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Stewart Rhodes and his fellow Oath Keepers were freed from jail earlier this week after President Donald Trump commuted their prison sentences.

However, that does not mean that they will suddenly enjoy all of the same rights as American citizens who have not been convicted on seditious conspiracy charges.

Donald Trump may not have done his nominee to be the next secretary of defense any favors as he left the White House on Friday morning.

On Thursday two Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine made it clear they would vote no on Trump's pick.

With embattled former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth facing a do-or-die Senate vote later on Friday, and fending off accusations of sexual assault, domestic abuse, public drunkenness and financial improprieties, the departing Trump was asked about his chances.

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That was when the president, with the first lady standing conspicuously behind him in a knit cap and enormous aviator glasses, took a dig at the former Senate majority leader who has battled the president for years and has been close-mouthed about how he will vote in the closely divided Senate.

"Look, whatever it is, it is, he's a good man," Trump protested over Hegseth's problematic nomination.

"I don't know what's going to happen; you never know in those things. But Pete's a very, very good man, I hope he makes it, I hope he makes it. Uh, I was very surprised that Collins and Murkowski would do that. And of course, Mitch is always a no vote, I guess," he complained.

"Is Mitch a no vote? How about Mitch?" he asked the assembled reporters.

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Donald Trump made a risky decision right out of the gate that could come back to haunt him, according to CNN's Michael Smerconish.

The newly inaugurated president carried through on his promise to pardon the Jan. 6 rioters – including individuals who violently attacked police officers – on the first day of his second term, and Smerconish said Trump had a busy and controversial first week.

Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Pentagon appears poised for confirmation despite concerns over his alleged drinking and mistreatment of women, but a former staffer for the president says another candidate will likely be rejected.

Pete Hegseth cleared a procedural hurdle Thursday to advance to a final Senate vote on his nomination to lead the Defense Department, despite the objections of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), who expressed skepticism about his qualifications to lead an agency with 300 million employees and an $800 billion budget.

The current U.S. Supreme Court has a stellar record of delivering wins for President Donald Trump, who appointed several of those who serve on its bench, but that could soon change, an ex-prosecutor said.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance on Thursday raised the issue of Trump's recent executive order purporting to end birthright citizenship, which is enshrined in the nation's Constitution. The order was promptly put on hold by a judge, who ruled that it was indeed unconstitutional.

Before she even held his first official White House press conference, Donald Trump's latest press secretary is facing questions after a last-minute FEC filing on Thursday reportedly showed she had been hiding debt related to her failed run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022.

According to a report from Claire Heddles from NOTUS, 27-year-old Karoline Leavitt submitted revised campaign disclosure paperwork that shows she owes more than $300k that must be paid back due to campaign finance violations.

The report states that approximately $200,000 must be repaid to contributors who appear to have made donations far beyond legal limits, adding, "Those excessive contributions went unreported for years."

ALSO READ: Fox News has blood on its hands as Trump twists the knife

According to the report, those 2022 illegal donations, by law, should have been returned within 60 days.

"Her congressional campaign committee amended 17 campaign finance reports on Thursday, noting that, over the course of three years, Leavitt took in a number of excessive contributions that she failed to report and has failed to pay back, essentially stiffing her donors," NOTUS is reporting, "The newly disclosed excessive donations essentially triples Leavitt’s campaign debt, bringing the total to $326,370 owed to vendors and contributors. (Leavitt had previously reported $105,605 in debt in a filing at the end of September 2024.)"

Washington, D.C.'s luxury housing market is catching fire as the ultra-wealthy scoop up a limited number of available high-end homes all in an effort to get "close to the sun" — meaning President Donald Trump, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday that rich political appointees, new members of Congress and business big-wigs have all deluged the market around the nation's capital. That includes Howard Lutnick, the president’s nomination for commerce secretary, who bought the home of Fox News anchor Bret Baier for $25 million.

President Donald Trump responded on Thursday to reporters asking him about the federal judge who blocked his executive order gutting birthright citizenship — taking a jab at the judge and confirming he'll fight the decision.

"A U.S. judge temporarily blocks the birthright citizenship order. Do you have any reaction?" one reporter asked.

The highest-ranking attorney at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) quit on Thursday while snubbing Elon Musk, the agency's chairman.

The Wall Street Journal reported Bill McGinley was first named to DOGE in December by President Donald Trump. The attorney said he intended to return to the private sector.

The Anti-Defamation League took criticism earlier this week when it declined to condemn X owner Elon Musk for making a salute at a Trump rally that many overt racists approvingly interpreted as a Nazi salute.

However, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt on Thursday finally had had enough of Musk's antics after the richest man in the world wrote a post filled with puns about Nazi Germany.

Ivanka Trump cautioned consumers that her name was being used to circulate a "fake" crypto token.

The warning came after both President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump promoted meme crypto tokens using their names. The family was said to have earned millions of dollars in fees with the scheme.

CNN's Daniel Dale delivered a two-minute fact check of president Donald Trump's first major economic speech.

The president delivered virtual remarks Thursday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he bashed European tech regulations, complained about oil prices being too high and accused banks of refusing service to conservatives, and he also promised to put pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and repeated threats over tariffs.