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MAGA conspiracists claim many Republicans implicated in Trump assassination efforts

Right-wing commentators Benny Johnson and Mike Cernovich blamed "The Deep State and Ukraine" for perpetuating two assassination attempts on Donald Trump as he campaigned in Butler County, PA, last July; and Palm Beach County, FL, in September.

Johnson hosted Cernovich on his podcast and posted to X Friday, "Unravel the assassination plot against Trump, it's going to implicate many Senators and members of Congress. The Deep State and Ukraine tried to take out our President."

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White House's 'cute' social media post threatens to backfire in court: expert

The White House posted a screenshot of a story in The New York Times with an altered headline — and a claim that the original had been fixed.

Now a former federal prosecutor is cautioning that that action could cause the Donald Trump administration problems in court.

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'Lying around like a loaded weapon': Analyst warns Trump tempted to use deeply flawed law

President Donald Trump, infuriated at Harvard University's refusal to capitulate to his demands to crack down on protest, is now plotting the nuclear option — go after the school's tax-exempt status, which would wreck the ability of the school to fundraise.

But in doing so, he is opening up a Pandora's Box that his own party would live to regret, Conor Clarke warned in an analysis for The Atlantic published on Friday.

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'Surge': Rich Americans dump money into Swiss banks as Trump chaos creates dollar anxiety

Wealthy investors are looking to “diversify away from the dollar,” according to a new NBC report.

The outlet claims these investors “believe [the dollar] will weaken even further under the weight of the soaring U.S. debt.”

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'Let that sink in': Ex-GOP lawmaker slams Cabinet member for following 'Trump off a cliff'

“Let’s be clear: [the war in Ukraine] would end tomorrow if Russia just… you know…stopped firing. That’s not speculation — it’s fact," Adam Kinzinger penned in a new substack.

The former GOP Congressman added that Kyiv “has not only survived but is winning” the war.

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CNN fact checker cuts Trump off as he launches into 'little biography' of jailed immigrant

President Donald Trump read "a little biography" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a slip of paper during an Oval Office meeting Monday, offering it as proof that the Maryland man was a criminal who deserved to be held in an El Salvadoran prison.

Trump was speaking about Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who traveled to the Central American country this week to check on Abrego Garcia's condition. The president then asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt to retrieve a piece of paper from another room.

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'Devastated': House Republican announces daughter's death

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) said Friday that one of his six children has died.

Biggs wrote on social media that his daughter Cosette "lost her battle with cancer."

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Trump's niece fears she could be the next Kilmar Abrego Garcia ​

President Donald Trump's niece, Dr. Mary Trump, Ph.D., wrote Friday that she fears her uncle's retribution could be coming her next.

She began by noting her uncle is "openly defying the courts and essentially rendering the rule of law inoperative."

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Court backs gov's trick that transformed year of school funding into 400-years of spending

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' creative 2023 line-item veto that transformed a one-year school funding increase into a year-on-year increase for the next 400 years.

Evers' veto came in 2023, with a bill that increased school funding by $325 per student for the "2024-25" school year. He creatively crossed out the digits "20" and the hyphen, along with a few other words in the sentence, to rewrite the bill as increasing funding per student by that amount every year through the "2425" school year.

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'Thrown to the wolves': Analyst warns 'loyal soldier' JD Vance he's become 'disposable'

"You're fired" were not only words that Donald Trump famously used when he was hosting the hit reality show "The Apprentice" during the 2000s — they are also words he used a lot during his first administration.

Trump clashed with a long list of appointees the first time he was president, including two national security directors (HR McMaster and John Bolton), a U.S. attorney general (Jeff Sessions), a secretary of state (Rex Tillerson), an FBI director (James Comey) and a White House chief of staff (Gen. John F. Kelly) — all of whom were either fired or resigned in frustration. Near the end of his first administration, Trump even clashed with two officials who had often described as loyalists: then-Vice President Mike Pence and then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.

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These MAGA voters are willing to 'suffer' — so long as others are hurting more: analysis

Some swing voters who went from voting for Joe Biden in 2020 to voting for Donald Trump in 2024 are now regretting their vote for Trump, as they fear his policies — such as steep tariffs and layoffs at the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) — will hurt them.

But hardcore MAGA voters are expressing no regrets. And CNN's Harry Enten believes that "very few" of the 2024 MAGA voters now "regret" voting for Trump.

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'Victory for scammers': Trump fires 90% of Consumer Protection Agency staff

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday dealt what advocates fear could be a fatal blow to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by moving to fire 90% of its workforce, gutting an agency that has returned tens of billions of dollars to Americans defrauded by corporate abusers.

With no advance notice, roughly 1,500 CFPB employees received news Thursday afternoon that they're being fired, a major step toward billionaire Trump lieutenant Elon Musk's stated goal of deleting the bureau. The mass terminations, if upheld, would leave the CFPB with a "skeleton crew" of around 200 staffers.

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'MAGA World killing': Trump loyalist's firing raises insiders' suspicions of Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio is being viewed with suspicion by Trump loyalists after he fired MAGA acolyte Pete Marocco from the State Department where Marocco worked to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to reporting in Politico.

Reasons for the firing ranged from Marocco's "bulldozer operating style and failure to work effectively with colleagues" to "substantive disagreements between Rubio and Marocco over how to dismantle USAID," wrote reporters Dasha Burns and Nahal Toosi.

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