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President Donald Trump has all the impulses of a fascist autocrat — but there's a key weakness that stands in the way of achieving his goals of reshaping the nation, historian and professor Timothy Snyder told The Daily Beast.

Specifically, he argued, Trump and his inner circle are just too greedy and distracted by their personal wealth ambitions to make the long-term decisions that would help them achieve ideological goals.

With three Cabinet members ousted by Donald Trump since March 5, a handful of Republican senators are growing anxious for several reasons that the firing hammer is about to drop on more, in part because the president is in a “bad mood” with his administration flailing.

According to a report from Politico’s Jordain Carney, four GOP lawmakers are anticipating a purge in part because the midterms are coming up and, should the GOP lose control of the Senate, confirmation hearings under a Democratic majority would be problematic at best.

CNN host Abby Phillip noted on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration has entered an "extraordinary" moment as his base begins to turn against him over a new conspiracy theory.

Over the last week, Trump's MAGA base has begun to speculate that the assassination attempt against the president's life in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024 may have been staged. That happened at a time when the Trump administration is facing significant criticism for its handling of the war in Iran and its collateral impact on the American economy.

A GOP strategist panned the reportedly negotiated bailout for the ailing airline Spirit Airlines by President Donald Trump's administration during a CNN segment.

Shermichael Singleton, a GOP strategist, argued on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip that the $500 million bailout that Spirit and the Trump administration have been negotiating behind-the-scenes is a bad use of taxpayer money. The deal would include the U.S. government taking a stake in the company, which caused some of Trump's Republican colleagues to decry the president for spreading socialism.

Maggie Haberman of the New York Times said on Wednesday that the paper's leadership warned reporters that there may be more investigations conducted by President Donald Trump's FBI.

Haberman's comments came hours after the NYT reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had reviewed information the agency had about reporter Elizabeth Williamson after she published a report about the level of FBI security given to Patel's girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, and Patel's use of FBI jets to travel to see Wilkins.

The Wall Street Journal's editorial board on Wednesday blamed Donald Trump for the Democratic gerrymander that just cost Republicans up to four House seats in Virginia.

In a sharply critical editorial, the Journal's board laid the Virginia debacle squarely at Trump's feet, arguing that the president "started this rolling rock that has now come down on their heads" by goading Texas Republicans into redrawing their own map last year.

A former FBI official shredded FBI Director Kash Patel's claim on Wednesday that he was unaware his agency was probing a New York Times reporter who wrote an article critical of Patel and his girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins.

The NYT reported on Wednesday, citing a source inside the FBI, that the agency had started looking into reporter Elizabeth Williamson over the article, which raised questions about the amount of security Wilkins received and Patel's use of FBI jets to travel to see her. Wilkins described Williamson as a "stalker" in a post on X after the article was published. The FBI declined to pursue formal charges, the NYT added.

A Republican strategist's comments were sent into the abyss Wednesday on CNN as producers ended a segment while he was trying to respond to a Democratic strategist's claim.

David Urban, a Republican political operative, joined former Obama speechwriter David Axelrod on CNN's "AC360" on Wednesday, where the group discussed the upcoming November midterm elections. Host Anderson Cooper shared recent polling data showing that President Donald Trump's job approval has continued to sink since the war in Iran began in late February, and asked the two analysts for their reactions.

President Donald Trump received a tongue-lashing from the late Reverend Billy Graham's granddaughter on CNN on Wednesday over an AI-generated image the president posted of himself.

Last week, Trump posted, and then deleted, an image of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The image showed Trump dressed in a white robe with a red shawl, a common Christian symbol, and also included images of the Statue of Liberty and soldiers. Trump claimed the image made him look like a doctor.

CNN's Senior White House Correspondent, Kristen Holmes, reported on Wednesday that there is an unspoken reason Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth removed a Navy leader.

Holmes reported that Hegseth may have removed Navy Secretary John Phelan because of his proximity to President Donald Trump, rather than for any job-related reason, because he was a threat to Hegseth's power. Initial reports of Phelan's departure indicated Hegseth may have fired him because he was "too slow on ship reform," Holmes said.

A former federal prosecutor was astounded on Wednesday after a court cleared a "runway" to sue President Donald Trump.

Glenn Kirschner, host of the "Justice Matters" podcast, said during a new episode of "The Legal Breakdown," a podcast that Kirschner co-hosts with progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen, that a recent ruling from District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., could "clear the runway" for Trump to testify about his actions during the Jan. 6 insurrection. The civil lawsuit was filed by Democrats and law enforcement officials who contended that Trump incited the mob to storm the Capitol.

President Donald Trump's Republican Party stunned a journalist on CNN on Wednesday after a new report indicated that Republicans are seriously considering a "politically cancerous" pardon.

Politico reported that lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee are split over whether to approve a pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently serving a more than 20-year sentence for her role in his crimes.