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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump announced that he would bring back the death penalty in Washington, D.C. The random comment will likely disappear into the political ether as Trump doesn't have the authority to do it, according to one expert on Thursday.

The District had a Congress-ordered referendum vote in 1992, and voters refused to reinstate the death penalty.

President Donald Trump revisited the "heaven" theme in a fundraising e-mail sent on Monday, August 25, telling supporters, "I want to try and get to Heaven. Last year I came millimeters from death when that bullet pierced through my skin. My triumphant return to the White House was never supposed to happen! But I believe that God saved me for one reason: TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! I wasn't supposed to beat Crooked Hillary in 2016 — but I did."

Trump continued, "I wasn't supposed to secure the border & build the greatest economy in history — but I did. I certainly wasn't supposed to survive an assassin's bullet — but by the grace of the almighty God, I did. SO NOW, I have no other choice but to answer the Call to Duty, but I can't do it alone. Friend, you've been with me through everything."

Just one day after reports came out that the Democratic Party is considering holding a rare national convention ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, President Donald Trump teased the idea of the Republican Party holding its own early national convention, telling his supporters to “stay tuned” regarding any announcements.

“We have raised far more money than the Democrats, and we are having a great time fixing all of the country-destroying mistakes made by the Biden administration, while watching the USA heal and prosper,” Trump wrote Thursday on his social media platform Truth Social.

The Department of Justice is facing an apocalyptic threat from President Donald Trump, according to a conservative columnist.

Presidents always pose a threat to the department's political independence, but New York Times columnist David French warned that Trump has already remade the DOJ in his own vengeful imagine.

President Donald Trump teased a major announcement Wednesday regarding a potential federal takeover of Chicago, Illinois, amid the ongoing federal takeover in Washington, D.C., and the president’s repeated threats to do the same in other Dem-led cities.

Trump has publicly feuded with Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker in recent months, with Trump having labelled Pritzker as “probably the worst (governor) in the country,” and Pritzker, calling the president a “wannabe dictator.”

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough urged President Donald Trump to drop his controversial pick to oversee public health as questions about his leadership grow louder.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a series of moves that will limit eligibility for the next round of COVID vaccines as the virus surges, and the Health and Human Services secretary is locked in a power struggle with newly confirmed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez over vaccine policy.

Political strategist and columnist Rick Wilson laid into RFK Jr. Thursday following the Health and Human Services secretary’s firing of Susan Monarez, the Trump-appointed director for the Centers for Disease Control, calling him a “serial killer” and warning that the “death toll” of the decision would be "unimaginable.”

“RFK, Jr., heroin addict, sex addict, anti-vaccination lunatic and aspiring architect of millions of deaths purged the CDC last night,” Wilson wrote Thursday on his Substack “Against All Enemies.” “He gutted the world’s premiere public-health agency in his endless quest to destroy vaccine science and plunge this nation into the Middle Ages.”

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, who President Donald Trump proclaimed to have fired on Monday amid his war against the central bank for refusing to slash interest rates, has named Trump and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in a new lawsuit protesting the decision.

First reported by Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, the lawsuit suggests a complicated pattern of events based on Powell being named in the suit alongside Trump.

The supposed ousting of Centers for Disease Control Director Susan Monarez was potentially tied to an impending report from the Department of Health and Human Services that some anticipate will embrace the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism, a New York Times reporter said Thursday.

“We're all waiting for that report, it's being written by someone who has also embraced the vaccine-autism theory, so who knows what is coming next,” said New York Times reporter Sheryl Stolberg, speaking on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Thursday. “It may well be that his clash with Susan Monarez is in anticipation of that forthcoming report.”