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Far-right Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon went on a virulently racist tirade this week, proclaiming that Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy must be "demolished" to punish the GOP and warn them off ever nominating "polytheistic, demon-worshiping, cow-worshiping, bare-feet scamming anchor baby Indians" to office again.

The clip, posted to X by Right Wing Watch, showed Webbon getting visibly animated as he worked himself up — and it comes as the GOP is increasingly fractured over Ramaswamy's candidacy. Ramaswamy was named to co-lead President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency alongside Elon Musk after the 2024 election, but dropped out of the role to focus on his gubernatorial campaign.

A former federal prosecutor flagged a startling fact on Tuesday that could doom President Donald Trump's high-profile prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador became one of the most prominent immigration cases in the country.

Glenn Kirschner, a former assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., said during a new episode of his podcast "Justice Matters" that the Trump administration's prosecution of Abrego Garcia could be doomed because the administration has treated him differently than others in similar situations.

House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) played ignorant when Meidas Touch reporter Pablo Manríquez confronted him about President Donald Trump's new comments dismissing the rising cost-of-living crisis.

The remark came after reporters asked him about the latest monthly inflation numbers. "The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon," said the president. "I don't think about Americans' financial situation."

Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with the British royal family may be much deeper than previously reported, according to one of the royal family's biographers.

Andrew Lownie, who has written two books about the royal family, including a biography of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's relationship with Epstein, revealed during a new episode of the Daily Beast’s "The Royalist Podcast" that another member of the royal family also kept company with Epstein. Lownie said that Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, had dinner with Epstein in the mid-1990s and may have helped give him credibility he didn't deserve.

President Donald Trump has lost his ability to do one of the most important parts of his political formula, Vanity Fair's Molly Jong-Fast argued to MS NOW's Ari Melber on Tuesday's edition of "The Beat" — and it's causing his base to fall to pieces.

"So when he runs on, hey, one thing I'm going to do is lower prices or have no forever wars or release the Epstein files — every last big promise, with the exception, perhaps, of hardline immigration, has been contradicted," said Melber.

President Donald Trump dumbfounded CNN's Erin Burnett on Tuesday after he shrugged off the economic pain Americans are feeling because of his war with Iran.

Burnett played a clip of Trump speaking to reporters outside the White House during the opening segment of her show, "OutFront," where he was asked about what Americans should think of the economic toll the war is taking. The question was asked at a time when the most recent economic data showed inflation spiked 3.8% over the last year, the highest reading in multiple years, driven primarily by energy price increases resulting from the war.

President Donald Trump has found himself in an "unprecedented position of political weakness" as poll after poll shows his policies are dragging the GOP down ahead of the midterms, according to one analyst.

Rick Wilson, co-founder of The Lincoln Project, said in a recent podcast episode that the GOP's efforts to redraw several state election maps are a sign of how weak Trump has become as the 2026 midterms approach. He argued that Trump has effectively erased any positive messaging Republicans can use to attract voters because the war in Iran has caused consumer prices to surge and has eaten away at the gains that Trump's tax cuts would have given voters.

The White House is scrambling to change the minds of congressional Republican lawmakers who are turning against the proposed $1 billion funding in the GOP reconciliation package to construct "security" elements of President Donald Trump's ballroom project, Politico reported on Tuesday.

"Secret Service Director Sean Curran lobbied Senate Republicans for the funding Tuesday, explaining that only a subset of the funding would potentially be used on the ballroom, but met a skeptical reception nonetheless," said the report. "Curran and other White House officials are expected to continue making the case in the coming days, saying the money is needed to secure the ballroom project and other venues frequented by the president."