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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump faced ridicule for his response to a question from a pro-MAGA reporter. The person claimed that FBI Director Kash Patel found "burn bags" used in the Russia investigation.

Trump didn't understand what he meant. The reporter tried to explain "bags full of ..." But Trump interrupted, saying, "Oh, I thought you said appointed a man named Burn Bag."

Sen. Tom Tillis (R-NC) made an impassioned plea Wednesday to his Republican colleagues to "fix" provisions in President Donald Trump’s budget reconciliation package that are projected to kick 15 million people off of Medicaid over 10 years, warning that the cuts will put “Trump’s legacy at risk.”

“The reason I came to the floor today on the birthday of Medicaid is to say I believe the president does not want to harm qualified beneficiaries of Medicaid – this bill will in its current form,” Tillis said, speaking on the Senate floor. “...There's a way to fix it, but if we don't fix it, I believe that our president's legacy is at risk.”

A confused President Donald Trump railed about Democrats and Russiagate before apparently veering off course and rambling about what appeared to be the Jeffrey Epstein scandal that's filled the headlines for more than a week.

During a White House bill signing event on Wednesday, a reporter noted that FBI Director Kash Patel claimed to have found "burn bags" with documents about the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

Far-right influencer Laura Loomer continues to exercise “breathtaking influence” over President Donald Trump’s administration, writes MSNBC political contributor Steve Benen in a column published Wednesday, noting that the self-proclaimed “proud Islamophobe” can be tied to dozens of high-profile firings across multiple federal agencies.

The column comes in the wake of reports connecting the Tuesday firing of April Doss, the National Security Agency’s top lawyer, to Loomer, who amplified social media posts criticizing Doss last week, and later said in a text message that she had “flagged it for the right people,” according to The New York Times.

Reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth may already be looking for what comes next in his career after leaving his Fox News gig to become defense secretary, where he has become a constant source of controversy, likely has the White House aggravated with him, according to a former GOP lawmaker

During an appearance on MSNBC, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) claimed he got the impression that Hegseth's possible plan to make a jump and run for office in Tennessee seems to have caught Donald Trump's White House by surprise.

Speaking with MSNBC host Anna Cabrera, Dent said that Hegseth has a history of making moves without notifying the administration.

"Given all the drama of his first six months in the current job, what do you make of this new reporting that he's thought about jumping out of the Pentagon into the political realm?" the ex-GOP lawmaker was asked.

"But he is in a job that is expressly nonpartisan and the fact that there's discussions about him running for office really suggests that he's behaving in a partisan manner," Dent first suggested.

"So this is not a story he wants out there and, frankly, I would have to think that the White House can't be too thrilled about this either, given all the drama, you know, from Signalgate, to his challenge with some of the promotions at the Pentagon to losing a lot of his key staff," he added.

"He's got all sorts of problems over there and now that this story is out, I'm wondering if the White House is blindsided by this, just as they were blindsided by his decision to withhold funding to Ukraine, only to be overruled by the White House," he suggested.

Asked by the host if this is an "off-ramp" for the White House to rid itself of the problematic defense secretary, he said, "Absolutely.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at Vice President JD Vance Wednesday over accusations that California’s congressional districts are gerrymandered, pointing to what he argued was Republican hypocrisy amid President Donald Trump’s efforts to reshape Texas’ maps in his party’s favor.

“Try again, dumb dumb,” Newsom wrote in a social media post on X directed at Vance, alongside a map of the United States with the most gerrymandered states highlighted in green, nearly all of them controlled by Republicans.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) reacted after Texas Republicans revealed a new congressional map that would likely replace five Democratic lawmakers with Republicans.

On Friday, state Rep. Todd Hunter (R) unveiled the map targeting Democrats in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and South Texas.

Media advocacy organization Free Press on Tuesday unveiled an index that documents and rates major media organizations' reactions to the coercive demands being made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

As Free Press explained in a press release, its Media Capitulation Index tracks actions being taken by 35 major media conglomerates who are facing pressure from Trump and his allies to curb critical reporting and commentary on his administration.

President Donald Trump erupted at CNN Senior White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins as she questioned his bombshell allegation that Jeffrey Epstein had "stolen" women from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The confrontation unfolded after Trump made the stunning claim aboard Air Force One while returning from Scotland Tuesday, specifically naming Virginia Giuffre—one of Epstein's most prominent victims—as someone the disgraced financier had allegedly taken from his resort's spa.