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Onlookers mock Ken Paxton's 'weird flex' during Fox News interview: 'My God'

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was brutally mocked on Sunday after he made a strange claim during an interview on Fox News.

Paxton joined Fox News host Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures," where the two discussed Paxton's pending general election battle against Texas state Democratic lawmaker James Talarico to replace outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) in the Senate. During the interview, Paxton attempted to defend his scandal-ridden past, but onlookers heard a very different explanation from the one he thought he had offered the audience.

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Trump faces MAGA backlash over promotion of Epstein friend to key Mideast role

Donald Trump is facing pushback from within his own base after elevating Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump friend and fundraiser who was previously charged — and acquitted — of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates, to a key Middle East envoy role. Critics on the right are raising both his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and what some are calling an alarming record on Islamist extremism.

Barrack kept in regular contact with Epstein for years, according to files reviewed by Republicans Against Trump, a political action committee, which flagged the connection Sunday as Barrack's new role drew scrutiny.

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Trump pushed by longtime confidant to 'fire everyone at the Smithsonian'

Donald Trump is being pushed by a close ally to fire everyone who works at the Smithsonian.

Roger Stone, one of Donald Trump's longest-serving political allies and a self-described devoted admirer of Richard Nixon, is calling on the president to purge the Smithsonian Institution after the museum was accused of making a false claim about Nixon's impeachment history.

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Lindsey Graham pushes Trump toward ‘poison pill’ critics say will sink Iran deal

Following a recent conversation with President Donald Trump, Sen. Lindsey Graham pressed the president Sunday to ditch a key demand of Tehran amid the ongoing U.S.-Iran peace negotiations, a proposal that has been described as a "poison pill” and a non-starter for Iranian officials.

“In a recent conversation with President Trump, I affirmed my support for a deal with Iran that accepts President Trump’s demand to open up the Strait of Hormuz and start negotiations about forever ending their nuclear ambitions and support for terrorism,” Graham wrote in a social media post on X.

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Trump is trying to make sure investigators can never subpoena his White House records: NYT

Donald Trump's fight to claim personal ownership of his presidential records is about more than history — it is, legal experts warn, an effort to build a permanent legal shield against any future investigation that might seek access to documents from his time in office.

A Justice Department opinion quietly released in April declared the Presidential Records Act of 1978 unconstitutional, arguing that the law — enacted after Watergate specifically to prevent presidents from controlling or destroying evidence of their official conduct — limits the "constitutional independence and autonomy" of the executive branch. The opinion, written by a Trump loyalist in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, would give Trump sole control over which records survive and which are made public.

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Economist flags 'hard proof' of imminent economic collapse – one exacerbated by Trump

Chris Blattman, a renowned economist and political scientist, issued a dire warning Sunday over what he called “hard proof” of an impending economic disaster, the causes of which have only been exacerbated by the Trump administration.

The “hard proof” Blattman was referencing was “The AI Layoff Trap,” a study published earlier this year that warns with utmost certainty of an “automation arms race” in which businesses, seeking to save labor costs, replace human workers with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in a competitive fashion, and to such a degree as to “erode the very consumer demand firms depend on.”

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Trump fumbles easiest 'layup' is presidential history for one reason: analysis

As the multi-day festival organized in part by President Donald Trump designed to celebrate the United States’ 250th anniversary continues to fall apart, former presidential speechwriter David Frum flagged on Sunday what he believed was behind the event’s ever-increasing list of problems.

Dubbed the Great American State Fair, the event was organized by the Trump-linked organization Freedom 250, with Trump himself being "actively involved” in the process. A live music concert was initially planned for the event but may be cancelled after “nearly all” performers backed out after learning of the event’s connections to Trump.

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Ex-insider says Trump pick is using 'common core math' to deceive president

Donald Trump's Fed chair nominee is basically using "common core" math to deceive the president, according to an ex-insider.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the former Georgia congresswoman who lost her seat after breaking with the president, took aim Sunday at Donald Trump's own Federal Reserve chairman, accusing Kevin Warsh of manipulating inflation measurements to justify cutting interest rates and stay in the president's good graces.

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Trump threatens Bush-appointed judge by name over White House renovation project case

Donald Trump threatened a federal judge by name Sunday and attacked a female plaintiff as a "serial" litigant in a Truth Social post defending his plan to build a military drone port on top of the proposed White House ballroom, warning the judge that he "will be held responsible" if anything goes wrong.

"Judge Richard Leon should stop playing games with America's Security!" Trump wrote, posting side-by-side images of the proposed DronePort — one showing a festive aerial view of Washington and another depicting military aircraft and troops. "If anything happens, he will be held responsible for the Death and Destruction caused to our Country."

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Trump's ex-campaign adviser issues president brutal warning: 'Subpoenas and subpoenas'

GOP strategist David Urban, who in 2016 served as President Donald Trump’s senior campaign adviser, issued his former boss a harsh warning on Sunday, cautioning the president that he may soon face a wave of congressional subpoenas if he doesn’t dramatically shift course ahead of the midterm elections.

Appearing on CNN, Urban was responding to Trump’s remarks last week where he told reporters that he didn’t “care about the midterms” as it relates to his deeply unpopular war against Iran.

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Trump barreling toward disaster with just '30 days to turn this ship': GOP strategists

With President Donald Trump’s favorability at historically low levels as his policies continue to economically ravage Americans, GOP strategist Brad Todd issued the president a tight deadline to turn things around, or risk a devastating collapse of power.

Trump’s tariffs and his decision to launch a war against Iran have sent prices for a number of goods skyrocketing, leading to a considerable backlash from voters that has led analysts to predict a historically poor midterm election performance from the GOP.

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Doctor raises prospect of 'underlying condition' as Trump faces non-routine cognitive test

A physician who appeared on MS NOW Sunday morning pushed back on Donald Trump's early morning boast about acing a cognitive screening test, warning that the frequency with which Trump appears to be taking the exam raises questions rather than answering them — because the test is typically administered when doctors are already concerned about something.

Dr. Vin Gupta was responding to Trump's 12:35 a.m. Truth Social post in which the president claimed to have scored a perfect 30 out of 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, calling it an "approved high difficulty cognitive test" that no other president has taken and describing the result as evidence of "extreme intelligence."

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'This is so cringe': GOP lawmaker meets MAGA rage after 'thirsty' post about Trump

Republican Rep. Nancy Mace responded to being snubbed by President Donald Trump by posting a public declaration of loyalty on Saturday, touting a "100% lifetime voting record supporting Trump" — a move that drew immediate ridicule from critics on the left and the right, including some of Trump's most devoted online supporters.

Mace, who is running for governor of South Carolina and had been seeking Trump's endorsement, appeared to be auditioning for his support with the post despite Trump already formally endorsing her opponent. Even MAGA world wasn't buying it.

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