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'I knew hours ago': Elon Musk's furious ex spills wild 'space technology' election claim

At exactly 5:34 a.m. ET on Nov. 6, 2024, the Associated Press called the presidential election for Donald Trump – but according to Ashley St. Clair, a former MAGA figure who has since renounced much of her past rhetoric, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed to have learned the election results “hours” earlier with the help of a secretive satellite program that collects “real-time data.”

St. Clair first rose to prominence in 2025 after announcing that at age 26, she had given birth to a son fathered by Elon Musk, then 53. Musk has 14 known children, the majority of them conceived by means other than natural conception, and whom he has referred to as his “legion.”

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Civil war growing among college Republicans over invites to white nationalists: report

The coalition of college Republicans who helped propel Donald Trump back into office is fracturing as rival campus organizations increasingly invite white nationalist speakers — creating internal conflict that threatens GOP efforts to mobilize young voters in critical midterm races.

According to the New York Times, the schism came into sharper focus when Maryland's state college Republican group invited white nationalist Jared Taylor to speak at Salisbury University, where he warned that white people face extinction.

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Treasury Dept. lawyer quits months into tenure after Trump's 'disgustingly corrupt' move

A top Treasury Department lawyer resigned hours after the creation of a $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund" that will be used to pay off President Donald Trump's political allies.

Brian Morrissey, the Treasury’s general counsel, stepped down Monday only seven months after he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and just hours after the Trump administration announced the fund, reported the New York Times.

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Trump revealed MAGA's core gambit — and it paints a disturbing picture of the GOP: expert

President Donald Trump has revealed the core gambit driving his MAGA movement, and it paints a disturbing picture of where the Republican Party is at right now, according to one political expert.

David Rothkopf, who served in the Clinton administration, argued during a new episode of "The Daily Beast Podcast" that Trump's recent attacks against Republicans like Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), even as his poll numbers continue to slide, offer a window into what Trump has really offered the Republican Party. He noted that Trump is underwater on several key issues heading into the midterms, ranging from the economy to immigration, yet still enjoys almost no criticism from Republicans.

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Mockery as Trump-aligned 'generational talent' at CBS News could be sidelined from TV

Political analysts and observers roundly mocked the Trump-aligned leader of CBS News on Monday night after a new report indicated that she could potentially be sidelined from the station's TV decisions.

Dylan Byers at Puck News reported that CBS bosses are considering removing editor-in-chief Bari Weiss from her role overseeing the network's TV programming. The move came after CBS News was sharply criticized for its interview of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and as ratings continue to slide for the network's signature show, "CBS Evening News."

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Scott Jennings issues stark warning on Trump DOJ fund: 'Makes me a little uncomfortable'

Scott Jennings issued a rare warning to President Donald Trump on Monday during a CNN panel discussion.

Jennings, a long-time GOP political consultant and senior political commentator at CNN, joined the panel on CNN's "NewsNight," where he was asked about the new $1.776 billion fund President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is putting together to pay the president's allies who claim they were unfairly prosecuted by the Biden administration. The fund is being created as part of a settlement agreement to a $10 billion lawsuit Trump filed against the IRS for allegedly leaking his tax returns to harm his reputation.

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Rachel Maddow goes off on 'fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt' Trump scheme

MS NOW's Rachel Maddow went off on what she described as a "fantastically kaleidoscopically corrupt" scheme that seems to have embroiled the president.

Maddow discussed President Donald Trump's recent financial disclosure during her opening segment on Monday and highlighted a startling pattern — several of Trump's stock trades coincided with a major policy announcement that moved markets. For instance, Maddow flagged a January trade in which Trump bought stock in a major microchip manufacturer about a week before he relaxed regulations allowing the company to do business in China.

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Trump-friendly CBS News head could be sidelined after turbulent start: report

Ever since conservative-leaning commentator Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS News, the network has seen anemic ratings and a lurching series of controversies — and now the higher-ups at Paramount-Skydance are talking about sidelining her.

This comes in spite of the company's head, David Ellison, being notoriously Trump-friendly.

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Glaring giveaways hide in plain sight inside Trump revenge case: analyst

A national security journalist spotted a glaring inconsistency in the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey that she said gives away how political the case appears to be.

Marcy Wheeler of Emptywheel laid out a side-by-side comparison Monday of four threat cases charged by Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney W. Ellis Boyle in the Eastern District of North Carolina in recent weeks, and concluded Comey's looks oddly different than the others.

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CNN's Anderson Cooper amazed pardoned J6 rioter may have predicted his own payoff

CNN's Anderson Cooper was amazed on Monday after he realized a pardoned rioter who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection may have predicted that he would eventually get a payoff from the Trump administration.

Cooper recounted the case against Edward Kelly, who was one of the first rioters to breach the Capitol that day, and another rioter named Andrew Paul Johnson. Kelly was convicted in 2024 for plotting to kill the FBI agents who investigated him after Jan. 6, and is serving a life sentence for those crimes.

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Trump jawboned Thune to fire Senate's top rules referee over ballroom ruling: report

President Donald Trump privately demanded that Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) fire Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough.

According to NOTUS, "President Donald Trump pressed Senate Majority Leader John Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian after she ruled Republicans could not include funding for the president’s ballroom in a budget bill, two sources familiar with the request told NOTUS." However, Thune is adamantly refusing to get rid of MacDonough, who was first appointed as the Senate rules referee in 2012 and has often frustrated majorities in both parties.

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Megyn Kelly goes nuclear and accuses Trump admin of feeding Axios a fake new war pretext

Megyn Kelly isn't buying what the Trump administration is selling on Cuba — and she's mincing no words.

The conservative host used her Monday podcast to torch the administration over a weekend Axios report claiming Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and discussed attacking Guantanamo Bay, US naval vessels, and Key West.

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Supreme Court 'beclowned itself' by entertaining MAGA rage-bait in new case: expert

A legal expert ripped the Supreme Court for "beclowning itself" after some of the justices entertained MAGA rage-bait during a recent oral argument session.

Steve Vladek, a law professor at Georgetown University, said during the most recent episode of "The Court of History" podcast on the Legal AF Network that some of the court's justices seemed to be more focused on policy issues than interpreting the statutory question at hand in a case called Watson v. R.N.C. The case is about whether federal election law permits mail-in ballots from being counted after election day, and the Supreme Court's decision could have a major impact on the upcoming midterm elections.

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