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President Donald Trump's "anti-weaponization fund" is an "extraordinary incident of bald self-dealing, even in an administration where such blatant corruption has become de rigueur," according to a blistering new Guardian column.

Columnist Moira Donegan pulled no punches in her assessment of the $1.776 billion fund, which Trump established after settling a $10 billion lawsuit he personally filed against the IRS over leaks of his tax returns.

U.S. intelligence assessments are painting a starkly different picture of Iran's military recovery than the one presented by American commanders, raising questions about the lasting impact of the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Tehran.

CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper testified before the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday that Operation Epic Fury had destroyed 90 percent of Iran's defense industrial base and ensured Iran "cannot reconstitute for years," but four sources familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments told CNN that the underlying intelligence tells a different story — one in which Iran is rebuilding far faster than initially expected.

President Donald Trump's administration surreptitiously handed an official charged with combating "fraud" in the federal government a waiver from conflict-of-interest rules, NOTUS reported on Thursday.

"Jetson Leder-Luis’ 'disqualifying financial interest' in Amazon.com is 'not so substantial as to be deemed likely to affect the integrity' of his work as deputy executive director of Trump’s Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, White House counsel David Warrington wrote in the memo dated April 16," reported Dave Levinthal.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche stepped into the limelight this week, unabashedly defending Donald Trump, making him the man of the president’s dreams, claimed MS NOW’s Ken Dilanian on Thursday morning.

Appearing on “Morning Joe,” the justice analyst told the co-hosts that Blanche, unlike his predecessor Pam Bondi, has shown he is more than willing to make the case for the president’s initiatives, not only before hostile senators, but also by sitting down with cable anchors and fielding their questions.

MAGA news outlets could be among the claimants seeking to claw back their massive penalties for spreading 2020 election lies through President Donald Trump's massive slush fund, according to new reporting.

CNN's Marshall Cohen reported that One America News, a little-watched right-wing network, is "seriously considering" filing a claim under the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" to restore millions of dollars paid to settle defamation lawsuits from voting machine companies Dominion and Smartmatic, although representatives from Fox News and Newsmax did not say whether they would use the fund.

President Donald Trump's string of Republican primary victories may actually be a paradoxical sign of weakness rather than strength, with a leading political analyst warning that Trump’s standing appears to be "deteriorating."

And the numbers back it up.

The mystery is only deepening about the monthslong disappearance of Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), who has missed dozens of votes this year while his office says he is recovering from an unspecified medical issue.

According to NOTUS' Jose Pagliery, it's not just voters and his fellow GOP lawmakers who don't know where he is, but even his neighbors.

President Donald Trump is using profanity and insulting language at a dramatically higher rate in his second term than in his first, according to a new analysis of his speeches and social media posts.

The Washington Post analysis found that approximately 93 percent of Trump's second-term speeches contain at least one vulgar term, compared to 40 percent during the first 1½ years of his first term, and vulgar or insulting social media posts have roughly tripled compared to a similar period in his first term.

While reporting on the so-called Donald Trump “slush fund” containing $1.8 billion to be distributed to allies of the president has been focused on those who took part in the Jan. 6 insurrection that had lawmakers from both sides of the aisle fleeing for their lives, the New York Times is reporting that members of the president’s inner circle could also cash in.

The embattled Kash Patel leads the FBI, which falls under the same Department of Justice that hammered together the agreement.

A tobacco giant donated $5 million to President Donald Trump's super PAC just days before his administration rolled out a new policy that could prove enormously lucrative for the industry — and critics are not letting it slide.

Reynolds American, makers of Vuse vapes, made the donation on April 30 through a subsidiary to MAGA Inc., the Trump-backed super PAC, bringing its total contributions to the group to $8 million, according to campaign finance records released Wednesday and reported by the New York Times.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche used to be one of the very few figures in the Trump administration who could walk a line between serving President Donald Trump's desires and checking his ugliest instincts — but faced with the prospect of overseeing Trump's new $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," there's no sign of any checks, The New York Times reported on Thursday.

"Allies of Mr. Blanche thought he could achieve two seemingly irreconcilable goals when he was elevated to temporarily replace Pam Bondi after her ouster in April: restoring stability and competence to the department and taking a handful of actions that were sufficiently drastic to convince the boss he was tough enough to make his title permanent," said the report. "So far, however, Mr. Blanche has exhibited few of the modest moderating tendencies he exhibited during more than a year as Ms. Bondi’s top deputy."

President Donald Trump intends to punish another round of Republican lawmakers he believes have been insufficiently loyal.

The 79-year-old president, fresh off a string of GOP primary wins this spring that knocked off his enemies and reaffirmed his control over the party, is looking to bake in MAGA's influence beyond the end of his second term by targeting other Republicans for revenge, reported Axios.

Someone at the State Department appeared to make an unforced error this week.

The department posted a video to X on Wednesday of President Donald Trump answering reporters' questions about the administration's increasingly aggressive stance toward Cuba.