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President Donald Trump consulted with a controversial administration official about a widely criticized social media post showing himself as a Christlike figure.

The 79-year-old president's Sunday night post set off a firestorm of criticism, and two advisers who spoke to Trump about the image told Axios it had been brought to his attention by housing finance chief Bill Pulte over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, although it's not clear whether he showed the image on his phone or sent it to the president.

Donald Trump’s drive to remake the Federal Reserve into a tool of his economic policies is meeting an immovable object in the form of Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is using his position on the Senate Banking Committee to hold up the nomination of Kevin Warsh.

According to Politico's Jordain Carney and Jasper Goodman, Tillis is demanding Trump order his Department of Justice to drop its investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell before any deal on Warsh is possible.

"I'm not dead yet. I'm not very tauntable. That's part of growing up in a trailer park — you kind of get used to this stuff," Tillis said bluntly in an interview, brushing off Trump's intimidation tactics.

Tillis holds all the leverage over the persistent Trump. The Senate Banking Committee is holding Warsh's nomination hearing next Tuesday, and Tillis controls the deciding vote. He's also signaling he'll weaponize his Senate Judiciary position if the administration tries to push through an Attorney General successor to Pam Bondi without backing down on the pursuit of Powell.

Some of Tillis' fellow Republicans privately admit they don't understand the White House's approach, which they believe risks antagonizing Tillis further and empowering Powell even more in the public eye. Publicly, a growing chorus of Republicans is calling on the DOJ to end its investigation into whether Powell lied to Congress about Fed cost overruns.

President Donald Trump unveiled a health care plan called the "Most Favored Nation" policy, to try to compel drug manufacturers to charge Americans no more for drugs than their cost in the foreign country where they are sold most cheaply — but a new Senate report reveals drug companies are continuing to gouge with abandon, NBC News revealed on Thursday.

This report comes as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to testify on budget policy, which will likely see him confronted with questions about prescription drug affordability.

The U.S. is staring down a potentially "serious long-term consequence" as a result of President Donald Trump's "discretionary" war in Iran, according to one expert.

Margaret Donovan, a former Army JAG lawyer, discussed the impacts of Trump's war in Iran on CNN's "NewsNight" with Abby Phillip on Wednesday. She noted that the war is having an impact both at home, due to the sharp rise in energy prices, and abroad, with U.S. allies in the region, who have expended a lot of their missile defense systems.

A CNN analyst was befuddled by the more than 2,000 videos he reviewed from the Jeffrey Epstein files that were released by President Donald Trump's Department of Justice.

Tom Foreman, a CNN correspondent, said during a segment on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins that the files paint a "clear picture" of a "creepy guy" and raised questions about why so many people in his inner circle hung out with him. The videos show Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex criminal, discussing some menial items like landscaping his properties, as well as interviews from a documentary that former Trump whisperer Steve Bannon was making about Epstein.

By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster.

Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine problems, but new research suggests another potential culprit that many people haven’t considered – droughts caused by climate change.

Former GOP strategist Tara Setmayer had zero patience on Thursday's edition of MS NOW's "All In" in response to the explanation by Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) why he didn't feel the need to resign or face accountability for his actions, after being accused of an array of scandalous behavior, including sexual misconduct and domestic violence.

"I just want to be clear that he has not been charged with any crimes that are classified as assault," said anchor Chris Hayes. "And he is — he denies wrongdoing. So I just want to be clear about that, about where things stand. He is being investigated by the ethics committee. Tara, I want to play for you his own defense of himself. Why he says his is different than ... the two cases of Tony Gonzales and Eric Swalwell. Take a listen."

The plane U.S. Sen Tim Sheehy made an emergency landing near Ennis last Friday is a private aircraft owned by the NASA administrator Sheehy heavily supported during his nomination process.

According to the FAA incident report, the aircraft experienced engine issues and Sheehy, a Navy Seal and former aerial firefighter, was required to make a forced landing in a field.

Republican operatives and White House allies are privately resigned to the fact they may lose the Senate, and fear the House is all but gone too as President Donald Trump's relentless self-sabotage makes an already difficult midterm environment nearly impossible to navigate, Politico reported Wednesday.

“Everything is made more difficult by the nonsense coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue,” one Republican operative close to the White House told Politico.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board expressed horror that President Donald Trump moved to reopen his "vendetta" against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, threatening once again to fire him early, despite not having any clear statutory authority to do so.

"Mr. Trump is frustrated that his Administration’s criminal investigation into Mr. Powell over a cost overrun on a Fed building renovation is backfiring in a big way. Perhaps that’s what prompted his outburst in a Fox Business interview on Wednesday in which he doubled-down on his earlier threats to sack Mr. Powell," wrote the board. "If Mr. Powell doesn’t leave when his term as Chair ends on May 15, 'I’ll have to fire him,' the President said, adding 'I’ve wanted to fire him, but I hate to be controversial.'"

A legal expert was astounded by the "searing inconsistency" that President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is showing in a high-profile case during a podcast interview on Wednesday.

The Trump DOJ recently filed a superseding indictment against Brian Cole Jr., who has been accused of planting pipe bombs outside of the Democratic and Republican National Committees before the Jan. 6 insurrection. The new indictment charged Cole with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and committing an act of terrorism.