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'Deeply unhealthy': Trump's niece ties his growing 'feebleness' to weakening hold on GOP

Donald Trump's increasingly failing cognitive capabilities are causing Republican lawmakers to depart from the president more often, according to a member of the Trump family.

Mary Trump, the niece of the president and a trained psychologist, on Saturday published a video in which she talks about her uncle's "crumbling" hold over Republicans.

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'Appalling spectacle': Ex-GOP insider accuses Republican senators of being 'compromised'

Republican senators are "compromised," according to a GOP strategist.

Stuart Stevens, Chief Strategist of Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, wrote an article on Saturday called None Dare Call It Treason: The Republican Party Is Compromised in which he argues that "Republican Senators understand the grave threat Russia poses." Putting the GOP senators on notice, Stevens says, "Yet they refuse to uphold their oath of office due to their fealty to Trump."

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Far-right Texas lawmaker resigns in wake of Marjorie Taylor Greene's departure

Another MAGA lawmaker is calling it quits after Marjorie Taylor Greene announced her decision not to run for her seat again.

Congressman Troy E. Nehls on Saturday made his announcement on social media.

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Trump admin hoping to draw attention away from Epstein files release with ‘unusual’ ploy

The Trump administration is hoping to use its push for the release of grand jury testimony in the cases of Jeffrey Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell as a ploy to divert attention away from the impending release of tens of thousands of Epstein-related documents, one ex-state attorney argued Saturday.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed into law the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a bill spearheaded by Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA), and amid fierce opposition from Trump – at least initially before her reversed course at the last moment and proclaimed to support the bill’s passage.

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Conservative prosecutor warns Trump he's 'handing Democrats' his articles of impeachment

Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has no love for the “craven video” Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) and five Democrats released to the public advising military members to ignore illegal orders. But he said President Donald Trump’s executive power abuses in reacting to it represent a whole “new level” of threat.

McCarthy tells the National Review that he partially blames Democrats for Trump ordering the Pentagon to demote Kelly and cut his benefits because “Kelly knows, when Democrats poke another hole in another norm, the president’s MO is to drive a truck through it.”

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'Just nonsense': Economist dismantles core Trump claim

President Donald Trump repeatedly claims that he inherited a troubled, dysfunctional economy from his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and quickly turned it around. In fact, the United States enjoyed record-low unemployment during Biden's presidency, but widespread frustration over inflation helped Trump pull off a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent on Election Night 2024.

Economist Justin Wolfers, who teaches at the University of Michigan but is originally from Sydney, Australia, tore apart Trump's claims about the economy — from tariffs to the stock market — during a Saturday, November 29 appearance on MS NOW's "The Weekend."

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Trump slammed for using taxpayer-funded ‘national emergency’ ads as personal PR

Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer to President George W. Bush, blasted the waste of $200 million ‘national emergency’ ads inflating President Donald Trump’s ego.

“If every problem is a national emergency you wind up with a president and executive branch that can do whatever they want," said Painter, who now teaches corporate law at the University of Minnesota.

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Group launches targeted ad to spoil Trump’s Thanksgiving weekend at resort

The Women’s March WIN political action committee launched an ad campaign this weekend with an ad encouraging Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers to quit their jobs, and kicked off the campaign with ads running in West Palm Beach, Florida, where President Donald Trump is spending his Thanksgiving weekend.

“Our goal behind this is not to agitate the public to dislike ICE – I think that ICE is doing that on its own,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, the executive director of Women’s March WIN, speaking with Zeteo in its report Saturday.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s newly revealed book purchases reveal financier ‘obsessed’ with Trump

A new batch of nearly 21,000 unredacted emails and file attachments from Jeffrey Epstein revealed Saturday that the disgraced financier was “obsessed” with President Donald Trump, having purchased “basically every major exposé” about the president, Zeteo reported.

“Epstein showed intense interest in books about the Trump administration’s scandals,” wrote Zeteo reporter Micah Lee in its report Saturday. “He purchased basically every major exposé as soon as it was published, often pre-ordering the books.”

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Patel's gallivanting with his girlfriend has earned him a new nickname at the FBI: insider

Before getting around to describing FBI Director Kash Patel tenure at the law enforcement agency as a “dumpster fire,” former FBI Special Agent Christopher O’Leary claimed the Donald Trump appointee has been bestowed with a new nickname behind his back at headquarters.

Speaking with the host of MS NOW’s “The Weekend,” O’Leary expressed nothing but contempt for the Patel who is reportedly on Trump’s list for dumping, despite White House denials.

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Trump exposed for 'funneling' donor money into his bank account: report

Newsbreak reports that millionaire President Donald Trump is diverting donor money straight into his pocket.

“Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, perhaps even billions of dollars, Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers through the political committees he controls,” said Newsbreak writer S.V. Date.

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'Bless his heart': Mike Johnson ridiculed on MS NOW after whine about lost vacation time

A clip of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) appearing with his wife and complaining about his lack of vacation time set off gales of laughter on MS NOW’s “The Weekend” on Saturday.

Earlier in the week, the embattled GOP leader spent almost an hour speaking with Katie Miller, the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller who is cashing in on his name as a podcaster.

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