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Alex Jones unloaded on Donald Trump Thursday over the president's decision to nominate acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to permanently lead the Department of Justice, calling it "terrible news" and accusing Blanche of betraying Trump's MAGA base.

Trump announced his intent to nominate Blanche during a White House event Wednesday evening. Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, has served as acting AG since April after Trump fired Pam Bondi.

Democratic Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a new indictment against allies of President Donald Trump who aided his bid to overturn the 2020 election, her office announced Thursday after the state Supreme Court rejected her appeal to revive the original case.

The high court's brief, unexplained ruling closed the door on a two-year-old indictment that had threatened some of Trump's closest allies — among them former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, attorney John Eastman, and 11 Arizona Republicans who falsely claimed to be the state's legitimate presidential electors.

One of the Republican senators driven out of office by President Donald Trump has signed on to a legal challenge fighting the administration's so-called anti-weaponization fund.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who lost a GOP primary to a challenger endorsed by the president, joined Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) in submitting an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia opposing the $1.776 billion fund established by the Treasury Department to pay off Trump allies who claim they were targeted for prosecution by previous administrations.

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele used Trump's birthday UFC spectacle at the White House to eviscerate what he characterized as the administration's carefully constructed — and deeply misleading — image of presidential fitness.

In a column for MS NOW, Steele called out the White House health reports as "nonsense" and flagged the underlying narrative as patently suspicious.

Nancy Pelosi and a conservative reporter who has made a habit of confronting her in Capitol hallways went at it again Thursday — and the former House speaker didn't hold back.

Alison Steinberg, a congressional correspondent for LindellTV, the media outlet founded by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, approached Pelosi (D-CA) in the halls of Congress and immediately invoked their last encounter. "Last time I asked you about January 6, why you turned the National Guard away on January 6, you told me to shut up and that I was repeating Republican talking points," Steinberg said.

Discussing the growing Republican betrayal problems Donald Trump is experiencing as he attacks his own caucus and has made it his mission to oust some of them in primaries, longtime DC insider Mark McKinnon claimed the president is not going to like what is coming.

Appearing on MS NOW with host Alex Witt, McKinnon claimed that the retribution the president has been inflicting on some of his former allies is going to be returned in spades.

Far-right podcaster Steve Bannon's War Room took an X-rated turn Wednesday when guest Mike Davis, a Trump insider and founder of the Article III Project, called Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) a "p—" — twice.

"John Thune is such a p—, and he just proved it with that statement," Davis said, responding to a clip of Thune offering a hedged answer on whether acting Attorney General Todd Blanche would face a difficult Senate confirmation fight. "John Thune's a p—."

A House Agriculture Committee hearing erupted Thursday into a sharp clash between Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Rep. Shontel Brown (D-OH), with Rollins sniping that Congress's behavior explains why "the American people don't like Congress" as Brown repeatedly cut off Rollins's attempts to dodge yes-or-no questions.

Brown, the committee's vice-ranking member, came loaded with grim numbers. She pressed Rollins on whether she was aware that farm bankruptcies jumped 46 percent in 2025, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation — the second consecutive year of increases. Rollins began to deflect, noting the total number of farms, and Brown cut her off.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was repeatedly ordered to stop talking and struggled to answer basic questions about the farm economy Thursday during a tense House Agriculture Committee hearing that devolved into a shouting match.

Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN), the committee's ranking member, came loaded with data — and used every second of her question time to expose what she called the administration's ignorance of its own record.