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'Very nasty!' Trump lashes out at ABC News over 'hostile' interview with Vance

President Donald Trump lashed out at ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during a meeting with Argentine President Javier Milei and Cabinet officials.

On Sunday, Stephanopoulos spoke to Vice President JD Vance and asked whether a top Trump official, Tom Homan, kept the $50,000 bribe that the FBI taped him accepting.

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'They're lying!' Mike Lindell flips out at Republican-led company after Dominion purchase

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell went ballistic after a Republican-owned company purchased Dominion Voting Systems, which was suing him for defamation over claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.

Before purchasing Dominion, Liberty Vote required the company to settle many of its lawsuits against President Donald Trump's allies. However, Lindell was not included in the group of settlements.

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Bombshell report reveals leaked GOP chat filled with racist jokes and rape fantasies

A treasure trove of leaked Telegram chats among the leadership of the Young Republicans exposed a mixture of racist comments, rape fantasies, and suggestions on how to drive their opponents to suicide.

According to a bombshell report from Politico’s Jason Beeferman and Emily Ngo, there were jokes about “loving Hitler,” how to construct gas chambers, with one woman, Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, chiming in with, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

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'Amazing': Pam Bondi under fire after 'bragging' about social media takedown orders

Attorney General Pam Bondi is under fire for telling Facebook parent company Meta to remove content on the social media site.

Bondi claimed that a Facebook group posts public photos of federal agents, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, that identify them.

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'Collective heart attack': Legal experts sound alarm over Supreme Court's 'green light'

Legal experts are having a "collective heart attack" — and no one is more responsible for enabling a radicalized second term for President Donald Trump and "legal emergency" than the U.S. Supreme Court, an analyst said on Tuesday.

Some people have suggested we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis, Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton wrote.

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Trump boasts 6 dead in another drug boat strike

President Donald Trump Tuesday boasted that another six people are dead after an alleged drug boat strike in the Caribbean Sea.

Trump announced the news on his Truth Social platform:

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'Vile' attacks signal massive No King protests have 'Trump really, really worried': report

The impending No Kings protests scheduled for this weekend have President Donald Trump “really, really worried,” argued journalist Greg Sargent on Tuesday, adding that Trump’s panic was made evident by what he described as a “coordinated” effort from Republicans to dismiss the demonstrators as “terrorists.”

The No Kings protests are scheduled for this Saturday, Oct. 18, and are a follow up to the previous No Kings protests that took place last summer, attended by an estimated four-to-six million people.

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Leaked DHS classified memo reveals new target for Trump surveillance

A leaked joint memo from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security reveals that the Trump administration may place peaceful protests under heightened surveillance, citing concerns over such protests harboring “domestic violent extremists."

Obtained by journalist Ken Klippenstein, the leaked memo was disseminated Oct. 1 to law enforcement agencies across the country and is classified as a “law enforcement sensitive” document.

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'Melting brain or melted soul?' Eyebrows raised over 'objectively insane' Trump post

One of President Donald Trump's latest social media posts alarmed a veteran journalist, who described the outburst as possible signs of mental infirmity.

The president bizarrely claimed over the weekend that Joe Biden might have been involved in placing 274 FBI agents into the crowd at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which he called a "scam" that required action – "do something!" he implored in all-caps – and The Bulwark's White House correspondent Andrew Egger examined his statements.

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'Applauded for simply showing up': Ivanka buried over treaty signing star turn

The decision by Ivanka Trump to dip her toe back into politics by appearing at the Gaza ceasefire treaty signing on Monday — which she had nothing to do with — left one observer cold.

The so-called “first daughter” has been out of the political spotlight despite her father having won a second presidential term on a third try, retiring to her $24 million mansion on Miami's Indian Creek Island where she frequently posts exercise, surfing and fitness videos on Instagram.

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Eric Trump insists 'heaven-bound' dad's mission is 'saving God'

Eric Trump insisted that his father is "saving God" in the days before he goes to heaven.

During a Tuesday interview with MAGA influencer Benny Johnson, Eric Trump said that the "siege" against his father was worth it because he was now "heaven-bound."

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'Doesn't sound like winning': Ex-Trump aide taunts Congress

President Donald Trump's former communications director warned that the ongoing battle between the White House and Congress "doesn't sound like winning."

In Tuesday's episode of "The View," the co-hosts addressed Speaker Mike Johnson's speech demanding Democrats stop their efforts to have healthcare subsidies attached to the government funding bill. He characterized it as "partisan demands" that are holding the government "hostage." Those subsidies are set to sunset at the end of the year, increasing the cost of health insurance for many Americans.

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Mike Johnson decries 'naked bicyclers' in Portland as 'most threatening thing I've seen'

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) insisted that federal agents' abuse of force had not risen to the level of congressional investigations after a judge barred the Department of Homeland Security from using specific tactics against faith leaders and journalists.

During a press conference on Tuesday, one reporter told Johnson that federal agents had been seen shooting pepper balls at the targets.

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