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Trump DOJ submits — and quickly rescinds — subpoena of president's political foe: report

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice submitted — and then quickly rescinded — a subpoena for one of the president's perceived political foes, according to a new report.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that U.S. prosecutors working to determine whether former CIA Director John Brennan lied to Congress rescinded a recent subpoena to have Brennan testify before a grand jury. The rescission occurred when Trump removed his former attorney general, Pam Bondi, from her post after she failed to indict several of the president's perceived enemies, such as former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

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'There will be some changes': MAGA senator delivers ominous prediction for Trump's Cabinet

MAGA Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) predicted that "more changes" are coming to the Trump administration during a new interview on CNN.

Kennedy joined CNN's Kasie Hunt on "The Arena" on Tuesday, where the two discussed the recent departure of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer following allegations of impropriety by DeRemer and her husband. DeRemer is the third cabinet secretary to leave the Trump administration this year. The other two are former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

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'He's a moron!' CNN conservative fumes after ex-Fox News host apologizes for Trump support

MAGA commentator Scott Jennings had a stinging response to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson's comments that he was regretful for supporting President Donald Trump.

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt asked Jennings to comment on Carlson's remarks that he would be "tormented" by his decisions to endorse Trump, which led to a heated exchange between the two during the live broadcast. Carlson had issued a public apology Monday for having supported Trump in the 2024 election, telling his millions of followers that he was “sorry for misleading people.”

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'Don't want to tell you jack!' Right-wing reporter gets vulgar retort from irked Dem

LindellTV reporter Alison Steinberg got an earful from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) after she pressed her for details about her finances.

While Omar was waiting outside an elevator at the Capitol on Tuesday, Steinberg approached the lawmaker about "discrepancies" on her financial disclosures.

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Fed-up Senate Republican uncorks ultimatum for Trump — threatening president's own nominee

A GOP senator said he would like to vote to confirm the nominated chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, but demanded the Department of Justice first back off.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Warsh during his confirmation hearing on Tuesday that "the only thing I’ve found the least bit odd about you is you’ve never watched an episode of Seinfeld," but he can't vote to approve the Trump appointee because of a DOJ "investigation" into current Fed Chairman Jerome Powell.

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Trump warned he just gave away his leverage in Iran negotiations

President Donald Trump received a stern warning from a journalist covering the war in Iran during a segment on CNN on Tuesday.

Barak Ravid, a journalist and Middle East expert for Axios, warned Trump during an interview on CNN's "The Arena" with Kasie Hunt that Trump had just given his leverage away in negotiations to end the war in Iran by announcing on social media that he had extended the ceasefire between the two countries.

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'Disgusting': Fury as MAGA CEO of military tech firm calls to reinstate national draft

A political analyst was outraged on Tuesday when a giant Trump-aligned security company urged the U.S. government to reinstate the national draft.

Krystal Ball, co-host of the "Breaking Points" podcast on YouTube, discussed several points from Alex Karp's book, "The Technological Republic," in which the CEO of Palantir called for Americans to share in the cost of war and for national service to be a universal duty in a new episode. Ball was repulsed by the idea that a private company with U.S. military contracts could try to force average Americans into military service.

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Trump extends ceasefire with Iran after vowing 'to be bombing' if negotiations stalled

President Donald Trump announced that he was extending a ceasefire with Iran just hours after he threatened to bomb the country if negotiations stalled.

"Based on the fact that the Government of Iran is seriously fractured, not unexpectedly so and, upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan, we have been asked to hold our Attack on the Country of Iran until such time as their leaders and representatives can come up with a unified proposal," Trump said in a Tuesday Truth Social post.

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Trump DOJ official blames DEI after ignoring GOP lawmaker's arrest warrant for assault

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin argued that Washington, D.C., DEI policies were to blame after he refused to comply with an arrest warrant for Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL).

Last year, the Metropolitan Police responded to the report of a domestic assault at Mills' apartment. Although no arrest was made at the time, a warrant was later forwarded to the D.C. U.S. Attorney's office, which Martin was leading.

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Staunch Trump ally may bring down embattled Republican: report

Roger Stone, who has influenced the Republican Party since Richard Nixon's presidency, has apparently pushed Republicans to remove Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) from office.

The longtime advisor to President Donald Trump reportedly told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that it was time for Mills to step down, The Daytona News Journal reported. While Democrats have led calls for Mills to resign or face expulsion, Stone has now publicly called for Mills to withdraw and leave Congress.

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'Predator': Right-wing podcast concludes Trump is a 'sociopathic abuser'

Right-wing podcaster Shannon Joy concluded that President Donald Trump was a "predator" after speaking to former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about her fallout with the commander-in-chief.

In a Tuesday interview with Joy, Greene recounted how Trump had attacked her after she pushed for the release of files on Jeffrey Epstein.

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MS NOW appalled as GOP turns hearing for ex-Trump lawyer into a 'trip into bizarro world'

President Donald Trump's former attorney Jeffrey Clark testified Tuesday on Capitol Hill, with Republicans giving him a platform to challenge former special counsel Jack Smith's investigation, an MS NOW analyst reported.

Ken Dilanian, MS NOW justice and intelligence correspondent, pointed out how Clark, who played a key role in Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election and was pardoned by the president in 2025, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Smith's investigation into the fake electors scheme as Republicans were continuing to take on Smith's probe. Democrats argue Clark continues to promote conspiracy theories.

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Home state voters overwhelmingly approve of Noem firing: 'She couldn't hang on'

Any hope that fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem may have about returning to her home state of South Dakota to pick up the pieces and run for office again one day likely expired on Tuesday.

According to South Dakota News Watch reporting on polling conducted by the Chiesman Center for Democracy, roughly 3 in 4 South Dakotans approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire Noem from her role as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The polling firm surveyed 500 registered voters across party affiliation between April 7-9 and found that 76 percent of respondents agreed with Trump's move, while 59 percent of South Dakotans disapproved of her performance as head of the DHS.

Noem was already politically vulnerable before the firing. The former governor and former U.S. House representative was on shaky ground when she accepted Trump's DHS nomination — but her reputation was already severely damaged by an admission in her book, "No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward," that she killed an unruly puppy by placing it in a gravel pit and shooting it.

Brad Coker, founder of Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy, explained how the collapse occurred: "I think she was already starting to slip. Trump gave her a lifeline, and she wasn't able to hold on to the lifeline."

The puppy admission poisoned her standing with voters across the political spectrum. "Republicans have dogs too. It wasn't something that just offended the left," Coker noted, explaining that the brutal disclosure damaged her support even among her own party base.

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