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President Donald Trump's claim that he loves the inflation associated with his war in Iran is bad news for the average American's pocketbook, an economist said during a new CNN interview on Wednesday.

Henrietta Treyz, an economist at Veda Partners, told CNN's Boris Sanchez that there's "nothing to like" about the 4.2% inflation reading that was captured in the latest economic data released on Wednesday. That's despite Trump saying in the Oval Office that he "loves the numbers" and that inflation will "drop like a rock" once the war in Iran ends.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told a Senate panel Wednesday that struggling American families can blame Joe Biden for high grocery prices — a claim that left Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) openly incredulous.

"Well, but that's because of the Biden administration," Rollins said flatly during an oversight hearing before the Senate Agriculture Committee. "That is the reason."

A right-wing influencer who injected himself into a racially charged murder trial was arrested Tuesday and charged with making terroristic threats — his second arrest this month in connection with his activities around the high-profile North Texas case.

Florida-based activist Jake Lang was booked into Dallas County jail after allegedly stating that if the jury did not find Karmelo Anthony guilty he "would take care of it himself," and a judge set his bond at $1 million, reported The Dallas Morning News.

An outburst by Donald Trump when asked about Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner provoked laughter on MS NOW on Wednesday afternoon after the president tried to smear the Democrat.

During his brief press availability in the Oval Office, where the 79-year-old president once again remained seated, he was asked about Platner’s bid to oust Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME).

In four minutes on Wednesday morning, Donald Trump promised to bomb Iran and wished for world peace.

At 11:50, gathered in the Oval Office for the signing of a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill, President Donald Trump turned to reporters with a warning about Iran. "We hit them hard yesterday, and we're gonna hit them again hard today — in case you miss it, in case you don't turn on your television set," he said.

President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked the stock market on purpose.

The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office, where he was asked about year-over-year inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2 percent last month as his war pushed energy prices higher, and he claimed that was part of his broader strategy for launching the attack in the first place.

Former Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino erupted during a tense Situation Room confrontation with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in front of shocked administration insiders last July, refusing to be scapegoated for the DOJ's catastrophic mishandling of the Epstein files, according to new reporting.

According to New York Times reporting by Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman from their forthcoming book "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," Bongino was summoned to the White House along with FBI Director Kash Patel to meet with Wiles, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, and Taylor Budowich, one of Wiles's deputies.

The moment Bongino arrived in the room, Wiles accused him of leaking sensitive Epstein information to ABC News, the Times is reporting.

Nancy Mace's political career came to a crashing end Tuesday as the South Carolina congresswoman finished a distant fifth in the state's Republican gubernatorial primary — and the knives came out almost immediately.

Former allies, ex-staffers and fellow Republicans were immediately lining up to deliver their verdicts on a congressional tenure defined by combustible ambition and self-inflicted wounds in a turbulent political career that appears to have ended in her decisive loss, reported the Washington Post.

Donald Trump called up the late conservative gadfly Charlie Kirk last July and berated him for letting one of his Turning Point rallies spiral into anger and conspiracy rumors about the Jeffrey Epstein files, reports the New York Times.

According to reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, from their forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” at the same time that Trump was trying to take heat off of Attorney General Pam Bondi for her handling of the Epstein Files, Kirk was on the road holding rallies that were roiled by the revelations trickling out of the FBI.

A California Democrat took to the House floor Tuesday to declare Donald Trump's tendency to fall asleep in public a "grave national security threat" — and demanded that Republicans join her in forcing the White House to come clean about the president's health.

The speech by Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove was first flagged by journalist Aaron Rupar.