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MAGA hardliners in the Trump White House are privately worried about potential imprisonment and doubt that presidential pardons will protect them, according to administration insiders who spoke with Zeteo.

Officials including Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth fear the 2026 midterms could result in impeachment proceedings.

A Trump-voting podcaster was baffled by the president's public relations stunt, where he had a grandmother deliver a DoorDash order to the White House to hawk his "no tax on tips" policy.

On Monday, Trump had a grandmother deliver a DoorDash order so he could tell the press about the benefits of his tax policy ahead of Tax Day. Andrew Schulz, a comedian and host of the podcast "Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh," said on Wednesday's episode that the stunt was confusing, and showed the president is not focused on deeper economic issues.

A former CNN anchor flagged the most telling sign that President Donald Trump has something to hide regarding his ties to disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Jim Acosta, host of "The Jim Acosta Show" on Substack, said during an interview with John Byrne on a new episode of the "Raw America" podcast on Thursday that Trump's move to fire former Attorney General Pam Bondi and replace her with Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general and Trump's former personal attorney, "kind of tells you what's going on." He pointed to Blanche's recent appearance on Fox News, where he argued that the Trump Department of Justice has no more Epstein files to release, which contradicts what his predecessor has said about the files.

President Donald Trump suffered a big defeat in court on Monday when a federal judge threw out his defamation suit against the Wall Street Journal — but his legal team isn't done. In fact, they have filed a motion demanding the court allow them to continue discovery, before they have even refiled their suit.

Their newly filed demand was first reported by Jacob Shamsian of Business Insider.

President Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a vaccine supporter and former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which The New York Times noted represented a clear signal the White House is distancing itself from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda ahead of the midterms.

Trump announced the pick on Thursday on social media. If confirmed by the Senate, Schwartz would become the agency's fourth director in just over a year.

President Donald Trump argued that U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon was "out of control" because he blocked construction of the above-ground portions of a White House ballroom.

In his Thursday ruling, Leon sought to clarify an earlier order intended to halt construction of the ballroom while carving out a small exception for national security construction. Trump had said that the exception permitted him to build the entire ballroom structure.

Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing over comments he made on a 2024 podcast suggesting Black children should be "re-parented" instead of receiving mental health treatment.

Kennedy denied making the remarks and claimed not to understand the phrase's meaning.

Investigators at the FBI have received new evidence that could crack open the Nancy Guthrie case, according to a new report.

ABC News reported on Thursday, citing "sources familiar with the investigation," that the FBI has sent new evidence to a crime lab for processing to determine whether it came from one or multiple people. Investigators are hopeful that the sample could trace back to Guthrie's abductors, but Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos caveated that it could take up to six months to "untangle" the new sample.

The Cuban government tried to execute a plan to lobby President Donald Trump directly, while making an end-run around Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.

"The grandson of Cuban leader Raúl Castro tapped a wealthy Havana entrepreneur to try to personally deliver a letter to the White House last week outside of regular diplomatic channels, said a U.S. official and a former U.S. official," José de Córdoba and Vera Bergengruen reported. "The letter was formatted similarly to a diplomatic note and carried an official Cuban seal," and "proposed economic and investment agreements as well as sanctions relief, and warned that the Cuban regime was preparing for a U.S. incursion, the U.S. official said."

President Donald Trump took a shot at Alison K. Hoagland, an architectural historian at the center of a lawsuit against his ballroom, after a judge blocked construction of the structure.

In an opinion and order on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, a George W. Bush appointee, said that he was enjoining government officials from moving forward with the above-ground portions of ballroom construction at the White House.

The Justice Department has opened a federal assault investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

According to NOTUS, Swalwell already faces investigation by local prosecutors in New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, following allegations from five women that he engaged in sexual misconduct and assault with them, including a staffer who claims he assaulted her when she was severely intoxicated.

President Donald Trump reacted to a judge's order halting construction of his White House ballroom with the hyperbolic claim that no president "can ever be safe" without the facility.

In an order on Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard placed an injunction on all above-ground construction of the ballroom after Trump claimed that a small national security exemption in a previous ruling would let him build the entire structure.