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Political analysts and observers bashed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday after he claimed an Inspector General report on his conduct during Signalgate exonerated him.

Hegseth's tenure as Defense Secretary has been embroiled in scandal since it began. One of the most egregious scandals occurred in April when Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, was mistakenly added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging platform Signal, where multiple Trump officials discussed a bombing campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen. The instance became known as Signalgate.

President Donald Trump has issued a full pardon to Tim Leiweke, a media executive who co-founded the Oak View Group, according to CNN on Wednesday.

The move is notable as, unlike many other controversial Trump clemencies for rich and well-connected people, this pardon is for a charge brought by his own Justice Department earlier this year.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) delivered a one-word response to a report that she is mulling whether to resign from Congress as she runs for governor in South Carolina.

The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Mace was considering resigning from her seat over how GOP leadership treats women. Mace has publicly broken with President Donald Trump and the GOP over their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files. She has also told people close to her that she is planning to reach out to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) about retiring early, according to the report.

A conservative columnist on Wednesday slammed President Donald Trump's economy during an interview on Fox News.

Byron York, a columnist for The Washington Examiner, discussed Trump's economy during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle" with host Laura Ingraham. He noted that the economy is one area where the Republican Party is not addressing a lot of people's concerns, and that could be bad news for the party in the midterms.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's recent interview with Aaron Ross Sorkin raised red flags for a pair of analysts on Wednesday.

Sorkin interviewed Bessent at The New York Times' DealBook Summit, an annual gathering of business leaders, where the Treasury secretary made a series of questionable claims, according to Jonathan V. Last and Tim Miller of The Bulwark. Among them: Bessent's defense of Trump's appearance at Tuesday's cabinet meeting — where he appeared to fall asleep — and suggestion that he doesn't read the news.

A Tennessee Republican is sounding the alarm after Democrats overperformed in a deep-red district during a special election on Tuesday, according to a new report.

On Tuesday, Republican Matt Van Epps, a Trump-endorsed military veteran, beat Democrat Aftyn Behn in the special election for the Tennessee 7th Congressional District seat. Van Epps won the election by 9 points in a district that President Donald Trump carried by more than 20 points during the 2024 election. Some election experts have said that the result is a sign of the momentum Democrats have as the 2026 midterm elections approach.

A victim of a fraudster that President Donald Trump recently let out of jail spoke out on Wednesday, railing that the president's move "makes no sense."

Carolann Tutera, who was defrauded by David Gentile, the former CEO of GPB Holdings, discussed the impact of Gentile's fraud on her family during Wednesday's broadcast of "The Lead" with Jake Tapper. Gentile was convicted in May of leading a $1.6 billion Ponzi scheme and sentenced to seven years in federal prison. He served just 12 days before Trump commuted his sentence.

Republicans appear ready to "shoot themselves in the foot" on a key issue for voters after they voted to cut Medicaid funding in President Donald Trump's domestic spending bill, according to one analyst.

A key provision of Trump's domestic spending bill prohibits Medicaid from funding abortion care, which UC Davis law professor Mary Ziegler argued in a new column for Slate is "the anti-abortion movement’s most significant win in Trump’s second term." The provision was swiftly challenged in court by Planned Parenthood and 22 states.

A group of Democratic Senators sent a scathing letter to the heads of the General Services Administration and the Office of Presidential Personnel, arguing that President Donald Trump's latest appointee "betrays the trust of every American."

The Democrats, all of whom serve on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, said in the letter that they were "deeply disturbed" that Trump appointed Paul Ingrassia as the deputy general counsel for the GSA, according to a report by The Hill. The appointment followed Ingrassia's failed confirmation to lead the Special Counsel's Office in September.