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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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Trump admin scrambles to explain Kristi Noem’s ‘eyebrow-raising wardrobe choices’

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, despite her bureaucratic role leading the agency, is often seen sporting tactical gear – sometimes holding a firearm – and the Trump administration is doing its best to rationalize what Axios described as her “eyebrow-raising wardrobe choices.”

“[Noem] wears her agency's uniforms to honor the men and women she leads, who wear them daily in the line of duty,” a DHS spokesperson told Axios in its report Saturday.

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‘I will miss them’: Pro-Trump billionaire mocked after threatening to move to avoid taxes

A proposed ballot measure in California that would increase taxes on its wealthiest residents has Pro-Trump billionaire Peter Thiel considering cutting ties with the Golden State, and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) felt compelled to weigh in on the news with a sarcastic quip.

“Peter Thiel is leaving California if we pass a 1% tax on billionaires for 5 years to pay for healthcare for the working class facing steep Medicaid cuts,” Khanna said Friday night in a social media post on X. “I echo what [former President Franklin D. Roosevelt] said with sarcasm of economic royalists when they threatened to leave, ‘I will miss them very much.’”

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‘January’s going to be a big month’: GOP lawmakers look to reclaim power from Trump

A growing number of Republican lawmakers are growing dissatisfied with the ever-increasing power of the executive branch under President Donald Trump and are hoping to reclaim some of Congress’ authority starting next month, The Hill reported Saturday.

“I’ve been concerned for ten years about that,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on the growing power of the executive branch, and the corresponding relinquishing of power by the legislative branch, speaking with The Hill. “I don’t know that it’s getting any better. Seems to be getting worse.”

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DHS rages after being called out for arresting 'indisputable' U.S. citizen

A Homeland Security spokesperson erupted this week after attorney Victoria Slatton accused Immigration and Customs Enforcement of unlawfully arresting her client, who Slatton says is an American-born U.S. citizen.

Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morale, a 22-year-old woman whose lawyer says was born in Maryland, was arrested last Sunday by ICE officers and held at a detention facility in Baltimore, Maryland, CBS News reported this week.

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'Get some help': Stephen Miller faces new backlash as Xmas film sparks anti-immigrant rant

White House adviser Stephen Miller doesn't seem to be able to spend time with his family at Christmas without obsessing over deporting immigrants.

"Watched the Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Family Christmas with my kids," Miller wrote in a post on Friday, the day after Christmas. "Imagine watching that and thinking America needed infinity migrants from the third world."

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'He should have known': Watergate prosecutor flags 'glaring' flaw in DOJ official's story

United States Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's experience undercuts his excuse for not properly handling the release of the Epstein files, according to a former Watergate prosecutor Friday.

Nick Akerman, a former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, appeared on CNN the day after Christmas to discuss the release of Epstein files some have said was rushed and in violation of law.

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