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Donald Trump called for the creation of a new federal agency dedicated to collecting the tariffs he's threatening to impose on U.S. trading partners — but he was quickly taught there's already a government entity that does that.

While the president-elect and his allies Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have called for the elimination of millions of government jobs and even some federal departments, Trump sketched out a proposal for a new one that suggests his tariff threats are more than just a negotiating tactic.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, was immediately hit with protests as he gave his opening remarks at his confirmation hearing.

The protests came moments after Hegseth began speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

MSNBC president Rashida Jones is stepping down just days before Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Rebecca Kutler, senior vice president of content strategy at MSNBC, will step in as interim president effective immediately, although Jones will remain in an advisory role through March, reported the New York Times.

A CNN panel on Tuesday argued that former special counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election showed that he had enough evidence to put Trump in prison.

CNN's Stephen Collinson kicked off the panel by connecting the alleged criminal actions outlined in the report — released in the early hours of Tuesday — to the anxiety and fear many Americans feel about Trump returning to power.

Donald Trump hasn't even re-entered the White House yet, and some simmering MAGA feuds have already boiled over into public view.

The president-elect's first term was marked by disputes between the Republican establishment and his loyalists, and while Trump has largely taken full control of the GOP since leaving office four years ago, his orbit still contains discordant factions who have no natural alliances with each other, wrote Washington Post columnist Aaron Blake.

Judge Aileen Cannon on Monday shot down a last-ditch bid by President-elect Donald Trump's attorneys to suppress the release of special counsel Jack Smith's final report on Trump's efforts to illegally remain in power after he lost the 2020 election.

As reported by legal analyst Adam Klasfeld on BlueSky, Cannon denied an emergency motion filed by attorneys representing Trump codefendants Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, who were both implicated in the Mar-a-Lago documents case.

Trump-supporting pillow salesman Mike Lindell has been ordered by a court to fork over more than $50,000 to electronic voting systems company Smartmatic after he unsuccessfully sued them for racketeering several years ago.

As reported by Reuters legal reporter Brad Heath on BlueSky, United States District Judge Carl Nichols ordered Lindell to "pay $56,369 in sanctions for making frivolous claims against Smartmatic."

Judge Aileen Cannon has triggered outrage among legal experts for purporting to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith's reports on the criminal cases against President-elect Donald Trump, given that she likely surrendered jurisdiction of the classified documents case when she dismissed it and the appeal went to the 11th Circuit. Some have suggested she knows her order was illegal and just wanted to create enough delay for Trump officials to take office and block release of the report themselves.

But the lawlessness goes beyond that, national security expert Marcy Wheeler wrote for her "Emptywheel" blog — Cannon is also interfering with the Senate's constitutional powers over Trump nominations.

President-elect Donald Trump is taking over the "staggering challenge" of a military that is unprepared to fight America's enemies, conservative analyst Max Boot wrote for The Washington Post — and worse still, he has nominated a man to lead it who doesn't understand why.

This comes as Trump's pick to lead the Department of Defense, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, has come under fire for his history of alleged sexual misconduct, heavy drinking, and advocacy to pardon war criminals — and it also comes as Trump refuses to rule out using military force to seize territories like Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone as part of a neo-imperialist project.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is advising President-elect Donald Trump that his vows to enact mass deportations carry a major political risk.

As The Guardian reported, Gingrich is warning Trump that support for mass deportations will "collapse" if people start to hear stories "about mothers or babies or children being deported" under his administration.

Judge Aileen Cannon's recent orders in Donald Trump's criminal case go against accepted rules on court jurisdiction, a former prosecutor said Sunday.

Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance over the weekend weighed in on Trump's criminal documents case, which is currently in the appeals court after Cannon dismissed it.