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‘Couldn’t care less’: Trump finally weighs in on deadly Iran war flare up

President Donald Trump finally weighed in Saturday on the deadly U.S.-Iran flare-up that has killed at least two U.S. service members, telling a NewsNation reporter he "couldn't care less" about reports that Iran walked away from the tentative ceasefire.

"I couldn't care less," Trump told NewsNation's Hannah Brandt by phone when asked about Iranian officials suspending the memorandum of understanding, Brandt wrote in a post on X.

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Firestorm ignites over Trump’s golf club ‘mingling’ as ‘zero IQ war’ claims American lives

As the deeply unpopular U.S. war against Iran heats up, claiming the lives of at least two U.S. service members on Friday, President Donald Trump was spotted at one of his golf clubs on Saturday, sparking outrage among critics.

Trump was spotted at the Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey on Saturday, per reporting from The Daily Beast, and the White House has repeatedly delayed its press pool call for reporters, “suggesting damage control behind the scenes.”

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Trump spotted at golf club as two US service members killed: report

President Donald Trump was spotted at his golf courses in Bedminster, New Jersey on Saturday as his deeply unpopular war against Iran claimed the lives of two U.S. service members just hours earlier, The Daily Beast reported.

“It was not clear if [Trump] had already been informed of the deaths, but a White House press pool call scheduled for noon was pushed back to 2 p.m., and then later to 4 p.m., suggesting damage control behind the scenes,” The Daily Beast’s report reads.

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Trump accidentally reveals he ‘knows’ he’s finished: analysis

President Donald Trump's much-hyped Thursday address focused almost entirely on supposed election security shortcomings, but according to a new analysis, it also inadvertently revealed that the president “knows” he and his party are in trouble ahead of the midterms.

Trump claimed during his primetime address that China had gained access to data on more than 200 million American voters, and that Homeland Security had identified 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in the United States, though experts have said the Trump administration had yet to provide concrete evidence supporting its claims.

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Trump aide's Venezuela fallback undone by CIA note he helped declassify: legal expert

Trump's declassification chief floated a Venezuela vote-fraud theory his own newly released CIA note flatly contradicts, a legal expert found.

The co-leader of President Donald Trump's declassification task force, John Solomon, made the slip-up moments after Trump wrapped up his primetime address on the renewed unfounded election meddling claims related to his 2020 election loss, legal reporter Adam Klasfeld said in an episode of Legal AF.

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Trump's eye-bulging meltdowns left biographer 'afraid': 'This is craziness'

A biographer recounted how witnessing President Donald Trump's furious meltdowns up close left him "afraid" and speechless.

During an episode of Inside Trump's Head, biographer Michael Wolff detailed what Trump looks like when he's angry and on one of his reported tirades. He was speaking about Trump's anger over losing the 2020 election when co-host Joanna Coles prompted Wolff to recount what he saw.

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'It's horrid': Legal expert warns about right-wing threats from Trump's tech allies

A civil rights lawyer warned that the influx of tech money in politics is giving way to extreme far-right ideas.

During an episode of Legal AF, Barbara Arnwine sounded the alarm, warning that civil rights in the United States face a greater threat because of the influence of "oligarchs" from the technology sector.

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Pardoned J6er humiliated after botched attempt to crash Dem campaign event

A pardoned January 6 rioter and MAGA influencer suffered humiliation after a failed attempt to crash a campaign event.

The frequently arrested Jake Lang showed up at a canvassing launch in Michigan for Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for Senate. El-Sayed's campaign posted a video of Lang standing up and yelling, "Why are you persecuting me?" during the event.

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'New potential whistleblower': Legal expert flags Trump tax lawyer ouster as major blow

The Trump administration's ouster of a top Internal Revenue Service attorney might have created a "new potential whistleblower" who could reveal "what is really going on in the White House," a legal expert warned Saturday.

Legal AF analyst Michael Popok, responding the Wall Street Journal report that top Treasury Department tax policy official Kenneth Kies had been forced out of his job, noted he "used to be Donald Trump's personal tax lawyer and lobbyist."

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'Due to Trump’s illegal war': U.S. service members' deaths met with despair and rage

News that two service members had been killed by direct Iranian fire rocked the nation on Saturday.

U.S. Central Command announced the two service member's death, a third's disappearance and four medical evacuations one day after a base was attacked in Jordon.

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Flailing MAGA candidate caught in crowd-size lie: 'A very Low-T move'

A scandal-plagued MAGA candidate fighting to preserve his party's majority in the Senate got caught lying about one of President Donald Trump's favorite topics: crowd size.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — whose political foibles include alleged election law violations and a London jaunt on the Fourth of July with a woman who is not his wife — has been caught in a boast that hundreds of people attended a campaign event, local and national reports show.

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'Battle it out in court': Trump's anti-NYT crusade gets checked by federal judge

A federal judge dealt President Donald Trump a setback by granting a reprieve to reporters he subpoenaed, per new reporting.

A federal judge gave a reprieve from upcoming testimony to the three New York Times reporters who were subpoenaed by the Trump administration after they reported on his Qatari jet problems, according to MS NOW journalist Lisa Rubin.

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'Alarm bells' ring in White House as lawyers try to track prediction market bets: report

The Trump White House is scrambling to ensure hundreds of aides aren't using inside information to get rich on prediction market bets, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

White House lawyers have been frantically grilling insiders ever since five anonymous Polymarket accounts made big bets that President Donald Trump and Iran would reach an initial ceasefire by the end of April, the Journal reported.

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