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Rep. Jamie Raskin said the Founding Fathers would be speechless at Republican lawmakers' refusal to hold President Donald Trump accountable, and lamented that the Constitution simply wasn't built for a president like him.

The Maryland Democrat and lead House manager in Trump's Jan. 6 impeachment trial made the claim in a wide-ranging interview on Slate's Amicus podcast, arguing that the Framers never imagined partisanship would override Congress members' loyalty to their own branch of government.

The paltry turnout to see and hear Vice President JD Vance at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia on Tuesday amused longtime campaign consultant Mark McKinnon who, after smirking, observed to an MS NOW host that the Donald Trump White House should take note.

Earlier on MS NOW, scenes of the mostly empty arena on the campus on the University of Georgia led to laughter on “Morning Joe,” and McKinnon piled on when talking to host Chris Jansing in the afternoon by noting that no one apparently wanted to hear Vance’s defense of the war on Iran.

Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet suggested liberals were to blame after Vice President JD Vance was mocked for a small crowd at a Tuesday TPUSA event.

Speaking on the Wednesday Charlie Kirk Show, Kolvet explained that the venue at the University of Georgia could hold around 10,000 people, while only 2,000 students showed up to hear Vance. The Associated Press noted that the arena was "mostly empty."

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) argued that there was a "good chance" of Republicans losing the midterms because they "ain't done nothing" while having control of Congress.

"Everything that goes on up here, Benny, is about, oh, we got to get reelected," Tuberville told MAGA influencer Benny Johnson on Wednesday. "We got to keep the majority. Well, h---, we ain't done anything in the majority. Why should we keep majority?"

Former Donald Trump biographer and current Bloomberg Opinion executive editor Tim O’Brien told an MS NOW host on Wednesday that the president is likely unconcerned with the furor he is creating with his social media obsession with Jesus, but his inner circle is being put on the spot with nowhere to turn.

Appearing with host Anna Cabrera, O’Brien noted that the president’s relationship with Christianity, dating back to his childhood, is tenuous at best and that he may not understand how deeply offensive his likening himself to the son of god is to true believers and those who may not be religious but have an abiding respect for the teachings of Jesus.

House Speaker Mike Johnson scolded Pope Leo XIV for preaching against those who wage war.

During a House Republican press conference on Wednesday, Johnson was asked about President Donald Trump's recent attacks on the pope.

The Republican congressional leadership that was on the verge of putting together a comprehensive child care package that Democrats found agreeable had the rug pulled out from under them by Donald Trump who accidentally blurted out his private thoughts.

According to the Washington Post, Republican and Democratic congressional leadership had made significant progress on a child care bill designed to address the costs families say are driving up expenses across the country. Lawmakers from both parties had signed on in record numbers requesting funding for early childhood programs.

Then along came Trump in a characteristic unguarded moment.

"We can't take care of day care. We're a big country, we have 50 states. We have all these other people, we're fighting wars. We can't take care of day care," Trump said at an Easter lunch on April 1, according to a video the White House posted online and later took down after it went viral.

The admission contradicted the administration's official position. Trump's domestic spending package had expanded tax credits for working parents and maintained about $20 billion in combined funding for Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant — measures adopting elements of a bipartisan bill from Sens. Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA).

The White House immediately leaped into damage control, claiming Trump was merely referring to allegations of fraudulent payments for child care centers in Minnesota, the Post report noted before adding that a White House official pointed to Vice President JD Vance's fraud task force, saying it would ensure the programs' "viability for the Americans they're meant to serve."

Sen. Tim Kaine isn't buying it.

President Donald Trump said he was "prepared" to name up to three additional conservative justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

During a Wednesday interview, Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo told Trump that there was speculation that Justice Samuel Alito would soon retire.