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'Dangerous game': Trump slaps new tariffs on Europe in push to take Greenland

President Donald Trump made the stunning announcement Saturday that he would be placing new 10% tariffs on eight European nations in retaliation for having recently “journeyed to Greenland for purposes unknown,” in just the latest show of force in his efforts to see the United States acquire the arctic island.

“This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet. These Countries, who are playing this very dangerous game, have put a level of risk in play that is not tenable or sustainable,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.

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‘I’ll be suing!’ Trump rages after setting sights on new target

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he would be filing a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase over the unverified claim that banking institutions had discriminated against him in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021.

Announced in a social media post, Trump’s latest legal threat was framed around his objections to a recent Wall Street Journal report claiming he had offered JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon the job of Federal Reserve chair.

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Minneapolis police placed on alert over pro-ICE counterprotest led by J6er who beat cops

The already embattled police officers in Minneapolis have been alerted that the leader of a counter-protest in support of armed and masked ICE agents has been given a permit to hit the streets on Saturday.

According to a report from the Washington Post, right-wing provocateur Jake Lang, who was given a pardon by Donald Trump after attacking Capitol cops with a baseball bat on Jan. 6, will lead his own protest march in the city that has been turned into a battleground over the president’s brutal immigration policies.

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‘Is he planning a lingerie show?’ Recent Trump purchase turns heads

A new financial disclosure report filed this week revealed that President Donald Trump purchased between $250,000 and $500,000 in bonds in the lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret, a purchase that stunned onlookers and sparked online speculation.

“Is he planning a July 4 lingerie show on his new White House paved patio to celebrate American independence?” quipped Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison in a social media post on X Friday night.

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Dan Bongino in a 'really tough spot' after his FBI Epstein files flop angered fans

Podcaster turned FBI senior official Dan Bongino is facing an uphill battle as he attempts to fix his damaged reputation with his fans after leaving Donald Trump’s administration to become a pundit again.

Bongino, who grew his popularity by trading in far-right conspiracy theories, accepted an appointment from Trump to become the 20th deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which gave rise to a belief that he would be a central figure in releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. .

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Trump facing a 'watershed moment' as split with Rogan threatens his presidency: report

The same outsized influence that popular podcaster Joe Rogan had in helping Donald Trump get re-elected in 2024 could cripple the president's last three years in office, now that he seems to have turned on the president.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Rogan's recent comments opposing the administration's immigration enforcement policies represent a "watershed moment" that could intensify public opposition to Trump.

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Trump sent into rage after ex-fixer's bombshell walk-back: 'They should pay a big price!’'

Donald Trump lashed out on social media Friday after his former personal attorney issued a shocking walk-back criticizing New York prosecutors involved in the president’s hush money case.

Trump swiftly responded after Michael Cohen published a Substack post titled “When Politics Blind Justice,” where he accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Leticia James of blurring the lines “between justice and politics” to boost their own profiles.

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'Pressured and coerced': Ex-Trump attorney's shocking walk-back targets NY prosecutors

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump, issued a shocking walk-back Friday, sharply criticizing New York prosecutors while weighing in on the legal battles still surrounding the president’s hush money conviction.

The remarks came in a Substack post titled “When Politics Blind Justice,” where Cohen framed the latest appeals court decision in the case as more than a procedural development. A three-judge appellate court panel recently reopened Trump’s effort to move the case from state to federal court, Cohen wrote, which would allow a judge to scrutinize whether some evidence implicates acts taken while Trump was president.

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'Birds of a feather': Trump stuns with new pardon of porta-potty exec and sludge dumper

President Donald Trump set off a stream of mockery and online backlash after he issued a full and unconditional pardon to a Southern California portable toilet executive convicted of illegally dumping sludge.

According to New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel, Trump pardoned Arie Eric De Jong III, a 59-year-old executive at Diamond Environmental Services, a San Marcos, California-based portable toilet company. De Jong, the company’s owner, pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally disposing of sludge in multiple cities across Southern California, according to media reports.

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‘Big surprise!’ Backlash grows over Trump’s major ballroom move

Social media lit up Friday after reports that Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a federal review panel set to take up his controversial White House ballroom project – a move critics slammed as an attempt by the president to two-step around the approval process.

The online backlash erupted after reports emerged that Trump appointed four allies to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency charged by Congress with advising the president on major design projects on Capitol Hill. The commission is scheduled to review the ballroom proposal next week, even as construction has already begun on underground elements of the project, the Washington Post reported.

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Trump loads review panel with loyalists to fast-track controversial White House project

President Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a key federal review panel as his administration moves forward with construction on a controversial White House ballroom project that critics say has already caused irreversible damage to the East Wing.

According to a new Washington Post report, Trump recently appointed four allies to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency charged by Congress with advising the president on major design projects on Capitol Hill. The commission is scheduled to review the ballroom proposal at a meeting next week.

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'Huge': Trump-voting states left in the lurch with latest mass ouster

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is gutting its disaster recovery workforce, leaving disaster-ravaged communities in the lurch, including in two states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

The agency is on pace to axe thousands of Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery, or CORE, employees, the boots-on-the-ground personnel who stay in disaster zones for years, Notus reported Friday. FEMA is simply not renewing their contracts.

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Defected Trump DHS staffer reveals his huge spend to help communities resist ICE

Former Trump administration Department of Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor, who first became famous for authoring a New York Times op-ed about resistance from within and now heads up the peaceful resistance group DEFIANCE, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that his group has made a massive investment into a simple measure to help communities protect themselves from President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks.

"The Trump administration has sent thousands of ICE agents into [Minnesota]," Taylor told anchor Nicolle Wallace. "They're accusing people of domestic terrorism, including a woman that they killed. And now you've got Stephen Miller in the past 24 hours saying the word 'insurrection' over and over and over. Let's remember how all of this started. This started with Somali-American kindergartners that allegedly had accounting discrepancies and were taking federal tax dollars. That's not something you send thousands of agents in for. You send accountants in to look at that. You send investigative auditors."

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