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'Something snapped': Nixed multi-billion dollar contract reportedly made Bezos Trump's man

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and owner of The Washington Post, has perplexed D.C. insiders with his dramatic transformation from civic-minded entrepreneur to MAGA faithful, according to a new piece in Politico.

Bezos was famously pictured alongside fellow tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk at Trump's second-term inauguration, cementing what Politico columnist Michael Schaffer wrote was an image that looked "more self-serving than selfless."

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Trump-appointed judge orders the return of a second migrant deported to El Salvador

A Donald Trump-appointed judge ordered the administration to seek the return of a second man improperly deported to El Salvador.

Maryland-based U.S. District judge Stephanie Gallagher ruled the administration had violated a legally binding court settlement from last year by deporting the 20-year-old to the Central American nation, reported Politico.

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'It sucks': Trump melts down on Rupert Murdoch as new Fox poll shows his support cratering

Donald Trump has very been busy on Truth Social on Thursday morning but took time out from attacking Democrats and his latest foe, Harvard, to snap at media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

The day after Fox News reported on their own polling showing the president is swiftly losing support as he nears the 100-day mark of his second term, Trump lashed out at Murdoch and urged him to make big changes at Fox as well as the Wall Street Journal which Murdoch also owns and has become increasingly critical of the current administration.

With the Fox polling noting, "Overall approval of Trump’s job performance comes in at 44%, down 5 points from 49% approval in March. That’s lower than the approval of Joe Biden (54%), Barack Obama (62%), and George W. Bush (63%) at the 100-day mark in their presidencies. It’s also lower by 1 point compared to Trump’s 45% approval at this point eight years ago," the president fired back on Thursday.

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On Truth Social, Trump wrote, "Rupert Murdoch has told me for years that he is going to get rid of his FoxNews, Trump Hating, Fake Pollster, but he has never done so. This 'pollster' has gotten me, and MAGA, wrong for years. Also, and while he’s at it, he should start making changes at the China Loving Wall Street Journal. It sucks!!!"

Fox's latest polling was compiled "under the direction of Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R)," with the president not specifying which one, or both, should be fired.

You can see his post here.

'Get rid of him ASAP!' Trump rages at lawyer hired by Harvard to engage with White House

President Donald Trump raged against Harvard University and one of its lawyers in a venomous Truth Social post.

The president ramped up his attacks on Harvard, which is being pushed by some donors to renew talks with the White House on its demands for control over the university, and he singled out an attorney hired by the university to engage with the Trump administration.

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MAGA host: 'Money-grubbing' welfare recipients don't deserve Trump's $5,000 'baby bonuses'

MAGA TV host Gina Loudon worried that "money-grubbing" welfare recipients would benefit from the $5,000 incentives President Donald Trump is reportedly considering for households with new children.

During a Thursday discussion about the so-called baby bonuses, Loudon threw cold water on the idea.

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'Laughable': Republican adviser says Putin 'not threatened' by 'mild' Trump attack

President Donald Trump's Thursday morning social media post accusing Vladimir Putin of "very bad timing" with the devastating Russian strikes on Kyiv is being slammed as "laughable" by political analysts.

Trump posted on Truth Social, "I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!"

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'What?' MSNBC hosts pounce on J.D. Vance's latest defense of Putin's 'perspective'

Comments made by Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday about negotiations to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine earned him a tongue-lashing on MSNBC early Thursday morning.

With Donald Trump's administration flailing in its attempts to end the war Russian President Vladimir Putin initiated, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been hinting the U.S. may walk away from the bargaining table unless Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agrees to a White House proposal that experts say heavily favors Russia.

Speaking in Agra, India Wednesday, Vance doubled down and came to Putin's defense which led to vehement push back from "Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Jonathan Lemire.

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Towards the end of his remarks, Vance stated, "I'm going to echo something Secretary Rubio said, which is: look, we've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and Ukrainians and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process."

He then added, "We've really tried to understand things from the perspective of both the Ukrainians and the Russians. What do Ukrainians care the most about? What do the Russians care the most about? And I think that we've put together a very fair proposal."

That earned him a "What?" from Brzezinski who quickly turned to her co-host and stated, "Yeah. Tell me what you're thinking right now."

"I mean, right now, I mean even as the vice president said there, he said, 'We're trying to understand each side's perspective.' Trying to understand Russian's perspective?" the obviously incensed Lemire asked.

"We know what their perspective is: they invaded a sovereign nation," he exclaimed as Brzezinski chimed in with, "They want to seize territory and Trump wants to give it to them!"

"That's the bottom line," she added to which Lemire added, "Doesn't seem much open for interpretation."

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'Employees shell-shocked': Ex-insider sounds alarm as Trump disarms 'crown jewel' of DOJ

According to several reports, there are a slew of changes happening inside the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. In a new column, former Prosecutor Joyce Vance claims, career employees at the DOJ “seem shell-shocked [and] many of them [are] leaving or preparing to.”

Reuters reported, “about a dozen senior career attorneys” were reassigned to lower-level attorney duties, like responding to FOIA requests. Other outlets claim missions in different sections within the Division were “radically altered.”

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'Sugar-high of Trump first 100 days is over' as support collapses: ex-Republican adviser

As Donald Trump closes in on the end of his first 100 days of his second administration, his approval numbers are plummeting as the reality of his policies –– from trade to immigration –– take hold and American voters take stock.

Early Thursday morning on MSNBC, a "Morning Joe" panel addressed a new Fox News poll that showed the president underwater by 26 points when it comes to how voters think he's doing and, according to one co-host, there was even worse polling released on Wednesday.

According to MSNBC analyst and former Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) policy adviser Elise Jordan, the honeymoon is over for the now-embattled president.

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"That new Fox News poll finds Trump's overall approval rating underwater, with 44 percent approving and 55 percent disapproving," co-host Mika Brzezinski prompted her panel. "The president is also underwater on the issues that really were key to his campaign: immigration, foreign policy, the economy, tariffs and inflation ––he ran on most of those."

"Based on Trump's first 100 days, voters are also less optimistic about the future," she continued. "Thirty-eight percent say they feel encouraged about the next four years, while 51 percent are discouraged. Those numbers were 45 percent and 84 percent, respectively, at the 100-day mark of Trump's first term."

Co-host Willie Geist contributed, "The Fox News poll is actually more generous than some of the others that came out yesterday. Pew has the president at a 40 percent approval rating, also historically low at this point, and importantly, on the economy, Reuters has them at 37 percent. So it turns out, at least if you take an economy that was in most ways, not always, except for inflation, was humming along and you aggressively tank it with tariffs and other actions, voters, including Republicans, don't like it very much."

"And an economy that, in January and February, before all of the tariff nonsense came on the scene was doing quite well and was enthusiastic about Trump's presidency and optimistic," Jordan interjected. "And you see how quickly the sugar high of just the first 100 days is over now that voters are actually seeing what kind of results, or lack thereof, are coming into play."

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'Vladimir stop!' Trump pleads with Putin to end bombing campaign against Ukraine

President Donald Trump pleaded with Russian president Vladimir Putin to call off a bombing campaign against Ukraine.

Russia launched its deadliest attacks against Kyiv in nine months Thursday morning, just hours after Trump accused Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of undermining peace talks, but the U.S. president lashed out at Putin in response to the attacks.

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'Opposite day': Positive press reported to be 'problematic' for key Trump official

A Trumpworld insider revealed that some in the president's orbit – and possibly Donald Trump himself – are starting to turn against treasury secretary Scott Bessent.

Axios reporter Marc Caputo told "CNN News Central" about a WWE-style, chest-to-chest shouting match between the treasury secretary and Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk in the White House, but he said that was less of issue in the president's inner circle than the coverage Bessent has gotten for his handling of the trade war.

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Abrego Garcia's family flees to safe house after being doxxed by Trump admin

The Trump administration has not only sent Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran megaprison due to an "administrative error" and so far refused to comply with a U.S. Supreme Court order to facilitate his return to the United States, but also shared on social media the home address of his family in Maryland, forcing them to relocate.

The news that Abrego Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, and her children were "moved to a safe house by supporters" after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X a 2021 order of protection petition that Vasquez Sura filed but soon abandoned was reported early Tuesday by The Washington Post.

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'Strongly condemn': Dem AG under fire as cops smash way into student protesters' homes

Federal and local law enforcement officers smashed their way into the Michigan homes of pro-Palestine student organizers on Wednesday in what the state attorney general's office said was a vandalism probe—but critics called an attack on dissent against Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza.

Backed by FBI agents, officers broke into homes in Ypsilanti, Canton, and Ann Arbor on Wednesday morning. Video uploaded to social media by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality, a Students for Justice in Palestine chapter, showed officers battering down the door to a Ypsilanti house before others rushed into the home barking commands with guns drawn and pointed at the residents.

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