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Podcaster turned FBI senior official Dan Bongino is facing an uphill battle as he attempts to fix his damaged reputation with his fans after leaving Donald Trump’s administration to become a pundit again.

Bongino, who grew his popularity by trading in far-right conspiracy theories, accepted an appointment from Trump to become the 20th deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which gave rise to a belief that he would be a central figure in releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. .

The same outsized influence that popular podcaster Joe Rogan had in helping Donald Trump get re-elected in 2024 could cripple the president's last three years in office, now that he seems to have turned on the president.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Rogan's recent comments opposing the administration's immigration enforcement policies represent a "watershed moment" that could intensify public opposition to Trump.

Donald Trump lashed out on social media Friday after his former personal attorney issued a shocking walk-back criticizing New York prosecutors involved in the president’s hush money case.

Trump swiftly responded after Michael Cohen published a Substack post titled “When Politics Blind Justice,” where he accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Leticia James of blurring the lines “between justice and politics” to boost their own profiles.

Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney to Donald Trump, issued a shocking walk-back Friday, sharply criticizing New York prosecutors while weighing in on the legal battles still surrounding the president’s hush money conviction.

The remarks came in a Substack post titled “When Politics Blind Justice,” where Cohen framed the latest appeals court decision in the case as more than a procedural development. A three-judge appellate court panel recently reopened Trump’s effort to move the case from state to federal court, Cohen wrote, which would allow a judge to scrutinize whether some evidence implicates acts taken while Trump was president.

President Donald Trump set off a stream of mockery and online backlash after he issued a full and unconditional pardon to a Southern California portable toilet executive convicted of illegally dumping sludge.

According to New York Times reporter Kenneth P. Vogel, Trump pardoned Arie Eric De Jong III, a 59-year-old executive at Diamond Environmental Services, a San Marcos, California-based portable toilet company. De Jong, the company’s owner, pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally disposing of sludge in multiple cities across Southern California, according to media reports.

Social media lit up Friday after reports that Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a federal review panel set to take up his controversial White House ballroom project – a move critics slammed as an attempt by the president to two-step around the approval process.

The online backlash erupted after reports emerged that Trump appointed four allies to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency charged by Congress with advising the president on major design projects on Capitol Hill. The commission is scheduled to review the ballroom proposal next week, even as construction has already begun on underground elements of the project, the Washington Post reported.

President Donald Trump installed a group of loyalists to a key federal review panel as his administration moves forward with construction on a controversial White House ballroom project that critics say has already caused irreversible damage to the East Wing.

According to a new Washington Post report, Trump recently appointed four allies to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, an independent agency charged by Congress with advising the president on major design projects on Capitol Hill. The commission is scheduled to review the ballroom proposal at a meeting next week.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is gutting its disaster recovery workforce, leaving disaster-ravaged communities in the lurch, including in two states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

The agency is on pace to axe thousands of Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery, or CORE, employees, the boots-on-the-ground personnel who stay in disaster zones for years, Notus reported Friday. FEMA is simply not renewing their contracts.

Former Trump administration Department of Homeland Security staffer Miles Taylor, who first became famous for authoring a New York Times op-ed about resistance from within and now heads up the peaceful resistance group DEFIANCE, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that his group has made a massive investment into a simple measure to help communities protect themselves from President Donald Trump's Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks.

"The Trump administration has sent thousands of ICE agents into [Minnesota]," Taylor told anchor Nicolle Wallace. "They're accusing people of domestic terrorism, including a woman that they killed. And now you've got Stephen Miller in the past 24 hours saying the word 'insurrection' over and over and over. Let's remember how all of this started. This started with Somali-American kindergartners that allegedly had accounting discrepancies and were taking federal tax dollars. That's not something you send thousands of agents in for. You send accountants in to look at that. You send investigative auditors."

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin found himself in the middle of a MAGA-inspired firestorm after comparing the United States under President Donald Trump to Iran’s Islamic theocracy – a remark that quickly sparked outrage across conservative circles and social media platforms.

Martin’s comments came amid nationwide protests following the fatal shooting of 37-year-old mother of three Renee Goode in Minnesota by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Fox News reported Friday. As demonstrations spread in Minneapolis and in cities across the country, Martin took to X.

Rumors swirled again Friday as a confused President Donald Trump repeatedly mixed up "Southern Boulevard" and the "southern border" during an event in which a street was renamed after him.

A section of Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County, Florida, was ceremonially renamed “President Donald J. Trump Boulevard,” with a dedication event held Friday at Mar-a-Lago.