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President Donald Trump consulted with a controversial administration official about a widely criticized social media post showing himself as a Christlike figure.

The 79-year-old president's Sunday night post set off a firestorm of criticism, and two advisers who spoke to Trump about the image told Axios it had been brought to his attention by housing finance chief Bill Pulte over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, although it's not clear whether he showed the image on his phone or sent it to the president.

Donald Trump’s drive to remake the Federal Reserve into a tool of his economic policies is meeting an immovable object in the form of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is using his position on the Senate Banking Committee to hold up the nomination of Kevin Warsh.

According to Politico's Jordain Carney and Jasper Goodman, Tillis is demanding Trump order his Department of Justice to drop its investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell before any deal on Warsh is possible.

"I'm not dead yet. I'm not very tauntable. That's part of growing up in a trailer park — you kind of get used to this stuff," Tillis said bluntly in an interview, brushing off Trump's intimidation tactics.

Tillis holds all the leverage over the persistent Trump. The Senate Banking Committee is holding Warsh's nomination hearing next Tuesday, and Tillis controls the deciding vote. He's also signaling he'll weaponize his Senate Judiciary position if the administration tries to push through an Attorney General successor to Pam Bondi without backing down on the pursuit of Powell.

Some of Tillis' fellow Republicans privately admit they don't understand the White House's approach, which they believe risks antagonizing Tillis further and empowering Powell even more in the public eye. Publicly, a growing chorus of Republicans is calling on the DOJ to end its investigation into whether Powell lied to Congress about Fed cost overruns.

The U.S. is staring down a potentially "serious long-term consequence" as a result of President Donald Trump's "discretionary" war in Iran, according to one expert.

Margaret Donovan, a former Army JAG lawyer, discussed the impacts of Trump's war in Iran on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip on Wednesday. She noted that the war is having an impact both at home, due to the sharp rise in energy prices, and abroad, with U.S. allies in the region, who have expended a lot of their missile defense systems.

A CNN analyst was befuddled by the more than 2,000 videos he reviewed from the Jeffrey Epstein files that were released by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, said during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins that the files paint a "clear picture" of a "creepy guy" and raised questions about why so many people in his inner circle hung out with him. The videos show Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal, discussing some menial items like landscaping his properties, as well as interviews from a documentary that former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon was making about Epstein.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed horror that President Donald Trump moved to reopen his "vendetta" against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, threatening once again to fire him early, despite not having any clear statutory authority to do so.

"Mr. Trump is frustrated that his Administration’s criminal investigation into Mr. Powell over a cost overrun on a Fed building renovation is backfiring in a big way. Perhaps that’s what prompted his outburst in a Fox Business interview on Wednesday in which he doubled-down on his earlier threats to sack Mr. Powell," wrote the board. "If Mr. Powell doesn’t leave when his term as Chair ends on May 15, 'I’ll have to fire him,' the President said, adding 'I’ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial.'"

A legal expert was astounded by the "searing inconsistency" that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is showing in a high-profile case during a podcast interview on Wednesday.

The Trump DOJ recently filed a superseding indictment against Brian Cole Jr., who has been accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees before the Jan. 6 insurrection. The new indictment charged Cole with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and committing an act of terrorism.

Political analysts and observers mocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday after the New York Post published details of a bizarre science experiment he conducted as a kid.

The Post reported, citing a forthcoming book from Washington Post journalist Isabel Vincent, that Kennedy once pulled over the family car somewhere on I-684 while on a road trip so he could remove a raccoon's sex organs and "study them later." The book cites private journals that Vincent received from a source who knew Kennedy's late wife, Mary Kennedy, after Mary Kennedy's death.

A former Fox News host revealed a "scary" truth Wednesday underpinning President Donald Trump's latest shocking social media post during an interview on CNN.

On Sunday, Trump posted and then deleted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The photo also included pictures of military troops, the Statue of Liberty, and the American flag. The post sparked outrage among political analysts and observers, prompting Trump to eventually remove it.

A Fox News reporter was forced to admit to viewers on Wednesday that American enemies are helping Iran target U.S. troops.

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin told viewers of "Special Report" with host Bret Baier that the station had confirmed exclusive reporting from the Financial Times that showed Iran was receiving spy satellites from China, and the intel from which has been used to attack American military troops in the region. The report adds to a growing account that suggests President Donald Trump may be ignoring the impact adversarial countries like Russia and China are having in the war in Iran.

A Democratic senator excoriated her Republican colleagues during an interview on CNN on Wednesday for failing to rein in President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined CNN's Phil Mattingly on "The Lead" to discuss the war in Iran. Baldwin argued that Trump has broken promises to his voters by starting the war, yet Republicans have been unwilling to hold the president accountable in a meaningful way.