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President Donald Trump has singled out CNN's Kaitlan Collins for particular harassment — and it’s not just because she asks him tough questions.

To the president, his vehemence towards the star reporter is personal, according to a former Republican strategist with insider knowledge.

Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, told Raw Story in an exclusive interview that a source close to Trump told him that Trump resents Collins because he feels she owes him for her success....

Trump cut short an interview with NBC News as the sound of rain on a barn's metal roof kept interrupting, journalists shared.

Gabe Gutierrez, a senior White House correspondent for NBC News, revealed that the interview took place inside a Wisconsin barn "at the request of the White House," Gutierrez noted, but "rain repeatedly was hitting the metal roof of the barn."

Kristen Welker and others from the NBC News' Meet the Press team were conducting the interview with Trump, Gutierrez said....

President Donald Trump's national security advisor Mike Waltz was put on the defensive Sunday about a government agency he once supported.

Waltz appeared on "Meet The Press" where host Kristen Welker asked about the impact of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) slashing USAID's staff of 10,000 down to mere hundreds.

"It has become incredibly bloated, it has become incredibly top heavy, and it's essentially a series of contracts. If you think the big defense contractors have too much power and too much influence, wait until you dig into the USAID contractors and the subcontractors and the subcontractors and the local contractors," Waltz said. "The president wants action and that's what he's getting."...

Back in 2016, just 6 percent of Black voters backed Donald Trump as a presidential candidate, per data from the Pew Research Center. That number rose, albeit slightly, to 8 percent in 2020.

But a Gallup survey from earlier this month revealed that 19 percent of Black adults identify with or lean toward the Republican Party.

Trump, ever the opportunist, has sought to use that data to his advantage — in spite of his long-standing background of racist actions and comments. Might the Republican frontrunner, who once declared himself “the least racist person that you’ve ever encountered,” become convinced that a Black running mate will give him an electoral edge over President Joe Biden? ...

Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed spoke out Sunday while on Meet the Press about Georgia native Paula Deen’s revelations that she had frequently used racial slurs to describe African-Americans.