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Pete Hegseth's 'worn out' MAGA excuse is running out of steam: ex-White House insider

Pete Hegseth’s reliance on using a Donald Trump deflection as allegations of incompetence, criminality and Pentagon infighting continue to grow is starting to wear thin, according to one former Trump White House insider.

The embattled Secretary of Defense is fighting a war on two fronts this week as he fends off accusations of war crimes over the killing of two alleged drug boat survivors who were reportedly clinging to their boat after a U.S. military attack.

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'We have started to see cracks': Dem senator spills about GOP's Hegseth 'nervousness'

A Democratic lawmaker said Thursday that Republican lawmakers have begun to separate themselves from President Donald Trump.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told CNN anchors Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that Republicans have voiced their concerns over the president's recent moves and have questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's most recent comments on the Sept. 2 strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, off the coast of Venezuela.

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'Big ol' red flag': Trump allies reportedly 'stupefied' as president takes heat from GOP

President Donald Trump's latest crises involving Venezuela and suspected war crimes committed in the Caribbean Sea, the Jeffrey Epstein saga and a struggling economy have left his allies stunned, according to new reporting.

Republican lawmakers who have given Trump power — from his unpopular tariff policy to pulling back on Congressionally approved funding — are now aiming to curb his moves, according to New York Times analysis published Thursday by opinion writer Michelle Cottle.

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Pete Hegseth threatened by GOP lawmaker: 'There will be consequences' for stonewalling him

During an appearance on MS NOW on Thursday morning, Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, admitted to the hosts of “Morning Joe” that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ignoring demands to turn over critical information about his conduct in office.

Speaking with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, the Ohio Republican refused to say if Donald Trump’s appointee to head up the Pentagon was fit to hold his office, offering up, “I think there are a number of things that have raised concern that Congress is struggling with. And I think the secretary is going to have to answer those questions and address them. And I think that the president is going to be struggling with that over the next month.”

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Trump 'on an epic binge' of pardons and disgraced ex-Senator could be next: report

Donald Trump is on "an epic binge" of handing out presidential pardons, and a political commentator believes a disgraced ex-Senator could be next.

The president could be set to give a pardon to Bob Menendez, the Democrat Senator serving 11 years in prison for accepting bribes of gold and cash to act as an agent on behalf of Egypt. The 71-year-old ex-Senator started his stint in prison earlier this year but Trump, who has spoken positively about Menendez in the past, could step in. This comes according to The Bulwark, with Andrew Egger believing Trump could pardon the disgraced lawmaker.

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'The numbers don't add up': MAGA host sees through new Trump plan to end income taxes

Pro-MAGA host Gina Loudon said she didn't buy President Donald Trump's claim that he could use tariff revenues to abolish income taxes.

"I believe that at some point in the not too distant future, you won't even have income tax," Trump said earlier this week. "Because the money we're taking in, it's so great, it's so enormous that you're not going to have income tax to pay."

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Ellen DeGeneres ridiculed over suggestion Trump's America better than UK's 'winter gloom'

Ellen DeGeneres is being hammered in the United Kingdom after suggestions she can't stand the concept of another dreary British winter — and is contemplating returning to Trump's America.

DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi arrived in the UK last year, setting up home in the idyllic Cotswolds just before Donald Trump won the election. After the election, they said they "weren't going back" and would stay on the "saner side of the Atlantic," The Guardian columnist Arwa Mahdawi wrote.

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'Outcome feels preordained': Supreme Court appears ready to give Trump new 'immense' power

The Supreme Court was expected to hand President Donald Trump more new powers in a case scheduled to begin Monday.

The conservative-leaning high court has planned to hear Trump v. Slaughter, "a case whose outcome feels preordained," according to a Slate report published Thursday.

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Trump and Pete Hegseth are trapped in a 'rolling disaster': Signalgate whistleblower

With the release of the Inspector General report of the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's culpability in the so-called “Signalgate” scandal planned for Thursday, the journalist who broke the story claimed that Donald Trump and his appointee have trapped themselves.

Speaking with the hosts of MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, who was mistakenly included on the Signal app where Hegseth divulged top secret details of an upcoming attack, claimed the president should not be dragging his feet when it comes to shedding his Pentagon chief.

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'American people don't think so': Expert shows voters aren't buying Trump's pricing claim

President Donald Trump has publicly continued to insist that affordability issues are just a fake problem ginned up by Democrats, calling it a "con job," even as he prepares a tour around the country to defend his economic policies. But Americans are saying otherwise, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Sara Sidner on Thursday.

"Ultimately, it's the American public who is going to decide if this is a major issue," said Sidner. "What are you learning from some of the numbers you've been looking at as to how people really feel about this?"

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Trump official reveals hope to 'bring back the 1970s station wagon' with 'wood paneling'

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy bragged that President Donald Trump's rollback of automotive fuel efficiency standards could "bring back the 1970s station wagon."

In a Thursday interview, Duffy told CNBC's Phil LeBeau that ending the Biden-era rules would save major car companies billions.

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'They owned themselves': Analyst says GOP lawmakers will ditch 'addled and broken' Trump

The GOP could see themselves pull away from Donald Trump ahead of the midterms as Republicans brace for an election blowout.

Some representatives could shy away from tying themselves so closely to the president in the run-up to 2026's election cycle. The New Republic's Amanda Litman suggested the "addled and broken" view of Trump at present will be enough for some Republican reps to distance themselves from the president.

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'12-year-old': Profile shows Trump is in an 'adult fantasy camp' as he grows more childish

Donald Trump was accused of acting like a “12-year-old boy” living in a fantasy land during his second term in a brutal profile from Politico’s Jonathan Martin on Thursday morning.

According to the longtime White House correspondent, the largest difference between the president’s first term and his second go-around in the Oval Office has been his overriding lack of seriousness about his job, with Martin writing, “... he’s turned the office into an adult fantasy camp, a Tom Hanks-in-Big, ice-cream-for-dinner escapade posing as a presidency.”

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