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Trump admin frantically scrambling to clean up murky Reflecting Pool: report

The Trump administration is frantically looking for a way to clean up the murky green Reflecting Pool, according to a report by MeidasTouch News.

According to an internal email obtained by MeidasTouch, the Trump administration has elevated the clean-up to a "regional and national priority" and is seeking volunteers to help save the Reflecting Pool before July 4.

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Trump officials admitted to Congress their new Iran plan is financing terrorists: report

President Donald Trump's administration admitted to Congress that Iran was still directly involved in financing terrorist activity, at exactly the same time the president was planning to give them money, Punchbowl News reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, the State Department "told Congress that Iran’s oil exports are a primary revenue source for the regime’s funding of terrorist activities — just hours after the United States and Iran electronically signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to lift oil sanctions."

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Ted Cruz called out as feud with Don Jr. spills into public: 'Opposite of MAGA'

The feud between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Donald Trump Jr. is spilling into the public eye with a scathing response on X.

Benjamin Domenech, the opinion editor for the conservative Daily Wire, quoted Cruz in a post on X that took aim at Trump's dubious Iran deal. The quote came from an interview between Cruz and Domenech published by The Daily Wire.

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'What did he say?' Trump makes analysts cringe with crude aside at Iran deal presser

A weird, crude remark made by President Donald Trump while touting his Iran deal has people cringing and mocking him.

Trump told reporters on Wednesday that "the press conference seems to have gone well. You shot your load, Steve, pretty much, right?"

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Erin Burnett throws Trump's past Iran claims back in his face: 'Exact same talking points'

CNN host Erin Burnett threw President Donald Trump's previous criticisms of former President Barack Obama's Iran deal back in his face on Wednesday, noting that Trump was now using the same talking points that he rebuked Obama for using.

Trump has described Obama's Iran deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as giving away too much money to the Iranian regime and not preventing the regime from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon. Burnett noted that those criticisms sound like an apt description of the deal Trump just signed with the regime over the weekend.

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Widow claims B-52 victim knew 'something was wrong' with the plane' before fatal flight

The widow of a flight test engineer killed in Monday's B-52 bomber crash at Edwards Air Force Base says her husband knew the aircraft was having problems in the days before the deadly flight.

Monday’s deadly plane crash in California killed all eight of its passengers, including Defense Department contractor Jeromy Smith, who flagged the B-52’s technical difficulties days prior, according to KTLA.

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Conservative warns Trump riding a delusional war 'sugar high' as he seeks 'glory' in Iran

Conservative former Naval War College professor and writer for The Atlantic, Tom Nichols, had a blunt assessment of President Donald Trump's pie-in-the-sky dreams for the Iran war, as the president goes all in on a deal to end it that makes Iran considerably stronger than before everything started and left many of his own supporters furious.

MS NOW's Melissa Murray showed him a clip of Trump justifying the deal on the world stage, saying, "The alternative would be a worldwide depression. We run out of reserves in about four weeks. You know, there are reserves all over the world. And we would really run out. And there would be a time when you couldn't get it. And you would've seen bedlam."

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Legal experts skewer Trump DOJ as its effort to bury evidence of misconduct backfires

Legal experts pounded the Department of Justice as it faces a possible probe into its failed effort to bury evidence of misconduct.

Adam Klasfeld, editor-in-chief of All Rise News, and Glenn Kirschner, a former federal prosecutor, weighed in on a court filing demanding a special counsel probe into DOJ's botched prosecution of the Broadview Six, a group of protesters arrested for demonstrating outside an immigration detention facility near Chicago.

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Trump floors onlookers by dismissing reporter's question on Iranian school strike: 'Wow'

President Donald Trump floored onlookers on Wednesday after he dismissed a reporter's question about the bombing strike on an Iranian girls' school more than three months ago that left about 175 people dead, many of whom were children.

Trump was asked during a press conference at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, whether he would hold anyone in his administration accountable for the strike. Trump's ambivalent reply left some political analysts and observers stunned.

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Senator rebukes 'unstable' Trump after president gives him an obscene nickname

A swing-state senator targeted by President Donald Trump was not impressed with the obscene nickname the president had come up with for him.

Trump launched his new attack on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) following a closely watched Republican primary runoff on Tuesday night that saw his preferred challenger, Rep. Mike Collins, get the Republican nomination to take him on.

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JD Vance's bizarre Jeffrey Epstein claim on 'The View' may have sunk him: expert

Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt unloaded on Vice President JD Vance in a YouTube video published this week, zeroing in on Vance's interview on "The View" and pinpointing a key moment when one co-host tore a hole in his lies.

"Here's Vance explaining that you don't understand the Epstein files," said Schmidt. In Vance's reckoning, he said, "it was Donald, like a latter-day Magnum P.I. dropping the dime, narcing on [Epstein], as JD Vance says, communicating to the police the crimes of Epstein. You see, it was Trump that brought Epstein to justice like the Lone Ranger."

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MAGA Fox News host in disbelief at Trump's 'unthinkable' deal: 'Keep shaking my head'

Fox News host Mark Levin criticized President Donald Trump's Memorandum of Understanding with Iran across a series of posts on X, with his sharpest break coming over the deal's soft treatment of Hezbollah.

"On top of this, we do the unthinkable," wrote Levin, a longtime Trump defender who has broken with the president over the agreement. "We capitulate to Iran's demand to protect Hezbollah."

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Billionaire who beat Trump's pick in Georgia faces fallout over leaked recording: analysis

A MAGA billionaire gubernatorial candidate in Georgia was under fire on Wednesday after a recording surfaced with him reportedly "agreeing that women should have to 'prove' they were raped in order to qualify for an abortion," according to a report from The Daily Beast.

Rick Jackson defeated Burt Jones — a candidate backed by President Donald Trump — in the GOP primary on Tuesday night. The shock win has rocked the Republican Party as the new audio was revealed the next day.

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