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Republicans are "frozen" and still "on their knees" when it comes to standing up to Donald Trump, but they privately believe the President has brought a dangerous change to the party, according to a conservative analyst on Saturday.

Conservative political pundit Charlie Sykes appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was asked about how Trump's tariffs and other policies are playing with his Republican cohorts.

An attorney for Donald Trump's Department of Justice has reportedly been placed on leave after what one attorney called an astonishing, jaw-dropping admission in court.

Raw Story recently reported on Erez Reuveni's interaction with a judge in a case involving a Maryland man who was deported to El Salvador.

A wealthy business executive who was elected to root out corruption and end stock trading among lawmakers is now himself one of the most prolific elected stock traders, according to a new report on Saturday.

The New York Times over the weekend shed a light on Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who the outlet says "campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress," yet "has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class."

Donald Trump is doing "exactly the opposite of why he was put in office" and "these are things voters do not like," a political analyst said Saturday.

Reporter Molly Jong-Fast appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where she serves as a political commentator.

Donald Trump was raking in cash over the weekend while others panicked about the tumbling markets, and those paying to attend the President's event didn't seem to mind.

The New York Times on Saturday released an insider account of what it was like to attend Trump's event, which included various money-making ventures.

A person who voted for Donald Trump was spotted at an anti-Trump protest on Saturday, according to a MSNBC reporter.

The reporter over the weekend said she rarely runs into actual MAGA voters at anti-Trump demonstrations like the one she was attending, but noted that this man was very concerned about Elon Musk and DOGE's work.

As the global markets were tumbling at record levels, President Donald Trump was reportedly on a money-making spree in Mar-a-Lago.

As everyday folks were checking in on their 401ks and worrying about losing their Social Security payments, Trump's family was pushing numerous separate money-making schemes, the New York Times reported on Saturday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is once again under the gun after multiple members of his caucus put him on notice they have no plans to go along with a budget plan a budget plan approved by their GOP counterparts in the Senate Saturday morning.

According to a report from Politico's Benjamin Guggenheim, it didn't take long after the GOP-controlled Senate passed a "a budget resolution that unlocks their ability to pass a party-line bill later this year," before Republican fiscal hawks began making it known that what they have seen is a non-starter for them.

"A message to Republicans: watch out," was the advice of one MSNBC political analyst on Saturday morning when asked about the election results in Wisconsin and Florida this past week.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "The Weekend," analyst Dave Jolly, who previously served as a Republican in the House representing Florida, was asked whether the actions of Donald Trump and Elon Musk are "waking up the sleepy beast" that is the electorate.

That led Jolly to issue his warning to GOP lawmakers and explain to co-host Alicia Menendez, "What Donald Trump is doing with a collapsed Republican Congress is not good for the American people, regardless of your party registration."

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"I mean, as you described, these are ruby red seats and the one in the panhandle in particular, [Ex-GOP Rep.] Matt Gaetz's district has the military presence, but also so culturally conservative –– you know, we often joke about it being lower Alabama. I mean, this is this is a culturally conservative national security military, veterans-based district and that district moved by about 17 points."

"So the math is pretty simple here," he elaborated. "If we saw Democratic districts in Florida move 15, 16, 17 points, imagine now if you're an incumbent Republican and a five-point seat, a four-point seat, a six-point seat. You're terrified. And you know, that's about 30 to 40 members of Congress right now, because now they're coming for you next."

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Tech executives and Silicon Valley insiders are having second thoughts about placing all of their chips on Donald Trump in the 2024 election, betting he would be great for the industry and are now discovering otherwise.

According to a report from the Washington Post, there was great hope that the president's plan to gut regulations and shy away from anti-trust lawsuits would be a boon to the technology sector but, after 75 days in office, his reliance on tariffs has impacted not only their complex manufacturing capabilities but has also had a devastating effect on their stock values.

A discussion on CNN's "Table for Five" about the growing unpopularity of Elon Musk, led one panelist to straighten out conservative Scott Jennings who claimed the seemingly ever-present billionaire lost favor with liberals when he threw in his lot with Donald Trump.

With the segment devoted to the question of whether Musk has become "political poison" as evidenced by the loss this past week of a shot at a Wisconsin state Supreme Court seat that Musk threw his support and a reported $26 million at, Jennings suggested the billionaire is being unfairly maligned.

After stating that he thought every on the panel was "dramatically over-reading the results" in Wisconsin," he added, "He's a great entrepreneur. I think his companies and he personally are getting all sorts of negative attention and even vandalism and all these violent attacks, and it's terrible. I know personally that he's been getting death threats, all for the sin, all for the sin, of having been a liberal who decided to support Donald Trump and then go serve in his government for a short period of time."

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"It's outrageous," he emphasized.

That led podcaster, Van Lathan, host of "Higher Learning," to push back.

"It's actually not true," he began. "I just want to say something real quick. I understand it, a lot of people want to frame this as people started to hate Elon Musk or not like Elon Musk once Elon Musk decided to support Donald Trump –– it's just not true."

"I definitely think it's true," Jennings protested.

"It's definitely not true.," Lathan shot back. "It started long before then when Elon Musk bought Twitter. Hate speech just erupted on Twitter. Elon Musk's flirting with Naziism and far-right type of stuff for a couple of years before this, has made –– has gotten people off the Elon Musk bandwagon way before he decided to ––."

"I think chronologically that is accurate," CNN host Abby Phillip interjected.

After some overtalk, Phillip continued, "I don't think it's solely about Donald Trump. I think it is, to Van's point that he has been, even before he owned Twitter, actually before he bought it, before he wanted to buy it, he was turning his personal platform into a place where conspiracy theories, harassment. He accused a random person of pedophilia and was sued for it. I mean, like, this was happening years ago before all of this."

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Donald Trump's Senior Counselor for Trade, Peter Navarro, faced a blizzard of questions on CNN on Saturday morning as he attempted to put a happy face on the president's trade war with the rest of the world.

Speaking with host Michael Smerconish, the Trump insider was put on the spot over the wreckage on Wall Street as the Dow Jones slid downward over 4,000 points since Navarro's boss announced his sweeping tariff plan.

During the animated back and forth, the CNN host held up the front page of the New York Times which proclaimed that Trump's tariffs "send markets reeling," which seemed to exasperate Navarro.

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"I'm holding up the front page of the New York Times today with all the downward trajectory," the CNN host prompted his guest. "And I simply want to know, did you anticipate this? If I had been with you 2 or 3 days ago at the announcement in the Rose Garden, would you have expected that on Saturday morning, it would all, as I said, have hit the fan to this extent?"

"It hasn't hit the fan!" Navarro insisted. "Look, sure, what we're having is going to be a restructuring and a repricing of companies, that's a given. I mean, it's a given. But what's also a given ––."

"So you knew this would happen?" Smerconish interrupted.

"What's 'this' you're referring to?" the Trump adviser argued. "We knew that markets were going to adjust to the bond market ––."

"I'm referring to the S&P 500 bottom falling out in one week," Smerconish shot back.

"Okay, so let's let's level set here for the American people," the clearly exasperated Trump advisor replied. "And this would be a great poll question: do you think the world is treating the United States and its manufacturing base fairly? The problem we're trying to deal here with, and I would love to see the New York Times put up a front page on this is a national emergency associated with a $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit. that is the result of systematically higher tariffs and non-tariff barriers, which are institutionalized by the World Trade Organization."

"That's what we're up against, Michael," he exclaimed. "We've transferred. $18 trillion of wealth into foreign hands since China joined the WTO in 2001. $18 trillion –– that's two thirds of our annual GDP in 2024."

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