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Trump's big trip starts with polling gut punch from data analyst: 'Down he goes'

Just moments after President Donald Trump and his entourage of officials and business leaders landed in Beijing, China, CNN data analyst Harry Enten dropped a series of brutal poll numbers on how Americans rate the president’s handling of China.

“In term number one, China was a strength for Donald Trump, Americans really liked what he was doing vis-à-vis China, and no longer is that the case,” Enten said on Wednesday, moments after Trump landed in China ahead of his two-day summit with President Xi Jinping.

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'He doesn't seem OK': James Comey says Trump mentally 'different' over new sign of decline

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s recent overnight posting spree that left onlookers concerned for his mental well-being, former FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that he believed there to be “something wrong” with the president and that he didn’t “seem okay.”

Appearing on CNN’s “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” Comey was asked about his recent indictment by the Justice Department over his social media post that included a photograph of seashells, which Trump allies have interpreted as a threat on the president’s life. Comey said he expected an endless string of indictments until “Trump leaves office because he is obsessed with retribution.”

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Trump family member drops sobering warning about president's new 'chilling' move

President Donald Trump's niece sounded a "chilling" warning about his recent moves to threaten democracy.

Mary Trump, a psychologist and political commentator, directed readers' attention to last week's FBI raid on the office of L. Louise Lucas, the Democratic president pro tempore of the Virginia State Senate, and the subsequent ruling of that state's Supreme Court to strike down a redistricting referendum approved by voters.

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GOP lawmakers giving Trump ‘the stiff arm’ as president’s leverage implodes: analysis

An increasing number of Republican lawmakers are openly rebuking President Donald Trump’s demands after a key source of his leverage has all but disappeared, a dynamic that led Punchbowl News to question whether Trump was “losing sway on Capitol Hill” in its Wednesday morning newsletter.

That leverage was the threat that GOP lawmakers could face a Trump-backed primary challenger, but with primary elections wrapping up around the country, that threat has mostly been neutralized until at least 2028. As such, Republicans appear to have found a newfound courage to more frequently give Trump “the stiff arm,” Punchbowl News reported.

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Trump orders 'bum' GOP aide be fired for making Mitch McConnell look 'out of it'

President Donald Trump took to social media Tuesday night to demand that Robert Karem, a Republican Senate staffer, be fired over an incident that took place earlier that day during a Senate hearing, one that Trump claimed made Sen. Mitch McConnell “look foolish and completely out of it.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testified Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, and in what Newsweek described as an “awkward moment,” the committee’s chair, McConnell, had to be reminded by a staffer “that several senators still had questions after he attempted to wrap up proceedings early.”

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'Thank goodness!' Trump's startling admission about the economy mocked by analyst

President Donald Trump was mocked on Tuesday for offering a startling admission about the state of the U.S. economy.

Trump told reporters outside the White House that the financial stress many Americans are under is not motivating his negotiations to end the war in Iran. That claim caught the attention of David Pakman, host of the liberal political podcast "The David Pakman Show," who argued in a new reaction video that it revealed exactly where Trump's priorities lie.

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Trump is itching to fire cabinet member with a 'fatal' flaw: biographer

President Donald Trump is likely planning to fire another one of his cabinet members because they've consistently exhibited a "fatal" flaw, according to one of the president's biographers.

Journalist Michael Wolff, who has written four books about Trump, said during a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head" with co-host Hugh Dougherty, executive editor of The Daily Beast, that Trump will likely fire Secretary of State Marco Rubio because Rubio has upstaged Trump at times. Wolff said that is a "fatal" flaw in Trumpworld.

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Internet erupts as Trump DOJ plans to settle massive lawsuit: 'A massive scam'

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sparked outrage on Tuesday after reports that the agency is holding "internal discussions" about settling a massive lawsuit.

The New York Times reported that the DOJ is considering settling the $10 billion lawsuit that Trump filed against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his 2019 tax returns. Trump contended in the lawsuit that the IRS should have done more to prevent his returns from being publicized.

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MAGA Rep upbraids 10-year-old for asking about electric cars — and gets slammed in return

A MAGA Representative upbraided a 10-year-old for asking her about electric vehicle subsidies for a class assignment, and got mocked by political analysts and observers in return.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), 82, recently received a letter from a fourth grader asking about a $5,000 tax rebate for new electric vehicle purchases, according to reports. Foxx responded to the letter by telling the young student that the national debt matters more, and that asking for such a tax rebate would take "money out of the pockets of hardworking people." She also sent the fourth grader an article about the "urgent crisis" of the national debt.

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'Move over, Greenland': WSJ mocks Trump's ill-advised new conquest obsession

The Wall Street Journal editorial board was none too impressed with President Donald Trump's latest harebrained idea for a place the United States can conquer.

"Move over Greenland and Canada. President Trump told Fox News Monday that he is 'seriously considering' making Venezuela the 51st state," wrote the board. "Hmmm. Does that mean Venezuela would have to hold an election, like America’s current 50 states?"

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Trump DOJ makes stunning claim to hold power judges already said it doesn't have

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice released a stunning memo on Tuesday night claiming that Trump has the authority to take state voter rolls — a claim that directly contradicts several federal court rulings finding the DOJ has no such authority.

The memo was released at a time when Trump's efforts to obtain voter rolls have been repeatedly stifled by the courts. The Justice Department has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to provide unredacted voter rolls containing sensitive information like driver's licenses and partial Social Security numbers. Federal judges in California, Michigan, and Oregon have all ruled against the DOJ, finding it lacks statutory authority to compel states to turn over voter data.

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'Boom': GOP gov candidate who defied Trump hit with death threat day before bomb scare

A Republican candidate for governor in Georgia and the current secretary of state received a death threat the day before a bomb scare at one of his campaign events, according to a new report.

According to the New York Times, Brad Raffensperger received a four-page, handwritten manifesto on Monday. The manifesto came with a photo of Raffensperger and the word "Boom" written across his forehead, a campaign official told the Times.

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Ex-DOJ lawyer flags detail that could doom another high-profile Trump prosecution

A former federal prosecutor flagged a startling fact on Tuesday that could doom President Donald Trump's high-profile prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador became one of the most prominent immigration cases in the country.

Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., said during a new episode of his podcast "Justice Matters" that the Trump administration's prosecution of Abrego Garcia could be doomed because the administration has treated him differently than others in similar situations.

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