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Ex-Trump adviser pleads guilty to national security violation

John Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump's national security adviser during his first term before becoming one of his harshest critics, entered a guilty plea Friday to one federal charge of illegally retaining classified national defense information.

According to NBC News, Bolton appeared before Judge Theodore D. Chuang in Greenbelt, Maryland, for a re-arraignment hearing, where he admitted to the retention charge involving sensitive materials from his White House tenure.

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Ivanka's private island 'land grab' threatens to blow up Albania's entire government

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner's secret resort deal on Albania's only island has sparked a mass revolt that now threatens to bring down the country's entire government.

Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, quietly secured rights to build a $1.6 billion luxury resort on Sazan Island — a protected Adriatic nature preserve — and a $4 billion coastal development on a nearby wildlife reserve.

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Trump's staff fears he won't survive term as 'Weekend at Bernie's' label spreads: report

As President Donald Trump continues to face questions over the state of his physical and cognitive health, his own staff is reportedly “concerned” that the 80-year-old president “won’t survive” to see the end of his second term, columnist Brian Karem claimed in a report published Friday in Salon.

“Members on both sides of the aisle, and even members of Trump’s staff, are concerned that the president will roll over like a cockroach and start spouting gibberish (if he hasn’t done that already) or that he simply won’t survive his full term, which still has 940 days to go,” Karem wrote.

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Trump accused of trying to throw the election by GOP insider

Donald Trump's single-minded obsession with getting the SAVE America Act passed when no one in Congress believes it will come within a stone's throw of getting 60 votes in the Senate has some GOP insiders wondering what is going on.

MS NOW's Hayes Brown captured Trump's destructive pattern, writing, "President Donald Trump has exactly two modes: unfocused and obsessed. Most things in this world activate the first mode. But there are a handful of exceptions that become deeply ingrained in his mind and nothing can shake them loose."

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Avalanche of outrage inundates judge as Trump's IRS deal faces mountain of backlash

A Florida judge ordered lawyers to stop filing briefs calling President Donald Trump's $1.776 billion IRS deal a fraud on the court, even as she praised their help.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen M. Williams of the Southern District of Florida issued the order Thursday, telling three separate groups of attorneys that the case was "sufficiently briefed" — while adding that she "greatly appreciates" what they had offered.

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Core Trump promise implodes as new report delivers gut punch: report

A new report from the Commerce Department on Friday delivered a decisive blow to what has been among President Donald Trump’s chief promises while on the campaign trail.

According to the report, the U.S. goods trade deficit had widened to its highest point in more than a year as of June, with U.S. exports shrinking by 5.4% when compared with May and imports rising by 3.6%.

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Pope Leo 'likely' to infuriate Trump as world braces for new message: report

President Donald Trump’s longstanding feud with Pope Leo XIV may reach new heights as the leader of the Catholic Church convenes with cardinals from across the globe Friday and is expected to issue a message “likely to further raise tensions” with the president, Politico reported Friday.

After the gathering, Pope Leo is expected to issue new guidance on what the Catholic Church considers to be a justified war. The anticipated remarks come after the leader of the Catholic Church appeared to criticize the U.S. war against Iran, prompting Trump to attack the pope for being “weak on crime.”

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'I literally gasped': Stephen Miller's wife's racist joke blows away legal analyst

A social media post by the wife of Donald Trump adviser Stephen Miller took center stage on MS NOW on Friday morning as part of a discussion over a controversial Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.

On “Morning Joe,” the panel was discussing the majority opinion from Justice Sam Alito, who wrote that he saw nothing racist in Trump’s outrageous comments about Somali and Haitian immigrants, which earned the conservative jurist a lecture from Justice Elena Kagan in her dissent.

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Fox News shielding Trump's 'tortured psyche' by ignoring 'sparse crowd': analysts

President Donald Trump's crowd-size anxiety exploded back into view when his Great American State Fair kickoff event drew a strikingly thin turnout.

The 80-year-old president claimed 45,000 people showed up on the National Mall to watch Lee Greenwood and the FBI director's girlfriend perform, but media accounts estimated about 1,000 attendees – fewer than some outdoor movie screenings – had actually turned out, and The New Republic's Greg Sargent said on his "Daily Blast" podcast that Trump can't handle that kind of disappointment.

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Trump's cognitive health and tiny fair crowds take center stage in brutal Jimmy Fallon bit

Jimmy Fallon spent a second straight night ribbing President Donald Trump's new Great American State Fair on Thursday, saving his sharpest jab for a petting zoo bit aimed squarely at the president's cognitive fitness.

The "Tonight Show" host took aim at the fair, which opened to the public on Thursday on the National Mall as part of America's 250th anniversary celebrations, rattling off a list of fictional attractions inspired by Trump.

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Trump ‘absolutely infuriated’ after 'gross' habit exposed: senior official

A new book from two New York Times reporters has exposed a number of President Donald Trump’s secrets, though one claim in particular has the president especially enraged, a senior Trump official revealed Friday.

Published earlier this week, “Regime Change” was written by Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and had already rattled the White House before its release, with officials fearful that the book’s authors had acquired audio recordings from within the White House Situation Room, arguably the most secure area of the complex where top officials discuss matters of crises and national security.

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'Where'd you go to school?' JD Vance raked over the coals after 'stupid' Nixon comment

Comments made by Vice President JD Vance at the Richard Nixon Library on Thursday earned him a thrashing on MS NOW after he blamed Nixon’s Watergate scandal on the “deep state.”

As “Morning Joe” co-host bluntly observed, Nixon's use of the FBI, CIA and Washington insiders — which brought down his presidency — was the very definition of the ”deep state.”

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Dan Rather warns Trump bill threatens to 'disproportionately disenfranchise women'

Veteran journalist Dan Rather is warning that legislation that Trump is trying to push through threatens women's right to vote.

In a recent piece titled "The War on Women," Rather tried to lay out how the Trump administration is going after women's rights.

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