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Republicans are slipping further into despair as markets continue to boil and poll numbers sink into the second month of President Donald Trump’s unilateral declaration of war on Iran. “This is no April Fool's joke. This is disaster," said CNN data analyst Harry Enten of Trump’s dark-deep poll numbers , which sank lower than his hated predecessors, Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter (both of whom were removed by voters). "All these numbers are a disaster for President Trump.” Republican voters and Trump supporters, who have dominated the social media scene on X with rampant cheerleading since billionaire bought Twitter, now appear to be doing a different kind of shouting. “I don’t care how much they suck for the love of God please vote Republican,” wailed one X user . “It's heart breaking. WE NEED TO VOTE REPUBLICAN!!” said another . Others were trying to use fear to drum up MAGA’s slumping interest as the president’s deeply unpopular war plodded on — despite Trump’s...

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi not because she did her job poorly (although she did), but because she was insufficiently corrupt. At least that is the claim made by expert legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin , who wrote for The New York Times on Thursday that Trump fired Bondi for a “bad” reason, namely her failure to effectively abuse her office to prosecute his political enemies. In September he blasted her publicly for failing to get convictions against former F.B.I. director James Comey, Senator Adam Schiff and New York Attorney General Letitia James, and The Daily Mail reported that Thursday he was also upset she notified Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), with whom she has a friendly relationship, about an impending investigation into his alleged relationship with an accused Chinese spy. The Daily Mail also reported that Bondi "begged" to keep her job in a "dramatic" scene in the White House. “The fact that Ms. Bondi has failed in these abu...

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports a Republican-aligned financial services firm agreed Wednesday to repay $6.7 million to more than 40 investors who lost money in the collapse of politically connected First Liberty Building & Loan. The payoff is tied to a widening investigation into a conservative group that created a massive Ponzi scheme primarily afflicting Republican donors. First Liberty Building & Loan’s restitution agreement is merely one facet of the “$140 million … scheme that defrauded some 300 investors overall,” reports AJC. “A recent court filing now contends First Liberty raised about $156 million from investors.” First Liberty once courted conservative-leaning investors and touted its ability to “say yes to borrowers when the big banks said no,” but it shut down last June and took investors’ money with it. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission soon stepped in, filing a lawsuit accusing the company of operating an investment scheme. State agency p...