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Chaos as more cancellations befall Trump's MAGA-fied Kennedy Center

President Donald Trump's new monument to himself is having a hard time scheduling entertainment acts after a major dance company and a jazz ensemble cancelled their dates, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Monday that the New York dance company Doug Varone and Dancers cancelled its two-night stint scheduled for April. The move cost the company $40,000 and followed the departure of two of the company's top dance administrators, Jane Raleigh and Alicia Adams, who left the Kennedy Center's board in protest of Trump's takeover attempt.

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'My friends will get hurt': Trump blew up over threats to expose Epstein accomplices

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) revealed new details about her split with President Donald Trump over the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The retiring Republican congresswoman spoke to the New York Times for a nearly 7,600-word profile covering her decision to leave Congress after two terms, and she told the newspaper that she overlooked some glaring clues about Trump's longtime friendship with the late sex offender, who died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

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'What did the FBI have on Trump?' Watergate prosecutor makes bombshell claim about Epstein

Donald Trump has been trying to stall the release of the Epstein files because of the bombshell revelation the documents are hiding, according to Watergate lawyer Nick Ackerman.

Ackerman, who has often commented on Trump's legal matters, on Sunday flagged "a key email from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate," in addition to "statements by Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson," which together purportedly show "it is highly likely that Trump was a confidential FBI informant in the first sex trafficking investigation into Epstein and his partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell."

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'Talk is cheap!' JD Vance hit with rare MAGA rebellion as his new comments raise questions

U.S. Vice President JD Vance over the weekend was hit with a rare MAGA rebellion over a statement he made.

It all started with a social media post by right-wing columnist Dustin Grage, who said, "Listen, the Somali Medicaid fraud is bad, but people also need to understand that voter fraud is happening in Minnesota too. Last week we uncovered a Somali voter-fraud operation. And sadly, it probably will not be the last. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Fraud thrives when accountability disappears. We are going to keep digging until every rock is turned over."

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'Put them in the witness chair!' Dem lawmaker reveals plan to force Epstein files' release

As the Justice Department continues its phased rollout of releasing Jeffrey Epstein files – a rollout critics say is in blatant violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) – Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Sunday he’s ready to mount an all-out war against the Trump administration to force its hand.

“Every member of the [House] Judiciary Committee – every Republican, every Democrat – voted to release these documents and to have them in our hands yesterday,” Swalwell said during an appearance Sunday on MS NOW. “Not today, not tomorrow, yesterday. They have not done that yet.”

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'Sheer idiocy': Experts pounce on Stephen Miller's comments about history's 'brown people'

White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller came under fire over the weekend for purported racism hidden in comments he made about inventions in history.

Stephen Miller said, "Someone should write an alternate historical novel where Americans are the first to master the automobile, the first in flight, the first to harness the atom, the first to land on the moon — but just keep going and never open our borders to the entire third world for sixty years."

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Backfire: Republican 'thorn in Trump's side' raises money using president's insult

A Republican lawmaker who serves as a "thorn in Trump's side" raised thousands of dollars using the president's Christmas insult against him, according to a new report.

Republican congressman Thomas Massie bucked the president with this co-authorship of the Epstein files act, which required the Department of Justice to release all of its files related to the deceased child sex abuser's case. Since that time, Trump has backed a primary challenger to Massie in Kentucky.

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'They started yelling': Insider says aides 'had to stop Trump' from leaking secret order

There was a highly charged confrontation at the White House that resulted in Donald Trump overriding Mike Johnson and others on the religious right, and after that the president had to be stopped by aides from leaking the details to the public, according to a new WSJ report.

Josh Dawsey of the Wall Street Journal over the weekend dropped a report on how exactly it came to be that Trump made the decision to reschedule marijuana, an idea that has chilly support among many Republicans.

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'GOP is a mess': Trump ally drops panicked prediction about Dems winning next two cycles

An influential ally of President Donald Trump sounded the alarm on Saturday, lamenting that Dems will win not only the midterms in 2026, but the presidential election itself in 2028, as well.

A top MAGA influencer who has the ear of the president is worried in part about Nazi beliefs creeping into the so-called America First movement. Laura Loomer, who has been responsible for numerous firings from the White House based on her independent reports on government officials, took to social media over the weekend to put the GOP on notice.

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FBI should 'have a chat with Trump' after new post admits Epstein knowledge: ex-prosecutor

A former federal prosecutor said Saturday that, if she were still in her old role, she would "send out two FBI agents to have a chat with" Donald Trump after the president signaled he knows more than he previously suggested about Jeffrey Epstein's activities.

Ex-prosecutor Joyce Vance, who recently tied a New York Times report about Trump being Epstein's "wingman" to the botched rollout of DOJ's Epstein files, over the weekend wrote a piece on Substack called "He Looks Like A Witness To Me." In the essay, the legal expert noted that Trump had revealed himself to be a witness, and said she would want the FBI to interview the president.

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Dem star Jasmine Crockett sounds alarm on Trump move: 'Something seriously wrong with him'

A popular rising star in the Democratic party on Saturday sounded the alarm about Donald Trump, saying "something is seriously wrong with him" after a recent move.

Rising Dem star Jasmine Crockett, a candidate for senate in Texas, issued a panicked plea after the president ordered foreign military strikes. The New York Times reports, "The United States launched a number of strikes against the Islamic State in northwestern Nigeria, President Trump announced on Thursday, the latest American military campaign against a nonstate adversary."

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'Call coming from inside the house': Trump Jr. quote leads to 'nepo-baby-in-chief' mockery

A new comment from the president's son led to extensive mockery over the weekend.

Donald Trump Jr., who has reportedly been privately fuming over a college friend who has "destructive information" about him, took to social media over the weekend to make a comment that was widely ridiculed.

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‘Inmates are running the asylum!’ Ex-prosecutor charts path to force DOJ’s hand on Epstein

As the Trump administration faces growing scrutiny over its failure to release files on Jeffrey Epstein with limited redactions – as it's required to by law – former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg charted a path Saturday for Democratic lawmakers to force the administration’s hand.

Trump’s Justice Department was hammered last week after failing to comply with the newly enacted Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill that required the DOJ to release all of its files on Epstein by Dec. 19, and with redactions limited to protecting the identities of victims and minors.

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