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President Donald Trump has significantly boosted AI throughout his second term — and a whistleblower confirms that major economic bubble is about to burst, and take many Americans' fortunes with it.“We've spent something like $1.4 trillion dollars building data centers in this country, and the revenues on AI are $600 billion,” said Alexis Goldstein, a former financial regulatory expert for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Maryland Democratic congressional candidate to The Left Hook’s Wajahat Ali on Thursday. “So the tech industry has earned not even half of wh

Ohio voter Annette Dombrowski is one of many swing state voters who picked President Donald Trump three times in a row, but now she’s about to lose her job in a Trump economy where everything is only getting more expensive.“I actually have panic attacks,” Dombrowski told MS NOW reporter Alex Hebit. “I've had a couple this past week and I get very emotional over it. I don't want to work anymore, but I can't afford to retire.”Dombrowski works as a janitor at the Conn Selmer plant in Ohio, but MS NOW anchor Jen Psaki says the plant's billionaire owner, John Paulson — a close Trump ally — offshored the plant’s jobs to China, despite Trump purporting to be

President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson may push a reform on a key issue that will put them even further on the bad side of the American public.“Mike Johnson did something very out of character Monday,” wrote The Bulwark's Joe Perticone on Thursday. “Normally coy in public, the speaker of the House openly admitted to a radio interviewer that if Republicans retain their majority heading into next year, they are planning to flatten their palms against the hottest stove in politics — and he broadcast this just months before an election in which many forecasters are alread

A staunchly MAGA publication called out President Donald Trump on Thursday for his “obviously untrue” statements about the war in Iran.After reviewing how Trump told Fox News that the Iran war is over and blaming the media for claiming otherwise, The Federalist’s Eddie Scarry wrote that “a lot of us who are rooting for a successful end to this conflict aren’t so upset with the media. We know how they operate. What’s frustrating us to the point of furious tears are the wildly inconsistent, contradictory and otherwise obviously untrue

President Donald Trump’s DOJ is racking up not only bad decisions, but slapdowns this week.Judges across the nation have been tearing their hair out over the Department of Justice’s childish behavior and freshmen-grade antics, and now Politico Senior Affairs Reporter Kyle Cheney is adding US District Judge Kyle Dudek, representing the middle district of Florida, to that list.Immigrant petitioner Dmitrii Iastrebov is a noncitizen currently sitting in immigration detention, but the judge

President Donald Trump is planning to hassle Congress to expunge his impeachments.The president is trying to get Republican lawmakers to remove his impeachments from the record even though legally such a move is impossible, reported The Wall Street Journal’s Annie Linskey, Olivia Beavers and Natalie Andrews on Thursday.“It should be done because I did nothing wrong,” Trump told the Journal. “It was a rigged deal—it was a whole rigged situation.”The Journal noted that this could backfire, saying “Any

President Donald Trump’s wars against Venezuela and Iran, as well as his seemingly-planned war against Cuba, have constituted one of the worst self-dealt economic wounds a president has voluntarily inflicted upon themselves in American history, according to economic experts.In an MS NOW interview on Thursday, Iraq war veteran and entrepreneur Paul Rieckhoff described the rampant inflation exacerbated by Trump’s wars as “the thing he can't spin out of. No matter how many times he says the Iran war is going to be over, his base remembers that. He said no new wars. He said no regime change wars, and they're still ongoing. His base also reme

Art of the Deal Co-author Tony Schwartz predicts Trump is destined to make history — just not the side of it he probably wants.MS NOW anchor Ari Melber asked Schwartz to comment on Trump’s most recent slate of gaffes, particularly his devastating claim that he “loves” the inflation currently racking voters and threatening to destroy his own Republican Party in the November midterms.“It's demented. I mean, it's so self-destructive,” said Schwartz, who described Trump as an addict who acts as a kind of “black hole.” “And you pour stuff into it. And he poured it in and maxed out when he was reelected

According to longtime Intelligencer political columnist Ed Kilgore, there are “alarming” signs that Republican lawmakers are “giving” up on winning the midterms in favor of jamming through as much of their agenda as possible before losing power. Evidence, he suggests, is in the fact that they are now focusing on passing unpopular safety net cuts to fund President Donald Trump’s unpopular war. As Kilgore explains, you can see this trend emerging in Trump and the Republicans’ multiple budget reconciliation bills. They’ve just passed their second

Politico Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein reports yet another judge is slapping President Donald Trump’s DOJ around for grade-school behavior.The slap-down came after the office of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro crawled, hat-in-hand, requesting the extension of a deadline to complete research to make its case in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by Shorelight, LLC against the U.S. government over student visa refusal rates.“The Department repre