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FBI Director Kash Patel has once again blurred the lines between personal and professional conduct, bringing his country singer girlfriend to a closed-door meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss combating fentanyl trafficking — raising eyebrows about his judgment and priorities.

According to the New York Times, in early April, Republican Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania invited Patel and other top law enforcement officials to Allentown for a confidential meeting on fentanyl trafficking strategies. The synthetic opioid has killed tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already “resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night.

“At times, the president has seemed resigned to losing, pointing out that the party in control almost always suffers in the midterms,” The Journal’s report reads. “Privately, Trump has occasionally told aides that he doesn’t care about the outcome, according to people familiar with the comments.”

A travel company declined to sponsor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's family road trip after determining that sponsoring the venture amounted to buying access to a sitting cabinet secretary — raising fresh ethical concerns about the "reality-TV-tinged" odyssey.

According to POLITICO, at least one would-be sponsor balked at the ethical implications of appearing to purchase access to President Trump's transportation secretary. The company declined after being approached by Great American Road Trip Inc., the Delaware-registered nonprofit that has funded the Duffy family's gas, car rentals, lodging, and activities during eight months of on-and-off filming.

President Donald Trump's revenge campaign against Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has hit a significant snag.

The 79-year-old president has backed Rep. Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy — one of only three Senate Republicans who voted to convict him over Jan. 6 — but state treasurer John Fleming's self-funded campaign is forcing a likely runoff and testing Trump's political dominance over the Republican base, reported CNN.

President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his claim that he doesn't pay attention to Americans' finances is an indication of how clueless and insulated he is from public opinion, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday's edition of "The Source" — and how unaware he is that he is handing Democrats powerful ammunition to beat him.

"You've covered the president his entire political career," said Collins. "He's typically known for having good political instincts when it comes to voters and their sensitivities. What did you make of him doubling down on that comment tonight?"

Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer who became a conservative folk hero after brandishing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters, told his Jan. 6 clients he's back in the fight, just weeks after quietly withdrawing from their cases citing "personal reasons."

The reason for that withdrawal: A serious medical diagnosis.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson (D) gave viewers of Fox News' sister network a lesson in the dangers of white supremacy after his state wiped out its only majority-Black congressional district with the hope of retaining Republican control of the U.S. House.

In a Friday interview on Live Now from Fox, host Christina Evans pointed out that state Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) had recently removed Pearson and every other Democrat from their committee assignments.

Hosts of ABC's "The View" called attention to President Donald Trump's decision to include disgraced Hollywood director Brett Ratner in his China delegation, even though he was named in the files on Jeffrey Epstein.

During Friday's program, co-host Joy Behar noted that Epstein was still "looming large over this administration" after survivors participated in a Capitol Hill hearing this week.