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MAGA 'mouthpieces' now fleeing Trump after being sickened by greed: report

Donald Trump's massive accumulation of wealth in his second term has some of his most ardent defenders throwing up their hands and lambasting the president over his greed and "shamelessness," according to a report.

MS NOW's Juliana McShane wrote, "One-time MAGA mouthpieces" have reached their limit in support of the president and are not holding back over the billions the president and his family have accumulated, in some cases at the expense of conservative voters who put their trust in him.

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Trump's 'hunger for respect' sees him blindly stagger into 'obvious trap': ex-aide

President Donald Trump's personality flaws make him extraordinarily vulnerable to Iran's efforts to drag the U.S. further into a grinding war, according to a former White House insider.

The 80-year-old president has been promising the war he launched Feb. 28 would end in days, but instead fighting has intensified in its fifth month because U.S. adversaries want the conflict to drag on – and former Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor wrote for The i Paper how they have learned to manipulate Trump to get what they want.

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Stage set for Hegseth to be made Trump's 'fall guy' in Iran war: MS NOW

As the war with Iran escalates, Donald Trump’s patience is at its end — and he will be looking for a scapegoat sooner rather than later, MS NOW's analysts said Tuesday.

According to “Morning Joe” co-host Jonathan Lemire, that will likely be Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who has given the president a wealth of reasons to dismiss him dating back to his Senate confirmation hearings.

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Trump's pick for ICE head is deadbeat dad — and family drama could sink nomination: report

A family court case could complicate the confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump's nominee to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The pick, Richard "Lance" Schroyer, was taken to court by his ex-wife in 2021 over allegations he failed to pay any child support for more than four years, according to family court records obtained by PunchUp, the Daily Beast's investigations outlet. Immigration sources say the case calls his qualifications into question.

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Todd Blanche begs judge not to hit him with $1K-a-day fine over Epstein debacle

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asked a federal judge Monday to spare him a $1,000-a-day fine, calling a contempt push against him "absurd."

Blanche is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by independent journalist Katie Phang, who has accused him of violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act — a law passed by Congress requiring the Department of Justice to release its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Trigger-happy Hegseth brings Pentagon to brink of going broke: report

The cost of President Donald Trump's war with Iran, where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been blowing through armament stockpiles despite warnings, has the Pentagon close to running out of money, according to a report Tuesday.

The Pentagon is hemorrhaging funds at an alarming rate. Critical defense budget lines are set to evaporate within weeks as the escalating conflict with Iran consumes resources at unprecedented speed, lawmakers and Pentagon officials told the Washington Post.

The financial crisis is already forcing the military to make devastating choices. Training exercises and maintenance programs essential to military readiness are being slashed or eliminated entirely, according to the report which also noted that equipment maintenance budgets are being "cannibalized" to cover operational shortfalls.

Hegseth has publicly dismissed concerns about depleting munitions supplies, claiming during a CBS interview last month that U.S. stockpiles remain "great, and they're only getting stronger." His public bravado starkly contrasts with private Pentagon assessments.

"In private, Pentagon officials have expressed far greater anxiety, according to current and former officials, arguing that the military desperately needs more money to restock munitions needed to deter U.S. adversaries like Russia and China," the Post reported.

The collapsed Iran ceasefire threatens to worsen the crisis. After four U.S. service members died during intensive combat operations, the conflict appears set to escalate with no end in sight.

The White House has requested $67 billion in emergency funding from Congress, but lawmakers remain deadlocked over how to proceed. The House is recessing for a month Thursday, pushing any fiscal resolution weeks away at minimum.

The Navy and Air Force are particularly stressed. Both services have deployed extensive assets to the Middle East, and portions of their 2026 budgets covering operations are projected to run dry by month's end.

Bizarre Trump prediction states blue states are on verge of having 'no people'

President Donald Trump offered a dystopian prediction Tuesday on the future of Democratic-controlled states — chief among them being that they would soon have no residents left.

“Rich people and Companies are pouring out of Dumocrat run Blue States at levels never seen before!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, an assertion that was not backed up with any evidence.

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White House insiders deliver GOP stark midterm message: Trump literally 'doesn't care'

As House Republicans face an uphill battle heading into the midterm elections, a White House insider shared that President Donald Trump has “zero” interest in bolstering their election prospects, Politico reported Tuesday.

A “person close to the president” told Politico that Trump had virtually no engagement with House Republicans on the Hill regarding their upcoming re-election campaigns, which as of Tuesday will take place in 105 days. A second White House insider – described by Politico as “another White House ally” – explained where the president’s true focus was.

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Last-minute CBS News flip-flop on Trump speech catches staffers flat-footed: report

A last-minute decision by CBS News to cover Donald Trump's much-maligned address to the nation last Thursday came as a surprise to staffers who had been informed it would only be on the streaming platform.

Now there are questions about what changed after the White House reached out to the news organization headed by Trump-friendly Bari Weiss, according to Oliver Darcy of the media-focused site Status.

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MS NOW hosts 'fascinated' as Fox News flips on Trump's war: 'The clock is ticking'

President Donald Trump is not only losing his war with Iran, he is also losing the hearts and minds of prominent Fox News personalities who are reading the writing on the wall that voters are taking his failure seriously, Morning Joe's hosts said Tuesday.

The hosts of the MSNOW show shared clips from their conservative network counterpart, where longtime commentator Britt Hume was nothing but gloom and doom about a war that one White House insider told Politico is nothing less than a “quagmire.”

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Two-timing Trump official is admin's weak link — and should be Dem's core target: analyst

President Donald Trump fears a third impeachment if Democrats take back control of the House this fall, but an analyst urged them to focus instead on a weak link in his chain of command.

The 80-year-old president commits potentially impeachable offenses on a near-daily basis in his second term, MS NOW's Hayes Brown wrote. But he suggested his opponents flex their political muscle first by taking down Russell Vought, the Project 2025 architect who has been two-timing Congress by making spending cuts rejected by lawmakers as head of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

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'What the hell are we doing?' Trump endorsement leaves GOP seething in Senate seat battle

Donald Trump's decision to leap into the conversation over who should be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat left open by Lindsey Graham's death has the GOP leadership in South Carolina fuming.

According to a report from Politico, the president's sway after he pushed for the seat to be filled by Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, is about to be put to the test now that she has announced she wants to be the nominee in November's midterm election.

Nordone's announcement came riding on the president's backing, which historically would have deterred serious challengers from entering the race.

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Jon Stewart's mind blown as he spots bizarre man behind Trump: 'Who in the world?'

Comedian Jon Stewart flagged a bizarre detail Monday night in a video of President Donald Trump captured shortly after the FIFA World Cup final, one that prompted the late night talk show host to float an outlandish theory.

Recorded Sunday evening, the video shows Trump speaking with reporters after having landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland after the FIFA World Cup final. The president told reporters he believed the match was "incredible" and "four-times greater than any FIFA ever held," before correcting himself to say it was "probably five times" greater.

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