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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche signed documents granting President Donald Trump and his family extraordinary immunity from IRS scrutiny — but insists he didn't write them.

Blanche has tried to navigate a narrow path between his role leading the Justice Department and the job that led him there as the president's criminal defense lawyer, but New York Times correspondent Glenn Thrush said his handling of an IRS lawsuit settlement that establishes a $1.8 billion compensation fund for Trump allies has blurred those two irreconcilable roles.

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance are pushing for an update to the highway bill to include new railroad laws that would benefit union workers — but it's fracturing the House Republican caucus, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday.

"The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will mark up the five-year reauthorization of major highway, transit and infrastructure programs today. The panel is likely to adopt an amendment to add the Rail Safety Act to the package. The measure, a priority for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, is opposed by conservatives and the railroad industry," said the report.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) made it clear Thursday that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche can forget about getting the job permanently — at least with his vote.

In an interview with Spectrum News' Reuben Jones, the North Carolina Republican was asked whether he'd block Blanche's nomination to lead the Department of Justice after Blanche refused this week to rule out compensating Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police officers from a new $1.8 billion fund.

Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner is warning Donald Trump's inner circle to study the fate of Richard Nixon's lieutenants — and to remember that proximity to power was no shield from prison.

Kirschner, a 30-year prosecutor turned legal analyst, told viewers Wednesday that the loyalists embedded across Trump's second-term government should look closely at the Watergate ledger.

A just-released Fox News poll on Donald Trump’s performance as president caused MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski to blurt out “Look at these numbers" to her co-hosts on Thursday morning.

At the start of “Morning Joe,“ Brzezinski prompted her panel with, “We want to show you some new polling from Fox News showing President Trump's approval rating near a record low. We keep reporting on these lows at this point,” before expressing astonishment at how low his approval numbers have plummeted.

President Donald Trump may have energized a massive voter bloc that could sink the Republican Party's chances of holding onto their congressional majorities, according to a new analysis.

CNN's Harry Enten zoomed in on polling that measured the opinions of registered voters who stayed home in 2024, and he found their view on the 79-year-old president has soured tremendously in the first year and a half of his second term.

Donald Trump's latest surgeon general nominee is facing fresh scrutiny over her use of a controversial New Jersey tax loophole that allows wealthy property owners to dramatically reduce their tax bills by designating mansions as farmland — despite openly admitting she is not actually a farmer.

According to Politico, Nicole Saphier, a Fox News frequent guest and radiologist, owns a 16,000-square-foot palatial estate in Far Hills, New Jersey, purchased for $5.8 million in 2023. She has designated 10.35 acres of the property as farmland, allowing her to pay as little as $40 annually in property taxes on that land.

President Donald Trump's "anti-weaponization fund" is an "extraordinary incident of bald self-dealing, even in an administration where such blatant corruption has become de rigueur," according to a blistering new Guardian column.

Columnist Moira Donegan pulled no punches in her assessment of the $1.776 billion fund, which Trump established after settling a $10 billion lawsuit he personally filed against the IRS over leaks of his tax returns.

U.S. intelligence assessments are painting a starkly different picture of Iran's military recovery than the one presented by American commanders, raising questions about the lasting impact of the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Tehran.

CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper testified before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that Operation Epic Fury had destroyed 90 percent of Iran's defense industrial base and ensured Iran "cannot reconstitute for years," but four sources familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments told CNN that the underlying intelligence tells a different story — one in which Iran is rebuilding far faster than initially expected.

President Donald Trump's administration surreptitiously handed an official charged with combating "fraud" in the federal government a waiver from conflict-of-interest rules, NOTUS reported on Thursday.

"Jetson Leder-Luis’ 'disqualifying financial interest' in Amazon.com is 'not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity' of his work as deputy executive director of Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, White House counsel David Warrington wrote in the memo dated April 16," reported Dave Levinthal.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stepped into the limelight this week, unabashedly defending Donald Trump, making him the man of the president’s dreams, claimed MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian on Thursday morning.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” the justice analyst told the co-hosts that Blanche, unlike his predecessor Pam Bondi, has shown he is more than willing to make the case for the president’s initiatives, not only before hostile senators, but also by sitting down with cable anchors and fielding their questions.

MAGA news outlets could be among the claimants seeking to claw back their massive penalties for spreading 2020 election lies through President Donald Trump's massive slush fund, according to new reporting.

CNN's Marshall Cohen reported that One America News, a little-watched right-wing network, is "seriously considering" filing a claim under the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to restore millions of dollars paid to settle defamation lawsuits from voting machine companies Dominion and Smartmatic, although representatives from Fox News and Newsmax did not say whether they would use the fund.