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Pete Hegseth's 'war on warriors' is causing havoc within the military: insiders

Military sources who recently spoke to The Atlantic about the departure of a high-ranking leader warned that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's "war on warriors" is causing havoc within the military.

On Tuesday, The Atlantic reported that General Chris Donahue had unexpectedly departed the military. Donahue was considered a "rising star" within the ranks, and had led forces across Europe and Africa. He was tasked with helping Ukraine bolster its fight against Russian invasion, according to the report.

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Internet ridicules Trump's MAGA rally after it announces new act: 'It's a July 4 miracle'

Political analysts ridiculed President Donald Trump's state fair after it was announced that FBI Director Kash Patel's MAGA girlfriend was tapped to perform.

Alexis Wilkins announced via a post on X that she will be a "featured performer" at the June 24 kick-off rally to the Great American State Fair.

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Physical therapist claims bizarre handshake may be a sign Trump had a stroke

A physical therapist said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is exhibiting symptoms of someone who recently had a stroke.

During his trip to the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump gave a bizarre handshake to French President Emmanuel Macron that caught the eye of Adam James, a licensed physical therapist. James noted that Trump's odd movements suggested that he may have had a recent neurological episode.

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Ex-GOP operative amazed watching aging Trump 'decompose in real time'

Former Republican operative Steve Schmidt described his amazement as President Donald Trump is "decomposing in real time."

On his podcast "The Warning," Schmidt spoke about Trump's health. He said that he thinks Trump "will live to be at least 108 years old," but the president is "falling apart, decomposing in real time, under the stress, the burden, the weight of the Epstein cover-up, who knows?"

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Trump may need a life jacket to save himself from 'cost of broken promises': economist

President Donald Trump may need to procure a life jacket to save himself from the cost of his broken promises to his supporters, according to a Nobel Prize-winning economist.

Paul Krugman, who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for his work on trade theory, argued in a new Substack essay that Trump appears desperate to end the war with Iran because of its impact on the American economy, particularly gas prices. Krugman noted that Trump may be in for rough waters even if the war ends amicably as Trump tries to rehabilitate his relationship with his supporters.

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Trump admin blocked from blindsiding immigrants at courthouses in scathing ruling

A federal judge has vacated the Trump administration's policy of arresting immigrants at immigration courthouses, finding Immigration and Customs Enforcement acted with a "complete lack of decisionmaking."

U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts of the Northern District of California issued the order wiping out both ICE's courthouse-arrest policies and a separate waiver that had allowed the agency to hold detainees in short-term cells for up to 72 hours.

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Charlie Kirk's secret 'worry' about Trump unearthed in blockbuster new book

Charlie Kirk, the late right-wing activist and ally of President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, privately expressed concerns about how the president was handling Middle East affairs amid fractures in the MAGA base, according to a highly anticipated book released Tuesday.

In “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan revealed how Kirk privately questioned Trump’s handling of relations with Israel during ongoing conflict in Gaza, prior to his assassination at a college event in Utah in September.

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Supreme Court 'blessed' a 'Kafkaesque nightmare' with its 'disturbing' ruling: analysis

A "disturbing" Supreme Court ruling will allow border officials to subject green-card holders to a "Kafkaesque nightmare," per a Slate analysis.

According to the analysis by legal reporter Mark Joseph Stern, the 6-3 Supreme Court vote along usual partisan lines in the case Blanche v. Lau established that border officials don't need "clear and convincing evidence" that green-card holders committed a "crime of moral turpitude" to deny them entry.

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Trump's flailing Reflecting Pool narrative astounds analysts: 'Going to get more stupid'

President Donald Trump's narrative about the issues the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool faces is under intense scrutiny, and political analysts were astounded by a new report that seemed to make the scrutiny much worse.

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that internal White House documents show the Trump administration was well aware of the issues the Reflecting Pool is facing, from its peeling painted bottom to the algae covering its entire surface, even though Trump was publicly blaming "vandals" for the problems.

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Trump's trade chief drops massive national security warning in secret meeting: report

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick warned top executives that the United States was taking steps to respond to China's state-backed robotics industry, something viewed as a potential national security threat, Politico reported on Tuesday.

During the closed-door meeting on Monday, he told the business leaders that the Trump administration was studying state-subsidized robotics imports, three people who attended the meeting told Politico. The move comes amid concerns that "subsidized Chinese robots could dominate global markets before U.S. manufacturers have the scale to compete."

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Internal documents undercut Trump's Reflecting Pool vandalism claims: report

Internal White House documents about the issues at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool seem to undercut President Donald Trump's claims that the pool had been vandalized, according to a new report.

Trump blamed alleged "vandals" for damaging the pool after crews recently completed a more than $16 million renovation. Video of the bottom layer of paint peeling off in the pool and of green algae taking over nearly the entire structure has circulated online for several days, and some political experts have said the pool itself has become a "symbol" of the Trump administration's incompetence.

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Trump just 'blurted out' a 'five-alarm scandal' about California meddling: critics

President Donald Trump used a Tuesday speech at a Pennsylvania Mack Trucks plant to make the striking claim that Republican Steve Hilton only advanced in California's governor's race because Trump personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene.

"I called up the very powerful, very good U.S. attorney in California and I said, 'Do me a favor, they're trying to steal that election too,'" Trump said, claiming Hilton "was definitely going to lose." He added, "About an hour after the call: 'Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Hilton has won.' If I had not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be watching the election from home."

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The bizarre plaudits fawning Republicans offered Trump on White House return: new book

As Donald Trump entered the Oval Office for a second term, Republican legislators bent over backward with “tributes” to the president that would "shock students of history,” according to a newly released book from New York Times authors.

In stark contrast to Republicans’ turn away from Trump after he lost the 2020 election — and was impeached for a second time, a move supported by more members of his own party than any other impeachment in history — all House Republicans endorsed Trump’s 2024 reelection and some proposed various new laws in tribute to him, according to “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump,” a new book by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.

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