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The White House’s rapid response account rejected the idea that it’s normal for midterm results to take time, or for a trailing candidate to pull ahead overnight. Critics warned that the administration is already laying the groundwork to contest Tuesday’s results.

PBS News had shared a PolitiFact explainer: “If you go to bed on election night and don’t know who won a midterm congressional race, that’s normal. And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that’s normal, too.”

“No, it isn’t,” the official White House Rapid Response 47 account replied Saturday. The post drew more than 2.5 million views....

The White House is reportedly souring on a former Trump lawyer over a key piece of evidence in her explosive MAGA feud.

Officials are now questioning whether a text message at the center of Alina Habba's accusations against former Kennedy Center chief Ric Grenell is authentic, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Habba, Trump's former personal lawyer, has accused Grenell of failing to pass along $5.6 million that her billionaire husband, Turhan Mildon, says he donated to the arts center. Grenell denies it....

A legal expert argued a newly surfaced court document points to an unexpected player in President Donald Trump's push to shutter the Kennedy Center.

Legal AF's Michael Popok said on Tuesday's episode of "The Intersection" that presidential aide Natalie Harp has been trading messages with Kennedy Center management about the institution's fate, according to a privilege log the Trump administration is using to keep those exchanges hidden.

"Does Natalie Harp have a bigger role in the White House than we first suspected?" Popok asked. "It appears from a new filing in the Kennedy Center litigation that Natalie Harp is communicating with people at the Kennedy Center about the destruction of the Kennedy Center. And of course, Trump doesn't like that, so he's hiding it from public view."...

Former President Barack Obama took a brutal swipe at President Donald Trump's taste in decor, and critics of the president couldn't get enough.

Obama appeared in Cleveland on Saturday to support Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and Senate candidate Sherrod Brown. During his speech to a packed crowd, Obama mocked the gold trim and accents Trump has added to the White House since returning to office. "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory," Obama said. "It's gold everywhere."

The video clips of the jab quickly spread across social media, where Trump critics cheered the former president's delivery....

An economist checked President Donald Trump's favorite economic brag against a source the White House can't easily wave away, and the math collapsed.

On Saturday's episode of "Platypus Economics," economist Justin Wolfers took on Trump's claim that he has brought $21 trillion in new investment into the country since returning to office in 2025, a figure the president sometimes rounds to $18 trillion or $22 trillion. Wolfers added up every item on the White House's own list of investments and came up with $11.3 trillion, roughly half of what Trump boasts about in speeches.

"When you try, you realize they're just nonsense resting on absurdity supported by lies," Wolfers said. "They're not just contradicted by fact-checkers and wonky economists. They're contradicted by numbers on the White House's own website."...

A watchdog coalition accused the Trump White House of finding a sneaky workaround to keep its promotional blitz going after a judge intervened.

In a filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, a coalition led by Common Cause asked U.S. District Judge Jennifer Rochon to expand her order halting the administration's taxpayer-funded TV ads so it also covers White House websites, YouTube and social media. The plaintiffs are represented by the legal group Democracy Forward, and journalist Scott MacFarlane flagged the filing in a Saturday post on X.

Rochon first blocked the ads on Oct. 11, ordering the Trump administration to cancel remaining airtime bought with $20 million that the White House budget office steered to Customs and Border Protection. She later extended the freeze after the spots aired hundreds of times past her deadline and new ones surfaced on the White House YouTube channel....