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Former Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois said on Sunday that he knows what the mystery drones actually are, prompting MAGA outrage.

Kinzinger, who recently hit Donald Trump with a challenge of his own after the president-elect said Kinzinger should be jailed, told CNN on Sunday that the "drones" people are seeing are just airplanes. The drones have been reported across the Northeastern part of the United States.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina stirred things up in MAGA world over the weekend when he suggested that Donald Trump's current strategy for backing his nominees could backfire.

Tillis gave an interview with Fox News, during which he spoke out about Trump's pressure campaign to get his controversial nominees, such as Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth, confirmed. Tillis said it's a risky strategy that could come back to bite the incoming president.

Donald Trump on Sunday was warned by a Republican Senator that the President-elect's current strategy for pushing his Cabinet nominations could backfire.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) gave an interview with Fox News over the weekend, during which he spoke out about Trump's pressure campaign to get his controversial nominees confirmed. Tillis said it's a risky strategy that could come back to bite the incoming president.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is experiencing heat from the MAGA wing of the Republican party after publicly contradicting Donald Trump.

Graham said in an interview that he didn't believe government officials who investigated Trump's connections to the events of Jan. 6 while he was still in office the first time, such as Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, deserved prison time.

Tailgaters who attended the annual Army-Navy game had little to say about president-elect Donald Trump bringing a posse of his insiders to the game on Saturday, with most telling the Washington Post they were there for football and not politics.

According to the Post report from Emily Davies and Leigh Ann Caldwell, one admitted Trump voter, Gregg Holgate, 56, wasn't interested in talking about the man he just help elect, telling them it wasn't a topic of conversation outside the stadium.

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) faced backlash from Laura Loomer, an insider close to President-elect Donald Trump, after he endorsed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee.

During a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Arthel Neville noted that Comer was a "member of the AOC fan club."

Fox News pundit Lucy Caldwell called out OutKick founder Clay Travis after he called Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary nominee, an alleged "womanizer" instead of acknowledging sexual assault allegations.

During a Sunday panel discussion on Fox News, Travis condemned media coverage of Hegseth's nomination.

Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin took Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to task for recently giving a speech where he took a swipe at Donald Trump "America first" policies he plans to implement after he is sworn in next year.

In a recent speech, the senior Republican never mentioned the president-elect's name but told a crowd in California, "But let’s be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline."

During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade raised red flags over Donald Trump's appointment of Truth Social exec Devin Nunes as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.

Speaking with MSNBC fill-in host Melissa Murray, the former prosecutor claimed that, with all of the president-elect's problematic nominations, allowing Nunes access to sensitive intel secrets may be the worst of all.

McQuade got right to the point, calling the appointment, "A shocking, astonishing, disturbing, and fill in your descriptor, conflict of interests."

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"As chairman, Devin Nunes will have access to all of the intelligence that is gathered by the intelligence community," she explained. "The idea is that he is supposed to be the president's eyes and ears over the intelligence community. With that information, and simultaneously serving as the head of Truth Social, it means he has the ability to post things he shouldn't know but also as Rick Wilson points out, the fact that Truth Social receives funding from foreign governments, while they are also targets of our intelligence come is deeply disturbing."

"If someone had to go through a routine background investigation, those conflicts would be flagged with screaming sirens and I would imagine that most presidents, most offices of personnel management would find him to be a nonstarter," she added.

"But here we have Donald Trump putting [him] in place, knowing about this conflicts," she suggested. "I think of all of the appointments, this conflict might be the most disturbing."

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he expects former Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be confirmed as President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary unless someone comes forward to confirm anonymous allegations about alleged drinking problems and sexual assault.

"I'm in a good place with Pete, unless something I don't know about comes out," Graham told NBC's Kristen Welker on Sunday. "These allegations are disturbing, but they're anonymous."

During a discussion on the wide array of Donald Trump's more than problematic Cabinet nominees, former RNC chair Michael Steele finally had enough and ripped into GOP lawmakers who he claims will rubber-stamp every one of them.

According to Steele, now co-host of MSNBC's "The Weekend," the nominee's visits with Republican senators is nothing less than a "sham."

"It is such a farce!" he exclaimed. "These people are so full of it, they are going to sit down, they are going to pontificate and they going to bend over and kiss the behind on this process and that is how this will play out."

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"All of this drama right now, 'I have concerns,' is just crap because they don't have the will to do the right thing on [Kash] Patel, Tulsi Gabbard or RFK Jr. or on anyone else who is ill-equipped and unfit to serve in these important positions," he asserted.

"And the American people will be sitting back here in 18 months going, 'Well, what the hell happened?'" he predicted.

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