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Ex-Trump adviser vents old boss isn't 'temperamentally capable' of admitting prices are up

President Donald Trump is too obstinate to change course and realize the American people need a response to rising prices, an ex-adviser told Politico on Wednesday.

This comes after the president held a rally in Pennsylvania to discuss affordability, where he doubled down on calling the issue a hoax manufactured by Democrats — a message even some of his own supporters didn't buy.

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WSJ editors rage as Trump trades away national security for 'pennies on the dollar'

President Donald Trump got another slap on the wrist Wednesday night from the Wall Street Journal's conservative editorial board for his approval allowing Nvidia to sell advanced computer chips to China in exchange for the U.S. Treasury receiving 25% of sales revenue.

The board questioned Trump's decision in a highly critical editorial.

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Trump tears into rebel GOP leader defying scheme: 'Either a bad guy or a stupid one!'

President Donald Trump lashed out at the leader of Indiana's Senate in a new social media post on Wednesday for holding up his election scheme to win the 2026 midterms.

Trump called out Indiana Senate Pro Tempore Rod Bray, a Republican, in a Truth Social post over his resistance to Trump's redistricting plan. Trump claimed in the post that other Republican-controlled legislatures have gone along with the redistricting efforts "willingly, openly, and easily."

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New impeachment effort sparks massive internal firestorm for Dems: 'Do the math!'

Democratic Party leaders are rebuffing efforts by their colleagues to impeach multiple cabinet officials in President Donald Trump's administration, according to a new report.

On Wednesday, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) introduced articles of impeachment against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. without the support of party leadership, Axios reported, citing "two senior House Democrats and two leadership aides familiar with the matter."

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Fox News host tees off on Trump's bizarre speech: 'In-kind contribution to the Dems'

Fox News' liberal co-host Jessica Tarlov teed off on President Donald Trump's speech on affordability during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Five."

Trump traveled to Monroe County, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday to give a speech about the rising cost of living and what his administration is doing to help average Americans. During the speech, Trump weaved through multiple other topics ranging from immigration to how well his Cabinet secretaries are performing.

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'Stubborn' Trump may be deterred from future rallies after latest 'flop': Insiders

Politico reported President Donald Trump's fans are thrilled to see him back on the road and in his campaign rally element — but the things he’s saying on the stump are scaring them.

“Trump stirred up fresh concerns Tuesday at a Pennsylvania rally that was supposed to focus on easing Americans’ anxieties over pocketbook pressures,” reported Politico. “Instead, he veered off script, at one point urging austerity amid the holiday shopping season by resurfacing a line from earlier this year that American kids should be happy with ‘two or three’ dolls.”

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Uproar as DOJ moves to drop FIFA corruption case week after Trump gets org's 'peace prize'

Political analysts dragged President Donald Trump's Department of Justice on Wednesday after it moved to drop a corruption case against a former Fox executive who was convicted of bribery and money laundering charges.

The DOJ moved to drop its conviction of Hernán López, a former Fox executive who oversaw the network's Latin American sports broadcasting business, who had been convicted of multiple crimes related to the FIFA corruption investigation that began in 2010. López was involved in a scheme to funnel millions of dollars to the heads of the international soccer organization in exchange for the rights to broadcast the World Cup and multiple high-profile tournaments in South America. He was convicted alongside a marketing company he worked with, Full Play Sports, in 2023, The New York Times reported.

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'Big mess': Longtime GOP pollster warns Trump's Achilles' heel has been exposed

Longtime Republican pollster turned anti-Trump analyst Sarah Longwell had a blunt message for President Donald Trump on MS NOW Wednesday: your denials of the affordability crisis, such as your speech in Pennsylvania this week, are not landing with voters.

"When he just, you know, politically wet the bed and said you don't need any dolls or pencils — I mean, what do you, I guess we just hope that [White House Chief of Staff] Susie Wiles is right and Donald Trump is out there on the ballot in the midterms," said anchor Nicolle Wallace.

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'Betrayal': Republicans tee off on GOP colleagues over 'broken promises' with defense bill

The MAGA movement appeared to split on Wednesday night after the House of Representatives voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, a more than $900 billion military spending package.

The NDAA is one of the largest single-spending bills Congress passes each session. The latest version of the bill includes a provision that allocates around $800 million to Ukraine's war against Russia and language that could force the Department of Defense to release the video of a hotly-contested strike against an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2.

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Trump admin's 'unthinkable' move gets rare 30,000-foot rebuke from air safety official

President Donald Trump's administration received a rare rebuke on Wednesday from an air safety official over a provision tucked away in the annual defense spending bill.

Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, spoke at a press conference on Wednesday about Section 373 of the National Defense Authorization Act, a more than $900 billion spending package that recently passed the House of Representatives.

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Trump's 'vocabulary has reduced dramatically' as his mind fades away: DC insider

President Donald Trump's cognitive decline was on full display this week, longtime Beltway reporter John Heilemann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" — and it's obvious when you compare his demeanor to a few years ago.

"You know, look, they asked him the other day on the airplane, on Air Force One, why he took an MRI, and he said he didn't know," said Heilemann. "If getting the camera-person-TV thing right is acing it, not knowing why you took an MRI is flunking it. I'm not sure what to make of any of those things, but it's totally clear and has been for some time."

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Pete Hegseth's making a 'grave mistake' with pet name for US-China relations: lawmaker

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has apparently come up with a new pet name for the relationship between the United States and China, and its name is raising the eyebrows of at least one Democrat, according to a new report.

The Hill reported on Wednesday that Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) had sent a letter to Hegseth regarding his use of "G2" to describe U.S.-China relations. Krishnamoorthi argued that the nickname for the relationship “carries deeply problematic connotations of depicting the United States and [China] as co-equal and primarily cooperate powers responsible for deciding global issues while sidelining U.S. democratic allies and partners," according to the report.

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Trump admin ignites 'intense battle' with top allies over 'profound' change to Europe

The Trump administration has given its European partners a plan on how it wants to rebuild Ukraine and bring Russia back into the world market, according to an exclusive Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday.

The appendices have not been publicly released; however, U.S. and European officials have described them to The Journal and have indicated that U.S. financial organizations and businesses will use about $200 billion in frozen Russian assets to help fund projects in Ukraine. Those efforts include a new, large-scale data center to be powered by a nuclear plant currently under occupation by Russian troops.

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