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'Out of the clown car': Scott Bessent hammered by expert for giving way to Trump 'goons'

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got a serious beat-down Friday as an MS NOW analyst accused him of not living up to his reputation and coming off as just another “clown car” appointee of President Donald Trump's.

Catherine Rampell, a former economics journalist for the New York Times, argued Bessent and Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's unexpected missteps have stunned and outraged Wall Street.

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'You look dumb': Todd Blanche buried by attorney's profane 'legal advice' on Epstein

Attorney General Todd Blanche drew a profane rebuke from the attorney suing him over the Epstein files after he appealed a judge's order to release documents.

In a video posted to Instagram on Thursday, attorney and independent journalist Katie Phang, who sued Blanche in April, tore into him for defiance in the face of a preliminary injunction issued by Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in June. Blanche finally appealed the order on Aug. 24 after claiming he had complied with it.

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‘Mentally unstable’ Trump losing grip on power as major reckoning approaches: US senator

A “mentally unstable” President Donald Trump is growing “increasingly out of control” as he stares down a major reckoning in November, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) claimed on Thursday, a reckoning that could ultimately see the president finally lose his grip on power.

“He is a president who is, in my view, mentally unstable and increasingly out of control,” Sanders said in a video published Thursday evening by APT News, an international news outlet with more than 1.1 million subscribers on its YouTube channel.

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Trump triggers MAGA meltdown with fawning Truth Social post: 'Open Border RINO RAT!'

President Donald Trump’s professed support for a high-profile Republican congressman threw more than a few of his fans into a rage-filled tizzy Friday morning.

Trump praised Rep. Mike Lawler's (R-NY) recent appearance on a conservative news network — and was met with immediate scorn.

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Trump’s new ploy to quell rancher uproar lands with a thud: ‘This does nothing’

President Donald Trump’s new plan to help America’s “wonderful farmers and ranchers” landed with a thud Friday among critics, of which several described it as a misguided attempt to quell rancher uproar against his mystery deal to import ground beef.

“You've already cost far too many families their farms and ranches. This does nothing to bring them back,” wrote Texas-based journalist Arturo Dominguez Friday in a social media post on X.

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'Audience, please!' Laughter erupts as GOP candidate makes 'Lake America' gaffe

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) drew laughter at a debate after he claimed to be unaware of President Donald Trump's order renaming Lake Ontario.

The moment came Thursday at the Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs, during a debate hosted by KOAA News5 between the candidates in Colorado's 5th Congressional District.

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Republican governor implodes over Trump intrusion: 'Aggressive, unexpected, disruptive'

The Republican governor of deeply conservative Wyoming is vowing to open an investigation into federal election monitors who invaded his state, according to a new report.

Two election monitors from the Justice Department showed up at polling places during Wyoming's primaries last week, drawing outrage from the state's Republican governor, The New York Times reported Friday.

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Trump tries to tame rancher rage with disjointed jab at 'nasty' foe: 'Make life miserable'

President Donald Trump advanced efforts Friday to roll back regulations for meat processors amid the growing outrage from American cattle ranchers in response to the president’s mysterious plan to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef.

Trump announced last week that he’d secured an arrangement to import 300,000 metric tons of ground beef over a 90-day period that will be sold at 25% below market price in an effort to combat soaring beef prices. Trump refused to reveal the origin of the beef imports, which ranchers have argued will undercut their industry.

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Insiders spill as Stephen Miller manipulates human 'binkie' to get to Trump: Report

President Donald Trump's close personal aide Natalie Harp, recently dubbed his human "binkie," has become one of the most controversial figures in his administration, and multiple sources revealed how she controls the information he relies on to make decisions.

Scrutiny of the 35-year-old Harp's role intensified this month after Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) publicly highlighted her constant presence alongside the 80-year-old Trump — now Zeteo is reporting on how the executive aide has leveraged her relationship with the president.

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​White House blunder inflicts worst 'pain' on Trump's MAGA base: analysis

President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran has hit all Americans in the wallet but has hit “his base” harder than anyone.

According to a report from NOTUS, gas prices may be lower in the rural communities that paved the way for his return to the Oval Office, but their driving habits create an unavoidable strain on their wallets.

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'Lost leverage across the board': Trump's strategy gets brutal update six months into war

Six months after President Donald Trump launched the war in Iran on Feb. 28 — predicting it would last four to five weeks — the conflict has instead become a defining liability of his second term.

Iranian forces have withstood months of bombardment, using mines and drones to keep degrading U.S. military capacity cheaply, and Trump's options are narrowed by his own-self imposed limits, reported the Washington Post.

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Swears and slurs hurled as roaring 'whisper' campaign mounts to ruin VP: report

A member of Vice President JD Vance’s inner circle hurled swears and slurs when asked about a roaring “whisper” campaign among conservatives to destroy the former Ohio senator’s political career, according to a new report.

The Bulwark's Jake Lahut reported Friday that a “civil war” raging inside the Republican Party, with Vance as a primary target, has his allies fuming about plots and ops.

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'Distressing discussion' on withheld Epstein files reveals 'problems' for Trump: report

Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh says he and a “well-informed international source” had a “distressing discussion” about a trove of Jeffrey Epstein-related files currently being withheld by the Justice Department whose release “could cause problems for the past and present members of some in the Trump administration.”

Hersh wrote in his Substack Thursday about that conversation.

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