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Former Marine fighter pilot and current Newsmax host Greg Kelly continued his war on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday morning over reports that the Donald Trump appointee has ousted another high-ranking Pentagon official.

On Wednesday, Hegseth countermanded an order that would have punished two Apache helicopter Army pilots for doing a fly-by above aging rocker Kid Rock’s estate in Tennessee, which drew Kelly’s ire and led him to write on X: “So what if those 'fly boys' flew by Madonna’s house and Took a Bow? Or Robert DeNiro. That would Not be cool, right? But it’s just fine for Kid Rockhead? What an amateur move, posting it on Social Media."

MAGA host Gina Loudon concluded that former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was in a worse spot than ever after a court upheld her conviction on election tampering charges. However, she was also ordered to be resentenced.

"Yeah, well, I thought it was really good news, and I was really excited about it until I texted my Tina Peters, reliable people inside her camp," Loudon said during a Real America's Voice segment on Friday. "And they tell me this is, in fact, not a good thing at all and that this will mean that she's back in a court that will not rule in her favor, that if anything, this was a way to insulate her case from a pardon from Donald Trump."

Pro-MAGA Real America's Voice host Gina Loudon warned future interim Attorney General Todd Blanche that he must follow through with his duty to release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

During a Friday segment about Attorney General Pam Bondi's firing, Loudon said that the RAV audience had predicted her ouster.

Pam Bondi's firing marks another casualty in what's becoming a bloodbath of Trump administration appointees and nominees from his home state of Florida. But unlike her predecessors, Bondi faces an additional humiliation: forced testimony before Congress about the administration's bungled handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.

According to Politico's Kimberly Leonard, White House insiders don't believe Bondi will leverage her Trump experience into a political career. There's also no indication that she will return to her job as a lobbyist at Ballard Partners, from which she was plucked to serve at the DOJ.

Bondi is far from alone. Trump's second term has become a graveyard for Florida appointees:

• Former national security adviser Mike Waltz was demoted to the UN in the wake of his being caught up in the "Signalgate" scandal.

• Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister never made it to his confirmation hearing to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

• Former Rep. Dave Weldon (R) had his nomination withdrawn by the White House to to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

• Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, now an OANN anchor, withdrew his nomination as attorney general amid sexual misconduct allegations and a damning House Ethics Committee which led him to preemptively resign from Congress.

In Bondi's case, one place she might find herself busy is in front Congress.

President Donald Trump took to social media Friday to insist that the United States could “easily” achieve its objectives in its war against Iran, “take the oil” and “make a fortune,” but only if afforded “a little more time.”

“With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. “IT WOULD BE A ‘GUSHER’ FOR THE WORLD???”

President Donald Trump officially dubbed Vice President JD Vance as his administration’s new “fraud czar” in an announcement on Friday, with his first assignment being to “primarily” target Democratic-controlled states.

“Vice President JD Vance is now in charge of ‘FRAUD’ in the United States. It is massive and pervasive, and the job he will be doing, in conjunction with many great people within the Trump Administration, will be a major factor in how great the future of our Country will be,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

Appearing on MS NOW on Friday morning, former Naval College professor Tom Nichols was asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest firing of top Pentagon officials and he pointed out a distinct pattern that deserves additional scrutiny.

On Thursday, the volatile Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff General Randy A George, which the New York Times described as “a move that reflects growing hostility between Mr. Hegseth and the Army’s leadership, military officials said.”

In his efforts to pass his voting restrictions bill the SAVE Act, President Donald Trump has ramped up calls for Republicans to amend the Senate’s rules, but has largely been rebuked and issued a “reality” check by members of his own party.

“President Donald Trump’s nonstop lobbying of Senate Republicans to weaken the Senate’s institutional powers is running into a brick wall,” Punchbowl News wrote Friday in its report. “There are signs that this reality – even Trump has limits in dealing with the ‘World’s Greatest Deliberative Body’ – may finally be settling in at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.”