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Putin punks Trump as president's brags about phone call torched by Kremlin

A conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin saw the former brag about a chat the two world leaders had Monday— but the Kremlin had a very different version of the conversation.

While Trump may view the chat as a win which left the Russian president impressed, the Kremlin decreed it was a much more balanced conversation. Speaking from Doral, Florida, on Monday, Trump claimed the pair had spoken of bringing peace between Russia and Ukraine.

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Trump voter complains he misses 'Uncle Joe' Biden as he pumps pricey gas

Two Florida Donald Trump voters expressed their dismay at exploding gas prices on MS NOW on Tuesday morning, with one grudgingly admitting he misses President Joe Biden — and that he is now broke.

As part of a report with host Anna Cabrera on the economic impact of Trump’s war on Iran, with oil prices going through the roof, MS NOW’s Alex Tabet spoke with the two men at a filling station in Lantana, Florida.

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'Spooked' Trump 'looking for exit ramp' in Iran as gas prices shock: lawmaker

Rising gas prices have put President Donald Trump and his administration in a panic, a lawmaker said Tuesday.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer that, as the U.S.-Israel war in Iran moves into its second week and Americans are paying more at the gas pump, Trump was looking for a way out.

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'Voters aren't stupid': Republican busted for staging 'fake break-up' with Trump

Former GOP campaign consultant Rick Wilson has delivered a scathing critique of Rep. Kevin Kiley's (CA) decision to leave the Republican Party and re-register as an independent, dismissing it as transparent political calculation rather than an act of genuine principle.

In a blistering Substack post, Wilson argued that Kiley's departure is motivated by desperation to save his seat following unfavorable California redistricting, not conscience. Wilson contended that Kiley's carefully delivered tepid criticism of the GOP as he announced the label change was designed to maintain Trump's favor while appearing independent.

Wilson was merciless in his assessment, describing Kiley as "the Ugg boot of MAGA, a basic-b---h vanilla-latte backbencher" staging "the political equivalent of a fake breakup on Instagram."

According to Wilson, a cosmetic name change masks an unchanged ideological core. "He'll still vote with Donald Trump roughly 97 percent of the time, exactly as he has before. He'll still support Mike Johnson for Speaker. He'll still march in lockstep with the same MAGA agenda," Wilson wrote, comparing the maneuver to "spray-painting 'independent thinker' on the side of a MAGA-themed monster-truck and hoping nobody notices the giant Trump flag still flying off the back."

Wilson rejected Kiley's apparent belief that constituents will overlook his voting record. "Kevin Kiley apparently believes the voters of his newly-drawn district are so gullible that they won't notice the difference between a genuine break and a cosmetic rebrand," Wilson wrote. "But voters aren't stupid."

Wilson characterized Kiley's move as the actions of a politician facing electoral peril. "It's the desperate flopsweat of a man who saw the polls, felt the ground shifting under his feet, and decided the best move was to throw on a cheap disguise and hope nobody recognizes him."

Wilson issued a direct challenge to Kiley, demanding substantive action rather than rhetorical repositioning: "Stop voting like a MAGA congressman. Commit to caucus against the GOP, either as an actual independent or as a Democrat. Commit to voting against Mike Johnson for Speaker. Until then, the label doesn't matter. And neither does Kevin Kiley’s last-minute bulls--t."

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'Religious war! It's on!' MAGA ecstatic as Hegseth invokes Bible in Iran war

Pro-MAGA morning hosts David Brody, Gina Loudon, and Terrence Bates expressed full-throated support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "religious war" in Iran after he quoted scripture to support the U.S. strikes.

"Religious war! It's on!" Brody exclaimed during a Real America's Voice segment following Hegseth's Tuesday briefing. "I'm telling you that's happening. We've always looked at this from a Judeo-Christian standpoint, as relates to spiritual warfare. We know that God is richly blessed America."

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Trump sweats that he's let 'little devil' Lindsey Graham demolish his legacy: analysis

President Donald Trump is sweating that his war in Iran will blot his legacy with an indelible black stain — and he's blaming a key ally for making it happen, a columnist wrote Tuesday.

While the 47th President of the United States has much to worry about when it comes to his legacy — from his prominence in the Jeffrey Epstein files to the unmanaged cost-of-living crisis — the latest crisis is the one Trump is worrying about, Heather Digby Parton, wrote in Salon.

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Trump attorney hit with misconduct charges — could be stripped of law license

A lawyer serving as President Donald Trump's pardon attorney for the Justice Department has been formally accused of misconduct.

The District of Columbia Bar filed ethics charges against DOJ pardon attorney Ed Martin over a threatening letter he sent last year, when he was serving as interim U.S. attorney, to the Georgetown University Law Center questioning its diversity and inclusion policies, reported CBS News.

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Republican senator predicts 'disastrous election' as he blows up Trump's reasons for war

Sen. Rand Paul warned of a "disastrous election" if President Donald Trump did not end his war against Iran.

"As far as the reasons for the war, there have been many different reasons floated, but none of them, I think, have been very convincing," Paul told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on Tuesday. "Another statement has been made, well, they're a week away from a nuclear weapon. You can take clips from the '90s all the way through the present of people arguing that they're a week away from nuclear weapons."

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CNN anchor flags major question Hegseth scrambles to avoid: 'Didn't go anywhere near that'

CNN's John Berman highlighted a major question about the Iran war that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth steered clear of addressing.

Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided an update Tuesday morning about Operation Epic Fury, but the defense secretary refused to address a definitive timeline for the conflict.

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Trump's 'no mercy' brag gets hit by Gavin Newsom reality check

A post from the Department of Defense has been criticized by Gavin Newsom, who says the statement fails to note the cost of war on the US.

The Rapid Response X account published a photo of a missile with the words "no mercy" written on top. A brief statement was also issued by the official government account, reading, "We have Only Just Begun to Fight." The statement has been roundly criticized, with the Governor of California's Press Office sharing how much the war with Iran is costing the American people.

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'Lot of confusion': CNN host left spinning by 3-hour wave of Trump contradictions

CNN's Sara Sidner struggled to make sense of President Donald Trump's seemingly contradictory statements about how long the Iran war might last.

The 79-year-old president declared the war "pretty much" complete in a phone interview Monday, but hours later told Republican lawmakers "we haven't won enough" to ensure long-term security — but then assured them he considered the joint U.S.-Israeli military operation a "short-term excursion."

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'Righteous anger' as criminal case into Trump-led Michigan false electors falls apart

Michigan’s so-called “false electors” case is over after Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday she would not appeal a judge’s decision to dismiss the charges faced by 16 individuals who signed documents attempting to certify Michigan’s slate of electors for Donald Trump in 2020, despite Joe Biden’s victory in the state.

In a sweeping 110-page report, Nessel said that she still believes false electors committed crimes, but concluded that the resource-intensive case would be unlikely to ultimately succeed. She also said it was “fundamentally unjust” to continue prosecuting lower-level participants in an effort she said was led by the now President Donald Trump, who she said is unlikely to ever face his own criminal charges.

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Trump was blindsided by what all experts already knew about Iran: Nobel Prize winner

A growing problem caused by the strikes on Iran should have been noted before military action was taken, a Nobel Prize winner has claimed.

Paul Krugman suggested the impact of Donald Trump's bombing in the country should have factored into the decision-making, but it does not appear to have had much effect on the choices made by the administration. The economist believes that, had cooler heads prevailed, then the government would have at least prepared for the aftershock of an economic crisis which shows no signs of stopping.

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