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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.

New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman recounted a moment on Sunday's episode of the podcast "Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso" that left the host doing a double-take: President Donald Trump, she said, did not realize how high his own tariffs on China had climbed.

The account comes from Regime Change, the book Haberman co-wrote with fellow Times reporter Jonathan Swan. She said the rate on Chinese goods reached 145% before the president registered how far it had gone, and that his reaction was disbelief.

An unresolved “huge issue” may soon spark “another fight” between President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) that “could explode” at any moment, The Hill reported Monday after speaking with multiple GOP strategists.

At the center of the conflict is Trump’s push for Congress to pass the SAVE Act, the controversial voter ID bill that’s been described by critics as a form of “voter suppression.” The bill has stalled in the Senate, much to the frustration of Trump.

Following the surprising death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) late Saturday night, MS NOW host Joe Scarborough attempted to set the record straight on Graham’s longtime friendship with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), which changed when Graham allied himself with Donald Trump.

Recalling his time in Congress when he served with Graham, the “Morning Joe” host admitted he had differences with Graham in his final years, repeatedly calling him a “shapeshifter.”

Political analysts sounded the alarm on Sunday over the Supreme Court sending President Donald Trump a "galling" signal in its most recent spate of rulings.

In Trump v. Barbara, the case seeking to invalidate birthright citizenship, four justices signaled they were willing to let Trump rewrite the meaning of the 14th Amendment by executive order, even though the case was decided 6-3 on paper. The Constitution requires amendments to be passed through a state convention process, with two-thirds of the states needing to ratify any changes.

Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) death on Saturday reveals the reason he sold out to support President Donald Trump in the first place was a "poignantly tragic" goal that Graham will never accomplish, according to one analyst.

Will Saletan, a writer at The Bulwark, said during a new episode of the podcast "Bulwark Takes," hosted by Sam Stein, the outlet's managing editor, that Graham seemed to sell out to Trump to protect the "soul" of the Republican Party. Saletan surmised that Graham sought to influence Trump from the inside rather than trying to browbeat the president from outside Congress.