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Fox News reported that a swastika found in the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) may have been an "optical illusion."

Despite being clearly visible in images obtained by Politico, staffers claimed to Fox News that the symbol may not have been visible to the naked eye. The emblem was found embedded in an American flag that was pinned to a cubicle on Wednesday.

"One source described this as an 'optical illusion.' Another said the swastika was 'easy to miss,'" Fox News correspondent Chad Pergram reported on X.

According to Pergram, "dozens" of congressional offices received the flags. However, at least one office said it threw out the flag because the swastika embedded in it was unmistakable, he reported.

The reporter suggested that there could have been "an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn't obvious to the naked eye."

Conservative strategist Tim Miller called out Fox News on Saturday for purportedly ignoring "a story about a US military veteran getting imprisoned for 3 days by the government."

Miller on Friday published a video conversation with the individual, writing on X, "I interviewed George Retes, the US citizen who ICE detained for 3 days - and threw in solitary for 2 - and his story absolutely shook me."

"It felt more like an episode of homeland than real life," Miller then added. "Truly sick treatment by DHS thugs."

The following day, Miller put Fox News on blast for a lack of coverage of Retes' story.

"Would think Fox News would be interested in a story about a US military veteran getting imprisoned for 3 days by the government but doesn’t seem like it," Miller wrote.

Another X user, Rhys Riddell, raised a similar concern.

"Every major news outlet has stories about Americans detained. Except Fox. If you’re in a right wing echo chamber, do what you can to improve the quality of information coming your way," the user wrote on Saturday.

Fox News host Maria Bartiromo insisted that God urged her to get closer to Charlie Kirk in the days before he died.

In a Sunday interview with Bartiromo, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that "the Gospel of Jesus Christ will be spread today to a bigger audience than just about any event in our lifetime" because of Kirk's memorial in Arizona.

"You know, I really do think — I said this last weekend — God wanted me to know Charlie better in the last few months," Bartiromo remarked. "I've been speaking to Charlie more. I went on his show. He came on my show."

"I think his way of communicating and just ensuring that it doesn't get hostile, and you just having a talk and a conversation about the issues and a debate, God wanted me to know more about how Charlie did it," she asserted.

For his part, Cruz claimed that Democrats were full of "anger and hate."

"Today's Democrat Party defines itself by anger and hatred of Donald Trump," he told the Fox News host. "After Charlie was murdered, the number of leftists, whether Democrat politicians or left-wing activists or teachers or professors who celebrated It was grotesque, the celebrations and the glorifications. And I will tell you, this is a problem that is overwhelmingly on the left."

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade expressed regret for calling to kill homeless and mentally ill people.

In a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Kilmeade addressed the remarks he made last week.

"In the morning, we were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska and Charlotte, North Carolina. How to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again," he said.

"Now, during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections," he continued. "I apologize for that extremely callous remark."

"I'm obviously aware that not all mentally ill homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."

During his remarks last week, Kilmeade said that homeless and mentally ill people should be given a choice.

"Either you take the resources that we're going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That's the way it has to be now," he remarked. "Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something."

An offhand comment made by Fox News personality Brian Kilmeade about using “involuntary lethal injection” on mentally ill homeless people set off a wave of outrage on Saturday morning, and led to calls for him to be fired later that same day.

Conservative attorney and anti-Trump activist George Conway responded to Kilmeade's Fox segment, during which Kilmeade suggested that we "just kill them," saying, "I have no words for this."

But former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega wasn't at a loss for words. Responding to Conway, she said, "I have a few. Just fire him, @FoxNews. Now. Today."

In a separate post, the analyst wrote, "Let's not even hold back here. Brian Kilmeade should be fired. NOW."

Former presidential speechwriter Jon Lovett said, "I know we’re not easily shocked but I am surprised to see Kilmeade spitball about euthanizing homeless people."

"Other two on the couch don’t even seem fazed," he added. "Any other undesirables you’d add to the list, as long as we’re brainstorming?"

"This is a new low" for Fox News, declared ex-GOP lawmaker Adam Kinzinger in a Saturday video. "What has happened in this country?"

Kinzinger says if Fox News doesn't fire Kilmeade, the news outlet has no right to complain about anything anybody says.

Lauren Windsor wrote, "Fire Brian Kilmeade, @FoxNews!"

On Sunday, Kilmeade apologized for his remarks.

"In the morning, we were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina and how to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again. Now during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections. I apologize for that extremely callous remark," he said. "I am obviously aware that not all mentally ill, homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion.”

The grand jury system is so tilted in favor of prosecutors that they could, as the saying goes, indict a ham sandwich, but U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro's office was unable to secure felony charges against a man who tossed a submarine sandwich at a federal agent.

The New York Times reported that Pirro's office was unable to persuade a federal grand jury to indict Sean Dunn on felony assault charges for throwing a submarine sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection officer in an incident caught on a viral video, and social media users reacted to the failure.

"The Trump admin has appointed as US Attorney a Fox News host quite literally struggling to prosecute a ham sandwich," posted Gillian Branstetter, communications strategist for the ACLU.

"The prosecutor who failed to get a grand jury to indict the sandwich guy has to be experiencing rock bottom right now," said writer Ian Boudreau.

"Judge Sol Wachtler said that a good prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich," piled on Bluesky user Nancy Dreyer. "I guess not, Judge Box of Wine."

"The ham sandwich/indictment joke really having a moment rn," added law professor Lee Kovarsky.

"Working on a Hollywood reboot, working title 'Hoagie’s Heroes,'" joked journalist Matt Pearce.

"Sandwich guy for the win," said music journalist Jennifer Kelly.

"Do we have to take a shot every time Jeanine Pirro fails to get an indictment?" suggested Bluesky user Partially Convinced. "You know, like a drinking game. My liver is not prepared for this."

"GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION!" posted law professor Anthony Michael Kreis.

"This is one time I'm glad the entire #Trump Administration is loaded with incompetents," added marketing executive Tim Massie. "What did Pirro want him charged with? Assault with a deli weapon? For once, the power of regular folks is pushing back against the Trump onslaught of authoritarianism."

The president's most ardent supporters seem to be having trouble coherently defending his latest moves, according to one analyst.

Before entering office, President Donald Trump was known as someone who used a madman negotiation style in his business deals. He has seemingly taken a similar approach to conducting foreign policy during both of his administrations, which became even more evident during his recent summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Emma Vigeland, co-host of the progressive podcast "The Majority Report."

Vigeland noted in a clip posted on Sunday that Trump's favorite news network, Fox News, has struggled to defend Trump's behavior during the summit, which some experts have described as capitulation.

"They spin it as how he's the ultimate dealmaker...It's just like these pop negotiation business tactics that you learn on TikTok or something like that," Vigeland said about Trump's negotiations with Putin over the Ukraine war. "I mean, it's just so childish and insane that he thinks he's going to achieve anything this way."

Vigeland added that Trump's negotiation style may have a different impact if he were educated about the issues he's negotiating.

"This is the problem: there is something to his madman theory to a degree," Vigeland said. "You never know what he's going to say next, and perhaps that could create some change. But it's insane because he doesn't know what he's even talking about, and he's so deteriorated."

Watch the clip below or by clicking here.

Conservative radio host Clay Travis told Fox News that slavery was like plane crashes and shouldn't be remembered by museums in the U.S.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, host Howard Kurtz noted that President Donald Trump had recently complained that the Smithsonian highlighted "how bad slavery was."

"Clay, Donald Trump is very media savvy, and he had to know that using that phrase about slavery would spark an enormous backlash," Kurtz explained to Travis.

"I think he's right," Travis replied. "Look, the Democrat Party is at historic lows in support because they focus almost exclusively on the things that America has done wrong. They focus on the floor, if you want to use a metaphor of the country as opposed to the ceiling."

"What are our soaring aspirations and goals?" he continued. "Look, I took my son to the Smithsonian, I think the Air and Space Museum. They do a fabulous job of putting on the history of air and space. I didn't see a single report inside the air and space museum about plane crashes and the thousands of people who have died in them."

"That doesn't mean that they don't exist. That doesn't mean that they aren't a substantial part of history of space and exploration and plane travel."

Travis suggested other museums should focus on "an aspirational story" instead of the history of enslaved people in the United States.

"And you leave, as I left with my sons, incredibly excited about the future," he remarked. "I think that's what President Trump wants the story of other Smithsonian [museums] to be like."

Watch the video below from Fox News or click the link.