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President Donald Trump once again dove into familiar grievances during a rally-style speech on Friday in which he relitigated the 2020 election – and complained at length about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, including what he said happened to First Lady Melania Trump’s underwear drawer.

As he has repeatedly done, Trump returned to his false, five-year-old claims that the 2020 election was “rigged,” telling the crowd that Americans went to bed believing he had won, only to wake up to a different result. He again suggested the outcome was fraudulent, adding: “By the way, you have not heard the last of that.”

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon ignited fresh infighting inside MAGA world on Friday after unloading on fellow right-wing influencer Ben Shapiro during remarks at AmericaFest 2025, Turning Point USA’s annual conference.

Speaking from the main stage in Phoenix, Bannon mocked Shapiro’s speech from the night before and accused him of being fundamentally opposed to President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is leaving Congress at the end of her term, after a shock decision to end her campaign for governor while acknowledging she had no path to win next year — and longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon is beside himself over it, The New York Times reported on Friday evening.

“Elise needs to keep her seat and challenge Mike Johnson immediately,” Bannon said, per The Times, adding that Stefanik was “one of our real warriors.”

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board took aim at President Donald Trump on Friday, accusing him of pandering to young male voters by easing federal restrictions on marijuana – a move the publication says sends the wrong message to “vulnerable young brains.”

In an editorial titled, “Trump Goes for the Stoner Vote,” the board argued that Trump’s decision to reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act mirrors past political attempts to sway young voters through policy giveaways – even comparing him to his predecessor.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board was enraged Friday that the Utah Republican Party backed down from its war on public sector unions, and on Friday, the editors made their thoughts clear.

This comes after the Utah GOP, having passed a law to outlaw public sector bargaining earlier this year, capitulated as unions gathered enough signatures to place the policy up for a vote next November.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lashed out Friday after a viral video showed him leaving a Washington, D.C. restaurant following a public heckling, insisting in a Fox News interview that the confrontation was set up and blaming not only the “deranged” activist, but also the restaurant itself.

And he had a few choice words for both.

When President Donald Trump's Justice Department released a large dump of files from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case on Friday afternoon, people immediately noticed the huge presence of redactions throughout the release, with hundreds of pages completely blacked out.

The law passed by Congress compelling the release of the Epstein files allowed for certain redactions to protect innocent identities, like the information of some of Epstein's victims — but the redactions appeared to go well beyond that, apparently trying to hide the identities of almost every powerful figure known to be tied to Epstein except for former President Bill Clinton.

A top Democratic lawmaker accused the Trump Justice Department of openly defying the law Friday after the long-awaited release of records related to Jeffrey Epstein turned out to be only a fraction of what Congress ordered.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), the ranking Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the Department of Justice is "absolutely breaking the law" by what was not made public Friday, emphasizing that the release falls short of what federal law requires.

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk’s highly anticipated address at AmericaFest took an unexpected turn Thursday when she revealed her prepared remarks had vanished due to a technical failure. Taking the stage after a tribute video to her late husband and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk, she told the crowd her iPad wouldn’t even turn on and she would have to improvise. The moment came amid internal MAGA infighting, as Kirk has publicly clashed with right-wing figures over conspiracy theories surrounding her husband’s assassination, adding another layer of drama to the organization’s marquee event.

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Far-right InfoWars webcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones had a dire warning for MAGA on Friday: President Donald Trump is blowing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files, and falling into a trap set by his Democratic opponents.

"This is a disaster for Trump," said Jones. "And I predicted it and everybody predicted it, that if he obliquely joined the cover-up, the Democrats would selectively hang it around his neck. Evidence last week, they give the estate a few months ago of Epstein over to them, 90-plus thousand files. They picked 19 files, and it's Trump at public events with beauty queens and stuff and they black their faces out. MSNBC says, 'Is that the girls? Do they black them out because they're victims?' And we debunk it quickly, but the point is, it doesn't matter. Because Trump joined in it."

President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to issue a direct warning to terrorists “evil enough to attack Americans,” as U.S. forces launched what is being described as a "massive" retaliatory campaign against Islamic State targets in Syria.

The escalation came as the United States carried out extensive air and artillery strikes against ISIS, The New York Times reported. The show of force fulfilled Trump’s vow to avenge the deaths of two U.S. Army soldiers killed in a terrorist attack in central Syria last weekend, the Times added.

President Donald Trump weighed in Friday after Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) announced she was exiting the race for governor of New York and retiring from the House, offering public praise as she became the latest GOP lawmaker to exit elected office.

In a post to his Truth Social platform, Trump called Stefanik “a fantastic person.”