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FBI Director Kash Patel has once again blurred the lines between personal and professional conduct, bringing his country singer girlfriend to a closed-door meeting with top federal and state law enforcement officials to discuss combating fentanyl trafficking — raising eyebrows about his judgment and priorities.

According to the New York Times, in early April, Republican Senator David McCormick of Pennsylvania invited Patel and other top law enforcement officials to Allentown for a confidential meeting on fentanyl trafficking strategies. The synthetic opioid has killed tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians.

House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the leader of the GOP – President Donald Trump – appears to have already “resigned to losing,” The Wall Street Journal reported Friday night.

“At times, the president has seemed resigned to losing, pointing out that the party in control almost always suffers in the midterms,” The Journal’s report reads. “Privately, Trump has occasionally told aides that he doesn’t care about the outcome, according to people familiar with the comments.”

A travel company declined to sponsor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's family road trip after determining that sponsoring the venture amounted to buying access to a sitting cabinet secretary — raising fresh ethical concerns about the "reality-TV-tinged" odyssey.

According to POLITICO, at least one would-be sponsor balked at the ethical implications of appearing to purchase access to President Trump's transportation secretary. The company declined after being approached by Great American Road Trip Inc., the Delaware-registered nonprofit that has funded the Duffy family's gas, car rentals, lodging, and activities during eight months of on-and-off filming.

President Donald Trump's revenge campaign against Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy has hit a significant snag.

The 79-year-old president has backed Rep. Julia Letlow to unseat Cassidy — one of only three Senate Republicans who voted to convict him over Jan. 6 — but state treasurer John Fleming's self-funded campaign is forcing a likely runoff and testing Trump's political dominance over the Republican base, reported CNN.

President Donald Trump's decision to double down on his claim that he doesn't pay attention to Americans' finances is an indication of how clueless and insulated he is from public opinion, The New York Times' Maggie Haberman told CNN's Kaitlan Collins on Friday's edition of "The Source" — and how unaware he is that he is handing Democrats powerful ammunition to beat him.

"You've covered the president his entire political career," said Collins. "He's typically known for having good political instincts when it comes to voters and their sensitivities. What did you make of him doubling down on that comment tonight?"

FBI Director Kash Patel exploded at one of his own officials who dared suggest that assigning a full-time SWAT team to protect his girlfriend might need an ethics review, according to a bombshell New York Times report.

The clash came after FBI officials recommended Patel seek a legal review and threat assessment to determine whether the lavish security detail for his country singer girlfriend Alexis Wilkins — who lives part-time in Nashville, a city away from Patel — was ethical or even necessary.

Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

On a Slate podcast bonus episode of "Amicus" released Friday, host Mark Joseph Stern and legal scholar Madiba Dennie, author of "The Originalism Trap," dissected the dissents from Alito and fellow conservative Justice Clarence Thomas after the Supreme Court preserved telehealth access to the abortion pill mifepristone in a 7-2 emergency order.

Donald Trump is attempting to pull off what MS NOW's Chris Hayes described on Friday night's edition of "All In" as "a slow-motion heist in broad daylight of billions of dollars."

Now a group of court-appointed legal experts is revealing how it "stinks to high heaven," he said.