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It 'doesn't end well' for Pirro as she keeps failing to make Trump happy: NYT reporter

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s inability to make a criminal case out of President Joe Biden’s use of the autopen –– a device used by all presidents –– has put her on a collision course with Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, it was reported by the New York Times that the collapsed Biden case is the “latest example of its increasing inability to follow through on Mr. Trump’s demands and bring indictments against those he wants to be criminally targeted.”

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Insiders say 'uneasy' Trump is secretly vexed about how Iran war is being viewed: report

The war with Iran has caused unease at home, but Donald Trump appears uncharacteristically unfazed by the public mood.

Insiders say they are shocked at the president's apparently passive public rhetoric on the war and that the usually poll-obsessed Trump is willing to cool the public mood for the sake of the war. Zeteo's First Draft columnist, Asawin Suebsaeng, believes the war with Iran is the worst-run war in American history, and much of this is to do with Trump's attitude.

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Fellow Republicans blast Tim Scott's 'woefully unprepared' campaign team

Senate Republicans and the White House are growing increasingly exasperated with the National Republican Senatorial Committee — the party's nationwide campaign arm for the GOP in the Senate — as its chair, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and his top strategist appear to be running operations into the ground.

According to NOTUS, over a dozen GOP staffers and aides "described an organization that has devolved into dysfunction," and "both senators and the White House are growing more incensed with the campaign arm by the day, the sources say."

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Billionaire singlehandedly ousts GOP lawmaker over old grudge: sources

A lone billionaire took down a Republican congressman over a years-long personal grudge, according to sources.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), once seen as a rising star in the GOP, became the first House incumbent to be ousted in the 2026 midterm election cycle, losing to hardline conservative state Rep. Steve Toth, and sources told Axios that a Donald Trump megadonor was "hellbent" on ending his legislative career.

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GOP silence on Iran strikes signals electoral vulnerability as midterms approach: report

A lack of pressure on the Republican Party to denounce the war with Iran could cost them at the midterm elections.

Donald Trump confirmed strikes had been taken against the Middle Eastern country earlier this week, leading to the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 500 civilians. Six US servicepeople were also confirmed dead as a result of retaliatory strikes from Iran. The outbreak of war in the Middle East is beginning to shift prices in the US, with a possible spike in gasoline prices noted by economist Paul Krugman.

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Nobel Prize winner flags one win that could 'blaze trail for Democrats in deep red states'

The chances of Texas turning blue at the next election are greater than ever before, but a key issue must be overcome, according to one prize-winning analyst.

Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman believes the state could see a wave of swing voters opt for Democratic Party candidate James Talarico. The Presbyterian minister beat Jasmine Crockett in the primaries and will face off against the Republican Party's pick, either John Cornyn or Ken Paxton.

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Trump hijacks America's 250th anniversary with conservative cash grab

Two competing organizations are battling for control of America's 250th anniversary celebrations, with the Donald Trump-backed Freedom 250 raising serious corruption concerns by offering presidential access to $1 million donors while commingling taxpayer funds with private money.

America250, the congressionally mandated bipartisan commission established a decade ago, has dutifully overseen traditional anniversary programming, but it has been systematically sidelined by Freedom 250, a White House-launched public-private partnership that has captured public attention through flashy initiatives funded by federal dollars, reported the Washington Post.

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Trump's niece grills GOP over 'unhinged' Texas candidate and bleak midterm future

The Republican Party is in for a rude awakening in the Texas elections, irrespective of which candidate they put forward, Mary Trump has claimed.

The president's niece claimed the GOP will fare worse than the Democratic Party candidate at the midterms, whichever way they turn in the primaries. Neither John Cornyn nor Ken Paxton received the required 50% vote in the primaries, meaning a decision on a representative will not be made until May.

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Trump's reasons for rush to war undercut by insider's tip to MS NOW's Jackie Alemany

Donald Trump's reasoning that he had no choice but to start a war with Iran because Iranian missiles could hit the American mainland “soon” was undercut by a report from MS NOW’s Jackie Alemany on Thursday morning.

During a military medal ceremony on Monday at the White House, the president told the audience, “The regime already had missiles capable of hitting Europe and our bases, both local and overseas, and would soon have had missiles capable of reaching our beautiful America.”

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Strategists pinpoint reasons for 'hero' Dem's Texas loss: 'People will be upset'

The hotly contested Texas Democratic Senate primary concluded on Tuesday with state representative and Presbyterian minister James Talarico narrowly but firmly defeating Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, concluding a clash between two rising Democratic stars who attracted intense national attention and heated rivalries between their supporters on social media.

It was a blow for a number of Black Democratic strategists and leaders who put a great deal of passion into Crockett's candidacy, and according to Politico, they are engaged in intense postmortem discussion about exactly where it went wrong.

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'Act like a man': Pete Hegseth hammered for 'childish' meltdown over war casualties

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to lash out at the media for reporting on the deaths of American service members taking part in Donald Trump’s war on Iran was blistered on MS NOW on Thursday morning with the former Fox News personality being called both “childish” and “pathetic."

During his press conference, Hegseth dismissed the six deaths while ranting, “When a few drones get through, or tragic things happen, it’s front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad. But try for once to report the reality. The terms of this war will be set by us at every step.”

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Trump's menu of Iran war excuses unconvincing even to his own voter base: analysis

The reasons given by Donald Trump's administration as justification for the start of war with Iran are all unconvincing, according to a political analyst.

While the flurry of excuses may play well with supporters of war with Iran, those who do not support the war may be left wondering why it really began. Writing in The Mirror, Christopher Bucktin says the administration has offered up too many excuses over why the war began.

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Kristi Noem's Congress denial undermined by policy she introduced just last year

A denial made to Congress by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has been undermined by one of her own policies.

The policy, which Noem introduced to the department just last year, now provides evidence that the DHS head misled Congress. Asked whether Corey Lewandowski had any powers of approval for DHS contracts, Noem issued a clear "no". But her answer may not be accurate, according to approved documents that were cleared by Lewandowski.

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