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Donald Trump made a "revealing" error when he attempted to revoke security clearances from his political enemies, a former Republican lawmaker said Saturday.

Representative Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a retired Republican who served on the Jan. 6 committee, said he was enjoying a barbecue with friends when he heard that his security clearance had been revoked.

Donald Trump has been criticized for a wide array of actions, but one stands out above the others, according to a Democratic lawmaker.

Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat from California, joined MSNBC on Saturday, where he was asked about Trump's bid to gut the Education Department.

So far Republican lawmakers have stood by billionaire Elon Musk as he slashes federal spending, but that could change if Musk continues on his current path, according to a GOP strategist.

Brendan Buck, a former key adviser to ex-House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), appeared on MSNBC on Saturday to discuss Musk's relationship with GOP members of Congress. Buck noted that Musk "has funded an enormous" political operation.

According to a report from the Guardian's Hugo Lowell, the chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLC, Brad Karp, set the terms of his law firm's acquiescence to Donald Trump which included him hanging a former partner "out to dry" to please the president.

In a report late Saturday, Lowell wrote that Karp and his firm reached out to the president through "back channels" in an effort to get an executive order that would have kept it from representing clients before the federal government withdrawn.

According to the report, those negotiations took place over multiple meetings, with Lowell reporting that Trump "had not made any explicit requests of the firm, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter."

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As the report notes, it fell on Karp to propose various elements that would please Trump and his inner circle and one of those was, as Lowell wrote, an "extraordinary part of a deal," was the offering up of former partner Mark Pomerantz, who has d attempted to build a criminal case against Trump during a stint in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

According to Lowell, "The commitments and most notably the sacrificing of Pomerantz were offered up proactively by Karp at a White House meeting this week, the people said."

The report adds that the offer to condemn Pomerantz came about at a second meeting.

"Karp returned to the White House on Wednesday to deliver his second proposal that included condemning Pomerantz to Trump and a tight circle of advisers, including chief of staff Susie Wiles, envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s personal counsel Boris Epshteyn," the report states before adding, "During the roughly three-hour meeting, Trump also called Robert Giuffra of Sullivan and Cromwell, the head of one of Paul, Weiss’s direct competitors, to ask for his input."

Late Friday Donald Trump's White House issued a memo directing Secretary of Homeland Security L Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi to use the full force of their respective departments to pursue lawyers and law firms for supposed "Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court."

Coming hot on the heels of the president bullying noted law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP to accede to his demands in return for rescinding an executive order directed at the firm, Politico is reporting the president is spreading a wider net.

During an appearance on MSNBC, Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus Laurence Tribe painted a portrait of Donald Trump's "lawless" assault on the judiciary that he believes will lead to a wave of violence.

Speaking with host Ali Velshi, Tribe, long a Trump critic, claimed that the president's incendiary comments about U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who has been holding the administration to account for defying his orders to halt the deportation of Venezuelan nationals accused of being gang members, raises the threat level for any judge who opposes his illegal actions.

Calling Boasberg a "well-respected judge," Tribe decried that the attacks, which have included calls for impeachment, and suggested the end result is "ominous."

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He elaborated, "He [Trump] is trying to scare everybody by saying, 'You better follow my orders or we'll never know what's going to happen." And then, judges fear being shot –– all kinds of terrible things are going on."

"It's a pretty specific target," host Velshi agreed before adding, "He's referred to Judge Boasberg as a radical left lunatic. This is a judge who was appointed first to the bench by George W Bush, and then to his current role by Barack Obama. In all my reading of him, I don't know where you one would find either radical or left or lunatic."

Calling impeachment of judges a threat to the independent judiciary, Tribe told the MSNBC host, "One of the pillars of the rule of law that prevents us from becoming a complete dictatorship, or an oligarchy, or an autocracy of some other kind, is the idea that the judiciary is independent –– it doesn't always have the last word."

Warning that is not "how a country that is based on law and order and self-government can ever survive," he then accused, "And that's why I think the virus that has been spreading ever since the January 6th insurrection has got to be combated with all the tools at our disposal."

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While taking part in a CNN panel on Saturday morning, a former aide to Donald Trump during his first term claimed Elon Musk is now hurting her former boss and his time as a constant presence in the Oval Office may be coming to an end.

That led another conservative guest on CNN's "Table for Five" to chime in and point out the clock is already ticking on the billionaire as he is not officially a federal employee.

Speaking with host Abby Phillip, ex-Trump White House adviser Alyssa Farah Griffin claimed Musk's cratering approval numbers in polls are starting to rub off on the president which will lead him to putting distance between himself and the increasingly embattled billionaire.

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Melik Abdul, a member of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, jumped in with, "I did want to say, to just piggyback off of what Alyssa was saying, is that –– and I've also said that Elon Musk would be a problem, not just for Donald Trump, though, but for the Republican Party –– and I think that we're seeing this now, and this isn't the first set of polls that have shown that Elon Musk's popularity is going down."


"Can I just say just quickly, just because Alyssa, you talked about he won't be around long?" he told the panel. "I just want to remind everybody that as a special government employee, he {Musk] has 130 days to serve within a calendar year. I've said many times before, I think that after the 130 days, Elon Musk will be gone," he continued.

"It's a convenient out, right?" Legal affairs journalist Jay Michaelson interjected. "We know that Trump doesn't care a lot about the niceties of the law. He could just go over it if he wants, but I agree this is a perfect way for him to get him out."

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Although the vast majority of anti-Elon Musk demonstrations in the United States and other countries have been peaceful, some critics of the Tesla/SpaceX/X.com leader and Donald Trump ally are resorting to destroying Teslas or committing acts of vandalism. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is describing these incidents as acts of "domestic terrorism," but some civil libertarians fear that her approach could create problems for Musk opponents who are protesting in a nonviolent way.

In a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) press release published on Thursday, March 20, Bondi declared, "Let this be a warning: if you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars."

Donald Trump was taunted by former NSC adviser Alexander Vindman on Saturday morning after the president made a big show of revoking his security clearance late Friday night.

As the retired U.S. Army officer pointed out, he hasn't had a security clearance for five years and the president failed to do his homework.

Donald Trump's takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts continues to go poorly as he attempts to change the venue's focus which has led to missed deadlines and artists looking at other Washington D.C. locations at which to perform.

According to a column at MSNBC by culture critic Rebecca Ritzel, the president has been proposing a slate of plays, including "Cats," Camelot,” “Fiddler on the Roof” and “Hello, Dolly!” seemingly unaware that there are no touring companies presenting those plays from bygone days.

Republican Senator Steve Daines will meet Premier Li Qiang on Sunday, a senior Chinese official announced as the strong supporter of US President Donald Trump visits Beijing.

The 62-year-old lawmaker has vowed to raise trade tensions and fentanyl smuggling during talks with Chinese officials.