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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.

Allen West resigned as Dallas County Republican Party chair on Wednesday, just days before his own party was set to vote him out, and just a month after winning reelection.

West called county elections administrator Paul Adams to announce his resignation, according to Commissioner Andy Sommerman, who chairs the elections commission committee. The local Republican Party had been scheduled to meet on Monday, where its county executive committee planned to vote for West's ouster, KERA News reported.

Republicans are staring down the barrel of a scenario few people thought possible, election forecaster Harry Enten told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday: losing their Senate majority just one cycle after securing it.

Even one of Trump's closest Senate allies, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), admitted as much on the Benny Johnson Show this week, noted Burnett. She played a clip.

Political analysts and observers mocked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday after the New York Post published details of a bizarre science experiment he conducted as a kid.

The Post reported, citing a forthcoming book from Washington Post journalist Isabel Vincent, that Kennedy once pulled over the family car somewhere on I-684 while on a road trip so he could remove a raccoon's sex organs and "study them later." The book cites private journals that Vincent received from a source who knew Kennedy's late wife, Mary Kennedy, after Mary Kennedy's death.

The U.S. Army shut down an entire network of official social media accounts this week after a post celebrating Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs in combat, drew backlash from a pro-Trump veteran online.

The "Soldier for Life" program, which connects veterans and their families to employment, healthcare and retirement resources, posted a tribute to Duckworth's military career as an Army lieutenant colonel and Iraq War veteran. Within 24 hours of a former Army paratrooper criticizing the post on X, it was deleted.

Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele had a withering response to new reports that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department related to the first impeachment of President Donald Trump, related to his efforts to extort the president of Ukraine.

This is part of a broader pattern of trying to bury Trump's criminality, Steele argued, that also extends to the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election that led to his second impeachment — and that Trump can't let go of even today.

A former Fox News host revealed a "scary" truth Wednesday underpinning President Donald Trump's latest shocking social media post during an interview on CNN.

On Sunday, Trump posted and then deleted an artificial intelligence-generated photo of himself appearing as Jesus Christ healing a sick man in bed. The photo also included pictures of military troops, the Statue of Liberty, and the American flag. The post sparked outrage among political analysts and observers, prompting Trump to eventually remove it.

A legal scholar argued Wednesday that the Supreme Court's own constitutional framework — the same one it used to overturn Roe v. Wade — could be used to strike down the military draft, and that President Donald Trump may have just handed activists the perfect moment to try.

Writing in Slate, attorney Steve Kennedy, organizing and network director at the People’s Parity Project, pointed out that while Trump has threatened military operations across Iran, Greenland, Cuba, Venezuela, and beyond, his administration quietly automated draft registration for all men between 18 and 26 under a rule implementing last December's National Defense Authorization Act.

A Fox News reporter was forced to admit to viewers on Wednesday that American enemies are helping Iran target U.S. troops.

Fox News reporter Jennifer Griffin told viewers of "Special Report" with host Bret Baier that the station had confirmed exclusive reporting from the Financial Times that showed Iran was receiving spy satellites from China, and the intel from which has been used to attack American military troops in the region. The report adds to a growing account that suggests President Donald Trump may be ignoring the impact adversarial countries like Russia and China are having in the war in Iran.

A Minnesota Republican candidate for a battleground congressional campaign is dropping out — because he has been called up by the Marines to be deployed to the Middle East.

In a statement to X on Tuesday, Tyler Kistner made the announcement of his deployment and the end of his campaign for the 2nd District of Minnesota.

A Democratic senator excoriated her Republican colleagues during an interview on CNN on Wednesday for failing to rein in President Donald Trump.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) joined CNN's Phil Mattingly on "The Lead" to discuss the war in Iran. Baldwin argued that Trump has broken promises to his voters by starting the war, yet Republicans have been unwilling to hold the president accountable in a meaningful way.