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Trump 'laughing all the way to the bank' on a product he once called a 'scam': biographer

President Donald Trump and his family have made unfathomable profits off their cryptocurrency ventures, Tim O'Brien wrote for Bloomberg Opinion on Thursday — and it is a new level of brazenness from a president who once made his real feelings about crypto tokens very clear.

"Trump is 80, and he has been working for the better part of 60 years," wrote O'Brien. "His crypto windfall is certainly far larger than any amount he earned in a single year as a real estate developer, casino impresario and reality TV oddity during that span."

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Kash Patel orders 'all FBI field offices to immediately surge' on Trump 2020 case: report

Director Kash Patel's FBI has ordered every field office to immediately send analysts to support its investigation into the 2020 election in Georgia, according to a new report.

MS NOW obtained an unclassified memo showing Patel is mobilizing 260 intelligence analysts — from every field office in the country — as part of what the bureau calls a "priority effort" in Atlanta.

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'Classless' Markwayne Mullin flattened over ugly World Cup comments

With the country engrossed by the unexpected success of the US men's team’s performance in the 2026 World Cup, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin refused to take the high road when the team from Iran was eliminated.

In a column for MS NOW, political analyst Zeeshan Aleem called out the former Oklahoma plumber-turned-US senator for gloating in the Iran team elimination after the US government made their appearance a nightmare with travel restrictions and continued harassment by government officials.

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'I never said that': Trump's favorite pollster denies doomsaying prediction that came true

A year after Republicans quietly rebranded their signature tax cut legislation, President Donald Trump's own pollster is publicly disputing his role in the decision.

According to two sources who attended a White House strategy meeting last fall, Tony Fabrizio, Trump's longtime pollster, told the room that while the president loved the name "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," it simply didn't test well with voters, reported NOTUS.

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'Deep irony': Expert says Supreme Court just rug-pulled core obsession of MAHA movement

President Donald Trump brought anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his coalition in 2024, creating the so-called "Make America Healthy Again" movement by wooing a broad swathe of health activists and medicine deniers to join his cause. But the Supreme Court he helped appoint just dealt a massive blow to that movement, Dr. Vin Gupta noted to MS NOW's Jonathan Lemire on Thursday's edition of "Morning Joe."

Specifically, they blocked lawsuits from going forward against Bayer-Monsanto, over an herbicide at the heart of years of cancer litigation. While the actual scientific evidence that glyphosate-based herbicides cause cancer is limited, the legal crusade against it, and in particular against Bayer-Monsanto's Roundup weed killer, has been a fixture in health circles.

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Hookup site leak spurs denial from 'family values' GOP candidate

A married Iowa Republican campaigning for state lieutenant governor on a “traditional family values” platform has denied setting up a 2016 account linked to his email address on Adult Friend Finder, a hookup service for people seeking casual relationships.

Derek Wulf was last month named running mate to Iowa GOP gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn. Both candidates have been vocal critics of non-traditional relationships.

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Trump voters pound president for making billions 'on the side' while they struggle

Blockbuster reports that Donald Trump is cashing in to the tune of billions during his second term have trickled down to some of his MAGA supporters, and they had a few unpleasant things to say about it to MS NOW’s Alex Tabet.

On “Morning Joe," co-hosts Jonathan Lemire and Willie Geist shared a clip of Tabet talking to Florida GOP voters, all of whom admitted they voted for the president, with Lemire first offering, “He's making money, his rich friends are making money, his family is making money, you know, but we saw it at the opening of the show. Who has a 401(k)?”

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Legendary GOP strategist blows apart JD Vance's vision for America as a 'grave mistake'

Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove took square aim at Vice President JD Vance in a blistering op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, tearing apart his oft-stated idea that there is a distinct class of "heritage Americans" who are more American than other Americans.

"America wasn’t built by the rich and powerful but in large part by discards, rejects, losers and throwaways who made their way here," wrote Rove, who has been sounding the alarm about the vice president since before he even took office. He noted that his Norwegian father used to read him the Declaration of Independence, and that when he goes abroad, people in other countries tell him how much they want the American dream and what the idea of working hard and building a life means to them.

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Trump whisperer admits only massive turnout of 'lower information' voters can save GOP

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist turned MAGA power broker, is delivering a stark warning to Republican leadership.

In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Bannon argued that recent democratic-socialist primary wins — including Melat Kiros's upset of a longtime Colorado incumbent, following Zohran Mamdani's momentum in New York — signal a national leftward shift in grassroots organizing that Republicans have not yet figured out how to counter.

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AI Dr. Trump tells America to pray and drink Diet Coke in 'bizarre' late-night post

What’s the best time for the leader of the free world to post an AI-generated video of himself as a fake doctor who cures real celebrities Robert DeNiro and Julia Roberts of a fake disease?

Just before midnight, apparently.

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Trump faces rural revolt over his top legislative priority

President Donald Trump's push for his top congressional priority is running into resistance not from Democrats, but from within his own party's rural wing.

The 80-year-old president wants an expanded SAVE America Act to include sweeping mail-voting restrictions alongside provisions targeting transgender athletes and gender-affirming care for minors, but that effort has stalled because House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) doesn't have the votes to pass Trump's preferred version, reported Politico.

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'Grim picture' for Bari Weiss as CBS News ratings continue to 'crumble': report

The numbers don't lie—and they're devastating for CBS News and embattled division head Bari Weiss.

According to a report from media watchdog Status, despite CBS News touting a modest 1 percent year-over-year gain for Tony Dokoupil's "CBS Evening News" in the second quarter, a closer examination reveals a "grim picture" under Weiss. The broadcast averaged just 3.9 million viewers in Q2, according to Nielsen—marking its second-worst second quarter on record and remaining stuck below the "critical" 4 million viewer threshold.

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'Visibly oozing': Viral video captures Trump's mockup arch falling to pieces

One of the centerpieces of President Donald Trump's "Great American State Fair" to kick off the 250th anniversary celebrations is a scale replica of his planned "victory arch" project — but almost immediately after it went up, people started to notice it was coming apart.

Now, a viral video making rounds on social media shows the damage is even more dramatic than ever.

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