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A top Trump administration intelligence official who quit in a dramatic public protest over the Iran war left with the FBI hot on his heels, according to a new report.

Joe Kent resigned Tuesday as director of the National Counterterrorism Center. His public resignation letter blasted the Trump administration's justification for bombing Iran, writing the country "posed no imminent threat to our nation" and that the president acted under "pressure from Israel."

Political analysts and observers were floored on Wednesday after the Trump Pentagon released an eye-popping estimated cost for the supplies it needs to fight the Iran war.

The Pentagon said it would need about $200 billion in supplies for the war in Iran, according to The Washington Post. The request is so large that some people in Trump World have a hard time seeing it passing Congress, the report added.

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday to demand the release of convicted Colorado election official Tina Peters — while apparently not knowing that governors don't sentence people to prison.

"FREE TINA PETERS, A 73-YEAR-OLD WOMAN, WITH CANCER, GIVEN A NINE YEAR DEATH SENTENCE IN A COLORADO PRISON BY A DEMOCRAT GOVERNOR, JARED POLIS, AND A CORRUPT POLITICAL MACHINE, FOR EXPOSING FRAUD BY THE DEMOCRATS DURING THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION," Trump wrote in all caps on his social media platform.

One of President Donald Trump's top aides was brutally mocked on Wednesday after he seemed to be "having a hard time" during an interview on Fox News.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller joined Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her show, "The Ingraham Angle," to discuss the ongoing war in Iran and U.S. efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to its trade ships. The Iranian regime has effectively blockaded the Strait for more than a week in response to the coordinated bombing campaign conducted by the U.S. and Israel, which has contributed to the significant increase in energy prices.

The FBI and IRS are teaming up to investigate nonprofit organizations over suspected links to domestic terrorism in a sweeping new initiative that critics warn could be used to target left-wing political groups, CBS News reported Wednesday.

The joint operation, which will be based at the FBI with IRS Criminal Investigation agents working on one-year temporary assignments, stems from a December memo by Attorney General Pam Bondi ordering federal law enforcement to prioritize investigations into antifa and other groups she deemed "extremist."

Attorney Alan Dershowitz told NBC News on Wednesday that he is lobbying President Donald Trump directly for a pardon of a multi-million-dollar sex-focused women's wellness company.

The company is called OneTaste, which teaches its customers the practice of "orgasmic meditation," also known as OM. The company's founder, Nicole Daedone, and former executive, Rachel Cherwitz, were recently convicted of running a "forced labor conspiracy," according to the report. The two women face up to 20 years in prison when they are sentenced on March 30, it added.

A top Trump administration official who resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran delivered a startling admission Wednesday that undercuts the U.S.'s vital justification to launch strikes.

Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran posed an "imminent threat" to the United States and its allies, using that justification to launch coordinated strikes with Israel in late February. The administration has claimed the bombing campaign "completely obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities, a claim his own intelligence officials struggled to support under congressional questioning.

House Democrats raged at the GOP's "fake" deposition of Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday after they stormed out of the closed-door hearing.

Bondi testified before the House Oversight Committee about the Department of Justice's efforts to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law Congress passed last year that required the DOJ to release all files in its possession by December 2025. So far, the DOJ has released about half of the files in its possession, according to estimates. The files that have been released have been subject to significant scrutiny for redacting or obfuscating the information of Epstein's co-conspirators.

House Democrats walked out of a closed-door briefing with Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday, refusing to participate because cameras were not allowed in the room, according to baffled Republicans in the hearing.

Bondi was on Capitol Hill to testify before House committees about the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and related decisions under the Trump administration, including allegations of politicization and mishandling of victim-sensitive material.

President Donald Trump's White House raged at a MAGA lawmaker on Wednesday because of her efforts to organize rescue missions for Americans stuck in the Middle East following Trump's decision to bomb Iran last month.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), who was one of Trump's most fervent supporters until the administration's mishandling of the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, has been unilaterally organizing rescue missions in the Middle East without the White House's approval, The Guardian reported. One mission in particular that has caught the White House's ire is Mace's outreach to Saudi Arabia to get a jet to transport 300 people out of the region.

A top producer at "CBS Evening News" may be on her way out as the network's high-profile MAGA-friendly reboot under editor in chief Bari Weiss continues to hemorrhage viewers, according to insiders cited by the New York Post.

Executive producer Kim Harvey has overseen the nightly broadcast since August, and sources told the Post she may ultimately take the fall if ratings fail to rebound. Viewership sunk to 3.8 million for the week ending March 13, a new low for the Weiss-engineered overhaul.

A former official in President Donald Trump's first administration said the quiet part out loud on Wednesday about the administration's support for Christian nationalist movements.

William Wolfe, a radical Christian pastor, gave a speech at Bethel Church in Petersburg, West Virginia, where he admitted that the aim of Christian nationalist movements is to impose their faith on everyone else, according to a report by Right Wing Watch. The outlet described Wolfe as a "fanatical anti-immigrant activist."