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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.

The internet erupted on Wednesday after the New York Times reported on Kash Patel's new "Hoover-esque" investigation.

The Times reported that the FBI had begun investigating one of its reporters, Elizabeth Williamson, after she published a profile of Patel's girlfriend, country music singer Alexis Wilkins, that raised questions about the level of security Wilkins received and the amount of time Patel spent traveling to see her, using FBI jets. The agency declined to seek a formal investigation, according to the report.

President Donald Trump is preparing to throw a scripted tantrum at the White House Correspondents' Dinner this year, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

"Donald Trump will launch a 'revenge' attack on the White House media when he confronts them in person at a Washington dinner on Saturday night — then flee before there can be revenge," said the report. "He is expected to target publications that he has accused of writing negatively about his administration and his war with Iran, in particular, according to sources."