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NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian reported Monday that those left in the Justice Department have been worried about President Donald Trump's revenge campaign since the beginning. Now there's real panic as he calls on them to be more aggressive in investigating his political opponents.

"We can't delay any longer, it's killing our reputation and credibility," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who he misspelled as "Leticia."

A veteran data journalist is offering a lesson to those in positions of power about why they keep losing when they bow to President Donald Trump.

Writing on Monday, G. Elliott Morris explained on his "Strength in Numbers" Substack that powerful people mistakenly assume Trump holds more control over the country than he actually does. When Disney/ABC capitulated to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr and conservative affiliate owners Sinclair and Nexstar, they effectively shot themselves in the foot, he said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt lashed out at a reporter for citing reports that border czar Tom Homan was recorded accepting $50,000 in cash in exchange for helping men obtain government contracts.

"Did the president ask the Justice Department to close the case?" a reporter asked Leavitt during Monday's White House briefing. "And does Homan have to return the $50,000?"

President Donald Trump seems to be in a hurry to bring charges against three of his political enemies, and a legal expert thinks he may have discovered the reason for his haste.

The president forced out acting U.S. attorney Erik Siebert in the Eastern District of Virginia after he failed to bring cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, whom Trump as already determined are "guilty as hell," and Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes analyzed the situation as a replacement prosecutor is lined up.

MAGA influencer Benny Johnson revealed that Elon Musk told President Donald Trump that they would "hang separately" if they did not reunite during a plea made at Charlie Kirk's memorial.

While guest-hosting Kirk's show on Monday, Johnson said he had spoken to Musk backstage after he met with Trump at the memorial.

Media correspondent and analyst Brian Stelter argued that President Donald Trump was most likely unaware of a new controversial policy announced by his own Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after the president uttered contradictory remarks on Sunday.

On Friday, the Pentagon announced that journalists would be required to sign a pledge not to obtain or report on any information not officially disseminated by the Pentagon, lest they lose their credentials. On Sunday, however, when asked whether he thought the Pentagon should be able to decide “what reporters can report on,” Trump said “no, I don’t think so.”

Progressives are beginning to fear Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer may once again “cave” in budget negotiations with Senate Republicans, even as Democrats hold a crucial bargaining chip related to healthcare costs.

Democrats are pushing the GOP to make concessions in order to fund the government, namely by extending a health insurance subsidy that, if allowed to lapse, will result in tens of millions of Americans paying higher premiums at the end of the year.

President Donald Trump is aware that public opinion on him is getting worse and worse by the day — and he's desperate to consolidate authoritarian control over government — and do things like lock up his political adversaries — before polls get to the point that his underlings stop listening to him, argued former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum for The Atlantic.

"President Donald Trump is worried that Attorney General Pam Bondi is moving too slowly to prosecute his political adversaries on fake charges," wrote Frum. "Trump has good reason to be concerned. He is carrying out his project to consolidate authoritarian power against the trend of declining public support for his administration and himself. He is like a man trying to race upward on a downward-moving escalator. If he loses the race, he will be pulled ever deeper below — and the escalator keeps moving faster against him."

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D) will reportedly cancel a town hall with an ABC affiliate to protest the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.

Mamdani's campaign told amNewYork that the candidate would announce the cancellation on Monday. ABC suspended Kimmel after the murder of MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk. The move sparked outrage from critics who claimed ABC and its parent company, Disney, were bowing to pressure from President Donald Trump to silence the late-night host.

President Donald Trump once again appeared to confuse countries in a boast over the weekend about how many wars he has supposedly ended and how deserving he is of the Nobel Peace Prize.

In a speech carried by C-SPAN, Trump claimed to have stopped a war between Armenia and Cambodia, two small countries on different sides of Asia that have never been at war with each other.

President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk quickly devolved into familiar remarks about targeting his political opponents — remarks that were promptly ridiculed Monday by a panel on CNN.

As the last speaker at the event, which was reportedly attended by around 200,000 people, Trump paid tribute to Kirk as the “greatest evangelist for American liberty,” but also used his speech as an opportunity to announce that his Justice Department was investigating “networks of radical left maniacs,” and declared that he hated his political opponents.

President Donald Trump publicly directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to aggressively target his political enemies with investigations over the weekend — and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire reported it had Democratic leadership privately sweating.

The president posted — and then deleted — a message to Bondi complaining that "nothing is being done" about former FBI director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, a day after federal prosecutor Erik Siebert complied with Trump's demand for his resignation for failing to bring mortgage fraud charges against James.