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The attorney representing a MAGA clerk who was convicted of state charges related to her efforts to subvert the 2020 election was elated on Thursday after President Donald Trump announced a "pardon" for his client, according to a new report.

Tina Peters, the former county clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, was convicted of seven charges for her actions to help Trump allies access the county's voting systems. She was sentenced to nine years in state prison in 2024.

President Donald Trump's latest "pardon" was buried in mockery on Thursday night.

Trump announced on Truth Social that he intends to pardon Tina Peters, a Colorado county clerk who was convicted on seven state charges of aiding a security breach into her county's election system. Some analysts pointed out that Trump cannot actually pardon Peters because she was not convicted of federal crimes.

President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Thursday that he is pardoning Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk who was convicted on state charges of sharing passwords to her county's election system with unauthorized parties.

Trump announced the pardon on Truth Social, which does not constitute an official pardon. It is unclear whether the administration has applied to the U.S. Pardon Attorney for Peters' release.

A reporter brutally fact-checked one of President Donald Trump's favorite claims about one of his administration's bombing campaigns during a press conference in the White House on Thursday.

Trump held a ceremony for an executive order he signed banning states from enacting laws that regulate artificial intelligence technologies. After the bill signing, Trump took questions from the press. One reporter asked him about his administration's efforts to end the war in Gaza. Trump's answer weaved through his administration's bombing campaign against Iran, which he claimed "obliterated" the country's nuclear bomb production sites.

President Donald Trump was called out by political observers Thursday evening over his attempt to downplay a humiliating defeat in Indiana on Thurdsay.

Indiana's Republican-controlled Senate rejected a controversial redistricting proposal backed by Trump in a stunning 31-19 vote. The sharp rebuke came despite Republicans holding a 40-10 majority.

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman warned on Thursday that President Donald Turmp's second administration appears to be pushing America toward its third civil war, citing the "flying elephants" that the administration keeps letting out.

To Friedman, these flying elephants are incidents that reveal "something very different is going on" that people need to pay attention to. Friedman called attention to a 33-page National Security memo the Trump administration published last week as the latest flying elephant that "no one should ignore."

Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a Democratic proposal to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. Notably, both Republican senators from Alaska stood out, as both broke party lines and voted with Democrats.

There's a key reason for that, Politico reported on Thursday.

CNN reporter Jeff Zeleny was stunned on Thursday after anchor Jake Tapper broke news that Indiana Republicans had rejected attempts to change the state's election map ahead of the 2026 midterm.

Zeleny joined Tapper on Thursday's broadcast of "The Lead" to discuss a pressure campaign President Donald Trump and Republicans were waging to redraw the maps. The efforts happened at a time when other Republican-controlled legislatures, like Missouri and Texas, have redrawn their maps through a process called mid-cycle redistricting.

The Republican-controlled Senate in Indiana's state legislature rejected a partisan effort to redraw the state's electoral map ahead of the 2026 midterm election, something President Donald Trump and his cronies have been pressuring state legislatures across the country to do.

On Thursday, the Indiana Senate voted 31-19 to reject a new map even though Republicans hold a 40-10 advantage in the Upper Chamber. The proposed map would have made Indiana's two Democratic-held Congressional seats lean Republican during the midterm, which could help Trump keep a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. Seven out of the nine Congressional representatives from Indiana are currently Republicans.