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Sources close to the White House told RADAR Online in a Wednesday story that members of President Donald Trump’s stalwart followers are finally getting furious at all the money he keeps generating off the White House . "People backed Trump because they believed he would fight for them and were hoodwinked into thinking he cared about the working classes who brought him into power,” said a longtime Republican activist familiar with grassroots sentiment among Trump's MAGA base. “Seeing billions tied to crypto makes some loyal supporters uncomfortable and most of them have no idea what crypto is, let alone have the resources to invest in it. They feel this isn't public service anymore." RADAR reports Trump triggered fresh criticism after financial disclosures showed he earned more than $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency ventures during his first year back in the White House, on top of other profits Trump has managed to grab for himself and his family in the last few mont...

On Tuesday President Donald Trump appointed a famous and controversial Harvard theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astronomer to lead a group of scientists to investigate UFOs and whether they pose a national security threat. Dr. Avi Loeb, who led Harvard’s astronomy department until 2020 and is widely respected for his research into black holes, was publicly tapped by the Trump administration on Tuesday, according to a report by the Associated Press . In 2022, Dr. Ethan Siegel , an astrophysicist and science writer who frequently criticized Loeb’s work, told this journalist for Salon that Loeb’s research into a mysterious space object that crashed into the ocean, ‘Oumuamua, was a “travesty.” By contrast, Loeb is very popular among the lay UFO fan community , and more than three dozen scientists co-authored a 2023 paper with him in the scientific publication Journal of Astronomical Instrumentation advocating his recommended methods for learning more about UFOs (unidentified flyi...

Reporters say Republicans are cringing privately when asked their response on President Donald Trump’s effort to upset the November midterms. Semafor reporter Dave Weigel and New York Times reporter Tyler Pager stell MS NOW anchor Katy Tur that Republicans know Trump’s behavior is wrecking their chances in November, but they are powerless to either stop him or distance themselves from him, despite how much damage he does to them in the general election. The problem for Republicans are more centrist voters facing them in the general elections, which are utterly unlike the hyper-conservative minority that delivered them through the Republican primaries. Trump’s most recent example of publicly trashing his own reputation with independent November voters includes his sleepy rejection of the highly popular housing bill, which he has blocked to force a vote on his hyper-partisan SAVE Act , which will impose onerous new restrictions on voters. “I don't know. I think it's so unimpor...

A former assistant United States attorney predicted on Monday that President Donald Trump is going to lose at the Supreme Court when it comes to one of his most important cases. “This all goes back to the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the end of the Civil War,” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig told anchor Jake Tapper. “That provision tells us that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States. Over the past 158 years, we have understood that broadly — in our courts and Congress — to mean if you're born here, you're a citizen regardless of your parents' status.” From there, Honig explained where Trump is attempting to find wording in the text of the Constitution to justify repealing birthright citizenship. “Trump's argument hinges on that one phrase: ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’” Honig told Tapper. “What he's saying is it should not apply — the ...

A Republican strategist warned a Fox News host that Iran may try to hurt President Donald Trump during the upcoming midterm elections. “Look, we’re not the only ones who know this. We’re not the only ones paying attention to oil prices,” former President George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove told journalist Paul Gigot on Monday . “Remember, all of these negotiations with Iran need to be completed by the middle of August. The Iranians are not dumb. They know that the fall campaign starts in earnest on Labor Day. I would not be surprised to see them attempt to have an influence on the outcome by creating problems in mid-August, and causing oil prices to rise and uncertainty to grow.” Earlier in the conversation, Rove cited an upcoming poll by The Reagan Institute which found that the American people want the Iran War to result in Iran having limits imposed on its nuclear weapons programs and regime change that is favorable to the United States. Neither of those things have occurred, and alth...

We understand that politics can bring on self-delusion about reality when it flies in the face of ideological goals, but the Supreme Court's purposeful turn away from the racism behind Donald Trump's immigration policies is both absurd and angering. In twin decisions this week, the right-leaning majority on the Court allowed Trump to end "temporary protective status" for Haitians, Syrians and eventually others, including Afghans who helped our war efforts, and to eliminate access to asylum procedures at the border for whomever he chooses. They were bad decisions for a variety of reasons, but what really stung were the arguments offered that simply struck away any racial bias in our immigration policies. Justice Samuel Alito's ruling for the 6-3 majority had to determine legally that race had played no role before removing the humanitarian protections to shield Haitians. His ruling said that Trump's many statements about Haitians were not "overtly racial...