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ABC host turns tables on Bannon: Trump favors billionaires over 'forgotten men and women'

ABC News host Jonathan Karl challenged MAGA influencer Steve Bannon on President-elect Donald Trump's apparent focus on billionaires after promising to look after "the forgotten men and women."

During an interview on ABC's This Week program, Karl noted that Trump had recently met with tech oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

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'Maybe they shouldn't be': Jordan cornered on CNN over pardons for violent J6 rioters

MAGA Republican Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) was forced to scramble Sunday when CNN's Dana Bash pressed him about whether violent January 6th rioters should be pardoned by incoming President Donald Trump.

Bash began, "One of the many things that the president-elect promised that he would do what was, and is, to pardon many of the January 6th rioters. We heard Vice President-elect J.D. Vance say last week that if anyone committed violence on that day, they should not be pardoned. He added, there's a little bit of a gray area there."

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Fox News confronted with 'delicate' situation as Trump returns to White House: report

Once Donald Trump and his administration get up to speed taking over the reins of power in Washington, D.C., reporters for conservative Fox News will be put in the unique position of having to cover a multitude of former colleagues who will now be working directly for the president-elect.

According to a report from Michael M. Grynbaum of the New York Times, cable hosts like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham won't have to adjust much since they deliver opinions, but the straight news reporters will be put on the spot.

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'Staggering': Fiscal hawk Mike Johnson backs mass deportations 'no matter what the cost'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), a fiscal hawk, agreed to support President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plan "no matter what the cost."

During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, host Kristen Welker noted that mass deportations could cost the American taxpayer "trillions" of dollars.

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RFK Jr's nomination hits roadblock over financial disclosures: report

Incoming President Donald Trump's nominee for Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is still awaiting a date for his confirmation hearings following a delay over his finances.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that the Office of Government Ethics was still looking into Kennedy's financial disclosures, which he "recently amended."

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'About to get worse': Why egg prices are set to skyrocket

During his 2024 campaign, President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly made the promise that "prices will come down," BBC reports, but according to two experts, that won't be happening any time soon — at least when it comes to the price of eggs.

While eggs are already "40% more expensive now than they were a year ago," KTLA notes, according to the Department of Labor, the raging avian flu epidemic means "it's about to get even worse."

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'Stop being childish': MAGA fans flip out on Trump after early morning TikTok plea

Following the closure of TikTok late Saturday night, Donald Trump jumped on his Truth Social account to throw his support, once again, behind the embattled social media platform.

Hours before the platform was supposed to shut down, the ownership pulled the plug themselves with a message now popping up that saysd, in part: "Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” before adding, “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!”

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Trump nominees are cashing in on MAGA celebrity and making millions: disclosures

Donald Trump nominees including Pam Bondi, who was selected for the Attorney General position, are cashing in on their MAGA celebrity status and raking in millions of dollars, according to new disclosures.

Bondi "made at least $3 million from the creation of the parent company of Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, according to her personal financial disclosure form," according to a Saturday report from USA Today.

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'Going dark': TikTok issues statement as services rendered 'unavailable'

TikTok has issued a statement about its services becoming unavailable.

Lawmakers passed legislation that would ban TikTok from the U.S., if the social media platform didn't disassociate from its Chinese-owned parent company. The Supreme Court then upheld that potential ban.

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'He was a total failure': Conservative expert blasts Trump's record on key issue

Donald Trump's record on immigration is that of "failure," according to Cato Institute immigration expert David Bier.

Bier, who has previously commented on Trump's family separation policy during the first Trump administration, took to social media on Saturday to make a prediction about Trump's deportation scheme roll-out.

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'Slap in the face': MAGA lawmaker said to be taking 'highly unusual step' against GOP

Loyal MAGA ally Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is taking a "highly unusual step" to take on Speaker Mike Johnson, according to CNN.

Paulina, a Florida lawmaker who early on supported Trump over Governor Ron DeSantis, is pushing for a rule change that would allow pregnant women lawmakers to vote remotely.

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'Crisis': Insider says Trump threw 'unswerving ally' into 'complete flux' with a call

Donald Trump threw an "unswerving American ally" into "complete flux" with a mere phone call, according to someone who was viewing the events from inside the foreign nation.

Trump's proposals related to the attempted acquisition of Greenland came to a head recently, when Trump reportedly held a call with Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister.

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'Never let up pressure': Columnist pushes Dems to seize on GOP's 'important weakness'

Republican lawmakers are hinting at an "important weakness" of which Democrats can take advantage, a columnist argued Saturday.

Political columnist Paul Waldman, who has previously commented on the antics of Marjorie Taylor Greene, weighed in over the weekend on Trump's false bravado. Specifically, Waldman makes the argument that Republicans are overstating Trump's electoral victory to hide the truth: Trump is still a deeply unpopular politician.

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