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'Unprecedented': Ex-GOP insider flags 'evidence' Trump 'thinks his supporters are garbage'

Donald Trump on Saturday was accused of committing "unprecedented treachery" as he displays "disdain" for his own supporters.

According to Steve Schmidt, an independent political strategist who worked on former President George W. Bush's campaign, Trump recently showed his hate for MAGA.

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Trump just put a 'spotlight' on his 'panic' that he'll lose 'death grip' on power: writer

Donald Trump just put a "spotlight" on his own fear that his empire is crumbling, according to a New York Times columnist.

NYT opinion columnist Michelle Cottle expressed the statement in a piece from three opinion writers "on Trump’s most recent power grabs."

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'Do you see the pattern?' MTG goes to war with 'raging psychopath' Fox News host

Saturday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went on a tirade aimed at a popular Fox News personality who suggested she's headed to prison.


Greene, who has lately been engaged in attacking other conservatives on a multitude of fronts, became enraged when she saw Mark Levin attacking her on X and responding to one commenter who praised the lawmaker known as "MTG" by writing, "Your (sic) a bigot."

Another commenter wrote, "MTG 2028!!" which led Levin to respond, "Prison?"

That appears to have infuriated the Georgia lawmaker.

" Fox News host Mark Levin is a raging psychopath," she wrote. "He is attacking me, lying about me, and EVEN WORSE in comments in his own post calling Christian’s 'bigots' and says I should go to prison!!! All because I am UNAPOLOGETICALLY AMERICA FIRST and UNAPOLOGETICALLY FIGHTING FOR MY CHILDREN’S GENERATION!!!"

"Ever since I called for a recorded vote on my amendments to defund U.S. taxpayer money to Israel and other foreign countries/foreign aid, Mark Levin has rabidly been attacking me. And then the attacks started from AIPAC. Do you see the pattern? Fox News host Mark Levin, a once hateful NEVER TRUMPER, is 100% Israel FIRST and America LAST!!!" she accused.

Levin also wrote, "Marjorie Traitor GreenE sounds like a lunatic and Marxist-Islamist Jew-hater, repeatedly stabs the president in the back, and trashes conservatives. She’s a favorite and regular guest of the America-trashing fake MAGA podcasters and quoted often by the leftwing media. She has abandoned her congressional district. A complete embarrassment. And now Laura has exposed her as a nasty hypocrite and phony."

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Former aide panicked Trump is poised to set off a wave of 'outrage like never before'

President Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary Sean Spicer issued his former boss a dire warning Friday in an appearance on the podcast The Morning Meeting, cautioning the president of an unprecedented fallout should he issue a pardon to among America’s most notorious sex traffickers.

Rumors continue to circulate that Trump is weighing a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking in association with the late Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, and is alleged to have maintained a ‘client list’ of powerful figures for blackmail purposes.

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'This is not a judge': Jasmine Crockett pokes huge hole in Texas lawmaker arrest warrants

The warrants issued to arrest Texas Democrats who fled the state to stymie a GOP attempt to redistrict the state lack the legal weight to do what the Republicans want them do.

That is the opinion of Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) who was asked, as an attorney, about the FBI reportedly getting involved in tracking the lawmakers down.

Appearing with MSNBC host Ali Velshi on Saturday, she was asked, "Quick question for you: because you're a lawyer, why would [FBI director] Kash Patel take [Texas Republican] John Cornyn's phone call about getting the FBI to round up people? I don't know what the crime is."

"There is no crime, you already know this," the Texas Democrat replied. "And just so people understand, even the warrants that they put out for them, they are signed by the speaker of the [Texas] House. I mean, this is not a law, a law enforcement official. This is not a judge. This is not a prosecutor. This is no one whomsoever would normally sign off on a warrant."

"And that is because it is not a criminal warrant," she elaborated. "This is only giving license to someone who is found within the state of Texas, to then grab them and take them back to the [legislature] chamber. If they take them anywhere other than the chamber, then they are looking at a civil rights violation because they have not broken any laws."

"So this is just a matter of a civil situation and frankly, this is a family situation as far as i'm concerned, because basically, the family known as the legislators in the Texas House have decided that they don't want to come to the table and have a conversation about doing right by Texas," she added. "They have decided that they would steamroll and disrespect their colleagues as well as their constituents in this moment, so that they can appease the mad king."

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'You cannot make this stuff up': Latest ICE recruitment pitch buried on MSNBC

Reacting to increasing efforts by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to recruit as agents as fast as possible now that the agency is flush with cash, MSNBC's Ali Velshi was both stunned by the overt racist appeal in one ad and amused by a celebrity endorsement that has been widely mocked.

On Saturday morning, Velshi told his viewers, "I want to show you some recent recruitment ads from the Department of Homeland Security, specifically ICE," before singling out one and adding, "Take a look at this ad which reads: 'Serve your country. Defend your culture. No undergraduate degree required."

"How totally fun!" he added sarcastically. "Defend your culture and no undergraduate degree required."

"The immigration agency is lowering the bar when it comes to hiring requirements, too," he suggested. "This week, the Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem, announced that the agency would be eliminating the age cap for new hires, allowing people older than 40 and as young as 18 to join the ranks of ICE."

Joking, "The recruitment push is working," he noted the use of former television star Dean Cain –– who starred as Superman almost 30 years ago –– in new ads.

"He [Cain] shared on social media that he plans to become an ICE officer, to quote, 'Save America.,'" Velshi stated before dryly pointing out, "Superman, a literal undocumented alien, like an actual alien from outer space from the planet Krypton, is now going to be an ICE agent. You cannot make this stuff up."

"Jokes aside, this drive to hire more personnel seems to be ideologically driven," he suggested. "ICE used to require employees to have an undergraduate degree, not anymore. You don't really need any experience in law enforcement either. Apparently, you don't even need a uniform, because so many of the arrests that we're witnessing are being carried out by masked plainclothes officers."

"Covid is on the rise, so maybe they're on to something," he joked.

''It seems like the Trump administration is building up ICE to be an alternative force that's bigger, more politically loyal, unencumbered by standards and largely shielded from democratic accountability," he accused.

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Leaked documents reveal hidden agenda behind Trump tariff demands

President Donald Trump’s tariff policy has been described by the president as a tool to address the United States’ trade deficits with countries the world over, however, according to leaked government documents obtained by The Washington Post, the policy had a series of other high-priority objectives that has left experts shocked.

As reported by The Washington Post Saturday, the internal government documents reveal pages of “supplemental negotiating objectives,” among which include using tariffs to pressure countries to offer concessions for companies like the oil giant Chevron or Elon Musk’s Starlink.

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'Erratic' Trump already handed Putin a 'great gift' before Alaska meeting: ex-ambassador

Donald Trump's agreement to meet with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska next week is the culmination of a series of wins the president is handing the Russian strongman, claimed former Ambassador Michael McFaul.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," the diplomat would took great pains to explain he is worried about what Trump will agree to during with regard to Ukraine and after the meeting, explaining, "I'm also worried about the erratic nature of the president of the United States today. So he did say all those things. and then his special envoy goes to Moscow a few days ago, and suddenly the tone has changed. So I hope he'll remember his frustration there and i hope he won't roll into the meeting with Putin, you know, thinking that he's got a new relationship with him."

"I would just say this generally, the president personalizes bilateral relations with the rest of the world all the time, and he thinks that a good meeting is some kind of outcome," he elaborated. "A good meeting is a means to some other end that is good for the American people, and it's good for the free world. and oftentimes President Trump gets that mixed up. I hope he doesn't get that mixed up in Alaska."

As for Putin he added, "I've watched him. 'I've been in the room with him, he is good at this and President Trump better prepare. He better not just wing it and think that it's all going to work out, because it will not. This, he needs to take very seriously and he's already in the hole. I want to emphasize: he's already in the hole, he already has given Putin this great gift of inviting him to the United States of America and standing next to him, so he better be thinking hard about what we get in return."

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‘He should get a drink or something’: CNN guest smacks down Hegseth's new campaign

CNN contributor Kara Swisher ripped Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Saturday for his ongoing campaign to restore controversial statutes and names across the country, taking aim at the Pentagon chief’s "concerning' drinking habits.

Hegseth has successfully pushed for the restoration of the names of several Army bases named after Confederate generals, and has also supported President Donald Trump’s push to “reframe America’s historical narrative” by restoring previously toppled statues, many of them honoring the Confederacy or controversial figures that were toppled down during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

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'There will be an insurrection': Trump warned by ex-Fox host over Epstein meddling

On Saturday morning, Donald Trump was handed a warning from a former Fox News host that he needs to tread carefully when it comes to any meddling in the Jeffrey Epstein firestorm that is engulfing his administration.

Speaking with the hosts on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Gretchen Carlson, who helped expose extensive sexual harassment at Fox, stated the president could incite another "insurrection" –– this time in opposition to him –– if he extends a pardon to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.

Asked about the Trump administration seemingly working hand-in-hand with the DOJ on how to deal with the potentially explosive Epstein files, Carlson claimed the president faces a major test.

"What do you what make of the fact that President Trump still refuses to categorically rule out a pardon for a convicted sex trafficker, sex assaulter?" she was asked.

"I think that that is the biggest slap in the face to the survivors of everything else that I listed, because, that is to your point earlier, normalizing the fact that it doesn't matter what she [Maxwell] did, the idea that that would even be on the table for consideration, that is going to cross all party lines," she replied.

"There will be an insurrection," she insisted. "If that happens, it won't just be Democrats. It won't just be –– it'll be MAGA, it'll be independents, it will be everybody because we are a place in the society right now where we know that child sex trafficking is a crime, and that you should not be granted clemency or any release for doing that to young women."

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‘It will soon be the safest!’: Trump teases major announcement on crime crackdown

President Donald Trump teased a major announcement on Saturday morning related to his ongoing crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. following the assault of a former Trump administration official known as “Big Balls.”

“On Monday, a press conference will be held at the White House which will, essentially, stop violent crime in Washington, D.C.,” Trump wrote Saturday on his social media platform Truth Social. “It has become one of the most dangerous cities anywhere in the world. It will soon be one of the safest! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

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‘Could have thrown a wrench in the gears’: Lawyer admits lost chance to expose Trump

David Pecker, a longtime friend of Donald Trump and former publisher of The National Enquirer, helped bury damaging stories about the future president ahead of the 2016 election – and now a New York attorney who aided the effort is speaking out in regret.

“If I had refused to draft the contracts, I could have at least delayed the decisions to quash the stories,” wrote Cameron Stracher, an attorney who previously provided legal services for Pecker, in an op-ed published in The New York Times Friday.

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Kristi Noem leveled by National Sheriff’s Association CEO for creating staffing chaos

Local law enforcement leaders are growing increasingly frustrated with DHS s Secretary Kristi Noem's recruitment efforts, which they say have aggressively targeted members of their own ranks amid nationwide police shortages.

“It's just one of those things where you would not try to steal your brother's girlfriend just to have a date, so we're a little bit frustrated to say the least,” said Jonathan Thompson, executive director and CEO of the National Sheriff’s Association, speaking with CNN Saturday.

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