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Far-right Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer was suspended from Elon Musk's social media site X after spending hours attacking him for not being a true MAGA fan.

Musk began by telling the world to ignore her, but it didn't take long for Loomer to be suspended for 12 hours, claiming she broke the X terms of service.

CNN's Sara Sidner dismissed a Republican strategist's analysis of the MAGA clash between Donald Trump's business allies and his anti-immigrant base.

Right-wing influencers attacked Trump's wealthy advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy over their support for H-1B visas allowing skilled foreign workers to stay in the U.S., but GOP strategist Neil Chatterjee insisted the president-elect's political opponents were trying to crack the MAGA coalition.

Some supporters of President-elect Donald Trump are calling out X owner Elon Musk for not paying them after they took part in his "free speech" petition ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

In replies to a post criticizing Musk from Trump ally Laura Loomer, some Trump supporters said that they were still owed money after they took part in his petition drive scheme that promised participants $47 for each successful referral to sign the petition.

The Republican-controlled House may be headed for more chaos when it comes to voting on a speaker with no GOP alternatives to current Speaker Mike Johnson and Donald Trump's patience with the Louisiana lawmaker waning.

Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," one former Republican member of the House claimed his party has no credible replacement for Johnson which may save his job, but there is also the Trump factor.

"I'll tell you, the best thing he has going for him is that there is no credible alternative," ex-Rep Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) stated. "The men who would be in position to challenge Johnson, [Reps.] Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, Tom Emmer, these are men who tried to ascend to the speakership and failed just a few months ago –– so Johnson has that going for him. "

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"The reason he got elected is because he really had no strong enemies inside the House Republican Conference and even though some people like [Kentucky Republican] Thomas Massie are upset, they really don't have any where to go," he continued. "So I do think that that, combined with the fact that Republicans are still traumatized from all their speaker drama during this Congress bodes well for Johnson and I think he's very likely to stay in his position if he decides to stand for re-election as speaker, which everything indicates he will."

That led "Morning Joe" host Jonathan Lemire to interject, "People I've talked to in Trump's orbit down in Mar-a-Lago say there is increased unhappiness from the president-elect toward Speaker Johnson, though. We'll see if he really tries to push for his ouster."

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Donald Trump posted an inscrutable message on Truth Social that seems like it may have been intended as a direct message.

The president-elect posted a short congratulatory message Friday morning directed at Fox News broadcasters Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt on their engagement, which he signed with his initials, and he followed up a short time later with a similarly constructed message, but the subject is not clear.

Trump devotee Laura Loomer says she is paying a price for her criticisms of X owner Elon Musk.

In recent days, Loomer and many other MAGA devotees have been criticizing Musk after he said that America needs to import more top-tier engineering talent from other countries because there simply aren't enough American-born engineers talented enough to meet demand.

Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie have joined former Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) call to release the "congressional sexual slush fund," a list of congresspeople accused of sexual harassment.

On Thursday, both Greene (R-Ga.) and Massie (R-Ky.), posted to X calling for the release of information from the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights, which handles complaints of harassment by members of Congress.

Sports podcaster Pablo Torre pulled double-duty on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning first commenting on Netflix broadcasting NFL games on Christmas day and then being asked about a recent social media post made by Donald Trump advisor Vivek Ramaswamy which has caused a MAGA blow-up.

As "Morning Joe" co-host Johnathan Lemire pointed out, Torre and Ramaswamy were classmates at Harvard University where both graduated with honors and were members of Phi Beta Kappa.

Donald Trump has been threatening to take over sovereign territories and reclaim control of the Panama Canal, and sources revealed the motives for his bluster.

The president-elect has been fascinated with buying Greenland since his first term in the White House, although the autonomous Danish territory isn't for sale, in addition to apparent jokes about making Canada a state and taking back control over the crucial canal, and CNN's Alayna Treene spoke to advisers to learn what's behind his threats.

Reacting to an announcement by Marianne Williamson that she now wants to run the Democratic National Committee (DNC) after a failed run for Congress and two attempts to be the party's presidential nominee, not one panelist on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" gave her a chance of success.

After Christmas, the author and speaker announced her intention to run for the leadership spot, saying in a video posted online, "I feel that I can bring a level of expertise to the process of lifting up this possibility of victory over the next two and four years in a way that will not occur if we are only looking traditional means of politicking in order to make that happen.”

After watching a clip of her announcement, MSNBC host Symone Sanders Townsend expressed skepticism and asked, "I was wondering, who keeps telling Marianne Williamson to run for all these different positions. She ran for president, now DNC chair, maybe Senate, I don't know, next cycle. It is very interesting to me. I don't know if Marianne Williamson is what the majority of DNC members will be looking for."

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Politico's Sam Stein added, "I did actually chronicle some of her candidacies; her campaigns were disastrous internally, a lot of infighting, very poor money management. That's not what the party is going to want, not what the party needs."

"The third thing is just an understanding of how to handle this modern media ecosystem and the real debate happening now in the Democratic Party is where do you put your message and who are your messengers and can you build a media infrastructure on your own or do you need to push forward with the existing system and try to go on to conservative alt media and podcasts and things like that," he continued. "These are three big questions that face the next DNC chair. I don't think Marianne Williamson is going to have the answers that most of the party members want, but I'm curious to see how they treat her candidacy."

According to MSNBC regular Katty Kay, there are also questions about Williamson's demeanor when questioned.

"I interviewed her too," she pointed out. "She's pretty thin-skinned and when you challenge her about stories of staff being unhappy with her leadership, you don't get very far. She's pretty prickly about it –– I don't think that's what the DNC chair needs to be right now."

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One of Donald Trump's political nominations isn't getting the media attention that is deserved, a former prosecutor said.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance raised the issue on her Substack blog in a post dated Friday.

An online clash broke out between some of Donald Trump's most fervent supporters over an immigrant program long used by Silicon Valley tech companies, and a pair of analysts explained how "preexisting tensions" could make the MAGA coalition untenable.

Trump named Indian-born tech entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan as his senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence, and far-right activist Laura Loomer complained that his support for removing some caps on visas for skilled foreign workers would be “in direct opposition” to the president-elect's agenda – but Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and other business allies defended H-1B visas as necessary.

An online civil war between hardcore Donald Trump "America First" partisans and the men whom the president-elect chose to head up his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spilled onto Trump's Truth Social media platform.

The war began with a spat when longtime Trump supporter Laura Loomer lashed out at Trump's choice of tech entrepreneur Sriram Krishnan, who was born in India and is an avid supporter of removing caps on H-1B visas, as his senior policy adviser on artificial intelligence.