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A newly hired White House spokesperson for President Donald Trump is facing scrutiny after a provocative photo from her campaign days resurfaced online.

Beni Rae Harmony faced backlash on Saturday, the day after she posted about landing a job as an assistant press secretary and White House spokesperson, because an image surfaced of her gripping a rifle while wearing a shirt cursing Joe Biden, according to reporting by the Daily Beast.

The photo dates to 2021, when Jarome Bell, a former Republican congressional candidate in Virginia, shared it on Instagram. In the photo, she has a menacing expression and is wearing a shirt that reads "F— JOE BIDEN."...

A former Trump official said fractures in the president's coalition are fueling a wave of senior departures from the White House.

The official was among roughly six current and former administration aides who spoke with the Daily Mail for a report published Thursday about the steady stream of exits from Trump's second-term White House.

"The original coalition fell apart; there's cracks in the MAHA movement and the anti-war MAGA base," the former official told the Daily Mail. "A lot of people don't like the direction this administration is headed between the Iran war and increasing prices."...

President Donald Trump's aides are privately bracing for Republicans to lose both chambers of Congress and preparing to shield themselves from Democratic-led investigations.

Wired reported Wednesday that White House officials are now weighing, for the first time, the possibility that Republicans lose control of both the House and Senate in the midterms. Aides conceded in private that Trump's standing in national polls has cratered, even as the president has told them he thinks Republicans could still beat expectations in November.

One longtime Trump political operative who correctly predicted weeks before the 2024 election that Trump would sweep the battleground states offered a blunt assessment....

President Donald Trump's aides are quietly preparing untested legal tactics to blunt a wave of Democratic investigations they expect after the midterms.

According to an article by Politico, new preparations have started since Will Scharf took over as the White House counsel on Tuesday. An August 10 Justice Department memo has also laid the groundwork for a broader use of executive privilege.

The White House counsel's office began briefing political appointees privately as far back as this spring, according to Politico. The office urged appointees to keep financial disclosures and ethics filings airtight and to think twice before committing anything to writing. ...