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'Not sure they can come back': No end in sight after 'bizarre' Trump move exiled Democrats

Texas Democrats intend to remain in exile until at least Aug. 19, the end of a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott to pass a gerrymandered congressional map, but the end of the political saga is far from over.

President Donald Trump asked for the mid-decade redistricting that could gain Republicans five seats in next year's midterms, but Democrats fled the state this week to prevent the necessary quorum to vote on the measure, which other GOP-led states are also considering.

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Ex-Trump lawyer on president's plan: 'Makes Watergate look like forgetting a library book'

Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are working on a plan that "makes Watergate look like forgetting a library book," according to the president's ex-lawyer.

Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen on Friday published an article titled, "Redistricting Is The New Trump Coup," in which he argues, "Trump doesn’t need votes when he’s got lines."

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Ex-Trump official Scaramucci deflates president's 'ridiculous' jobs chart stunt

Donald Trump's latest attempt to clean up the mess he created after firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) because he was furious over the latest poor jobs report was laughed off by a former member of his first administration.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Mika Brzezinski, former Trump White House communication official Anthony Scaramucci couldn't contain himself after watching the president fawning over charts created by the Heritage Foundation and presented to him by economist Stephen Moore.

After watching Trump calling a purported increase in household income "...an incredible number. It just came out, so that's a giant thing," the MSNBC host asked her guest, "Anthony, the continued trashing of the former head of BLS and also this new number, what do you make of it?"

The laughing Scaramucci replied, "I mean, listen, I mean, it's a cliche but it's: there's lies and there are damn lies and then there are statistics. You can take the statistics and cut them any which way that you want."

Joking about Trump's redecoration of the Oval Office to look more like Mar-a-Lago he pointed out, "It's hard to see the charts with all the gold leaf, Mika. I mean, it's like shining so brightly behind them but it's a mixed bag, the economy is a mixed bag. You can go through the economy and pick out things that are doing okay, and you can see the underlying surface cracks in the economy and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that there's a slowdown coming."

Repeating, "It's a mixed bag," again he concluded, "I think what the president's doing there is a little bit ridiculous."

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Trump admin launches probe into NY prosecutor who charged him with fraud

The Trump administration’s Justice Department launched a new investigation into the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James, which last year launched and won a $464 million fraud case against President Donald Trump, NBC News reported Friday.

According to three insiders who spoke with NBC News on the condition of anonymity, the investigation is into whether James’ office “caused deprivation of legal rights” for its case against Trump, as well as another case her office pursued against the National Rifle Association.

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Trump panics over 'radical court' ruling against him: 'It would be impossible to recover!'

President Donald Trump lashed out Friday at what he called a “radical left court,” voicing fears that his sweeping tariffs could be overturned as federal judges continue to litigate his authority on the matter.

“If a radical left court ruled against us at this late date, in an attempt to bring down or disturb the largest amount of money, wealth creation and influence the USA has ever seen, it would be impossible to ever recover, or pay back, these massive sums of money and honor,” Trump wrote in an online post. “It would be 1929 all over again, a great depression!”

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Appeals court drops major ruling on judge's Trump admin contempt order

A plan to go forward with contempt proceedings against officials in Donald Trump administration for defying court orders had the plug pulled on it Friday morning.

According to Politico's Kyle Cheney, two of the three judges in the D.C. Circuit Court who signed the decision ruled against US District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg who has been battling with the administration over the forced removal of immigrants without due process.

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Trump 'secretly' signs order deploying military against cartels: NYT's Maggie Haberman

President Donald Trump said during his 2024 campaign that he wanted to bomb the drug cartels in Mexico, which he links to the high rate of opioid addiction in the U.S. Now, he has secretly moved to deploy soldiers to begin an all-out war with the cartels.

The New York Times reported Friday that a directive was secretly signed for the Pentagon to target certain Latin American cartels that he decided in January to label terrorist organizations.

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'He should be on that list!' Prosecutor demands ex-Trump official's testimony on Epstein

The House Oversight Committee issued a number of subpoenas this week to high-profile figures for information on Jeffrey Epstein, though one notable omission is leaving legal experts baffled.

“This is really anything but a pursuit of honesty, the truth, evidence and facts,” said attorney and former New York prosecutor Jeremy Saland, speaking on CNN Friday regarding the Trump administration’s ongoing investigation surrounding 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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Trump White House worried as GOP lawmakers become more willing to 'defect and defy': MSNBC

Above and beyond Donald Trump having to deal with the relentless blowback over the failure to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, his White House is in turmoil over the poor jobs report and a softening of his support in Congress.

Building upon his report for The Atlantic, where he pointed out that Trump's second term is not going nearly as well as Republicans would like to think, MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire said there is trouble ahead for the White House.

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'He's dangerous to them': Trump reportedly scrambling to 'muzzle' a 'rogue' FBI official

The reported meeting at JD Vance's residence about the notorious Epstein files was actually about silencing a key FBI official, according to a former insider.

Former Trump associate Lev Parnas, who says he used to be "deep inside the Trump machine" and now reports from the outside, earlier flagged an example of Donald Trump "saying the quiet part out loud."

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'Very bizarre': MSNBC panel stumped by 'mind-boggling' DOJ response to employee's scandal

A decision by Department of Justice officials to rush to the defense of a senior adviser who attended the Jan. 6 insurrection and urged fellow rioters to kill Capitol police officers left an MSNBC panel flabbergasted on Friday morning.

After "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski reported on the DOJ having hired and placed Jared Wise, who screamed at police officers, calling them "Nazi" and "Gestapo," and then exclaiming "kill 'em," co-host Joe Scarborough called the DOJ's response to the controversy "very bizarre."

As was noted, the DOJ curtly responded to inquiries about Wise with, "Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team."

"This is very bizarre coming from a political party holding up such a person that is calling for the killing of cops," Scarborough told the panel. "Very bizarre that he's working in the preeminent law enforcement agency in America for a president and a party who claim to be supporting law enforcement officers and claiming it's the liberals that don't support law enforcement officers."

"What can you tell us about this, this person who, at really the most heated time on January 6th, was calling for the killing of law enforcement officers?" he asked MSNBC's Ken Dilanian.

"It's mind-boggling, Joe," he replied. "I will say that Mr. Wise did express contrition for those comments during his trial which was cut short when Donald Trump ended all the prosecutions of January 6th defendants and pardoned them all."

"But I think what we're seeing here is the consequences of an administration that has rewritten history, rewritten the history of January 6th, and as I, you know, Donald Trump pardoned all the defendants including those who assaulted police officer and is now going about firing FBI agents who worked on those cases and FBI supervisors and then hiring people who were part of the riot."

He then added, "And, you know, to your point Joe, I suspect if you polled most Americans, even most Republicans, they're not necessarily on board with this."

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'Stop putting words in my mouth!' GOP lawmaker shouts over MSNBC host amid major factcheck

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough turned up the heat Friday on Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) after the New York Republican tried to dismiss claims that President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would harm hospitals and kick Americans off Medicaid.

Scarborough asked Lawler how hospitals in his own district will manage the more than $700 billion in cuts to Medicaid included in the OBBBA, with many hospitals in Lawler’s own district projected to be severely impacted. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul warned this week that Trump’s megabill would see more than $31 million in cuts to New York hospitals.

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