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Trump suffers new humiliation as no one signs up for his new Truth Social alerts: MS NOW

President Donald Trump’s attempt to beef up income at his money-losing Truth Social platform has been a stunning flop, a new analysis contends.

MS NOW delivered this assessment one day after a new federal lawsuit targeted Trump Media's selling Wall Street traders exclusive access to Truth Social posts for up to $100,000 a month.

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CNN reports USS Lincoln sailor went overboard even as Navy denies mental health crisis

A sailor serving on the USS Abraham Lincoln was rescued last month after going overboard into the water, according to a U.S. official.

The official confirmed to CNN the sailor was quickly pulled from the water and medically evaluated, although it's not clear whether that service member returned to duty or evacuated from the aircraft carrier.

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Tubas declared a national security threat as musicians 'disturbed' by Trump maneuver

President Donald Trump wants to add certain musical instruments to its list of national security tariffs.

According to a notice from the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Trump administration intends to add wood-brass instruments — tubas, trombones, trumpets, French horns and their parts — to the list of imports subject to Section 232 national security tariffs, reported Opera Wire.

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Rocked Trump nears 'twilight' of presidency as 'catastrophic embarrassment' looms: column

President Donald Trump is losing Karoline Leavitt, and one columnist surmised Thursday he may soon lose far more than his press secretary.

In a pointed opinion piece for The I Paper, political editor James Ball argued that Leavitt's surprise exit laid bare how dependent an aging Trump has become on the young staffers who shield and soothe him. Leavitt was his most visible public defender, Ball wrote, and was "one of his comfort blankets, someone upon whom he has come to depend."

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Blanche warned 'bizarrely fixated' Trump posts spell peril: 'Tell me that risk isn't real'

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is being handed a massive headache in his new job due to President Donald Trump's latest pet project, according to a new analysis.

Blanche, who is expected to have his hands full defending the current administration's policies that are facing an avalanche of lawsuits, will also have to clean up the mess over the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool prosecutions.

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Oprah dumps MAGA fixtures she made into stars: 'Don't have one thing to do with them'

Oprah Winfrey publicly distanced herself from two MAGA-world fixtures whom she played a major part in making famous.

The media mogul gave Dr. Phil McGraw a national platform back in 1988, long before he had his own show. Mehmet Oz followed in 2004. Both men rode Winfrey's audience to fame and fortune, launching their own spinoff programs — "Dr. Phil" in 2002 and "The Dr. Oz Show" in 2009 — that outlasted "The Oprah Winfrey Show" itself, which wrapped in 2011.

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'Sit down and shut up': GOP Senator scorned for 'weakest' RFK Jr. excuse

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) faced fury Thursday after he claimed he would have needed to be clairvoyant to predict Health department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would work to undermine vaccines.

The Louisiana Republican – a physician – told a CNBC host that he did not regret voting to confirm Kennedy to lead Health and Human Services despite his discomfort with the MAHA head's efforts to reduce the number of childhood vaccines.

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Todd Blanche criminalizes 'bad breakups' to hand bizarre gift to Nazis: analysis

Attorney General Todd Blanche might be trying to appease Neo Nazis with a new attack on "bad break ups," a new legal analysis contends.

Empty Wheel journalist Marcy Wheeler on Thursday penned a scathing critique of the Justice Department's indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center as it accuses the DOJ of refusing to share information.

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Trump money-grab sets up Truth Social users for criminal charges: ex-DOJ chief

Trading firms paying for early access to President Donald Trump's Truth Social posts could face criminal insider trading charges, a former Justice Department official warned Thursday.

Former Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, during an appearance on CNBC, argued Truth Social users could be putting themselves in danger if they participated — and pointed to a federal lawsuit filed against the social media company to explain why.

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'Outright corruption': Critic warns Trump's about to spend $1B on 'absurdly niche' fixes

President Donald Trump's "dream home" was subjected Thursday to a scathing critique from an infuriated MS NOW analyst who decried the big cash involved in fixing "absurdly niche" problems.

" Trump is well on his way to converting the people’s house into his own billion-dollar dream home," MS NOW's Hayes Brown wrote.

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'This is insane!' MS NOW host flips out over Pete Hegseth's latest blunder

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was raked over the coals on Thursday morning amid reports of horrific conditions that his US military forces face.

On MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough reacted to reports that the USS Abraham Lincoln has been deployed from San Diego for an extraordinary 200-plus days without a port call.

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'Trump's sword': Todd Blanche leaps to rescue IRS audit deal immediately after swearing-in

Attorney General Todd Blanche deployed the Justice Department to rescue President Donald Trump's embattled IRS settlement the day after he was sworn in, court records show.

The settlement, reached in May, shielded Trump, his family, and his businesses from IRS audits in exchange for dropping a $10 billion lawsuit against the agency, court records show.

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Kristi Noem points finger at Markwayne Mullin over mystery fleet of luxury planes

New reporting about a mystery plane fleet purchased by the Department of Homeland Security has pulled the agency's former head Kristi Noem back into the news cycle.

The ousted DHS secretary is distancing herself from a $464 million plane purchase that critics say has become a costly embarrassment for the department she once led — even though the deal was struck on her watch, reported the New York Times.

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