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President Donald Trump's MAGA base melted down Wednesday as the president was dealt another loss in court.

A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration unlawfully withheld more than $2 billion in funding for Harvard. The judge said in her order that the administration decided to withhold the funds after the university refused to capitulate to its campus antisemitism policy reforms. The order also prohibits the Trump administration from withholding future funding for the university.

An appointee of President Donald Trump helped give him ammo to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook based on possibly flimsy mortgage fraud accusations, and Republican senators are expressing reluctance to pursue her removal or appoint a replacement.

CNBC reported Wednesday that Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) made it clear they won't schedule a confirmation hearing any time soon, whether or not Trump names a replacement.

One reporter dedicated to the story of Jeffrey Epstein and the investigation around an alleged trafficking ring of underage girls revealed that the survivors thought that MAGA followers were dedicated to accountability for Epstein and those like him.

Speaking to MSNBC on Wednesday, Tara Palmeri told Nicolle Wallace that the survivors, who came forward for the Wednesday press conference, are largely Republicans. They trusted that conservatives would fight to ensure they and others like them got justice.

Donald Trump Jr. suggested that New York City "needs" a disaster to teach voters not to elect politicians like mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (D).

On Wednesday, Trump spoke to Fox News after The New York Times reported that his father's advisors were discussing possible jobs for mayoral candidates Eric Adams and Curtis Sliwa to clear the field for Andrew Cuomo to defeat Mamdani.

A federal court ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration violated Harvard University's First Amendment rights by withholding federal grant funding over its campus antisemitism policies.

In April, the Trump administration froze more than $2.2 billion in grant funding for Harvard because of the pro-Palestine protests that occurred on its campus. Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the District Court of Massachusetts found that this decision violated Harvard's rights and was made in retaliation because the university refused to bow to Trump's demands to end pro-Palestinian protests.

A GOP strategist said Wednesday that President Donald Trump is violating a "cardinal rule" of politics by picking a fight with victims of Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

Survivors of Epstein's crimes held a press conference outside of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, where several of them shared their personal stories and called on Congress to release the files. A few moments after the press conference ended, Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office, where he said the Epstein files are "a Democrat hoax that won't go away."

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) spoke out against President Donald Trump after the White House said that an effort in Congress to force the release of files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein would be seen as a "hostile act."

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Crockett accused Trump of "weaponizing his idea of free speech to force folks and companies to become his political puppets to promote his propaganda."

President Donald Trump fired the director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last month after he didn't like the jobs report for July. Looking at economic data today isn't much better, and in some respects, it has gotten worse.

Economists said they're seeing some of the worst job numbers in at least a decade.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) defied President Donald Trump to vote to advance the release of files from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case — but then quickly stepped in to give a full-throated MAGA defense of Trump's own involvement with the late financier.

Mace was one of a small handful of Republicans to sign the discharge petition from Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), compelling the release of the remaining Epstein files. The Trump administration has warned GOP lawmakers that backing the petition is a "hostile act" against Trump, and Massie, a frequent thorn in the side of GOP leadership, hit back by suggesting Trump “may be covering for some rich and powerful people that are friends of his.”

The day before Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face a public grilling in front of the Senate Finance Committee, a former high-ranking official who resigned from her position at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention penned an op-ed for The Washington Post suggesting three lines of inquiry lawmakers should follow with Kennedy under threat of congressional contempt.

Writing that, until last week, she served as the CDC’s chief medical officer, Debra Houry explained that she had a “firsthand view of how public health policy has been affected,” and that gives her an advantage on where the testimony should be taken.

Donald Trump Jr. said he called his father over the weekend "to make sure" he wasn't dead.

During a Wednesday interview on Newsmax, host Bianca de la Garza noted that rumors had circulated about the president's demise.

President Donald Trump called the demand for documents around the Jeffrey Epstein investigation nothing more than a "Democrat hoax" when speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday.

However, one legal expert warned that the press conference of Epstein survivors outside of the U.S. Capitol will inspire more survivors to come forward, including those who are unrelated to the Epstein matter. She noted perhaps there might be more new indictments.