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'You're losing me here': Trump facing firestorm from fans over war on MTG

Donald Trump‘s decision to lash out and make personal attacks on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is setting off a civil war among MAGA followers who are taking sides and lamenting that the president is tearing their coalition apart.

After pulling his endorsement of the MAGA loyalist on Friday night, the president doubled down on Saturday morning and lumped her in with fellow conservatives who are also unhappy with his stance on the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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‘Green grass turns brown when it begins to rot!’ Trump goes all out against top MAGA ally

President Donald Trump lashed out against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Saturday for having "betrayed the entire Republican Party,” picking up where he left off Friday after pulling his endorsement of Greene and turning on the prominent MAGA figure amid disputes over Jeffrey Epstein.

“Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!), betrayed the entire Republican Party when she turned Left, performed poorly on the pathetic View, and became the RINO [Republican in name only] that we all know she always was,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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‘A good man!’ Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter celebrates second Trump pardon for unrelated charges

Dan Wilson, a Kentucky man who was indicted and later pardoned for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, received a second pardon Friday for unrelated felony gun charges, with his attorney celebrating President Donald Trump for his latest “act of mercy.”

“Dan Wilson is a good man. After more than 7 months of unjustified imprisonment, he is relieved to be home with his loved ones,” said Wilson’s attorneys George Pallas and Carol Taylor in a statement to Politico, the outlet reported Saturday. “This act of mercy not only restores his freedom but also shines a light on the overreach that has divided this nation.”

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‘You don’t care the president might be a pedophile?’: GOP advisor stuns panel with remarks

Republican strategist Angie Wong stunned CNN’s “Table for Five” Saturday after insisting that “real American voters” don’t care about Jeffrey Epstein and his deep connections to powerful figures, including President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump made a stunning announcement Friday that he would be asking his attorney general to launch a new investigation into Epstein’s ties with several prominent Democratic figures, a response to the outcry of calls for the Trump administration to release files it holds on Epstein. Those calls intensified this week after the House Oversight Committee released a trove of new files that included several new revelations about Trump’s past ties with Epstein.

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'Rattled' Trump taking new approach to keep his base from turning on him: report

Donald Trump is finding out the hard way that anything he says about teen sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein and the notorious files the DOJ is sitting on, which are at the center of a brutal fight in Congress, is not helping his case with his base so he is being forced to change his normal strategy as he tries to rally them to his defense.

According to a report from MS NOW’s Zeeshan Aleem, the president is now visibly “rattled” that he can't make the controversy go away, so in recent days he has been keeping his distance from reporters because his off-the-cuff answers have been blowing up in his face.

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‘Extraordinary rebuke’: Judge torches Trump's sweeping push against major university

A federal judge delivered a blistering blow to the Trump administration on Friday, ordering officials to stop using the threat of massive research funding cuts to coerce the University of California into accepting sweeping viewpoint-based restrictions – a tactic she said violated the First Amendment, the New York Times reported.

Judge Rita F. Lin of the Federal District Court in San Francisco said the administration’s pressure campaign had veered into outright retaliation and barred the government “from seeking payments” or tying federal dollars to ideological conditions in its investigations of the 10-campus UC system.

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'Beginning of the end': Internet erupts as Trump turns on Marjorie Taylor Greene

Social media erupted Friday night after President Donald Trump and his one-time MAGA ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) publicly turned on each other in a stunning and highly public meltdown.

The fallout began after Trump abruptly withdrew his endorsement of Greene and accused her of veering “far left” – a break few in the conservative movement ever expected. Greene quickly fired back with an extended statement less than an hour later, accusing Trump of lying, panicking over the looming release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and trying to intimidate GOP lawmakers.

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Trump admin threatens Colorado in bid to spring imprisoned election denier

The Trump administration is taking steps to threaten the state of Colorado, in an attempt to compel the release of an infamous former Mesa County elections clerk serving a nine-year prison sentence for an illegal scheme to try to prove President Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories.

According to 9 News, "The Colorado Department of Corrections confirms it received notice from the Federal Bureau of Prisons on Nov. 12, a concrete move toward a speculative strategy" to spring Tina Peters. "President Trump cannot pardon the former Mesa County clerk, who is serving a nine-year prison term on state charges for a scheme to sneak fellow election deniers into Colorado’s voting systems in a search for election rigging."

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'I don't worship him': MAGA civil war erupts as MTG hits Trump with blistering response

Less than an hour after President Donald Trump lashed out at one of his most ardent MAGA allies, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican fired back with a blistering statement of her own.

In a post to X, Greene continued the public MAGA feud by accusing Trump of lying, panicking over the looming release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, and trying to intimidate GOP lawmakers.

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'Ranting lunatic!' Enraged Trump revokes endorsement of top MAGA ally

President Donald Trump lashed out Friday evening at longtime ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), signaling a dramatic rupture in one of the staunchest MAGA relationships in Congress.

Greene, a loyal Trump supporter for years, has in recent weeks become one of his sharpest critics, questioning earlier Friday whether he remains an “American First” president.

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'Stuck with a loser!' Trump sends venomous message to Republican's new wife

A rebel Republican and his new wife received a venomous note Friday night from President Donald Trump following their wedding announcement.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a frequent thorn in Trump's side, recently announced his marriage to Carolyn Grace Moffa, a former staffer for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

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Trump brutally mocked over stunning tariff 'admission': 'Thought they were lowering costs'

Donald Trump quietly rolled back tariffs on beef, coffee, and tropical fruit Friday – a dramatic retreat from one of his signature second-term policies. The move comes amid mounting pressure on his administration to address high grocery prices.

But while the president may have rolled them back without much fanfare, the move didn’t go unnoticed as opponents on Capitol Hill and across social media were paying attention.

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'This is murder': Family of slain fisherman vows to sue over Trump's lethal boat strikes

Family members of a Colombian fisherman killed in one of the Trump administration’s illegal strikes on boats in the Caribbean is preparing to take legal action over what they describe as the murder of their loved one.

The New York Times reported Thursday that the family of Alejandro Carranza “has hired an American lawyer, who said he was preparing a legal claim.”

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