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DC lawmaker takes hilarious tour of Trump's fair: 'Um, they ain't got it'

A Washington, D.C. lawmaker captured a tour of the Great American State Fair in Washington D.C. on Friday — showing a mostly empty fairgrounds.

At-Large D.C. Councilmember Christina Henderson shared the Instagram video and spoke about checking out the booths for states, with some passing out brochures and others hosting interactive experiences.

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Trump caught red-handed using tax dollars for renovations he claimed he paid for: report

Back in March, President Donald Trump claimed that an expensive renovation to a White House pathway was paid for by himself personally, but on Friday, The Atlantic’s Michael Scherer revealed that the bill was actually footed by taxpayers.

The pathway in question connects the Oval Office to the White House’s central complex, a commute that takes all of 45 seconds to make, according to Scherer. Originally paved with Tennessee flagstone, a flat sedimentary rock, Trump instead wanted the pathway to be redone using “polished African granite, carved in Italy.”

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'Suffer and die?' CNN struggles to make it through Trump's 'alarmist' post

CNN reporter Kristen Holmes and anchor Brianna Keilar struggled to take President Donald Trump's social media rant seriously on Friday after the MAGA leader uncorked a 400-word screed on his Truth Social platform.

Holmes, CNN's White House correspondent, reported that a political adviser had told her the Republican pitch heading into the midterms "wasn't going to be alarmist," built around the idea that things would improve under Trump but worsen if Democrats won. Then Trump posted to Truth Social moments before taking the stage at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority conference in Washington.

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Vance channels Nixon playbook as he positions himself for 2028: analysis

Vice President JD Vance drew scrutiny this week after praising Richard Nixon and downplaying the severity of Watergate during an appearance at his presidential library in California — but an analyst argued that historical revisionism was aimed at the present political moment.

CNN's Aaron Blake called out Vance's comments – "if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12-hour news story, like, the idea that it would have taken down a presidency is crazy" – as historically inaccurate and revealing more about President Donald Trump's political vulnerabilities than admiration for Nixon himself.

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Man in 'Uncle Sam costume' busted for lewd acts at Trump's State Fair: report

A Baltimore man in what witnesses called an "Uncle Sam costume" was arrested on opening day of President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair for allegedly performing lewd acts in front of a circus audience.

Gian Rachtelli, 54, was taken into custody Thursday on the National Mall, where President Donald Trump's Freedom250 nonprofit had launched its 16-day patriotic celebration just hours before.

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'They're animals!' Trump rants about 'godless Communists' closing your churches

President Donald Trump ranted against "godless communists" across more than 400 words as he prepared to speak to the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

The 80-year-old president issued sharp warnings about what he described as the rise of "Communists" in American politics after this week's election wins by candidates backed by New York's democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but his comments strayed off into lengthy boasts.

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Evasive Epstein associate hit with subpoenas mid-interview

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer announced Friday that the panel will subpoena billionaire investor Leon Black as part of the Republican-led investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's financial network.

Lawmakers are seeking a deposition and related documents following a closed-door interview in which Black declined to answer questions about non-disclosure agreements tied to the late sex offender, and the subpoenas — one for testimony and one for information about the NDAs — came in the middle of his interview with the committee on Capitol Hill, reported CNN.

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'Not much to see': Empty stalls and a cow named 'Melania' greet visitors at Trump's fair

After Donald Trump watched fans walk out of the opening rally at his Great American State Fair on the Washington Mall, things have not gotten much better.

According to Washington Post reporting, the 16-day National Mall celebration got off to an inauspicious start Thursday, with organizers struggling to open gates on time and workers "scrambling to hide construction debris."

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Red state prosecutor sanctioned for fueling Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories

A Utah judge ruled Friday that a deputy prosecutor in the murder case against a man accused of assassinating conservative activist Charlie Kirk had violated a pretrial publicity order by speaking to the media — and held him in contempt of court.

Judge Tony Graf declined, however, to impose the more severe sanction, stripping prosecutors of the option to seek the death penalty, that had been sought by defense lawyers for shooting suspect Tyler Robinson, reported MS NOW.

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‘MAGA going to lose their minds’: Critics grab popcorn as right-wing prediction collapses

Countless right-wing figures predicted last year that New York City would experience an unprecedented rise in crime under the leadership of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but after recently published data suggested the opposite to be true, onlookers braced themselves for what some anticipated would be a MAGA meltdown.

Right-wing pundits who predicted New York City’s crime would explode under Mamdani include Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and disgraced conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly, who said he warned his own daughter – who lives in Manhattan – that she wouldn’t be able to go outside “at night or even twilight.”

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Trump ‘doesn’t realize’ he ‘just handed’ Dems a superweapon: expert

President Donald Trump scored a major victory Thursday after the Supreme Court cleared the way for his administration to potentially expedite the deportation of 1.3 million migrants, but the win could very well end up handing Democrats the key to winning the midterms, one security expert argued Friday.

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday to allow the Trump administration to end what’s known as Temporary Protected Status, a designation that allows migrants fleeing dangerous countries to work in the United States legally. The ruling immediately puts more than 350,000 Haitian and Syrian migrants at risk of deportation, and threatens the status of all 1.3 million people currently protected under the program.

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'Are you kidding me?' MS NOW goes off as Trump in-law accused of making 'skeevy' deals

Reacting to reports that Michael Boulos, who is married to Donald Trump’s daughter Tiffany, is being included in meetings with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the Middle East, MS NOW Host Stephanie Ruhle blurted, “Are you kidding me!?” and suggested something didn’t smell right.

Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former Trump biographer Tim O’Brien agreed.

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Bombshell TMZ email claims to have video of Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers: report

A source who claims knowledge of the identities of Nancy Guthrie's kidnappers claims to have enough evidence to deliver them up to authorities on a "silver platter."

TMZ received an email from the source claiming to have video showing the "main guy" with the mother of NBC News broadcaster Savannah Guthrie on the day the 84-year-old allegedly died, and the outlet says it has authenticated the email as coming from the same person who sent previous messages.

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