist Greg Sargent on Saturday published a piece making the argument that the GOP is gifting something that "Bannon can use this to his advantage in the MAGA civil war over immigration."

A former Republican lawmaker who has been thought by some to be a target of Donald Trump spoke out on Saturday against one of the President-elect's Cabinet nominees.

Former "Tea Party" Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman (VA), a Trump-skeptical Republican who helped assist the House Select Committee on January 6 with its investigation, has previously sounded the alarm about purportedly dangerous Republicans rising to power.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Saturday morning, former Naval War College professor, and current columnist for the Atlantic, Tom Nichols implored Republicans to look elsewhere for a replacement for Donald Trump's choice to be the next secretary of defense.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Nichols made the case that Fox News personality Pete Hegseth is fooling himself and everyone else by claiming he can handle the the job because he lacks the experience and character to make sound decisions and advise the president.

"Yes, he was a major in the Army," Nichols conceded. "I taught at the Naval War College. I taught dozens and dozens of young majors and they are fine men and women, but that doesn't make him qualified to be advising the president in the middle of a crisis or potentially even a nuclear crisis."

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"The secretary of defense is a job that that is always reserved for someone who can meet both the intellectual experience and character standards that's required to be at the top of the Pentagon," he continued before later adding, "There's a real threat of real bad things happening in the world for which we need the people who have the best and most sober judgment and the most sober temperament –– and I don't mean that as a pun on the allegations of drinking."

"I mean a level and steady temperament," he elaborated. "And I don't think there's any evidence of that with Pete Hegseth who, again, other than having served in the military and been a morning talk show host and has no business being secretary of defense."

He then predicted, "I'm uncomfortable with the civilian/military relationship where the president calls the Pentagon and the secretary of defense says, ''We're not going to do that,' or in this case the secretary of defense says, 'Sure, whatever you want to do, Mr. President."

According to one columnist, Democrats have nothing to fear in the future with Donald Trump unable to run again in 2028 and, therefore, they should bedevil him at every turn and make the next four years unbearable for him.

In a column with the none-too-subtle headline of "Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat," Jason Linkins of The New Republic suggests heaping problems on the president-elect to the point where they "Wake him up early and keep him up late."

Donald Trump is being warned he needs to tap the brakes on some of his most prominent initiatives lest he find himself alienating voters who gave him the benefit of the doubt.

In a blunt editorial from the Wall Street Journal opinion page editors, the president-elect, who will assume power on Monday, was admonished that "half the country still dislikes him" and that he is on a short leash.

According to the editors, "Mr. Trump has political running room, though it’s not unlimited. His victory was solid but no landslide," before adding, "... the GOP majority in the House is so narrow that a couple of willful Members can kill anything. Mr. Trump could quickly find himself in trouble if he exceeds his mandate from voters."

On CNN's newly launched "Table for Five" with host Abby Phillip, journalist Cari Champion butted heads with attorney Arthur Aidala during a heated discussion over companies abandoning their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies.

Conservative complaints about DEI has led to unfounded and unjust attacks on a multitude of government and corporate employees who are not white and male and Champion pointed out that if one if not white with an Ivy League education you become a target.

"You think about Ketanji Jackson, our [Supreme Court] Justice and I think of this woman and how hard she worked and they said she was a DEI justice," she stated. "And I thought to myself –– or like when you look at Kamala Harris or people who have went to Harvard and Yale and have the same exact, the same exact resume as their white counterpart, their white male counterpart, DEI is so trendy."

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"And when it comes from someone from a conservative side and they label that, it becomes this truth," she noted. "I often ask my question when I look at [Fox News personality] Pete Hegseth, I wonder, if they say he's a DEI candidate, would that be unfair to say? I don't know why we can't use them? Cha cha cha cha cha. Why we can't use the same words?"

As attorney Aidala leaned into her reply, she added, "I know, I'm gonna let you get to it. But why can't we use the same words that they use on us? "

"But it comes from the United States Supreme Court," the attorney interjected. "The decision last year about the Harvard admissions, and they just said it violated the 14th Amendment and it really had to do with, I think, Asian students who were being excluded from going to Harvard because there were too many Asian students."

"Their grades were very high and so that's where this all comes from," he added. "Corporate America is basically following, well, if they did it to Harvard –– don't worry, I can't even spell Harvard so, you know, I'm not from Harvard –– if they're going to rule there the next stop is corporations because you're only hiring this person because of the DEI.''

"That's just not true!" Champion exclaimed as CNN host Phillip stepped in.