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A Donald Trump ally said he told the President-elect to his face that he and other GOP lawmakers "do not want" an idea Trump has floated in several interviews.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) was floated by Trump as a potential vice presidential candidate before J.D. Vance was ultimately selected, and Donalds frequently defends the former and incoming president in interviews on TV.

Former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann called out Attorney General Merrick Garland on MSNBC on Saturday morning for stalling on releasing special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his Donald Trump investigations.

Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Weissmann stated that the attorney general is wrong to limit the release of the portion of Smith's report having to do with the stolen government documents the president-elect hoarded at his Mar-a-Lago report.

That led to the normally placid Weissmann to blurt out, "Come on!"

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"It is not so much Judge [Aileen] Cannon or the 11th Circuit that we have to worry about," he told the hosts. "It is that Merrick Garland has said that he, Merrick Garland, does not want to release that publicly. He only wants to give that to Congress and certain people in Congress. Why? Because he says that there's two co-defendants of Donald Trump, still may have a criminal case pending in Florida. I think he's wrong on that; technically, there is no case pending."

With MSNBC co-hosts Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend interrupting and excitedly asking, "Where's the case?" Weissmann stated, "I think he got something technically wrong when he said there is a pending case."

"Judge Cannon pointedly, when she dismissed the case before her, as to all three defendants not just Donald Trump, she ordered the case closed," he elaborated. "Now, it is true that the Department of Justice is appealing that decision as to the two co-defendants but come on! There's no pending case in the district court per Judge Cannon's own order and everybody knows that on January 20th that that case is never going to go forward."

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Politico has acquired an early list from Republican lawmakers that shows the programs they're considering slashing from the federal government.

It includes things like welfare, funds for climate programs, and the Affordable Care Act. It also states Republicans are looking at "changes" to Medicare — something Donald Trump and many Republicans promised they wouldn't touch.

The Financial Times on Friday published an editorial written by Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Peter Thiel that drew instant mockery on social media.

In his article, Thiel demanded that the president-elect use his authority to get to the bottom of the COVID-19 pandemic — and compared the opportunity to past governments' failures to reveal the truth behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the death of billionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

A Florida sheriff's deputy has resigned from his position after wrecking into a civilian's vehicle while viewing pornography on his cell phone.

Lake County deputy Tristan Macomber was driving his patrol vehicle southbound Nov. 6 on a road in Sorrento when he crashed into another vehicle that was stopped for a school bus, and an investigation found that he lied about the cause of the crash, reported WFLA-TV.

Donald Trump late Thursday night asked a simple question about his legal case: "What is going on here?"

The president-elect has his legal matters at top of mind, because the Supreme Court just ruled that he must face sentencing in the criminal matter in which he was convicted of dozens of felonies.

A divided Supreme Court has denied President-elect Donald Trump's request to block his looming sentencing hearing, scheduled for Friday in his New York hush-money case.

Four conservative justices on the court said they would have granted Trump's emergency request to block his sentencing, USA Today reported: Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh.

Two days before Christmas, the wife of a West Virginia lawmaker called 911 telling the operator she was concerned about him drunkenly handling assault rifles and screaming at people looking at Christmas lights in their neighborhood.

Del. Brandon Steele’s wife, Raleigh County Clerk Brianne Steele, told a 911 operator that she was worried that her “extremely agitated and very, very drunk” husband may start shooting and that her children were “terrified.”

On a solemn day in Washington, D.C., as the world mourned the loss of a humanitarian leader, President-elect Donald Trump couldn't escape criticism for his faux pas at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

Among the observations were those of former presidents lined up in the second row at Washington National Cathedral. It prompted some to wonder what Trump's funeral would be like.

Fires that have been described as "apocalyptic" by experts are raging across the Los Angeles area, forcing the shutdown of film and TV productions, including the post-apocalyptic series "Fallout."

The wildfires wreaked devastation across the neighborhoods of Pacific Palisades, Altadena and Sylmar this week, and the Los Angeles County fire department instructed that all filming permits for those communities and others nearby be withdrawn for safety reasons, reported Variety.

Security guards have made the list of fastest-growing jobs for the first time in the wake of the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The social media platform LinkedIn released its 2025 report on "Jobs on the Rise," which shows security guards climbing to the top 10, and experts say demand for private security may climb even higher as business leaders fear for their own safety following the CEO's killing in broad daylight, reported Fortune.

Before President-elect Donald Trump has even been sworn into office, advisers in his orbit are already planning out a new strategy to crack down on leaks, reported NBC News on Wednesday.

"In an effort to tighten the lines of communication with Trump, the transition team is cutting back on the number of top White House staff members given the designation of 'assistant to the president,' which provides a staffer the privilege of walking into the Oval Office and bringing nonstaff guests in to meet with the president," reported Vaughn Hillyard, Jonathan Allen, Olympia Sonnier, and Jake Traylor.