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Conservative trolls J6ers after Trump crushes their dreams by killing slush fund

Supporters of Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6, and then saw their lives fall apart in criminal charges, lost jobs and shattered families, had a brief glimmer of hope after the president’s Justice Department agreed to a $1.8 billion “slush fund” that would compensate them for their troubles.

But late Monday, the president snatched it away, and longtime GOP campaign consultant Rick Wilson was ready and willing to taunt them for getting “played” by the president.

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Trump's legal nemesis goes back to court to put final nail in coffin of $1.6B slush fund

Norman Eisen, the former White House ethics czar who has become one of the most aggressive legal thorns in Donald Trump's side, filed a new lawsuit Monday on behalf of former January 6 prosecutors, refusing to accept media reports suggesting the administration's $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund has been quietly shelved.

"We are NOT accepting media reports as proof that the $1.8B slush fund and 'settlements' associated with it are dead," Eisen wrote on X, announcing the filing. "That's why we have just filed a new lawsuit to make sure this ENDS."

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Trump ‘suddenly taking losses’ from ‘own friends’ as key leverage crumbles: report

President Donald Trump has increasingly faced pushback from his “own friends and allies” in recent weeks leading to a series of “losses,” Punchbowl News reported on Tuesday, a dynamic that the outlet attributed to the president’s most powerful point of leverage crumbling in real time.

“President Donald Trump is suddenly taking losses from his own friends and allies, especially on Capitol Hill,” Punchbowl News’ report reads.

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Trump vendetta has left GOP ripe for 'scary' extremist coup: expert

The conventional wisdom on Rep. Thomas Massie’s primary loss in Kentucky last month is that the election was a referendum that settled the question of who controls the Republican Party: It’s Donald Trump.

But for the anti-Israel and anti-interventionist flank of the MAGA movement that calls itself “America First,” Massie’s loss marks the emergence of a splinter group aiming to take over the GOP from within, and then outflank Trump or his chosen successor in 2028.

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GOP candidate for pivotal Senate seat blurts admission about Trump's war

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), the presumptive Republican nominee for Iowa's critical US Senate race, has acknowledged that Donald Trump's unpopular Iran war threatens her electoral prospects — a candid admission captured on audio and reported by Politico.

During a one-on-one conversation with voters at a public meet-and-greet in Webster County last Thursday, Hinson expressed hope that the conflict would end quickly, warning that prolonged fighting could damage her campaign.

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'Worst-kept secret at the White House' revealed by senior official: 'Mutual destruction'

A senior Trump administration official revealed Tuesday what they called “one of the worst-kept secrets at the White House,” one that has left President Donald Trump “livid and paranoid” but persists due to an assurance of “mutual destruction,” Zeteo reported Tuesday.

Back in April, Trump “loudly demanded” to know who in his administration had leaked information to two New York Times reporters, a leak hunt that went on to become a “big deal” and a top priority for the president, one Trump administration official previously told Zeteo, speaking on the condition of anonymity. In May, it was reported that a “paranoid” Trump pushed his Justice Department to raid the Times reporters’ homes to identify the leakers.

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Senate GOP leader 'practically begging' Trump to dump his 'toxic fixation': report

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) is “practically begging” the White House to abandon President Donald Trump’s “fixation on personal projects,” with one in particular “growing more toxic” and potentially jeopardizing a key priority for Republicans as the midterm elections draw near, Punchbowl News reported Tuesday.

Republican lawmakers are hoping to pass a reconciliation bill this week to fully fund federal immigration enforcement agencies, but Trump’s continued support for his $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund” – established to award payouts to his supporters who claim to have been unfairly targeted by the Biden administration’s Justice Department, including violent Jan. 6 Capitol rioters – risks sinking the legislation entirely.

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Trump endorses mysteriously absent ‘ghost’ congressman: ‘Never seen anything like this’

Republican House Rep. Tom Kean of New Jersey thanked President Donald Trump on Monday for his endorsement ahead of the GOP primary election on Tuesday, but critics – including his Democratic opponent – were quick to remind the lawmaker that he’s not been seen on the House floor for nearly 90 days.

“Kean hasn’t voted in the House or appeared in public in months, yet he’s being endorsed for re-election by Trump,” wrote John Bresnahan, co-founder of Punchbowl News, in a social media post on X Monday night.

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Trump begs for his criminal case to be thrown out in 1am tantrum: 'I am an innocent man'

Just after 1 a.m. EST, Donald Trump took to his Truth Social account to demand that his civil and criminal case court losses in New York be tossed based on comments made by his former lawyer during a Monday podcast.

During an appearance on Michael Smerconish’s podcast, so-called Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen, who was the middleman in paying off adult film star Stormy Daniels and subsequently served time in jail, complained about being “cancelled by both the far-right and the far-left."

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Gregory Bovino lashes out after stinging rebuke from MAGA official: 'I'm guilty'

Gregory Bovino, the former leader of President Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection force, lashed out at a MAGA Trump official on Monday after he received a stinging rebuke.

Earlier in the day, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin was asked about Bovino's recent criticisms of how he's managing the department, amid protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in New Jersey. Mullin claimed he didn't know who Bovino was and, even if he did, his comments were "irrelevant."

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Trump attacks 'corrupt and irrelevant' foes in raving late-night posting spree

President Donald Trump attacked several of his political foes, whom he called "corrupt and irrelevant," in a raving late-night posting spree on Truth Social.

Trump is routinely up late at night posting images of himself or firing off long-winded attacks against his political enemies. In the past, he's posted an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed, threatened to wipe out the Iranian civilization, and reposted multiple conspiracy theories about how the 2020 general election was allegedly stolen from him, even though his lawyers couldn't prove that point in more than 60 cases.

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Trump's Dan Quayle-potato moment on Fox News is proof 'he's slipping': ex-GOP operative

President Donald Trump's recent Fox News tangent on the spelling of the word "dumb" is being called his Dan Quayle potato moment by former GOP strategist Steve Schmidt, who said it's a sign the president's "slipping" before the country's eyes.

Speaking on his YouTube channel Monday, Schmidt drew the comparison to former Vice President Dan Quayle's infamous 1992 spelling fumble, when Quayle told a student there was an "E" on the end of "potato."

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Keyllanne Conway invokes David Duke on Fox News in stunning demand of Democrats

Kellyanne Conway, a former advisor to President Donald Trump, made a bizarre remark on Monday during a new interview on Fox News.

Conway joined Fox News's Sean Hannity on his eponymous show, where they discussed the contentious Senate race in Maine, where Democratic candidate Graham Platner is seeking to unseat incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). During the interview, Conway demanded that Democrats disown Platner because of his extreme views, something she said they once used to cause a divide between Republicans and a high-profile extremist.

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