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A former federal pardon attorney flagged the "cynical purpose" of President Donald Trump's latest batch of pardons during a podcast interview on Monday.

Liz Oyer, the former pardon attorney in the Biden Department of Justice, discussed Trump's decision to pardon five former NFL football players, one of whom was deceased, last week during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" with Joanna Coles. She argued that there was no legally justifiable reason for the pardons and noted that the five players were surprised to have been granted pardons because they had not applied for them.

President Donald Trump wants to project a certain image on the global stage, and some world leaders have learned how to use that to their advantage, according to one expert.

Trump wants to appear as a ruthless leader on par with strongmen like Russia's Vladimir Putin or China's Xi Jinping, according to Fiona Hill, Trump's Russia advisor during the first administration. Hill said during an interview on the "The Court of History" podcast on Monday that Trump's desire to be seen in this light gives world leaders a psychological advantage when they interact with the U.S. president, because they have turned that desire for adoration into currency.

The Justice Department's chaotic rollout of millions of Epstein files has exposed sensitive information about vulnerable victims, including the name of a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child, according to reporting from investigative journalist Roger Sollenberger.

The woman's identity appeared in at least one document that has since been redacted, Sollenberger reported on his Substack. However, he said another identifying detail remains unredacted in the database. She's uniquely marked "PROTECT SOURCE" in case files, a designation given to no other victim or witness in the Epstein files.

Republicans in vulnerable congressional districts are increasingly worried President Donald Trump has set a trap for his own party that is set to blow up in all their faces just before the midterms, Politico reported on Monday.

Specifically, after the Supreme Court struck down Trump's power to unilaterally issue tariffs under emergency powers law, Trump has scrambled to re-implement and double down on his import taxes — and Democrats have already moved for a devastating offensive with voters over the issue.

A MAGA media figure is about to cause "a whole lot more drama" for President Donald Trump, according to one analyst.

Last week, Tucker Carlson released an interview with Trump's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, where he accused a former Israeli Prime Minister of visiting the infamous Epstein Island and other remarks that left pro-Israel Republicans steamed, Will Sommer at The Bulwark reported on Monday. For instance, pro-Israel voices like Laura Loomer and Dave Rubin spoke out against Carlson's interview.

A CNN host was taken aback on Monday night after new details about Nancy Guthrie's abductor were revealed.

New video footage obtained by law enforcement shows that Guthrie's abductor visited the home a few days before she disappeared in early February. The alleged abductor can be seen in the video without his gun or the backpack that investigators have focused on in an attempt to identify the person.

Fox News host Jesse Watters was buried in mockery on Monday after he claimed that he doesn't like having a president who "struggles to read."

Watters, who co-hosts "The Five," was responding to comments California Gov. Gavin Newsom made during a public appearance alongside Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, both of whom are Democrats. Newsom said he is "just like" the people in the audience because he got a 960 on his SAT test in high school. Some MAGA commentators used the clip to attack Newsom.

A lawyer warned on Monday that President Donald Trump appears to have cooked up a "bad faith" scheme to meddle in the midterm elections.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration dispatched FBI agents and the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, to the Fulton County, Georgia, election office to retrieve data about the 2020 general election. The raid was predicated on an affidavit from an FBI agent who claimed there was evidence that the election was unfairly conducted. In response, Trump administration officials collected more than 700 boxes of data, including the election ballots and the county's voter rolls, which courts had denied them access to.

A legal expert warned on Monday that a federal judge's "egregious" ruling showed she has an absolute bias toward President Donald Trump.

Judge Aileen Cannon in Florida issued a ruling on Monday permanently preventing former special counsel Jack Smith's final report on his investigation into Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 general election from becoming public. In the ruling, Cannon compared Smith's report to other special counsel reports that had been released after an investigation concluded, and argued that releasing Smith's report would unfairly damage the president's reputation.

Chicagoans sent President Donald Trump a firm rebuke on Monday during the city's annual snowplow naming contest, according to a report.

Local news station WTTW reported on Monday that the name "Abolish ICE" won the city's snowplow naming contest, which the outlet described as a "humorous pun to efforts to oppose ... Trump’s mass deportation effort." Other names in the running included Stephen Coldbert, Pope Frío XIV, The Blizzard of Oz, Svencoolie, and Caleb Chilliams, a reference to the starting quarterback of the Chicago Bears.

Mark Epstein, the brother of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, abruptly ended an interview on Monday after he was asked about the victims of his brother's crimes.

Epstein joined journalist Piers Morgan on his eponymous YouTube show, where he was asked about the latest release of files from the FBI's investigation into his brother. Epstein claimed the files added credence to his theory that Jeffrey was murdered while in jail. He also claimed that the FBI has been playing "games" to portray his brother's death as a suicide.

President Donald Trump announced last week that a U.S. Naval hospital ship was en route to Greenland, sparking outrage at yet another imperialist move on the Danish territory despite its residents' repeated insistence they have no interest in joining the United States. Trump cited a supposed public health crisis going on in Greenland, without any details or explanation.

But according to the Wall Street Journal, no such hospital ship on the way.