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Florida Bar quietly walks back investigation claim against ousted ex-Trump lawyer

Florida's bar association on Friday said it “erroneously” announced that Lindsey Halligan was under an ethics probe, The Hill reported Friday.

Halligan was President Donald Trump's former attorney and appointed by him as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia to bring criminal cases against his enemies, which was objected to by longtime prosecutors.

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'Reckless' Trump hid Iran invasion plans from Kristi Noem's DHS: former official

Prior to Donald Trump's attack on Iran, which has grown into a war with no end in sight, there is no indication that the White House alerted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which, since its founding, has been tasked with preventing retaliatory attacks in the US.

Appearing on MS NOW with host Anna Cabrera, former DHS chief of staff Miles Taylor claimed that, from what he has heard from staffers at the agency under now-fired DHS head Kristi Noem, they all were kept in the dark.

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'Antichrist ideology': GOP lawmaker attacks 'demonic' Texas Dem in unhinged broadcast

Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) suggested that James Talarico, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Texas, was possessed by demons.

The West Virginia Republican attacked the Texas hopeful during a Friday interview with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson.

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Pro-Trump network busted for misleading viewers about jobs report: 'Wrong in the script'

Newsmax was seemingly busted for providing false coverage of President Donald Trump's economic record.

Labor Department data released Friday showed the U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, nudging the unemployment rate up to 4.4 percent, but "Wake Up America" co-host Sharla McBride was apparently supposed to tell viewers the economy added those jobs.

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Ex-GOP strategist predicts Pam Bondi's next 'unprecedented' move: 'License to lie'

Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson predicted Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi has serious concerns about the Trump DOJ and her own legal future.

In a Substack post on Friday, the co-founder of anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project described what Bondi has planned next, in his view.

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GOP leadership warned they're 'living in a cave' if they don't see midterm wipe-out coming

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV), a former governor, is sounding the alarm that rural voters are being crushed by Trump's economy while his GOP colleagues remain dangerously complacent.

According to Politico, Republican strategists are growing increasingly anxious that Democrats will not only capture competitive districts but could make significant inroads into traditionally solid red areas—a development that could devastate the party's midterm prospects.

Justice pulled no punches when addressing his colleagues' apparent indifference. "If Republicans are not worried about the midterms, then they're living in a cave," he declared, adding urgently: "We have got to do more now."

Rep. Gabe Vasquez (D-NM) is witnessing the same rural discontent firsthand in his district. "[Farmers] know that this administration has caused a lot of pain for them, and I can tell you that they're pissed off in my district," he said.

Trump's attempt to placate farmers through trade deals has spectacularly failed to ease their frustrations. The problem is simple: promises without results.

According to Politico, "Because many of those agreements have yet to be finalized, let alone implemented, they have done little to assuage producers struggling to access new export markets." The situation deteriorated further when the U.S. struck a trade agreement with India lowering tariffs on certain agricultural goods. Indian officials immediately worked to assure their domestic audience that the deal would not open their market to American agricultural products already grown domestically—effectively gutting any benefit for American farmers seeking new export opportunities.

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Fox Business host grills labor secretary: 'It doesn't look good for the Trump economy'

Fox Business host Stuart Varney pressed Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer on a poor jobs report that "doesn't look good for the Trump economy."

Before Varney's interview with Chavez-DeRemer on Friday, Fox Business correspondent Connor Hansen noted that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February instead of the expected gain of 59,000.

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Federal judges reject Trump immigration hearings as 'predetermined' detention schemes

Federal judges across the U.S. are increasingly concluding that immigration bond hearings ordered by courts are fundamentally flawed and predetermined to result in detention, prompting some jurists to bypass the hearings entirely.

Judges have been finding that immigration judges working for the Trump administration are conducting proceedings designed to produce predetermined findings of "danger to the community" or "flight risk," according to court documents reviewed by Politico.

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Trump goes on multi-post rampage targeting HBO's Bill Maher

Already mired in an unpopular war in the Middle East, buffeted by a struggling job market and a cratering stock market, and facing new questions about his involvement with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump saw fit to use his widely-viewed Truth Social platform on Friday morning to lash out at HBO host Bill Maher.

In the space of approximately 15 minutes, the president authored eight posts, each linking to a report from far-right and television trade websites reporting on his hatred of the late-night host, including calling Maher a “jerk” and a “total waste of time.”

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Trump signals new war is coming as he brings it up to CNN reporter 'without being asked'

President Donald Trump changed the topic from his war in Iran to preview a possible invasion of another country during a phone call with CNN's Dana Bash.

The broadcaster phoned in to her colleagues on "CNN News Central" moments after hanging up with the 79-year-old president Friday morning to give an overview of their call, and she said Trump seems to be considering additional military conflicts.

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'Shocked' Fox News hosts debate 'masculinity' after Trump is given pink soccer jersey

Fox News hosts Lawrence Jones, Ainsley Earhardt, and Brian Kilmeade called masculinity into question after President Donald Trump received soccer legend Lionel Messi's pink soccer jersey.

On Friday, the trio of co-hosts reflected on an event Trump had with Messi the day before.

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'Economic earthquake' batters Trump in new brutal jobs report: MS NOW

The Donald Trump administration suffered a fresh embarrassment on Friday morning with the new jobs report revealing what was supposed to show a substantial job increase and instead revealed the country lost jobs.

With the country reeling from newly increased fuel prices since the president launched a war on Iran, creating chaos in the Middle East, the administration had been looking for some good news which failed to materialize.

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