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Trump family feud spills out as niece skewers president for wedding snub

President Donald Trump's niece is publicly mocking the president after he gave a strange answer to a basic question: Was he going to attend his own son's wedding?

Mary Trump, a frequent critic of her uncle, used her Substack newsletter Trump Trolls Trump on Saturday to skewer the president over his response to reporters who asked about Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding to Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas.

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MAGA infighting hits new low as Trump pals trade unprintable insults and cryptic warnings

"Unblock me," a longtime Trump confidant said to someone dubbed "Trump Whisperer" as the two fought publicly.

A bitter feud has broken out between two prominent Trump allies, with longtime Republican operative Roger Stone unleashing a torrent of vulgar attacks at right-wing influencer Laura Loomer over the departure of Tulsi Gabbard from the Trump administration.

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Trump posts image of Obama in prison jumpsuit: 'Very sick'

Donald Trump posted an image Sunday morning on Truth Social depicting former President Barack Obama and several of his top national security officials dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, in what appears to be a direct threat against a former president and his allies.

The image, styled as a Brady Bunch-style grid of mugshots, showed Obama — labeled "Barack Hussein Obama" — alongside former CIA Director John Brennan, former FBI Director James Comey, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, former UN Ambassador Samantha Power, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was labeled 'Ben "Hamas" Rhodes.' The graphic was captioned with, "The Shady Bunch."

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GOP senator's 'Hitler' attack against Dems backfires — and pummels JD Vance

A GOP senator's call to stop comparing Donald Trump to Hitler backfired this weekend — because JD Vance did it first.

Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to put Democrats on the defensive over comparisons between Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler blew up in his face on Saturday and into Sunday when critics quickly pointed out that the most prominent person to make that comparison was Trump's own vice president.

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'Jilted' Trump aide stirs outrage by telling ex-Cabinet member to 'shut his stupid mouth'

White House communications director Steven Cheung unleashed a profanity-laced broadside against former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo after Pompeo criticized the Trump administration's emerging deal with Iran — setting off a wave of condemnation from commentators across the political spectrum.

Pompeo had posted that the deal "being floated with Iran seems straight out of the Wendy Sherman-Robert Malley-Ben Rhodes playbook," warning it would "pay the IRGC to build a WMD program and terrorize the world." He called it "not remotely America First" and demanded the administration simply "open the damned strait."

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​​Trump uses deadly shooting to push for controversial ballroom in midnight tirade

Hours after a deadly shooting incident outside the White House, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social just after midnight to thank the Secret Service and, in the same post, push for the construction of his controversial White House ballroom.

In a post published shortly after 12 a.m. Eastern, Trump opened with praise for the agents who killed the gunman near the White House gates earlier in the evening. He described the suspect as a man with "a violent history and possible obsession with our Country's most cherished structure."

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Congressman pinpoints 'unusual' Trump scandal that 'not enough people are talking about'

Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.) sounded the alarm this weekend over a purported sweetheart deal that gave President Donald Trump direct financial control over a public Florida airport, telling his X followers the story has not received the attention it deserves.

In a post on social media, Levin laid out how a Florida county effectively handed Trump the trademark and licensing rights to a public airport, with the president now positioned to profit off branded merchandise tied to the facility.

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White House 'crusade' is undermining best shot Congress has at bipartisan win: report

The White House keeps undermining an issue that could give way to a rare bipartisan win in Congress, according to a new report.

According to a Saturday article by Politico, permitting reform is an issue that "enjoys wide support" among Republicans and Democrats, but a bipartisan deal is threatened by Trump's "crusade against renewable energy, particularly wind."

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​Ex-Trump official predicts what president will do over his grave — and it's devastating

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as White House communications director during President Donald Trump's first term, posted a striking prediction on X this week. When he dies, Scaramucci said, he fully expects Trump to insult him from beyond his grave.

In a post on X, the former Trump insider unloaded on his ex-boss with a blanket assessment of the president's character before pivoting to the morbid prediction.

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'My god': Mike Johnson ridiculed mercilessly after new 'embarrassing' omission

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is being forced to eat his own words after he praised Trump in a social media post as the "ONLY" person who could get Iran to the negotiating table.

"President Trump is the ONLY one who could have gotten Iran — the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism — to the negotiating table," Johnson wrote on X. "We are greatly encouraged to learn a PEACE DEAL in Iran is underway — and look forward to learning more about the specifics."

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Questions about Trump's criminal liability arise as Mueller prosecutor sees immunity crack

Andrew Weissmann, the former federal prosecutor who served as a top deputy to special counsel Robert Mueller, said this week that President Donald Trump's controversial $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund may have inadvertently exposed him to criminal liability that the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling will not save him from.

Weissmann, now an MS NOW legal analyst and professor at NYU School of Law, appeared on the network to discuss the fund Trump created by settling his own lawsuit against the IRS. Asked whether anyone could actually face consequences for the arrangement, Weissmann walked through the legal anatomy of why the immunity defense may not work.

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Trump officials serve subpoenas to two popular progressive influencers: report

The Trump administration is going after a pair of influencers because of their support and visits to Cuba, according to reporting by Fox News.

Progressive influencers Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin were served subpoenas by the Treasury Department on Saturday, Fox News reported.

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Emergency room doctor names worrying Trump behavior: 'Something just seems not right'

The physician who administered the same cognitive screening that President Donald Trump keeps publicly bragging about says he sees something that should worry the country.

Dr. Rob Davidson, head of the Committee to Protect Healthcare, walked former CNN reporter Jim Acosta through the Montreal Cognitive Assessment on Acosta's show this week. Davidson used the appearance to deliver a pointed message about Trump's repeated public claims that he has aced the screening multiple times.

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