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President Donald Trump's Department of Justice sparked outrage on Tuesday after reports that the agency is holding "internal discussions" about settling a massive lawsuit.

The New York Times reported that the DOJ is considering settling the $10 billion lawsuit that Trump filed against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his 2019 tax returns. Trump contended in the lawsuit that the IRS should have done more to prevent his returns from being publicized.

A MAGA Representative upbraided a 10-year-old for asking her about electric vehicle subsidies for a class assignment, and got mocked by political analysts and observers in return.

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), 82, recently received a letter from a fourth grader asking about a $5,000 tax rebate for new electric vehicle purchases, according to reports. Foxx responded to the letter by telling the young student that the national debt matters more, and that asking for such a tax rebate would take "money out of the pockets of hardworking people." She also sent the fourth grader an article about the "urgent crisis" of the national debt.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board was none too impressed with President Donald Trump's latest harebrained idea for a place the United States can conquer.

"Move over Greenland and Canada. President Trump told Fox News Monday that he is 'seriously considering' making Venezuela the 51st state," wrote the board. "Hmmm. Does that mean Venezuela would have to hold an election, like America’s current 50 states?"

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice released a stunning memo on Tuesday night claiming that Trump has the authority to take state voter rolls — a claim that directly contradicts several federal court rulings finding the DOJ has no such authority.

The memo was released at a time when Trump's efforts to obtain voter rolls have been repeatedly stifled by the courts. The Justice Department has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for refusing to provide unredacted voter rolls containing sensitive information like driver's licenses and partial Social Security numbers. Federal judges in California, Michigan, and Oregon have all ruled against the DOJ, finding it lacks statutory authority to compel states to turn over voter data.

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.