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President Donald Trump made an endorsement in the crowded contest for governor of South Carolina — in a potentially big blow to multiple other candidates trying to run as MAGA disciples.

"Highly Respected and very popular Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, Pam Evette, is an America First Patriot who has been with me from the very beginning," wrote Trump on his Truth Social platform Friday. "She never wavered, never let me down, and was the only South Carolina Gubernatorial Candidate to Endorse me as soon as I launched my 2024 Presidential Campaign. She crisscrossed South Carolina and other States for me, and I said, at the time, that this is truly something which I cannot forget!"

A federal judge confronted a Department of Justice, or DOJ, lawyer during a pretrial hearing over the firing of Maurene Comey, daughter of former FBI Director James Comey.

Maurene, a DOJ prosecutor who played a key role in cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, was fired last year via a letter, citing Article II presidential powers, reports Politico. Comey's attorney, Ellen Blain, characterized the DOJ's argument as a "novel and breathtaking theory" of presidential power.

Texas Republicans got an ominous new sign on Friday that they have a competitive U.S. Senate election.

According to the newest poll from the Texas Public Opinion Research, Democratic state lawmaker and Presbyterian minister James Talarico is leading Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton 47 to 43 — notably, being one of the first polls to show Talarico relatively close to the 50 percent threshold, meaning Republicans would have to win a very large majority of undecided voters to overcome this lead if it is true.

Former Trump official turned critic Miles Taylor anticipated that President Donald Trump's latest business venture — Trump Mobile — could be "a prophecy of what’s to come."

Taylor wrote in an opinion piece for The i Paper on Friday about his experience working with Trump during the president's first administration, revealing what motivated Trump the most: cash.

The Guardian's Andrew Lawrence delivered a scathing review of Byron Allen's "Comics Unleashed," the official replacement for Stephen Colbert's "Late Show" in CBS's 11:30 p.m. slot.

"The applause, dear God, the applause," Lawrence wrote.

President Donald Trump has been having a very bad day in court — and MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace barely managed to contain her glee reporting on his losses.

"The legal hits keep coming," said Wallace. "Today, earlier, a federal judge out of Virginia ruled that DOJ's so-called 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' must freeze and that no money can be disbursed until she hears a motion challenging the fund's very existence."

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed President Donald Trump's "Freedom 250 Festival," a celebration scheduled at the National Mall from June 27 to July 10 and advertised as a nonpartisan commemoration of America's 250th birthday.

The event has suffered significant withdrawals as major artists claim they were misled about its political nature.