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Daily Blast podcaster Greg Sargent says President Donald Trump’s advisors are panicking as creeping oil prices prepare to wreck voters and molly-whop the White House.“The global fiasco that Donald Trump has created around the Strait of Hormuz is rapidly getting worse,” said Sargent. “An international agency says the closing of the strait is creating the largest global oil supply disruption in history. … [and] CNN reports that there’s

Author and former Cedar Rapids Gazette columnist Lyz Lenz battered popular podcaster Joe Rogan for being gullible enough to buy the lies of President Donald Trump prior to his election.“Joe Rogan, that sentient Monster energy drink, spent part of his career hosting Fear Factor, where he made people eat s——; now he’s on a podcast spewing s——,” said Lenz. “But that Kermit the Frog-sounding over-roasted turkey apparently just learned how to read, because he’s kind of mad at Trump about the war in Iran. He feels furious. He feels betrayed.”Outsid

President Donald Trump has committed “the most profound flip-flop in recent presidential history,” according to a former Democratic presidential chief of staff and US ambassador to Japan — and now the Republican’s political enemies can capitalize.“We’ve just witnessed the most profound flip-flop in recent presidential history,” Rahm Emanuel, a former Chicago mayor and President Barack Obama adviser who is widely rumored to want to run for president in 2028, wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Friday. “When Donald Trump accepted the Republican nominati

Rachael Bade reports that Trump is done with demoted Homeland Security head Kristi Noem.“A week after ousting his Homeland Security secretary, President Donald Trump has made it clear to staff and associates: Kristi Noem is not welcome,” reports Bade on her “Inner Circle” substack. “The president has told confidants and staff that he doesn’t want to see Noem.“He’s p——ed at her and Corey [Lewandowski], and did not want her at the event yesterday,” an anonymous source close to the White H

The New York Times reports a Rhode Island federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore a union contract that President Donald Trump tried to bust with Veterans Affairs Department workers.Doug Collins, the V.A. secretary, moved to nullify the agreement with more than 300,000 last August, as part of President Donald Trump’s effort to fire thousands of U.S. employees.“In a 29-page

President Donald Trump’s lawsuits are so unsuccessful, lawyers are afraid of destroying their careers by working for him. In response, Trump is trying to make it harder to hold dishonest lawyers accountable — and a legal expert is calling out the president for this.“Like all other lawyers licensed to practice in the United States, if they violate legal ethics rules, they can face sanctions in court or professional discipline, up to and including the permanent loss of their license to practice,” Deborah Pearlstein, the director of the Princeton program in law and public policy and a visiting professor of law at the Princeton University School of Public and International Aff

President Donald Trump once demanded a Nobel Peace Prize, but now is leading America into an unnecessary war against Iran — a hypocrisy that former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt insisted on Friday deserves more attention.“He wanted the Peace Prize, and when he couldn’t get it, Trump lost his mind,” Schmidt, who advised President George W. Bush, explained. Schmidt quoted a February letter Trump wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre which implied he would become a warmonger because of his disappointment at being denied the prize.“Considering your Country decided not to

A judge has quashed a set of subpoenas tied to a criminal probe against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, writing that “the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President.” Now as a result, US Attorney Jeanine Pirro is displeased and raging about it.The subpoenas date back to January, when Powell revealed that he was being targeted by the White House for his resistance to lowering federal interest rates. For its part, the administration claimed the probe was launched due to purported misleading statements made by Powell regarding renovation costs at the Federal Reserve office buildings. A federal judge, however, didn’t buy it.

Steven Greenhut reports in Reason Magazine that the MAGA world has three go-to approaches for jettisoning their so-called principals to follow President Donald Trump — but rest assured they will follow.“First, they claim his latest notion is part of a 3D chess game even if, by all appearances, Trump would struggle to play one-level tic-tac-toe. Second, they distract our attention: Didn't Barack Obama do this, too? Third, they get with the program and shamelessly back whatever the president is doing,” said Greenhut. “Sometimes MAGA-supporting influence

Kyrsten Sinema believes it’s all about location, location, location when it comes to her homewrecking affair with a former bodyguard.The ex-Arizona Senator, who claimed earlier this month in sworn statements that she’s didn’t know Matthew Joseph Ammel, the security guard she had an affair with, now has provided day and date details about her sexual encounters with him.But she’s also claiming that since almost none of her relationship with him happened in North Carolina, the state where his ex-wife Heather is suing her, that the lawsuit should be dismissed. The confession flip-flop is par for the course for the flamboyant Sinema. The end of her Senate time was