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MAGA influencer Steve Bannon urged President Donald Trump to escalate his trade war by placing a "total embargo" on all trade with China.

Bannon's call for a cessation of trade came after China cut off the supply of rare earth exports, and Trump retaliated by banning the sale of technology needed for artificial intelligence.

The decision, so far, by Donald Trump's administration to ignore the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison to his family has the president on a path for a showdown with the nation's highest court where he may come out on the losing end.

That is the opinion of MSNBC host Joe Scarborough who pointed out the president has had every opportunity to back down and put out the firestorm he has created, but has chosen not to.

Speaking with his panel on Wednesday morning, he compared the controversy to what he called "Signalgate," where Trump administration officials used an unsecure chatroom to discuss an upcoming military attack in Yemen.

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"Just admit you made a mistake. It will be better for you in the long run and they wouldn't admit that they made a mistake," he suggested before adding, "And the White House will tell you that that was the first big bump in the road for them politically."

"It didn't have to happen that way," he advised. "Same thing here: say we made a mistake, alright? They've already said that they can bring him back to the United States, they can, they can go through deportation process and then work with the courts to figure out where to deport him, where he can go safely and that's something, again, they win, he gets deported if he's here illegally and he doesn't get the sort of blow back."

"But this isn't an issue that's going to go away and they need to figure that out," he explained. "And when they figure that out, you know, the things –– well, again, we'll get to it –– but things will get worse for them. "

"As the Wall Street Journal has said, as other constitutional scholars have said, he's alienating his allies on the Supreme Court right now, and they need to quit while they're behind," he concluded.

A new report from the New York Times reveals that many of the big law firms that struck deals with President Donald Trump to avoid having their security clearances stripped are now finding that they're getting more than they bargain for.

Specifically, the Times reports that the firms thought that the tens of millions of dollars worth of pro-bono work they agreed to do for the Trump administration would revolve around relatively uncontroversial issues such as cases involving veterans' benefits.

Vice President J.D. Vance took time out of his busy schedule for a lengthy argument against "due process" for migrants before they are deported.

"Consider that Joe Biden allowed approximately 20 million illegal aliens into our country," Vance wrote on X Tuesday. "To say the administration must observe 'due process' is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors."

CNN's Kate Bolduan pushed back on a Republican congressman's claims about paid protesters showing up to town halls.

GOP lawmakers have faced down angry protesters lashing out over president Donald Trump's agenda and Elon Musk's cuts to the federal workforce, and Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) blamed the media for inciting the confrontations and agreed with Republican leadership that the demonstrations were staged.

As U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders' Fighting Oligarchy Tour continues to draw massive crowds — even in states where people overwhelmingly voted for Republican President Donald Trump—the democratic socialist on Tuesday published a video highlighting the grassroots movement against rule by billionaires like the president and Department of Government Efficiency chief Elon Musk.

"When Donald Trump looks out at this crowd—and they pay attention to this stuff, and Elon Musk does—you are scaring the hell out of them," Sanders (I-Vt.) said in the video posted on social media, which shows highlights from last Saturday's rally in Los Angeles that drew an estimated 36,000 attendees.

As Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) flies to El Salvador in an attempt to ensure Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s release, one New York Times Columnist is drawing parallels to the antebellum (or sale of free Black Americans).

“This is a fundamentally tyrannical assertion of illegitimate power,” penned Jamelle Bouie. “Here, I’m thinking of the fraught legal status of free Black Americans in the antebellum United States. ‘The possibility of being kidnapped and sold into slavery was shared by the entire American free Black community, whether young or old, freeborn or freed slave, Northerner or Southerner,’ explains the historian Carol Wilson in her book Freedom at Risk.”

A Republican voter in Northern Virginia who backed President Donald Trump since 2016 says she's finished with the GOP, the Huffington Post reported.

The story highlighted a number of Trump voters who regretted their votes for a whole host of reasons, from his mismanagement of the pandemic in 2020, to the 2019 Uvalde school shooting in Texas, to one voter who came to see his presidency as an affront to Christian values.

CEOs who thought that President Donald Trump would be good for business say they got a massive shock earlier this month when he unveiled his "Liberation Day" tariffs that sent the stock market nose diving.

As political commentator Matthew Yglesias writes, Trump's allies in the business community learned that Trump "is crazier than they thought" thanks to his erratic tariff policies, and he makes the case that they should understand that Trump is behaving just as destructively in other policy areas.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that aims to delay Medicare negotiations for a broad category of prescription drugs, handing the deep-pocketed pharmaceutical industry a major win as it lobbies aggressively against efforts to rein in its pricing power.

Trump's order, titled "Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First," instructs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to work with Congress to "modify" the Medicare drug price negotiation program that was established under the Biden administration and has already yielded significant results despite pharma companies' best efforts to block it in court.

During a break from discussing the Donald Trump administration's growing battle with the judiciary, Axios founder Jim VandeHei reminded the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the president has a lot on his plate right now with problems of his own making.

According to the Washington insider, Trump's tariff war has done what appears to be irreparable damage to the reputation of the U.S. and he has put himself into a box he can't escape from to get the economy back on track.

Noting Trump has been facing an extraordinary amount of push back from Wall Street, VandeHei explained, "I think the president blinked in a pretty substantial way last week because of this pressure," he began. "It's pressure from CEOs. It's pressure from investors."

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President Donald Trump is eyeing a trailer park near his Mar-a-Lago private resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as the site for his presidential library.

Briny Breezes is an incorporated town along State Route A1A that's a seasonal home to about 500 "snowbirds," but The Daily Beast reported that Trump is looking at what the website described as "one of the world’s most expensive trailer parks" as the home to his legacy.