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A Border Patrol agent who allegedly threatened to shoot a bystander during an arrest in Chicago has been exposed for a history of extreme, racist and hate-filled online posts, reported The Daily Beast on Friday.

"Timothy Donohue, 38, was a member of lead commander Gregory Bovino’s maurauding so-called 'Green Army' during 'Operation Midway Blitz' in Illinois, part of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown," reported Tom Latchem. "Donahue was cited — though not by name — in a blistering opinion by U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis after he was filmed threatening someone watching an arrest in Evanston." Footage apparently of Donohue appeared to show him saying, “Step back or I’m going to shoot you,” to a bystander.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth proclaimed President Donald Trump to be the true heir of former President Ronald Reagan while speaking at the Reagan Library this week — but the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board begged to differ.

“Most who invoke Ronald Reagan’s name today, especially self-styled Republican hawks, are not much like Ronald Reagan,” said Hegseth, who is at the center of a firestorm of controversy for seemingly illegal "double-tap" strikes on shipwreck survivors. “Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan.”

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun drew the ire of the Wall Street Journal on Friday after threatening political payback against Republicans who torpedoed a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional maps mid-decade.

“Political principle has been out of fashion, but it had a good day in Indiana on Thursday,” the Journal wrote in an editorial that praised Hoosier Republicans who rejected the proposal before criticizing Braun.

President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security is issuing a new directive that will prohibit foreign nationals from self-submitting photographs for their legal paperwork, creating a new bureaucratic hurdle in an already difficult process.

The announcement came on Friday from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office.

A Bulwark reporter is publicly sparring with the Republican National Committee – and he’s taken the fight online after his story on RNC Chair Joe Gruters’ dire midterm enraged GOP operatives.

Journalist Andrew Egger reported that Gruters privately predicted a “pending, looming disaster” for Republicans next year, adding that the party faces “almost certain defeat.”

Disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's longtime accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell has gotten a sweetheart upgrade in prison in return for an interview with the Justice Department in which she distanced President Donald Trump from Epstein's crimes. But living it up in a luxury Texas prison camp likely isn't enough for her, Miami Herald reporter Julie Brown told MS NOW's Ali Velshi on Friday — she wants an outright pardon.

And she may have a strategy in the works to try to force Trump's hand on the issue, she continued.

Newly leaked emails show Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign repeatedly sent messages to Jeffrey Epstein’s account — which, after Epstein’s death, was addressed using the shocking nickname “Pedophiles.” The emails add to mounting evidence of Epstein’s long-running fixation on Trump, including buying exposés, coordinating travel around him, and maintaining ties that stretched back decades.

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President Donald Trump has reshuffled the pack of contenders for the next Federal Reserve chair, elevating two candidates he says are now at the top of his list – and they’re both named Kevin.

According to a new Wall Street Journal report, Trump is giving a fresh look at former Fed governor Kevin Warsh while continuing to hint that National Economic Council director Kevin Hassett could take the top job.

The GOP has struggled to unite around an alternative to the Democrats' health care bill to fix the expiration of Affordable Care Act subsidies, which they shot down in the Senate this week, as the deadline to prevent a spike in premiums rapidly approaches. But many Republican plans involve some variant of replacing the subsidies with direct cash to people through health savings accounts they can use to pay cash for certain medical procedures, or else to meet their deductibles under "catastrophic" health care plans.

This idea is a nonstarter, Ellen Allen of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care told MS NOW's Katy Tur on Friday afternoon.