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President-elect Donald Trump recently hosted several members of the far-right German political party whose top leaders have gone on the record defending Nazi war criminals.

That's according to the Guardian, which reported that a group of AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) members recently traveled to Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Trump's 2024 election victory. The incoming president was seen posing for photos with far-right Bundestag candidate Philipp-Anders Rau, who the Guardian described as a "purported semi-professional, one-time porn actor, self-confessed former cocaine user [and] convicted thief."

Donald Trump's second choice to be his attorney general, after the nomination of ex-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) went down in flames, is raising red flags among legal observers not related to her earlier threats to go after the president-elect's enemies.

According to a report from Politico, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi has been employed, and remains employed, with a heavy-hitting lobbying firm that represents major corporations engaging in businesses that are constantly under government scrutiny.

As Politico's Hailey Fuchs wrote, that has raised concerns over whether she will take a hands-off approach to any current investigations and possible investigations of clients the firm has represented which include Amazon and Uber.

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According to the report, for the last six years Bondi has been employed by lobbying firm Ballard Partners, where, "she has lobbied the federal government for a host of major businesses, including Amazon, General Motors, Fidelity National Financial, Uber and Carnival North America. She serves as a key adviser to the firm’s president, Brian Ballard."

Those affiliations could "pose a myriad of ethical questions about what kind of access she will grant her firm and whether she will recuse herself from issues involving Ballard," the report states.

According to Jeff Hauser, founder of the progressive Revolving Door Project, "It is essentially impossible to organize a Justice Department ethically in light of the breadth of Bondi’s connections. I think it’s just going to be off-the-charts bad.”

New reporting flagged what it called an "unusual" application to work for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in which applicants are asked a slew of bizarre questions, including a pattern completion test and even whether they have an interest in having "sexual experiences with another person."

Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump transition team, confirmed to Puck News that the application and subsequent questionnaire are both real and being used by Kennedy’s team.

While Donald Trump has successfully evaded legal accountability so far over his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, that doesn’t mean the incoming president won’t find himself in court over the matter.

Eight civil lawsuits accusing Trump of inciting MAGA followers to storm the Capitol are “still alive and moving forward” as they work their way through the federal court in D.C., according to The New York Times.

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the National Institute of Health is ready to settle a score – and he’s revving up a fight against campus culture at elite universities, according to a new report.

And that could mean Stanford professor and economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya uses the power of his position to leverage tens of billions of dollars in scientific grants to exact revenge on what he sees “as a culture of conformity in science that ostracized him” over his views on COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Two opposing political strategists squared off on Friday night during an impassioned debate on CNN over Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth and whether the nominee for secretary of defense.

Shermichael Singleton, a Republican strategist, dueled Jamal Simmons on "The Source" after defending President-elect Donald Trump, who earlier in the day expressed support for his embattled nominee.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Friday evening on Fox News what many have thought: President-elect Donald Trump's initiative for massive government spending cuts must go after major social programs to work.

"I'm for looking at the entitlements, the waste, everything because it's such an enormous problem that if you put military off the table, you put entitlements off the table, all you have left is 16 percent of the budget," said Paul. "If you eliminate that, you don't get anywhere close to balancing the budget ever."

The New York Police Department is crowd-sourcing their investigation into the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson to the general public after two days with no positive ID on the shooter. But they may not get much help from the internet, according to multiple popular TikTok sleuths.

NBC News reported that law enforcement is banking on the American public helping them identify the man seen in new photos released this week, which show the alleged assassin lowering his mask while flirting with a hostel concierge. Those are currently the only photos of the alleged killer in which his mask isn't concealing his face, and law enforcement veterans have called them a "turning point" in the investigation.

Investigators are exploring the possibility that a pistol used by veterinarians to put down sick or wounded animals was also the assassin’s weapon used to gun down UnitedHealthcare’s CEO early Wednesday.

Aside from being “practically silent,” the B&T VP9 also carries with it cultural significance, according to John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst.

An outspoken Trump campaign adviser took a swipe at his Democratic counterparts on Friday, twice mocking the Harris-Walz campaign's insistence they ran a "flawless" campaign.

Chris LaCivita, a senior adviser to President-elect Donald Trump's presidential campaign, attended a panel conversation Friday at Harvard University's Campaign Managers Conference and got the chance to gloat straight in the faces of his rivals, Rolling Stone reported.

The shocking killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a hotel in New York City triggered an avalanche of "rage and glee" on the internet as people frustrated with their health insurers dance on his grave — and it says something dark about the state of American society, wrote Zeynep Tufekci for The New York Times.

The gunman behind the crime, who is still being hunted by the NYPD, "was compared to John Q, the desperate fictional father who takes an entire emergency room hostage after a health insurance company refuses to cover his son’s lifesaving transplant in a 2002 film of the same name," wrote Tufekci. "Some posted 'prior authorization needed before thoughts and prayers.' Others wryly pointed out that the reward for information connected to the murder, $10,000, was less than their annual deductibles. One observer recommended that Thompson be scheduled to see a specialist in a few months, maybe."

A political action committee founded by Harrison Butker—the pro-Trump NFL placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, whose highly controversial comments have led to allegations of bigotry, including antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, along with anti-vax beliefs—has come under fire.

Butker’s Upright PAC was supposed to “promote and encourage Christian voters to vote, so that their voices are heard this November.” But according to reports, it appears to have taken in donations and spent most of it on fundraising.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Internal Revenue Service would fit perfectly into his vision for the agency, according to an analysis.

And that could result in the IRS turning into a “grifter’s paradise,” according to the New Republic’s Timothy Noah, who wrote Friday that Trump’s nominee is also “plainly a guy who doesn’t think people should pay taxes.”