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President Donald Trump has been pardoning supporters since Day One of his second term, but a Democratic strategist pointed to a recent round of them as an "unforced error."

The president signed pardons this week for a corrupt Virginia sheriff, a convicted tax cheat and a reality TV couple found guilty of fraud, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" discussed how in their view these stand out as clearly corrupt.

Wall Street investors have spotted one of president Donald Trump's tendencies and have started betting against him.

They've even come up with a derogatory term – "TACO," and acronym for "Trump Always Chickens Out" – for the president's erratic handling of his on-again, off-again tariffs, because they've noticed his tendency to announce punishing duties that send markets into the tank, only to back off a short time later and goose the market, reported HuffPost.

A GOP lawmaker's town hall in Seward, Nebraska, went sideways on Tuesday night after Rep. Mike Flood (R-NE) admitted he didn't read everything that was contained in the "big, beautiful" budget bill the House narrowly approved.

According to a report from NBC News and MSNBC, Flood told the crowd that filled the room that he was embarrassed that he didn't notice a provision that would restrict judges from enforcing court orders and tying their hands when it comes to holding parties in contempt.

In a video clip shown on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," Flood can be seen holding court and telling his constituents, "I believe in the rule of law. I’ve taken an oath as an attorney, I’ve taken an oath as a state senator, I’ve taken an oath as a member of Congress, and I support our court system, and I do believe that the federal district courts, when issuing an injunction, should have legal effect."

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Having stated that, he admitted, "This provision was unknown to me when I voted for the bill,” which led to a chorus of jeering from those assembled.

The crowd was not appeased when he then protested, "I am not going to hide the truth. This provision was unknown to me when I voted for that, and when I found out that provision was in the bill, I immediately reached out to my Senate counterparts and told them of my concern.”

According to NBC News' Raquel Coronell Uribe, "The questions only got more intense from there, with attendees grilling him on a number of topics, from Medicaid cuts to his voting record to changes in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program."

A New York City high school student who managed to get his Venezuelan family off the streets through hard work was unexpectedly arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and had his asylum-seeker protections revoked during a routine immigration hearing, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday evening.

The student's mother, identified only as Raiza, said her 20-year-old son Dylan "had done everything right when he came to America from his native Venezuela," according to the report. "Dylan arrived at the U.S. southern border in April 2024 and was permitted legal entry through a program established by the Biden administration. He applied for asylum and was granted protected status while awaiting a court date, which allowed him to apply for a work permit and a driver’s learner permit," according to Chalkbeat New York.

Russian state media openly mocked President Donald Trump after he warned Vladimir Putin that Russia is “playing with fire” and would have already faced “really bad things” if not for him, according to a report from Rolling Stone.

In a biting response to Trump’s newest remarks directed at Putin, Kremlin-controlled outlet RT highlighted Trump’s post with a screenshot.

President Donald Trump’s latest presidential action is drawing fierce backlash after he granted full pardons to reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were serving prison sentences for fraud and tax evasion.

The couple, best known for starring in the reality TV series “Chrisley Knows Best,” were convicted in 2022 and sentenced to 12 and 7 years in federal prison, respectively, the Washington Post reported. The White House on Tuesday confirmed the couple’s full pardons.

President Donald Trump unleashed a series of Truth Social posts Tuesday, where he revisited old grievances and launched fresh attacks on former President Joe Biden while declaring his use of the “autopen” the second-biggest scandal in American history.

“Other than the Rigged Presidential Election of 2020, the Biggest Scandal in American History is the “AUTOPEN!” Whoever used it was usurping the power of the Presidency, and it should be very easy to find out who that person (or persons) is,” Trump wrote Tuesday.

President Donald Trump is demanding that U.S. companies pay the entirety of his tariffs rather than raise prices and pass them to consumers — but even if they fully complied with Trump's orders, that doesn't actually make his tariffs any better of a situation for the economy, wrote a prominent tax policy expert on Tuesday.

As Republican lawmakers and entrepreneurs alike sound the alarm that the tariffs will stifle economic growth and supercharge inflation, Trump has picked fights with any company that suggests price hikes might be necessary, most notably demanding that Walmart "eat the tariffs" in response to reports they may raise prices on some items.

President Donald Trump's administration is pushing a "deliberate destruction of education, science, and history," wrote Adam Serwer in a scathing analysis for The Atlantic published on Tuesday — and it recalls the "Dark Ages" that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.

"Every week brings fresh examples," wrote Serwer. For instance, Trump "is threatening colleges and universities with the loss of federal funding if they do not submit to its demands, or even if they do. The engines of American scientific inquiry and ingenuity, such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, are under sustained attack. Historical institutions such as the Smithsonian and artistic ones like the Kennedy Center are being converted into homes for MAGA ideology rather than historical fact and free expression."

President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that Canada is weighing an offer to become the 51st U.S. state to dodge a $61 billion fee for joining what he called his "fabulous" so-called Golden Dome missile shield.

“I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State,” Trump wrote Tuesday in a Truth Social post.

Yet another of President Donald Trump's executive orders punishing law firms associated with advocacy he opposed has been struck down, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

"Siding with WilmerHale, which sued to block the president’s order, Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia wrote that Mr. Trump appeared intent on coercing the firm to the bargaining table under the threat of harsh penalties," reported Zach Montague. This decision, the report continued, "was welcome news for the handful of law firms that opted to fight the White House even as several of their peers caved to the pressure campaign and made deals with Mr. Trump to avoid persecution."

< Barry Croft and Adam Fox, the men convicted of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in the summer of 2020, could be on a list for potential presidential pardons, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s new pardon attorney.

The comments came from Ed Martin Jr., a conservative activist who had been nominated as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia before having his nomination withdrawn earlier this year. Martin is now a pardon attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Far-right Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito bitterly dissented from the broader court's refusal to take up a free speech case involving a Massachusetts middle school student prohibited from wearing a "There Are Only Two Genders" T-shirt Tuesday — but they helped create the precedent that limited students' free speech rights in school in the first place, Jordan Rubin wrote for MSNBC's Deadline: White House blog.

"In the T-shirt case, called L.M. v. Middleborough, Thomas and Alito each wrote dissents. Both are notable, especially since both justices have (in different ways) previously ruled against students in First Amendment cases," wrote Rubin.