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White House inadvertently calls JD Vance 'dumb' while defending his glaring mistake

Online critics piled mockery on Vice President JD Vance, and the White House's attempt to defend him backfired.

On Wednesday, Vance held a press conference in Milwaukee where he spoke about Markita Barnes, a Wisconsin woman who was convicted of federal healthcare fraud. He propped up a poster-sized picture of Barnes, and in an attempt to denounce her, he pointed at her, saying, "Look at this woman in front with the smug look and the Louis Vuitton bag!"

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GOP lawmaker sued by ex-girlfriend for breaching settlement over abuse claims

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) is being sued by a former girlfriend over claims he violated a settlement agreement meant to silence her abuse allegations, even as he sues his ex-wife for making similar ones.

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham filed the suit Tuesday in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Miller sued Grisham in 2021 after she wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that a fellow White House staffer — widely identified as him — had physically abused her, according to court records.

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Clip of Trump's blunder-filled summit unsettles MS NOW: 'Something deeply wrong with him'

MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace opened her show Wednesday by rattling off what President Donald Trump had just told the world — the Iran ceasefire is over, all trade with Spain is cut off, and, in her recounting, "Japan is now apparently an Islamic republic."

She was reacting to Trump's rounds of news conferences at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, where the president mixed up Iran and Japan, claiming "111 missiles" had been fired at a U.S. aircraft carrier by the "Islamic Republic of Japan." Moments earlier, seated beside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump had gestured to him and asked reporters if they had a question for "President Putin." He also called TikTok "tic tac," branded Iran's leaders "scum," and declared the ceasefire over.

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'Flailing' Trump's latest humiliation proves he's 'in over his head': war expert

A national security expert tore into President Donald Trump's latest responses to questions about the Iran war and an embattled ceasefire.

In a Wednesday piece for The Atlantic, national security scholar Tom Nichols reacted to Trump's comments in the wake of renewed hostilities with Iran. Trump was asked on Wednesday morning whether the memorandum of understanding with Iran was dead.

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'Are you kidding?' Hometown paper in disbelief over bizarre decision by McConnell's wife

Sen. Mitch McConnell's hometown newspaper has a bone to pick with his wife, but not about the swirling rumors around his health.

In a Louisville Courier Journal column, opinion writer Joseph Gerth said he doesn't much care about the specifics of McConnell's condition, arguing the public doesn't need detailed health updates on one of 100 senators the way it would for a president. What he does want to know, however, is why Elaine Chao didn't come home.

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ICE's latest killing rings out 'haunting echo' in analyst's ears: 'See all too clearly'

The latest killing at the hands of President Donald Trump's immigration forces rang out a "haunting echo" in the ears of one political analyst.

On Tuesday, Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a stop in Houston, Texas. The agency claimed that the 52-year-old small business owner had "weaponized his vehicle in an attempt to run over an ICE law enforcement officer," a claim that was strongly refuted by Araujo's family during a press conference on Wednesday.

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GOP ex-gov bursts out laughing on MS NOW at Trump's 'way out there' insult for Democrats

President Donald Trump has a new strategy to protect the GOP in the midterms, where he is betting it all on attacking Democrats by painting them as communists — and former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), in conversation with MS NOW's Katy Tur, found it so weak as to be literally laughable.

"I know enough about Lenin and Marx to know that communism has not turned out well," said Tur. However, democratic socialism, the very leftmost wing of the Democratic Party, is something "people associate ... with Denmark. They associate it with the Nordic countries, maybe even France, where you have a pension, you have healthcare, etc.," and not Soviet breadlines or price controls.

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Trump's 'fabricated' claim during NATO stop blasted by analysts: 'Zero evidence'

Political analysts pounced on a false claim that President Donald Trump made during his most recent meeting with NATO allies.

Trump claimed during a press conference that the U.S. had "$19.2 trillion ... with a 'T'" that has been invested in the country during his second term. That money is being used to build "plants and equipment all over the country," a claim that some critics were skeptical of, considering the latest economic data showed all industries except for health care and social services experienced a decline in employment.

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Trump buried by experts over move to stop Carroll payment: ‘Have some self-respect!’

President Donald Trump's last-minute appeal of a court order to pay writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million cannot stop the money from going out the door, legal experts suggest.

Trump's lawyers filed a notice of appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals moments after U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the court clerk to release the funds Wednesday.

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'Anyone buy that?' MS NOW suspects Trump's bizarre Qatari jet answer was a 'cover story'

Anchor Katy Tur and an MS NOW panel spent Wednesday poking holes in President Donald Trump's explanation for his abrupt Qatari jet switcheroo.

After flying the Qatari-gifted jet to the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump announced he'd take the old Air Force One home instead.

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Unfolding disaster in DC as water turns brown at Trump's 'completely renovated' park

A park that President Donald Trump bragged that he had "renovated" for $16 million suddenly had its water turn a murky brown this week, the latest in a string of his D.C. beautification "disasters."

Meridian Hill Park — also known as Malcolm X Park — saw its iconic cascading fountain go from sparkling blue to a thick, opaque brown by Tuesday, just months after the National Park Service completed a full restoration.

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Trump ordered to hand over E. Jean Carroll's $5M after losing Supreme Court appeal: report

A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump to release the more than $5 million payment he owes to E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist who sued Trump for sexually abusing and defaming her, according to a new report.

CNN reported on Wednesday that Judge Lewis Kaplan told Trump to release the money, along with accrued interest, after the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump's appeal in the case. The payment is part of the civil verdict that found Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store in 1996, and then defamed her when he became president.

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