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'This has gotta be it': NYT drops 'alarming story' about comments by Trump pick's mom

Donald Trump's nomination of Fox and Friends co-host Pete Hegseth to lead the Department of Defense surprised MAGA allies and experts alike, and a New York Times report suggests new details coming from Hegseth's mom.

In an article entitled, "Pete Hegseth’s Mother Accused Her Son of Mistreating Women for Years," the outlet Friday reported, "Penelope Hegseth made the accusation in an email to her son in 2018, amid his contentious divorce. She said on Friday that she regretted the email and had apologized to him."

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Ex-GOP lawmaker offers 'two options' for how to deal with new Trump administration

Donald Trump’s stunning electoral victory allowed him to consolidate his power within his own party, but the Republican resistance to the incoming president is starting to take shape, and those a part of it are scrambling for ideas on how to move forward, according to a new report.

Trump's broad support among congressional Republicans has taken reforming the party “off the table,” and cast doubt that a new party by disaffected Republicans could emerge, former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-FL) told POLITICO.

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'Prediction': MAGA fans panic as they say Obama aides are 'infiltrating' Trump's team

Barack Obama's aides are infiltrating Donald Trump's upcoming administration, according to the president-elect's MAGA allies.

The "prediction" comes as Trump is reported to have met with Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, at Mar-a-Lago, leading to one anti-Trump conservative saying the tech leader had "kissed the ring." After that reporting, a self-described "die hard Trump supporter" spoke out against a budding relationship between Trump and Zuckerberg.

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'He saw an opportunity': Analyst says key Trump ally poised to take over as king of MAGA

Elon Musk’s motive for aligning himself with Donald Trump and MAGA world may not be as clear cut as it seems, according to a political analyst who said the tech billionaire has positioned himself as the new owner of the Republican Party and MAGA movement.

Think of Musk as the “man behind the curtain,” said political strategist Chai Komanduri, except “he is dancing and prancing in front of the curtain.”

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'Unconscionable': Death threats mailed to House Democrats reportedly 'signed with MAGA'

Several House Democrats have been subjected to bomb threats and swatting in recent days, and the threats all reportedly included President-elect Donald Trump's catchphrase.

On Friday, the Washington Post reported that three lawmakers — Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Jahana Hayes (D-CT) and Jim Himes (D-CT) — were "targeted with bomb threats." House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the threats ranged from “detailed threats of a pipe bomb placed in mailboxes to swatting," the latter of which is the term used for an anonymous caller alerting police to a situation at an address that requires an immediate armed response. Jeffries noted that the threats were "all signed with 'MAGA' at the conclusion of the message."

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'Storyteller' Trump’s 'fictional' border claims tell us how he operates: ex-GOP lawmaker

President-elect Donald Trump’s social media flex this week involving questionable claims that Mexico agreed to close the U.S.-Mexico border is a preview of how the White House will operate in the next four years, according to a former Republican congressman.

The episode is also a clear example of Trump’s penchant for storytelling that became a hallmark of his first term.

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'Headed for a brawl': Trump's plan reportedly 'dividing GOP lawmakers'

On Friday, Politico wrote that Republicans are gearing up for a fight over Trump's new $4.6 trillion tax cut.

Politico reported in 2018 that their analysis put Trump's tax cuts at a $2.3 trillion addition to the deficit.

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Warning signs for GOP as red-state voters reject MAGA school agenda: WSJ

Donald Trump has fully embraced the school voucher agenda in his platform, of defunding public schools to divert public money to private institutions with less oversight — but in many red states, his voters aren't on board, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Ballot measures to expand the "school choice" agenda "lost in three states in the November election, including in two that went strongly for Trump, Kentucky and Nebraska. The results suggest a divide between Republican lawmakers and voters, many of whom have said in opinion surveys that they are generally dissatisfied with what they view as a 'woke' agenda in public education but still like their own children’s local schools," said the report.

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Trump's team 'tends to not understand the realities of Congress': reporter

A panel on MSNBC chucked at the idea that Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress tend not to learn from previous failures.

Congress returns to Washington next week, where it faces a government funding bill and a number of nominations that still need to be approved in the U.S. Senate.

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'Vigilantes': Report shows how an unlikely group could force Trump to cancel his trade war

Donald Trump's plan to impose gigantic new tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could theoretically draw the ire of Congress or the Supreme Court — but there's a lesser-known group that might have the power to force Trump to back down, wrote Ryan Teague Beckwith for MSNBC on Friday: the holders of U.S. Treasury bonds.

This was highlighted recently, Beckwith noted, by Wall Street analyst Ed Yardeni, who "cautioned that investors in U.S. bonds could play a critical role in forcing the incoming Trump administration to back down from its plans for an all-out trade war with everyone from China to Mexico and Canada. Reviving a term he first coined in the 1980s, Yardeni warned that 'bond vigilantes' could take action if Trump's plans go too far."

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'Shouldn't stand for it': Bipartisan team of former aides slams Trump nominee plot

Donald Trump's effort to strongarm the Senate into adjourning and letting him appoint nominees without any review was sharply condemned in a joint editorial for The New York Times by Noah Bookbinder and Gregg Nunziata, a Democratic and Republican aide who previously advised the Senate Judiciary Committee.

This comes amid reporting that the Trump administration also wants to bypass FBI background checks of his nominees for now, raising the possibility of doing them retroactively once he appoints a new FBI director — even though the sitting director, Christopher Wray, was himself a Trump appointee. All of this may ultimately be a violation of the Presidential Transition Act.

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'Taking off the mask': Trump said to be 'charging ahead' with 'dangerous' agenda

Despite distancing himself for months from the highly controversial Project 2025, President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selections show his stance on the ‘right-wing manifesto’ giving Democrats worries is shifting.

And that means Trump’s vision for America when he returns to the White House could soon include many of the plans spelled out in the 900-page policy blueprint known as Project 2025, according to a New York Times report. The publication cited his recruitment of at least half a dozen “architects and supporters of the plan to oversee key issues, including the federal budget, intelligence gathering and his promised plans for mass deportations.”

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Joe Biden rushes to 'Trump-proof' one of his legacy achievements: report

Donald Trump's inauguration is approaching, and outgoing President Joe Biden is at work trying to protect some of his flagship policies that have been passed in the last four years.

Among them, the Wall Street Journal pointed to the CHIPS and Science Act, which helped increase domestic manufacturing for memory chips built in the United States. One economic expert even warned that if Trump were to kill the Biden program it could cost the U.S. up to $1 trillion.

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