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Trump admin stares down ‘second Epstein scandal’ — but ‘worse’: analysis

The Trump administration may be on the verge of a “second Epstein scandal,” one that, in some ways, could prove even “worse,” journalist Brian Beutler argued on Friday.

“This ought to be an existential emergency for the American right-wing elite, MAGA, Inc., and even elements of the international far right,” Beutler wrote in an analysis published Friday on his Substack. “But the reaction is eerily mute due (I’d hypothesize) to the decline of reading and (yes) weak political opposition.”

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'Path of Destruction': Trump taunts 'fool' GOP lawmaker for retiring in rambling rant

President Donald Trump hurled insults Friday at an Indiana state senator who has decided to retire.

State Sen. Rodric Bray, a Republican who defied Trump’s redistricting push last year, announced he would not seek re-election – and was immediately taunted by Trump.

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Trump's bizarre question to foreign leader revealed: 'Do people jump off it?'

President Donald Trump's obsession with memorializing himself often spurs strange outbursts to world leaders about arches, a New York Times journalist revealed Friday.

The 80-year-old president spends most of his time focused on personal retribution and renovating Washington, D.C., to his own preferences, according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who told her colleague Ezra Klein.

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Karoline Leavitt selfie backfires into Trump-shaming Nazi blunder

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt opened herself up to a wave of ridicule by holding up a newspaper featuring a cartoon depicting President Donald Trump dressed as a Nazi.

Leavitt was photographed in the White House Thursday holding up a newspaper while appearing to be taking a selfie — seemingly unaware of the Pat Oliphant Nazi cartoon emblazoned across the page.

But it did not skip the notice of sharp-eyed critics

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Trump faces 'bloody nose' as inner-party rampage finally bites back: analysis

President Donald Trump has spent months purging GOP lawmakers he deemed insufficiently loyal — and that campaign of revenge may have finally caught up to him, journalist Prem Thakker argued in a Zeteo analysis Friday.

This year, Trump successfully ousted five GOP Indiana state senators who defied his redistricting plan. He also helped rid the Senate of Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced he wouldn’t seek a third term last year rather than face a Trump-backed challenger and, in May, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) lost his primary race to a Trump-endorsed opponent.

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'No words': Laura Ingraham's brother tells off sister over 'boorish' behavior at hearing

Curtis Ingraham said he was left with "no more words" after his sister, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, was caught making faces behind Anthony Fauci at a Senate hearing.

The hearing took place Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who had subpoenaed Fauci to appear. CNN reported Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment — his constitutional right to refuse to answer questions — more than 100 times.

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'Terrible terrible terrible': Analyst astonished by 'absolutely awful' Trump polling

President Donald Trump's approval ratings left a stunned CNN analyst spluttering Friday morning.

Three separate surveys released this week — CNN at 34 percent, AP-NORC at 33 percent, and Quinnipiac University at 32 percent — all show Trump's approval sinking to new term-two lows, according to CNN's Harry Enten, saying the Quinnipiac figure represents an all-time low for Trump, while the CNN poll ties his previous record low.

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Internal revolt erupts as Trump appointee enrages Wall Street: 'Not confident'

One of President Donald Trump's most scrutinized appointees faces an internal revolt after his first major address to the press imploded.

Multiple Fed officials are fuming that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh enraged Wall Street Wednesday with his claim that there was no reason to raise short-term interest rates, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

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Trump's 'princess of darkness' fed up with his $50M shakedowns: report

President Donald Trump's "princess of darkness" is privately complaining about his increasing demands for more and larger donations from corporations, according to a new report.

The president is in almost nightly contact with Meredith O'Rourke, pressuring her to bring in more money and telling her which donors or companies to hit up next, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

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'Eggs skyrocketed': Trump busted for 'unequivocally false' claims

President Donald Trump's claims about falling prices were subjected to a thorough fact check from CNN's Daniel Dale.

The 80-year-old president boasted at a Michigan rally that eggs – along with "everything else" – had gotten significantly cheaper since his return to office, but Dale told "CNN News Central" that Trump was completely wrong.

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'Womp Womp': Trump trolled on MS NOW over 'satanic levels' of bad news

An entire MS NOW panel burst into laughter this morning as the show's producers trolled President Donald Trump for dragging down the economy.

On Thursday, it was announced that the US GDP grew at an anemic 1.5 percent rate which led “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough to blurt, “Oh my God, that is not good.”

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Trump praise earns eager GOP strategist epic fact check: 'Rainbows and unicorns!'

A Republican strategist's attempt to praise President Donald Trump Friday morning was subjected to an epically sarcastic with fact check.

Republican strategist Melik Abdul was met with disdain on "CNN This Morning" after he suggested Trump might have reached an agreement to end Israel's war in Gaza.

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Trump throws tantrum as key priority crumbles in real time: ‘Hunted down like dogs’

President Donald Trump erupted Friday in a lengthy 253-word rant over his stalled “anti-weaponization fund,” his taxpayer-funded $1.7 billion fund dedicated to awarding payouts to Jan. 6 Capitol riot participants who he claimed had been “hunted down like dogs.”

Trump singled out Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), who has vowed to withhold his support for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s confirmation until the fund was eliminated, much to the frustration of Trump.

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