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Conservative Dispatch columnist Nick Catoggio says non-MAGA mutiny is finally burying President Donald Trump and his Republican machine, and of course Trump has only himself and his venal personal interest to blame. Well … that and war. Interpreting polls is usually a “fool’s errand,” said Catoggio, but there’s no denying the numbers when they’re splashing one bucket of slop after another on your head, as Trump’s personal popularity appears to be doing. Trump’s job approval frequently dips below 40 percent, but it’s very unusual for him to fall as low as 35 percent — and he’s done it three times in the last nine national surveys. This, said Catoggio, means some “meaningful segment of his base appears to have left him,” and Fox News knows exactly who it is. “I’m tempted to speculate that the mutineers are … Reaganite conservatives whose tribal tether to the GOP has been snapping, strand by strand, over the past 10 years as the weight of their disgust at the state of the right has ...
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Critics maul Trump after DOJ drops its Reflecting Pool prosecution

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The Trump administration dropped its case against a former Olympic canoeist charged in connection with damage to the Reflecting Pool, late Friday after admitting their allegations against David “Davey” Hearn “don’t hold water,” as NBC reported. In a filing Friday afternoon, a supervisor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, which is headed by Jeanine Pirro, wrote that officials obtained information that undermined “the evidentiary basis for the indictment” against Hearn. “Prosecutors said that after the indictment, the Interior Department ‘provided additional documents to the USAO-DC indicating that damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor, Atlantic Industrial Coatings,’” NBC reported. Critics on social media could not wait to pounce. “Where does Dave Hearn (smeared as a vandal) go to get his reputation back?” demanded Vanity Fair writer Paul Farhi on X . “There it is ... the Reflecting P...
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'Broke his brain': Former aide says Trump never recovered from 2020 trouncing

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President Donald Trump’s former press secretary Sarah Matthews told MS NOW that her former boss can’t help but beat the drum of his debunked claim that he won the 2020 election. He can’t help it, she said, because it’s a kind of brain damage — and she watched it break. “Donald Trump has always been a broken man, but I do think that him losing the 2020 election fair and square to Joe Biden permanently broke his brain,” Matthews told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “I don't think he's ever been able to recover from that, because he looked at someone like Joe Biden and thought, ‘how could I lose to this guy?’ I mean, he called him ‘Sleepy Joe. And then obviously it affected him because he's a narcissist. His ego won't allow him to see the facts for what they are, that there was no election fraud and that it was Biden who was the winner of the 2020 election.” This, she said, is the fuel behind Trump focusing on bogus claims of 2020 election fraud just four months away fro...
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Anchor flattens top Trump economist’s claims about Americans

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CNN Anchor Pamela Brown was on a roll Thursday, taking a rare opportunity to correct President Donald Trump’s director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett to his face on several falsities — eventually grinding Hassett down to an empty denial of facts. Hassett began his defense of the Trump economy claiming that Americans have experienced “real income growth of about $3,000 per family since Trump took office,” as well asan “incredible investment boom because of artificial intelligence and other things.” “And so, if you dig down deep into the numbers, one of the things you can see is that final domestic demand, which is sort of the amount of stuff that actually was purchased in the U.S., was up a really healthy 3.9 percent or about 4 percent,” Hassett said. Brown accused him of “throwing around … so many numbers.” “But when you talk to the everyday American, they will tell you that prices at the grocery store are up, mortgage rates are higher,” Brown pointed out. “You have ...
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Trump’s new economic plan defies logic: expert

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President Donald Trump’s tariffs have already cost thousands of manufacturing jobs and are so unpopular that only three out of eight Americans support them. Yet he is doubling down on them, an act that a conservative economist described as literal “insanity.” “Albert Einstein famously remarked that a sign of insanity was doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result,” wrote American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Desmond Lachman , a former deputy director for the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department, in a Thursday editorial. “We must wonder what he might have made of the Trump administration’s import tariff policy.” Lachman described how US trade representative Jamieson Greer announced Trump’s plan to levy new tariffs on dozens of countries, including a 50 percent import tariff on many Canadian products, even though Trump’s earlier tariffs did not achieve his stated goals. “A key objective of Trump’s tariff policy was to elimi...
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CNN anchor busts Jim Jordan for  ruthless double standard — to his face

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CNN anchor Pamela Brown let no inconsistency fly in a Thursday interview with U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). Browns first confrontation involved Jordan’s denial that Trump AG nominee Todd Blanche failed to deliver a death certificate of President Donald Trump’s controversial proposed $1.8 billion slush fund and the immunity it provided Trump’s family. “Well, it seems to be pretty clear that they want assurances that the anti-weaponization fund will not move forward and that they have issues with the agreement that the justice department made to make sure that the trumps are not audited by the IRS. Are you supportive of that settlement? “Well, Todd said it's dead. I think he said that multiple times. So, I don't know what is going on in these negotiations. The guy who's going to be hopefully the next attorney general has said this thing is finished.” Jordan said. “Well, he told a house committee that he wouldn't put it in writing.” “He said it's dead. They're n...
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'Can’t prove that': Critics howl as Fox News shuts down a Tuberville lie

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Fox Business is not universally known for holding Republican or MAGA sources accountable for falsehoods when they’re in front of cameras. That’s why a quick correction of bloviation from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) was such a shock. On Wednesday, armed with thousands of pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private pandemic diaries, Senate Republicans had planned to grill Fauci over alleged inconsistencies as the science of the COVID-19 pandemic continued to evolve over the pandemic’s history. But Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions as he squared off square off with committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and the hearing devolved into a letdown for Paul and Republicans. Paul indicated during the hearing Wednesday that he plans to hold a committee vote next week to declare Fauci in contempt of Congress. And other Republicans ranted their frustration before reporters later that day. “He ...
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