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President Donald Trump delivered the cap to the Turning Point USA event in Phoenix, Arizona, and he had a friendly audience to take his words. This might explain the absence of rolling eyes and questioning looks on a few claims that Trump inflated, played down or made a point not to mention at all due to their controversy.1.The U.S. will march in and take the Iranian nukes that he claimed were obliterated. Months ago, Trump claimed to have “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities — the lingering existence of which he then

Once considered safely red, Georgia has been regarded as an important battleground state ever since Joe Biden won there in 2020. While the state shifted back to the GOP when it went to President Donald Trump in 2024, now Republican Gov. Brian Kemp — who has had a strained relationship with Trump in recent years — is betting that Georgians are through with MAGA. As a result, he’s backing his own handpicked candidate for the Senate rather than two MAGA-aligned opponents supported by the president.While Trump has endorsed congressmen Buddy Carter and Mike Collins, Kemp’s money is on former University of Tennessee football coach Derek Dooley. This has

Former Republican Rep. Joe Walsh, of Illinois, destroyed President Donald Trump for trying to take credit after other people repair his chaos.“We all knew people like this,” said Walsh on his Friday podcast. “We all knew parents like this. We all knew kids like this. … Parents who would never say ‘no’ to their kid, would never discipline their kid, would never teach their kid. And these kids were just out of f—— control, breaking s——, making messes, can stay up all night. That's what Trump is. That's what he's been his whole f—— life. He breaks s——. He f—— up, he makes a mess and then somebody has to fix what he broke.”Worse, Walsh complained that not

On Friday morning, April 17, Iranian and Trump Administration officials announced that the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway crucial to the flow of oil in the Middle East — had been reopened. Oil prices, according to NBC News, fell by 12 percent in response to the news. During an early afternoon appearance on MS NOW, The Lincoln Project's Stuart Stevens — a veteran conservative strategist who is very much in the Never Trump camp — stressed

For four years, Josh Owens was beside prolific MAGA podcaster Alex Jones, filming, traveling and editing video for InfoWars before he finally realized he was being manipulated by a volatile con artist. Speaking to Charlie Warzel for the "Galaxy Brain" podcast from The Atlantic, Owens said that he doesn't want to be absolved of his role in helping Jones spread his conspiracies. What he hopes to do with his new book is to help people understand how the lies were made. Owens went to film school and won a contest to work for Jones. One reason he wanted to vote for Jones, Owens continued, is he grew up in a close evangelical community. "...[T]hat was what I was raised on. And at the exact time that I was introduced to Jones, I

MAGA has made a deal with Donald Trump, and the deal is that “the humiliation is the point,” argues Republican former U.S. Congressman Adam Kinzinger. In short, he says, “humiliating the MAGA faithful only binds them more tightly to Trump.”Kinzinger, a never-Trump Republican who acknowledged last year that his politics are now probably closer to the De

The Trump regime has an “erratic” and “theologically incomprehensible” preferred religion, a “bellicose, nationalist Christianity,” that is organized along various “fiefdoms,” argues Sarah Posner at Talking Points Memo. However, those spheres of control and influence are “aimed at protecting, and even justifying, the regime’s impunity.”Posner writes that the “goal of the Christian nationalist project is to subvert democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.”She posits that during Trump’s second term, the White House and federal agencies “have been bludgeoning federal employees, the press, and the publ

In recent months, there has been a noticeable uptick in MAGA defections, with President Donald Trump facing criticisms for his actions regarding Iran, the economy, the Epstein files, and the Pope not only from casual supporters, but from many of his highest-profile backers. Some have even suggested that his behavior has become so deranged that he should be removed from office via the 25th Amendment. Trump responded by

Donald Trump commands what might be the largest "army of lawyers" of any president in U.S. history, but according to a new report from MS NOW, he owes these legal warriors well over a million dollars in fees, but might end up getting away with not paying them himself.MS NOW reporter Hayes Brown broke down the situation in a piece published on Friday, noting that Trump "has retained a veritable phalanx of personal attorneys" in recent years, in addition to those working for him in his official capacity as president, all working to fight his personal legal battles in court and to stop challenges

Dan Hannan — former conservative Member of the European Parliament and contributor to the conservative publication the Washington Examiner — has a blunt assessment of the American president: “Donald Trump is losing his mind.”As evidence of this, he suggests a thought experiment.“Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump,” wrote Hannon. “Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to G