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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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday issued a sharp warning about President Donald Trump's emerging Iran peace framework, saying it could "pour gasoline" on regional conflicts and supercharge Iranian-backed militant groups.

The South Carolina Republican, who is normally one of Trump's most reliable allies on foreign policy issues, took to X to warn that the reported terms of the deal could be read as a strategic win for Tehran by other players in the region.