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Trump's ballroom rantings stump ex-adviser on CNN: 'I've got nothing'

President Donald Trump's increasingly strange rants about his White House ballroom project have befuddled even Bryan Lanza, senior adviser to the Trump 2024 campaign.

Lanza struggled to explain or justify what his former boss was saying during a segment on CNN Monday afternoon.

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White House attacks reporter's children after she questions Trump's 'comfort blanket'

The White House took aim at CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes's children, saying they would one day be "sickened" by her, after she asked President Donald Trump about his relationship with a close aide.

Holmes posed the question Monday in the Oval Office, relaying remarks Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) made at a weekend rally about Trump and executive assistant Natalie Harp.

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Trump admin's $1 billion election ultimatum immediately sparks new legal war

The Department of Homeland Security was dragged into federal court this week after threatening to withhold $1 billion in anti-terrorism funding for several states if they don't change election rules.

In Nashville vs. DHS, a bombshell federal lawsuit filed Monday by the Brennan Center and co-counsel on behalf of cities and counties challenging DHS's demand warned that the Trump administration's coercive move would not go down without a fight. The federal agency had pushed for "adopting a series of burdensome changes to their election procedures" for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, Harris County, Texas, the City of Columbus, Ohio, and El Paso County, Texas.

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Jeanine Pirro handed another big courtroom loss by judge who's tormented her

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro suffered another courtroom setback when Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh freed a WWII Memorial vandalism suspect over prosecutors' objections.

Melissa Farris, 41, was released Monday and ordered to return to Kentucky under court supervision. She is barred from entering Washington except for court appearances and must stay away from the World War II Memorial. A preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 3.

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'Oh my god': Internet ridicules Trump's 'tantrum' after president loses it at reporter

President Donald Trump's Oval Office press conference on Monday descended into chaos when the president blew up at CNN reporter Kristen Holmes.

"You're a loud, boisterous person," said Trump, shortly after bragging about his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. "Be quiet! Be quiet! You're a fake reporter, and you report fake news."

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Trump's USS Lincoln rant leaves 16-year-old lifeguard visibly uncomfortable

President Donald Trump left 16-year-old lifeguard Ryder Williams visibly uncomfortable Monday, turning a White House honor ceremony into an extended defense of the USS Lincoln's record deployment.

Williams was invited to the Oval Office to receive a civilian honor for a viral rescue this summer.

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'Ossoff struck a nerve': White House rudely responds to rumors of Trump mistress

The White House spokesman on Monday provided an official – and remarkably rude – response to Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) highlighting rumors about President Donald Trump and his close personal aide Natalie Harp.

Stephen Cheung, the White House director of communications, responded to NBC News national political reporter Sahil Kapur's social media post with a video clip of Ossoff saying that Trump only “wants to build the ballroom and travel with Natalie” instead of focusing on the war he started against Iran.

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'Be quiet!' Trump attacks 'fake' reporter in Oval Office melt down

President Donald Trump exploded at a reporter in the Oval Office on Monday.

Trump was greeting lifeguard Ryder Williams when he started taking questions from reporters, commenting on his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and then began yelling at one of the members of the press corps.

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Another battleship disaster hits Navy as Trump denies troubling conditions: report

Another fiasco has struck a Navy warship as a guided-missile destroyer lost power for four days in the middle of one of the most tense maritime zones on Earth while President Donald Trump has downplayed worrisome conditions for sailors serving at sea, according to reports on Monday.

Military service members aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold spent four grueling days without working toilets, potable water, hot meals and air conditioning as the ship baked in the brutal South China Sea heat after a total power failure, The Daily Beast reported.

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Todd Blanche battered as court-ordered brief blames his mistakes for sinking Trump deal

Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump's former criminal defense lawyer, was named by a court-ordered brief as the key reason a federal judge stripped Trump's IRS settlement of its power in court.

Court-appointed attorneys filed the memorandum last week in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, responding to a judicial order directing them to evaluate Trump's request to pause sanctions while he appeals.

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Jim Acosta fears Secret Service door knock after meme of Melania pushing Trump off a cliff

Former CNN anchor Jim Acosta joked Monday that he may soon receive a visit from the U.S. Secret Service after sharing – and bursting out laughing – over an image depicting first lady Melania Trump shoving a catering crate containing President Donald Trump off a cliff.

Trump was scrutinized last week for “humiliatingly having to hide inside of a catering truck” out of fear of a supposed attempt on his life from Tehran, an incident that occurred in July but was first reported last week by The Washington Post.

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Trump rattles conservative doctor: 'We may have to question his sanity'

President Donald Trump’s Sunday decision to side with North Korea over South Korea and then threaten another ally appears to have been the last straw for a contributor to the conservative National Review.

Trump rattled two allies within days of each other this week, threatening to bomb Oman while ordering the Pentagon to pull back from decades-old military drills with South Korea.

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Trump nemesis ‘twists the knife’ over his ‘alleged odor-causing release issues’: report

Less than a week after delivering President Donald Trump a brutal “one-two punch” over his "supposed digestive incidents,” Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “twisted the knife” further by again drawing attention to the president’s “alleged odor-causing release issues,” journalist Tommy Christopher flagged Monday.

On Aug. 8, Trump launched what Zeteo’s Martin Pengelly called an “Islamophobic and racist” attack on El-Sayed by highlighting his wife wearing an Islamic headscarf. Trump also said El-Sayed was “full of s---,” to which the Senate hopeful quipped: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.”

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