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President Donald Trump admitted he voted for a Democrat in the most recent Palm Beach, Florida, municipal elections, according to a new report.

Speaking to a crowd of supporters at Trump National Doral Miami, Trump said he voted for Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, a Democrat, because "he’s kept Palm Beach safe for a lot of years," MeidasTouch reported. Those comments stand in stark contrast to Trump's public comments about Democrats, whom he has described as "scum," "vermin," and "animals."

North Carolina GOP Senate candidate Michael Whatley has tried to paint his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Roy Cooper, as soft on crime — but a new report indicates Whatley himself forgave a sex offender accused of sexually assaulting teenagers in one of his hires for a party office.

According to the Asheville Watchdog, "Whatley, former chairman of the state and national Republican Party, is at the center of the spreading revolt after championing the rise to power of Harvey L. West Jr. Whatley appointed West to lead the GOP’s 1st Congressional District committee in the state’s eastern corner, and to head the party’s powerful Plan of Organization committee, which effectively controls rulemaking."

President Donald Trump has long entertained a particularly absurd and illegal idea. But in recent months, it appears far less commonly in his speeches, wrote columnist Jamelle Bouie of The New York Times — and it might show he is aware of his crashing popularity and weakening hold over his own party.

For starters, Bouie wrote, Trump's second term never had to go like this. There was a path for him to be a relatively popular, or at least relatively drama-free, president, and it could have made him more dangerous.

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy seemed to tire of President Donald Trump's doublespeak on the Iran conflict and pressed him to define the operation.

"And we did a little excursion. We had to take this little couple of weeks, a few weeks of excursion, but it's been incredible," Trump said while touring a factory in Ohio on Wednesday. "Our military is unbelievable, the job they're doing. I would say, to put it mildly, way ahead of schedule. We've knocked out their Navy, their military in it, all forms. We've knocked out just about everything there is, including their leadership, twice. We knocked out twice their leadership."

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum dismissed environmentalists' concerns by telling investment firm BlackRock that people who want to protect public lands were not "financially literate."

During the BlackRock infrastructure summit in Washington on Wednesday, the host complained to Burgum about how long it takes to get permits approved.

A foreign hacker compromised files related to the Justice Department's investigation of the late sex offender during a break-in three years ago at an FBI field office in New York, according to a source familiar with the matter and recently published Justice Department documents reviewed by Reuters.

“Who wouldn’t be going after the Epstein files if you’re the Russians or somebody interested in kompromat?” said Jon Lindsay, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. “If foreign intelligence agencies are not thinking seriously about the Epstein files as a target, then I would be shocked."

President Donald Trump renewed his attacks against Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) en route to a speech in his home district.

The president lashed out at the Kentucky Republican for the second time Wednesday on Truth Social ahead of a visit to Hebron, in Massie's 4th congressional district, and Reading, Ohio, about a half hour north, lumping the congressman in with fellow GOP rebels Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Marjorie Taylor Greene as "misfits and losers."

President Donald Trump claimed not to know that the U.S. military determined that it was responsible for killing about 150 people in the accidental bombing of an Iranian girls' school.

"Day 11, and as you know, we're doing something that nobody ever thought was possible to do," Trump announced to reporters outside the White House on Wednesday. "Our military is the best, it's the most powerful in the world, and they're hitting them very hard."