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Just hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday night of a sudden illness, President Donald Trump told NBC News he already had “somebody great” in mind to replace him on an interim basis, and on Monday, finally revealed that person's identity.

“I recommended, to [South Carolina GOP] Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!”

Goldman Sachs' messy attempt to move past a damaging scandal related to Jeffrey Epstein has just gotten messier.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, attorney Kathryn Ruemmler, general counsel for the financial giant, was supposed to move on after her ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became public and too embarrassing to ignore.

President Donald Trump uttered a remark Sunday “that didn’t get nearly enough attention,” according to the "Jim Acosta Show" Substack, one that saw “the mask slip in a bombshell moment” that carried with it a troubling implication.

Trump called into NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday to discuss the recent and sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and while the bulk of the discussion centered on the South Carolina Republican, Trump snapped at NBC News' Kristen Welker when she briefly steered the conversation elsewhere.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of Iran and be "reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped" through the Strait of Hormuz, a levy he did not explain.

Trump said the strait itself would stay open to every country other than Iran. Hours earlier, in a call-in to Fox News, he said: "We're taking over the strait. They've got nothing." He added that the US would "probably run it" and "get paid for guarding it — a lot of money."

ICE agents killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning, then quickly surrounded the body while state and federal investigators rushed to the scene.

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-ME), who represents Biddeford, confirmed the killing in a Facebook post.

Todd Blanche, Trump's acting attorney general and former personal lawyer, faces a newly precarious path to permanent confirmation following the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

Graham's sudden death at 71 on Saturday removes a crucial ally from the Senate Judiciary Committee just days before the panel is scheduled to hold a high-stakes confirmation hearing for Blanche, with Republicans facing the prospect of a defection killing the nomination.

President Donald Trump hijacked a Fox News tribute to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), ranting about voter fraud for four minutes while falsely claiming Graham had been warming to killing the Senate filibuster.

Graham, a South Carolina Republican, died Saturday at 71 of a sudden aortic dissection, hours after returning from Ukraine. Fox News had Trump on Monday morning to pay tribute.

Republican senators, already looking past the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), are frantically searching within their own caucus for someone who can fill the late senator’s role as the “Trump whisperer.”

According to a report from Politico, Republicans are in a state of quiet panic following Graham's passing because it has exposed a critical vulnerability in the GOP's relationship with the president: no other senator possesses his particular combination of Trump's personal trust, legislative experience, and dealmaking prowess. According to internal discussions, his loss reportedly could leave Trump even more isolated and prone to impulsive decisions.

President Donald Trump launched into a bizarre and at times flattering rant Monday about Thomas Crooks, the man who attempted to assassinate him in 2024 during a rally in Pennsylvania.

Calling into Fox News’ “Fox & Friends,” Trump was asked about a recent report documenting the failings of the Secret Service on the day of the attempted assassination in Butler, Pennsylvania. While telling “Fox & Friends” that the Secret Service “blew Butler,” he also praised the Secret Service agents who shielded him with their own bodies after Crooks had fired his first of eight shots at the president.

Veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn used his weekend column in The i Paper to argue that President Donald Trump's second term has normalized the killing of civilians, and that the administration's conduct resembles organized crime.

"For the US government, casual butchery of the innocent has become the norm," Cockburn wrote in the Saturday piece.

Add to the growing list of conservatives who have been turned off by Vice President JD Vance: influential Jewish donors with deep pockets who are furious about his criticisms of Israel.

According to a report from Politico, Vance is facing a brewing rebellion from powerful Republican donors and pro-Israel activists who view his foreign policy positions as a betrayal of the party's traditional unwavering support for the Jewish state.

The decision by the Trump administration to go after New York Times reporters with subpoenas after they reported on the critical vulnerabilities with a Qatari plane gifted to the president was hammered on MS NOW on Monday morning.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” an incensed Jim VandeHei, founder of Axios, claimed the decision to fly the luxury jet into the Middle East put the president and the nation at risk.

A chorus of criticism erupted Sunday evening over a televised phone interview between CNN’s Jake Tapper and President Donald Trump, an interview that some described as “pathetic.”

Calling into CNN’s “State of the Union,” Trump appeared to dictate much of the interview after refusing to answer certain questions, and with little pushback from Tapper.