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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Leigh McManus |Janna Brancolini |Will Neal
A top Trump administration official said those demanding due process for a wrongly deported Maryland dad might themselves be accused of “aiding and abetting criminals and terrorists.” Appearing on Rob Schmitt Tonight on Newsmax, Donald Trump’s senior director for counterterrorism, Sebastian Gorka, suggested critics of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s incarceration in a Salvadoran megaprison might even be committing a federal crime. He said: “It’s not left and right, It’s not even Republican or Democrat.
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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Janna Brancolini |Will Neal |Matt Young
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. isn’t convinced that “society” should pay to treat people with unhealthy habits. Asked in a CBS interview about the basic level of care every American should receive and who should pay for it, Kennedy said that “when it comes to healthcare, that’s a difficult question” with moral and philosophical considerations. “People have a choice about how sick they’re going to be—many people,” President Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services said.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Shan Wu |Leigh McManus |Will Neal
Like the spectacle that was his hawking Tesla cars on the White House front lawn, the use of executive orders and memorandums to attack individual businesses—and individuals—by name would have been unimaginable before the Trump era.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Will Neal |Joey T. McFadden |Liam Archacki |Nandika Chatterjee
Fox News host Lara Trump was aching to know if rumors that her father-in-law could be added to Mount Rushmore were true during a Saturday night interview with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “A lot of people wonder, will we ever see President Trump’s face on Mount Rushmore?” Trump asked during her show, My View with Lara Trump.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Will Neal |Isabel van Brugen |Leigh McManus |Kenneal Patterson
French lawmakers rebuffed President Donald Trump after his administration tried to export its war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) to Europe.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Will Neal |Justin Rohrlich |Danika Fears
Taxpayers in South Dakota paid a whopping $150,000 for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to jet-set across the country last year, an analysis from the Associated Press found. Camera-ready Noem—who has garnered the nickname “ICE Barbie” for dolling up for photo ops at immigration raids and detention centers—racked up the charges during her tenure as governor of South Dakota when President Donald Trump was campaigning for president.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Will Neal |Shan Wu |Jill Twiss |Emell Derra Adolphus
MSNBC host Michael Steele put Attorney General Pam Bondi on blast on Saturday for her flippant approach to information security. “Is she being deliberately ignorant for the sake of playing down this whole thing?” Steele, a former head of the Republican National Committee, said on The Weekend. His comments came in response to a clip of Bondi speaking with Fox News in which she defended the top Trump officials’ use of messaging app Signal.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Emell Derra Adolphus |Yasmeen Hamadeh |Will Neal
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders forced Social Security Administration chief nominee Frank Bisignano into giving him an honest answer as he methodically grilled him about DOGE’s cuts to the administration’s workforce in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Corbin Bolies |Catherine Bouris |Will Neal
President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy said on Sunday there were “two sides” to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reputation as a murderous despot. Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream asked Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff whether he thought Putin had been mischaracterized as a tyrant who ordered his political opponents' deaths. Putin’s Kremlin has been linked to the deaths of numerous political adversaries, including imprisoned opposition politician Aleksei Navalny last year.
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2 months ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Will Neal |Kenneal Patterson |David Gardner
A WWE Hall-of-Famer turned Mayor of ‘s Knox County insists he’s “serious” to get into the ring with Governor after the former vice presidential hopeful said he could “kick the a--” of most supporters. “He threw down the gauntlet, so I had to pick it up,” Glenn Jacobs, better known by his stage name “Kane,” said during a Friday appearance on NewsNation. Walz had bragged about his apparent brawling capabilities during an earlier appearance on the Governor of California’s podcast, , on Wednesday.
