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When "Real Time" host Bill Maher cautions liberals and progressives against reacting to every offensive thing that President Donald Trump says and does, his point is that they should save their energy for Trump's most egregious actions. Maher had a lot to say about Trump during "Real Time's" Friday night, August 22 broadcast — warning that Trump's "slow-moving coup" may prevent Democrats from ever running the federal government again no matter how many supporters they have.

Maher told his guests, "If there was a slow-moving coup, let me just describe some of the steps — and you tell me if I'm being paranoid. First, create a masked police force. Get people used to looking at that. Normalize snatching people off the street. Get them used to looking at that. Normalize seeing the National Guard and the military on the street. Then, start talking about crime in the capital, which has always been a fairly crime-ridden city."

US President Donald Trump said Friday that Chicago is the next city in his crosshairs for the kind of federal invasion and occupation currently underway in Washington, DC—a threat that sparked defiant pushback from officials in the Windy City and beyond.

"After we do this, we'll go to another location, and we'll make it safe also," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, referring to his federalization of Washington's Metropolitan Police Department and deployment of National Guard troops from the district and five Republican-controlled states.

Hours after FBI Director gave the go-ahead to his agents to raid the home and office of John Bolton, Vice President J.D. Vance was well prepared and ready to discuss it with NBC’s Kristin Welker during an extensive interview to be released in full on Sunday.

During an interview on Saturday on MSNBC, one former official from Donald Trump’s first term questioned the extent of VP’s involvement in a matter that should be outside his purview.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to move past the Jeffrey Epstein scandal in releasing interview transcripts of Epstein-associate Ghislaine Maxwell will likely only fan the flames of the controversy, one journalist argued Saturday morning on CNN.

“If anything, they've sort of started another firestorm,” said Errol Louis, journalist and host of “The Big Deal with Errol Louis” on Spectrum News, speaking with CNN Saturday.

Despite disavowals from Donald Trump that he was not aware of a planned raid on the home of John Bolton, White House insiders claim he had been obsessed with his former national security adviser for the past few weeks.

Questioned about the raid afterward, the president told reporters he was out of the loop and knew nothing about it, however, in interviews with the Washington Post, insiders said he not only was focusing on Bolton but that he dropped hints in the days before the raid.

The FBI raid on President Donald Trump's former National Security Adviser John Bolton appears primarily to be payback against him for years of criticism — but there might be some even more sinister motives at play here, wrote Shane Harris for The Atlantic on Friday.

Specifically, he argued, it could also be a ploy to scare the broader intelligence community out of ever defying him — and if so, it might already be working.

On Friday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. government was now a part-owner of a major publicly traded tech company. The reaction among his base was less than enthusiastic.

Trump announced via his Truth Social platform that as of Friday the U.S. is a multibillion-dollar shareholder in Intel as part of an agreement with CEO Lip-Bu Tan — with the U.S. supposedly paying nothing for its new stake. The announcement notably came roughly two weeks after Trump's angry social media tirade against Tan, in which he demanded that Tan "resign immediately" from his role due to his investments in Chinese tech companies.

The release of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with convicted Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell only proves what a dishonest and self-serving exercise all of this was for the Trump administration, former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "The Weeknight" panel on Friday evening.

"You can't escape the obvious here," said anchor Michael Steele. "When all the documents, if they ever do come out, whatever, we'll get to what's in the house, what they receive today when all of this stuff starts to flesh out and Donald Trump's name is on every other frickin page at that point, [they] so poisoned the well with, with trivial crap like this. Where does that leave us? Where does this all go?"

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is releasing new materials from the 2019 investigation into convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee in response to a congressional subpoena. But one longtime Republican strategist is urging Americans to take it all with a grain of salt.

On Friday, Mark McKinnon — who was an advisor to former President George W. Bush and the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) — joined MSNBC host Katy Tur's show to weigh in on the newly released audio of Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell testifying to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche last month. McKinnon attempted to get cooler heads to prevail, opining that the DOJ was releasing these specific audio files in an attempt to influence public opinion.

The Trump administration is planning once again to deport Salvadoran immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia — this time, to Africa.

According to a new memo submitted by the Justice Department to Abrego Garcia's counsel, "Pursuant to the court order issued in the District Court of Maryland on July 23, 2025, Civil Action No. 8:25-cv-00951-PX, please let this email serve as notice that DHS may remove your client, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, to Uganda no earlier than 72 hours from now (absent weekends)."

A tour guide in Washington, D.C. blasted the Trump administration's decision to send National Guard troops into the city to address crime, calling it a "spectacle" for tourists seeking a new photo op.

Elijah Edwards wrote a letter to the Washington Post editors on Friday, calling it "fitting" that most federal agents and troops were clustered along the National Mall and near city monuments, rather than in crime-heavy neighborhoods.

President Donald Trump's warning that imported furniture will soon face tariffs sent stocks reeling for major retailers, according to a report.

On Friday, Trump said on his Truth Social platform that his administration was conducting a major tariff investigation into furniture imports. The administration plans to impose tariffs at a rate still to be determined once the probe is completed within the next 50 days.

During a press conference in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump dismissed the new release of documents relating to convicted child predator Jeffrey Epstein as a "hoax" concocted by Democrats. His claims didn't pass muster after two CNN hosts conducted a prompt fact-check.

On Friday, CNN hosts Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar interrupted Trump's comments from the White House to make it clear to viewers that not everything the president was saying was factual. When a reporter asked Trump for his thoughts on the House Oversight Committee receiving a new tranche of Epstein files from the Department of Justice in response to a subpoena, the president said he was in favor of transparency but that some names in the files may not "deserve" to be there given the size of Epstein's rolodex.