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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Liam Archacki |Kenneal Patterson
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to defend the White House’s wrongful deportation of a Maryland father to El Salvador by linking it to the heartbreaking ordeal of a mother in an entirely separate case.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Catherine Bouris |David Gardner
Stephen Miller lost it while discussing a senator’s planned visit to El Salvador to try to bring home the Maryland dad who was mistakenly deported. Sen. Chris Van Hollen plans to fly to El Salvador on Wednesday to check on Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been held for more than a month at the country’s nightmarish CECOT mega prison. The Maryland Democrat also hopes to discuss Abrego Garcia’s release with government officials.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Jill Filipovic |David Gardner |Sean Craig |David Rothkopf
What is the job of the American judiciary? If you said to decide cases based on the law and the U.S. Constitution, you would be correct—unless you’re playing by MAGA rules. Rabid supporters of Donald Trump, and the president himself, have a different view of what judges are for. In their opinion, judges should be loyalists, backing whatever the president does, no matter how unconstitutional. And they’re putting us all in jeopardy.
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1 week ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |David Gardner |Lily Mae Lazarus
Podcaster Joe Rogan has identified the manosphere’s greatest contribution to the culture: the return of the disability slur “r----d.” “Every time I see people that disagree with any that’s happening, any gigantic world events, it’s one of these r------d shows where they’re screaming—there’s the word again,” he said, interrupting himself during Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “We were just talking about that,” he added.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Josh Fiallo |Yasmeen Hamadeh
Sen. Adam Schiff demanded an urgent insider trading investigation into President Donald Trump amid growing speculation over the timing of a social media post before he announced his U-turn on tariffs.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Emell Derra Adolphus |Yasmeen Hamadeh
As a champion golfer, Donald Trump knows all about the dreaded yips when your mojo goes and your putter suddenly turns to putty. So, it made sense to him when Wall Street, the world’s leaders, his big money donors, and even some of his most trusted advisors got so jittery over his tariff plan.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | David Gardner |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Maurício Alencar
George Stephanopoulos is facing a MAGA backlash for “gaslighting” the public over Joe Biden’s reported mental decline in the White House. The ABC News anchor was criticized for reportedly saying Biden’s condition was “heartbreaking up close” after interviewing the president. The remark was included in a new book by Chris Whipple, Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History.
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2 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies |David Gardner |Michael Boyle
Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to explain Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff plan, asking him to speak directly to a business community that is deeply concerned about the crashing economy. And he struggled to come up with an answer that could satisfy the typically Trump-friendly host. The Mornings with Maria told the secretary she had heard from multiple unnamed business leaders who expressed their befuddlement at Trump’s endgame.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Julia Ornedo |David Gardner |Emell Derra Adolphus
President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcements on Wednesday delivered a blow not just to key trading partners—but also to popular companies like ultra-cheap Chinese retailers Shein and Temu. Along with a flurry of new tariffs announced by Trump, the White House said the president signed an executive order shutting down the de minimis trade loophole beginning May 2.
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3 weeks ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Erkki Forster |Leigh McManus |Nandika Chatterjee |David Gardner
CNN data analyst Harry Enten has a warning for Republican candidates: Stay far, far away from First Buddy Elon Musk. “Elon Musk, simply put, is an unpopular guy. He is political poison,” Enten said on Wednesday’s edition of CNN News Central, arguing that the billionaire’s high-profile involvement in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race has backfired on the GOP. “If you’re a Republican candidate running in a swing state, you don’t want Elon Musk anywhere near you,” he said.
