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President Donald Trump unleashed on “Radical Left Reuters” over a 2018 Pentagon contract to “study large-scale social deception”—a contract awarded during his own administration—and demanded the news agency “GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!”The brief but furious outburst was pushed out early on Thursday as the president cited the revelation as a finding of his newly minted Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Trump posted on Truth Social:DOGE: Looks like Radical Left Reuters was paid $9,000,000 by the Department of Defense to study “large scale social deception.” GIVE BACK THE MONEY, NOW!Indeed, DOGE’s agency head Elon Musk boosted a post on X...

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Thursday dismissed the suggestion that the cocaine found at the White House over the holiday weekend belonged to the president's son, Hunter Biden, The Hill reports. "For it to be Hunter Biden, he left on Friday, he was at Camp David. There is no way, it is inconceivable to think cocaine could sit for a 72-hour period [at The White House], so I would rule him out at this point," the Fox News host said Thursday morning on the network's flagship program.

(CNN) - Arizona's Senate held a Thursday briefing on the ongoing Republican-initiated "audit" of the 2020 election in Maricopa County, where Joe Biden outperformed Donald Trump by enough of a margin to win the state. The review is being conducted by Cyber Ninjas, a cybersecurity firm that has no experience in election auditing. And the company's chief executive officer, Doug Logan, made some Thursday claims that were immediately called into question by the county and independent experts. Logan said that door-to-door questioning of Maricopa County voters is the "one way" the auditors could determine whether what they are seeing in...

President Trump’s former campaign lawyer Sydney Powell went on the attack against both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his wife, Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao this week. Powell went after the couple after McConnell acknowledged the election of Joe Biden as President despite President Trump’s baseless insistence the election is fraudulent. “So Senate Majority leader decided to aid and abet the biggest criminal fraud and coup in history?,” Powell tweeted. She also retweeted a post from a Trump supporter saying “Mitch is married to China.”