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US ally in 'state of panic' over Trump's betrayal: ex-CIA official

According to former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which has set off a deluge of criticism within the Republican Party, has left the leadership of Israel in a state of shock.

Appearing on MS NOW with “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Polymeropoulos, who just returned from Tel Aviv, claimed he found a sense of betrayal during his visit. Geist prompted the 26-year veteran of the CIA with, “Marc, take us to Tel Aviv this morning. And what Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking; that he got his man in the White House in Donald Trump, that he went to the Situation Room, sold the war successfully. He thought that Donald Trump, the United States military, would come in and finish off Iran, take out the regime, and now he sits here this morning with this memorandum of understanding anyway, with explicit language that says there can be no attacks on Lebanon.”

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Trump's ballroom raids $350M meant for Secret Service: report

President Donald Trump's administration is quietly diverting over $350 million from the Secret Service to pay for "security" elements in the president's White House ballroom project.

According to The Washington Post, the Office of Management and Budget "did not specify the purpose of the unusually large shift in response to questions on Wednesday." However, an anonymous source involved with the budget for the Secret Service "told The Washington Post the funding was to help pay for a new White House East Wing that includes a large ballroom."

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Trump praises comparison of himself to 'Hitler, Mao, and Stalin': 'Sounds good to me!'

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform this week to praise a historian who compared him to murderous 20th-century dictators.

The president screenshotted a lengthy quote from someone referred to as David King, identified as a "presidential historian" which compared historic “powerful” people known for “brutal conquest and the fear that they instilled in the populations” during their reigns.

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Republicans enduring '35 stage of grief' over Trump's deal: journalist

Donald Trump's highly controversial Iran peace deal is causing the Republican Party no small measure of angst, with conservative journalist David Drucker half-jokingly stating on MS NOW that the GOP is caught up in the throes of the “35 stages of grief" — a far cry from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "5 stages of grief" when death approaches.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” the conservative “The Dispatch” pundit attempted to explain how Republicans — with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) leading the charge — are laboring to defend the president just moments after co-host Mika Brzezinski read off widespread criticisms of the president and his deal from GOP lawmakers and conservative media outlets.

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Morning Joe 'aghast' at Trump's off-hand remark: 'Wait, what?'

Reacting to remarks Donald Trump made at a press conference in France on Wednesday that he could easily start bombing Iran again just before signing a peace deal with the war-torn country, left MS NOW’s Mika Brzezinski baffled and appalled.

MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” began with a clip of the president standing between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, with Trump remarking, “It's a memorandum of understanding. If it doesn't get done in 60 days, that's all right. We go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good, but we might have to because we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. But they've agreed not to and you'll see that very clearly in the agreement.”

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Trump's 'daily distractions' drown out GOP priorities and threaten majority: report

President Donald Trump's years-long crusade against election fraud is sparking fears inside his own party that he's about to sabotage their chances of hanging on to the Senate.

The 80-year-old president has been on a tear, demanding the so-called SAVE America Act get rammed through Congress by whatever means necessary, even if it means torching the Senate filibuster or firing the chamber's parliamentarian to get there, reported Politico.

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'His time is already almost over': Op-ed claims Trump just signaled his own decline

A column in the British newspaper The i Paper delivered a withering verdict on President Donald Trump's memorandum of understanding with Iran, arguing the agreement reads less like a triumph than a surrender.

"There is no hiding that this is the kind of deal you sign when you've lost a war and just want to get out," wrote James Ball, political editor at The New World.

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'Boiling point': Trump's relationship with Senate GOP frays as he 'takes shots' at leader

Republicans are at a "boiling point" over tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leadership, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday morning.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been "bearing the brunt of the fallout from Trump’s erratic behavior, expressing his frustrations with the president in an intentional but very reserved manner," said the report.

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Trump snaps at 'fools' over Iran deal in middle of the night tirade

After a full day of criticism of his Iran peace deal, President Donald Trump finally had enough and went off on Truth Social in the wee hours of the morning.

As Republicans and Democrats alike have lined up against him, with Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writing on X, “If this is true, Iran wins,” after details were released, the president labeled his critics “fools.”

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'Dumbest man in the Senate': Tommy Tuberville mocked after Trump remarks on Fox Business

A GOP senator is being torched online after he tried to reassure people that the Trump administration knows what it's doing.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was asked during an appearance on Fox Business how he feels about Trump's embattled deal to end the Iran war.

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Ex-MAGA insider warns Trump headed for 'five-stage denialism' after his biggest flop yet

A former top MAGA White House aide warned that Trump is headed for "five-stage denialism" after his biggest flop yet.

Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former White House communications director, made the prediction during an interview on The Daily Beast Podcast while talking about the recently announced Iran deal.

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Trump buried in mockery over plan that could cost Republicans everything in Georgia

President Donald Trump got his chosen candidate in the U.S. Senate race in Georgia, where Rep. Mike Collins clinched the nomination last night — and he plans to go all in on supporting him.

In the same post where the president trashed incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and came up with an obscene nickname for him, Trump vowed that he will be holding campaign rallies in the state to help Collins, saying, "I’ll be doing Big TRUMP Rallies for Mike in Georgia!"

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'Does it?' Wall Street Journal editors raise questions over key issue in Trump's Iran deal

The conservative editorial board of the Wall Street Journal raised questions about a key term included in the Memorandum of Understanding struck by President Donald Trump's administration and the Iranian regime over the weekend.

On Sunday, Trump announced that he had agreed to a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz immediately and for 60 days thereafter, as the administration and the Iranians continue negotiating to end the war. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed since the war began in late February, roiling the global economy and fueling inflation in the U.S.

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