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Donald Trump escalated his attacks on the federal judiciary this week, calling for a judge who ruled against him to face criminal charges and attacking the judge's wife in the process, prompting condemnation from legal observers and journalists who called the posts the work of "a lunatic."

Trump targeted Judge Cooper after a ruling that ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center, lashing out in a lengthy Truth Social rant that also included a declaration that he now has "no interest" in renovating the historic venue.

Victor Marx, the Republican frontrunner for Colorado governor, declined to say how many people he has killed when pressed by a local television reporter, responding to the question with "Does it matter?"

The exchange, which aired ahead of the weekend, came during a 30-minute interview conducted by Kyle Clark of 9News. Marx, who has built a political brand around a tough-guy image, claims he was forced to kill a man at age 7 and has spoken publicly about killings he says were connected to his work as a "high risk missionary."

Joe Walsh, the former Republican congressman turned Trump critic, says Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones may have just handed Democrats the opening they needed to flip the governor's office after a recording surfaced of Jones saying he supports banning all abortions.

In what appears to be a 2022 GOP debate, Jones is seen agreeing with others that abortion should be banned entirely, as opposed to endorsing a six-week heartbeat bill.

"The Mississippi GOP is panicking," according to a hopeful candidate.

The chair of the Mississippi Republican Party is sounding the alarm about a statewide race that recent polling shows has tightened into a statistical tie, warning fellow Republicans against complacency as Democrat Scott Colom continues to gain ground against former Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social over the weekend to attack Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson while Johnson was at the Vatican meeting with Pope Leo XIV, calling the Democratic mayor "useless" and urging someone to inform the pontiff of that fact.

"Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon!" Trump wrote, signing the post with his full name and title: "President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Some of Donald Trump's most reliable supporters are pushing back after the White House announced the president would deliver a speech as the replacement for artists who pulled out of the America 250 celebration, with critics on the right calling the move self-aggrandizing and tone-deaf.

The White House promoted the event as an "AMERICA IS BACK Rally!" but prominent conservative voices were not impressed.

Steve Schmidt, the Republican strategist who ran John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign before becoming one of Donald Trump's most vocal critics, published a sweeping assessment Friday arguing that the president's political grip is slipping and that what follows could be more dangerous than what came before.

"Donald Trump is losing control," Schmidt wrote in his weekend Substack newsletter. "This is the most important political fact in America today, and it explains the mounting rage, escalating recklessness and frantic aggression pouring out of the White House."

President Donald Trump made the unorthodox proposal Saturday to replace the shrinking number of artists for the Great American State Fair concert with himself – claiming to have drawn audiences larger than “Elvis in his prime” – and in doing so, left several onlookers floored, including CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“Didn’t think this was a real post at first,” Tapper wrote Saturday in a social media post on X after seeing Trump’s online post floating the proposal.