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President Donald Trump was dubbed an "economic serial killer" for killing off companies and entire industries with his policies.

Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at The Bulwark and an anchor at MS NOW, published a column Friday questioning the 79-year-old president's priorities after his administration paid out $2 billion in taxpayer funds to arm-twist developers into halting offshore wind projects that were already in the works.

It didn't take long on Friday for readers of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post to lash out at the once venerable Washington institution for publishing a column purportedly written by Donald Trump’s wife, Melania.

Going into the Mother's Day weekend, Melania, who gave birth to Trump’s fifth child, Barron, extolled the virtues of being a mother in a column with the headline “Mothers are America’s strength,” and a subhed of “Women can lead boldly at work while restoring the honor of motherhood.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cautioned that a redistricting attempt in South Carolina could backfire because of the state's large Black population.

"I would recommend that everybody look at the map and see if it's a net positive [for Republicans]," Graham told SCETV News in an interview this week. "It's up to the state legislature to do this, but in trying to pick up a seat, you don't want to jeopardize other seats."

Former Homeland Security Chief of Staff Miles Taylor issued a dire warning Friday about a secret instruction book hidden in a “secure location” at the White House that contains a catalog of pre-drafted executive orders that would allow the president to do "extraordinary things” — powers that Taylor feared President Donald Trump may soon invoke.

“After I served in Donald Trump’s administration, ultimately as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, one of the possibilities that worried me most was that the wrong person would gain access to that book,” Taylor wrote in a report published Friday in The i Paper.

MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski derailed an interview with two Democratic lawmakers Friday with her reaction to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche blithe dismissal of concerns about ICE agents hanging around polling locations.

“What's the risk?” the lawyer asked.

Just hours before the Trump administration conducted what it claimed were “self-defense strikes” against “Iranian military facilities,” The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Central Intelligence Agency concluded that “Iran can survive the US naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship.”

Citing four unnamed officials familiar with the analysis, the newspaper highlighted that “the CIA analysis might even be underestimating Iran’s economic resilience if Tehran is able to smuggle oil via overland routes.”

Donald Trump was accused by both MS NOW host and a former high-ranking Pentagon official of a cover-up after a skirmish between US forces and Iran on Thursday.

On “Morning Joe,” co-host Joe Scarborough excoriated the president, who dismissed the firefight as a “love tap” — leading retired Rear Admiral John. Kirby to make his bold accusation.

Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law whom he named as a special peace envoy, is representing the United States in ongoing negotiations with Iran while also “apparently planning to hit up” foreign governments for “billions in funding for his private equity firm” — conduct one legal expert flagged on Friday as a “five-alarm constitutional fire.”

“The questions too few people are asking are: Who is Kushner actually working for, anyway? And is he breaking the law in his role in his father-in-law’s administration?” wrote Kim Wehle, a constitutional law professor at the University of Baltimore School of Law, in an analysis published Friday in Zeteo.

Peace negotiations between the United States and Iran continue as both countries exchange fire, with President Donald Trump pushing to end a conflict that has proven far more entrenched than anticipated — and has sent his approval ratings to a historic lows.

Current talks center on a preliminary memorandum that would establish a framework for ending the war, and the agreement would trigger a 30-day negotiation period focused on freezing Iran's nuclear program for at least 10 years and requiring Iran to surrender its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, reported CNN. In return, the U.S. would relax sanctions, unfreeze billions in Iranian funds and both sides would lift restrictions on the Strait of Hormuz.

Always one looking to make a splashy deal, Donald Trump is giving serious consideration to allowing China to make a massive investment in the U.S. — against the advice of some of his closest advisors, an expert warned Friday.

In a column for the New York Times, conservative economist Oren Cass reported the president, “May be on the verge of tying the United States to China irrevocably: Mr. Trump and Xi Jinping are reportedly considering a deal to allow China to invest $1 trillion in the United States, largely to build factories on American soil.”

Critics immediately condemned the $1 billion request related to the White House ballroom project included in Senate Republicans’ $72 billion spending package unveiled earlier this week and, as of Friday, a growing number of Republican lawmakers have joined in damning the proposal as being “too politically toxic,” Punchbowl News reported.

“A first-year poli sci major would know not to ask members to take this vote and we hope the speaker does too,” said one House Republican, speaking with Punchbowl News on the condition of anonymity.

Democratic Party stalwart James Carville is crowing as he watches Donald Trump's once devoted fans cave in their support for the MAGA movement.

Speaking on his Politicon podcast Thursday with co-host Al Hunt, the famed 81-year-old Democratic strategist described watching Trump's hardcore backers drop their allegiance to the president — and it left him giddy.