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Trump boasts about paying for woman's surgery in odd exchange: 'I gave her a lot of money'

President Donald Trump got sidelined Monday during a solemn event to boast about having given “a lot of money” to a woman for eye surgery — a woman that the president singled out from the crowd.

Held at the White House, the event saw Trump officially declare Monday to be “Angel Family Day” in honor of the families of victims of crimes by undocumented migrants. Trump spoke at length about his immigration policy before spotting a woman in the crowd, prompting him to engage in the bizarre exchange.

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Supreme Court ruling won't stop Trump's 'evangelical' belief in tariff plan: analyst

Donald Trump may press on with his tariff policy irrespective of the Supreme Court's ruling, a political analyst has warned.

The president has made it clear he believes he has a right to carry out the economic policies of his administration, even after a 6-3 ruling against him. Following the court's ruling on February 20, Trump must now seek Congressional approval to raise and lower tariffs.

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Trump suggests he wants to send Americans 'that don't work' to other countries

President Donald Trump suggested he would like to load up Americans "that don't work" in caravans and send them to other countries.

At an event with so-called Angel Families on Monday, Trump claimed other countries had done exactly that to the U.S. — rounding up their unemployed and undesirable residents and sending them to the U.S.

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'Look at this drop!' Data guru gasps at 'eye-popping' Trump numbers

CNN's Harry Enten presented new polling that shows President Donald Trump's standing among one crucial voter group has cratered — and his colleague reacted to those "eye-popping" numbers.

The 79-year-old will deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday night, and Enten said the occasion finds Trump deep underwater in public approval.

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Judge Cannon permanently blocks Jack Smith report on classified docs at Mar-a-Lago

U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon issued a ruling blocking the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith's report, which centered on President Donald Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago following his first term in office.

Under Cannon's Monday order, the Department of Justice is prevented from "releasing, distributing, conveying, or sharing with anyone outside the Department of Justice any information or conclusions in Volume II or in drafts thereof."

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Trump advisors manipulating president by ‘playing’ on fears he’s inferior to Obama: report

As President Donald Trump appears poised to “pull the trigger” on launching a full-scale war with Iran at any moment, some of his top officials have been working behind the scenes to push the president into launching an attack by drawing comparisons to former President Barack Obama, Zeteo reported Monday.

The Trump administration has mobilized a colossal military force near Iran, the largest since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, all in the hopes of pressuring its leaders into making a deal on reducing its weapon capabilities. According to Vice President JD Vance, however, peace talks have reached an impasse over Iranian leadership’s refusal to "acknowledge" some of Trump’s “red lines.”

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Trump issues new threat to countries that abide by 'ridiculous Supreme Court' ruling

President Donald Trump issued a warning to "any country" that tried to use the Supreme Court's recent decision to buck his tariffs.

"Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court [sic] decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to," Trump wrote Monday morning on Truth Social.

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'Sick': Morning Joe flabbergasted as guest drops 'grotesque' DHS budget bombshell

During a discussion of blowback aimed at the Department of Homeland Security over chaos being created by out-of-control agents, Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) stunned the hosts of “Morning Joe” when he pointed out Secretary Kristi Noem has a bigger budget than the U.S. Marine Corp.

That led to a meltdown by co-host Joe Scarborough, who pointed out that US military veterans and active personnel are already getting shortchanged by Donald Trump’s administration.

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'Nitwits': Trump reverses Kristi Noem order as outrage meets TSA PreCheck shutdown

After a flurry of overnight outrage, President Donald Trump’s administration reversed plans to suspend the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program during a partial shutdown of the US Department of Homeland Security.

“At this time, TSA PreCheck remains operational with no change for the traveling public. As staffing constraints arise, TSA will evaluate on a case-by-case basis and adjust operations accordingly,” the agency said Sunday morning. “Courtesy escorts, such as those for members of Congress, have been suspended to allow officers to focus on the mission of securing America’s skies.”

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'You ruined our life': Trump superfans furious after husband locked up by ICE

A New Jersey woman expressed regret for her support of President Donald Trump after immigration agents picked up her husband and detained him for months.

Abdellatif Hafraoui was taken into custody in August at Newark airport, where he had his wife had planned to depart for a two-week vacation to Fort Myers, Florida, and three men in plain clothes and a woman who identified herself as an ICE agent hustled the handcuffed man to an unmarked van without telling his wife where they were headed, reported NJ.com.

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Republicans 'in for a world of hurt' after 'killer' Trump poll: conservative analyst

During an appearance on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” conservative journalist David Drucker suggested that, unless the Donald Trump White House makes a radical U-turn on some of his least popular policies, the Republican caucus can expect an apocalypse in November when voters go to the polls.

After co-host Jonathan Lemire reported the GOP lawmakers are likely “slamming their heads on their desks” after the president insisted he will bring back his unpopular tariffs after Friday’s Supreme Court 6-3 smack-down, Drucker agreed and cited a new Washington Post/ABC News/ IPSOS poll that shows the president’s approval numbers are in a death spiral.

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Unearthed email apparently from Trump's DOJ sparks frenzy: 'Murder of Jeffrey Epstein'

A 2020 email recently unearthed from the Justice Department’s release of 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein appears to show a DOJ attorney referring to Epstein’s death – officially ruled a suicide – as a “murder,” a revelation that sparked a frenzy among journalists.

Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City, New York on Aug. 10, 2019, and six days later, his death was ruled a suicide by Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson, despite several oddities surrounding the circumstances of his death.

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Trump charts 'politically perilous' course after Supreme Court bruising: columnist

After the Supreme Court invalidated President Donald Trump's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs, the president refuses to retreat, instead vowing to escalate duties even higher — a defiant move that exposes deep ideological commitments and poses significant political risks, according to an analyst.

The 79-year-old president intends to circumvent the court's ruling by employing alternative legal instruments – Section 232 national security tariffs and Section 301 trade practice tariffs – that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent framed as a temporary "bridge" to a more permanent tariff regime, wrote CNN's Stephen Collinson.

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