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'Kind of silly': Conservative warns GOP that dismissing Joe Kent's revolt is a mistake

When Joe Kent walked away from his post as the nation's top counterterrorism official to protest the Iran war, the Trump administration and Republican establishment treated it like a minor blip. But Kent's exit has cracked open a fault line that's proving much harder to ignore than party insiders hoped, Politico reported Thursday.

Within 36 hours, former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson brought Kent onto his massive podcast, and MAGA darling Candace Owens followed suit with a high-profile event at the Trump Hotel. The anti-war populist right seized the moment, and suddenly the narrative shifted from a routine resignation to a potential party-splitting crisis.

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Trump ignores wishes of fallen soldiers' families and shares photos of dignified transfer

President Donald Trump appeared to ignore the wishes of the families of fallen soldiers to keep the most recent dignified transfer private, according to a new report.

HuffPost reported on Thursday that Trump posted multiple pictures of himself on social media attending the dignified transfer of soldiers who were killed in action as a result of the U.S. war in Iran, even after the families asked the president to keep the event private. The photos included the transfer of one of the bodies.

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Marco Rubio hit with devastating clip on MS NOW as he fails fuming MAGA's own test

MS NOW's Ari Melber on Thursday exposed what he framed as a glaring act of MAGA hypocrisy — playing a side-by-side clip of right-wingers melting down over Bad Bunny's Spanish-language Super Bowl halftime show while Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an entire address in Spanish.

"Nobody understood a thing!" Fox News host Jesse Watters bemoaned to viewers about the half-time show.

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Tulsi Gabbard heard Trump's 'clarion call' — and it might cost her dearly: analyst

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard appears to have heard President Donald Trump's "clarion call," and it cost her dearly, according to one analyst.

During a hearing before the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday, Gabbard ducked and dodged her way around a question about whether Iran posed an "imminent threat" to the U.S. from Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-CA). Instead, Gabbard insisted that "it would be a disservice to the American people to answer with a mere yes or no."

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Mike Johnson's 'punching puppies' attack on Dems instantly blows up in his face

House Speaker Mike Johnson triggered a social media firestorm Thursday with a false and deliberately misleading claim that Democrats exposed themselves as the "party of PUNCHING PUPPIES."

The House passed the Bill to Outlaw Wounding of Official Working Animals, or BOWOW, Act, which would make any noncitizen convicted of or admitting to harming law enforcement animals deportable. 190 Democrats voted against it, and 15 Democrats crossed over to vote yes.

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'It's a farce': Analysts left in disbelief as Hegseth scolds allies and the press

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's press conference on Thursday left two political analysts in disbelief.

Hegseth spoke to the media about the ongoing war in Iran and suggested that the American media was working against the Trump administration's objectives by covering the war negatively. He also bashed America's allies in Europe for not helping the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which the Iranian regime effectively blockaded to American and Israeli ships after the two countries began a coordinated bombing campaign in Iran in late February.

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CBS News faces mass layoffs after new MAGA-friendly boss warned network may be 'toast'

Bari Weiss is about to swing the ax at CBS News, according to a new report.

The polarizing top editor plans to lay off dozens of staffers imminently as she reshapes the storied broadcast network, Business Insider reported Thursday. And she has telegraphed the cuts for weeks.

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'Profound idiot': Nicolle Wallace struggles to process Trump's shock joke to Japanese PM

MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace had a frank reaction on Thursday after President Donald Trump made a jaw-dropping comment that shocked people inside the Oval Office during a White House meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.

Wallace was visibly stunned after discussing Trump's attempted joke that clearly left the room uncomfortable when a reporter asked why Trump hadn't warned his allies that the U.S.-Israeli military strikes were coming.

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MAGA gov thrown out of restaurant after customers say she made them uncomfortable

MAGA Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) and her security detail were asked to leave a local restaurant after overstaying their welcome, according to a report.

Sanders dined at The Croissanterie in Little Rock, Arkansas, on March 13 with two other people and her police security detail. She was at the restaurant for over an hour and 15 minutes, and was served a meal, before the staff asked her to leave after other customers said her presence made them "uncomfortable," local news station THV11 reported on Thursday.

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Seething House Republicans turn knives on John Thune with crude message

House conservatives are training their fire on a new target: their own Senate majority leader.

Fed up with John Thune's (R-SD) refusal to nuke the filibuster and force through President Donald Trump's sweeping voter ID bill, House Republicans are reaching for a familiar weapon — the same scorched-earth playbook they used to torch former Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

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One magic number would likely tip US into recession: Wall Street economists

Economists cautioned whether surging oil prices and soaring tariffs amid the ongoing Iran war could tip the United States into recession and what signs could point to an economic downslide, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

The Journal polled 50 economists between March 16-18 from different sectors, including Wall Street banks and small consulting firms and universities, for a survey about what they expect the economic fallout might look like amid the military conflict in the Middle East. Experts did identify one important metric that could show potential signs of economic difficulty.

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Trump ought to be 'freaking out' after 'catastrophic' new poll: analysts

A new poll revealed President Donald Trump is hemorrhaging support from a key voting bloc as the midterms approach.

On Wednesday, a new YouGov poll revealed that Trump has lost significant support from independent voters in several key policy areas. For instance, support among independents has crumbled by 35% on his war in Iran, 22% on Trump's immigration policies, and 53% on his handling of gas prices.

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Senate Republican's own words hurled back in his face over Trump's Iran goals

CNN host Kasie Hunt threw a GOP senator's words back in his face on Wednesday over President Donald Trump's continuing war in Iran.

Hunt interviewed Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) on her show, "The Arena," about the ongoing war in Iran, which has become a contentious issue for the White House. After two weeks at war, the Trump administration has offered shifting rationales for coordinating a bombing campaign in Iran, and the president's goals for the war seem to be fleeting.

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