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https://www.axios.com/2025/12/12/maga-civil-war-candace-owens-trump-policies

MAGA's civil war is draining the movement of its political muscle, leaving it defenseless as the Trump administration revisits policies previously opposed by the base.

Why it matters: MAGA's grassroots strength lies in its ability to rally influencers, politicians and activists behind a hard-charging conservative agenda. That superpower is faltering amid a cascade of bitter personal feuds.

"There's no focus on anything philosophical or even ideological right now," The National Pulse's Raheem Kassam told Axios.
"It's all just a cacophony of grifters tussling over audience and ego. So, corporate America gets to wield power with the admin virtually unencumbered by scrutiny from the base," he added.

Driving the news: Washington advanced a series of policies over the past week that would have triggered significant MAGA backlash at earlier points in the administration.

This time, the reaction was mostly crickets — drowned out by online convulsions over Candace Owens, Turning Point USA, a MAGA podcaster's sexuality, and antisemitism.

Artificial intelligence: President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that aims to gut state laws that regulate AI — a major initiative pushed by the GOP's tech allies.

Backlash from MAGA thought leaders like Steve Bannon and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) helped kill a similar provision in Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" earlier this year. But this time, conservative efforts to influence the sweeping executive order were unsuccessful.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5646722-trump-cnn-sale-pressure/
CNN is finding itself in a familiar place as its parent company prepares to spin the network off as part of a megamerger: President Trump’s crosshairs.

Trump has indicated publicly and privately he wishes to see CNN operate under new ownership, a scenario that could come to fruition if Paramount, a massive media company increasingly friendly with the president, wins a hostile takeover bid for the cable news network and other assets belonging to Warner Bros. Discovery.

“It’s imperative that CNN be sold,” Trump told reporters at the White House this week. “I think CNN should be sold, because I think the people running CNN right now are either corrupt or incompetent.”

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed this sentiment hours later from the West Wing podium, pointing to a testy exchange she had with CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins on Thursday as “evidence” the outlet is in need of an editorial overhaul.

The latest line of attack underscores the frosty relationship between Trump and the cable news channel going back years.

CNN took heavy criticism from the right for its aggressive coverage of Trump’s first term and has made attempts to balance its coverage more recently, but it remains one of the president’s top mainstream media punching bags a year into his second administration.

His seizing on the Warner Bros. Discovery sale process is signaling the president sees CNN as vulnerable and is eager to make journalists at the outlet squirm, media and political observers say.

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WALTON COUNTY, Fla (WMBB)- The Walton County Sheriffs Office is responding to claims about a shooting that left one man dead.

On Thursday, WCSO deputies responded to a call about a shooting on Pioneer Drive in Defuniak Springs.

Deputies took 44-year-old Michael Rediker into custody and eventually charged with one count of open murder, battery, and three counts of aggravated battery.

Today gun rights activist Kyle Rittenhouse posted a video on social media outside of the Walton County Jail, where Rediker is being held, claiming that Rediker was attacked and acted in self-defense.

Rittenhouse made headlines in 2020 after he was arrested for shooting and killing two people during a protest. He was eventually acquitted.

WCSO sheriff Michael Adkinson responded to his claims in a rare video.

“I don’t normally take the time to speak to public comments on cases, certainly not open cases. But in this particular situation, a murder that occurred yesterday in walton county, I feel compelled to respond to what I can only call wildly irresponsible I would say motivated by many factors,” said Adkinson.

According to Adkinson, Rediker allegedly entered the victim’s property via tractor, had a physical altercation with the victim’s wife, and then shot the victim in the head.

“He was unarmed. There was no fight between them. There was no assault. There was no attack. And as he is lying, dying on the ground, this suspect, Michael Rediker, stood over him and made some comments for which he is going to answer to in court,” said Adkinson.

The Stand Your Ground Law in Florida generally applies anywhere that you are lawfully present and have a legal right to be at; but Adkinson said that will not apply in this case.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-clinton-gates-included-in-epstein-photo-trove-00688628

Photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein tie the late, convicted sex offender to President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, tech billionaire Bill Gates and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.

These men and others are featured in the roughly 95,000 photos the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has received from the Epstein estate as part of its ongoing investigation. House Democrats publicly released 19 photos Friday morning.

“It is time to end this White House cover-up and bring justice to the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful friends,” said the Oversight Committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Robert Garcia of California, in a statement. “These disturbing photos raise even more questions about Epstein and his relationships with some of the most powerful men in the world. We will not rest until the American people get the truth. The Department of Justice must release all the files, NOW.”

The White House and other individuals in the photographs beyond Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The Justice Department is required to release the full tranche of Epstein-related documents by Dec. 19, per the terms of legislation Congress passed last month.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/12/ron-johnson-asks-bondi-to-investigate-dane-county-judge-overseeing-fake-elector-case/87733283007/

MADISON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate a Wisconsin judge overseeing a case involving felony charges against President Donald Trump's former campaign attorney over his role in the 2020 scheme to overturn the election result.

Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and former campaign attorney for Trump, faces felony forgery charges over his role in a plan to get slates of false Trump electors to then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to persuade Pence to reject Joe Biden's victory over Trump.

Troupis this week sought to compel all Dane County judges to recuse from his case, citing past grudges, and accused a retired judge of secretly drafting an order issued by Dane County Judge John Hyland, the judge overseeing the case — an allegation the retired judge called "a fantasy."

Johnson's appeal to Bondi to review the allegation comes days before Troupis is scheduled to appear in court over the charges.

"Mr. Troupis represented President Donald Trump in Wisconsin in the 2020 election and, because of his role as the president’s attorney, his life has been upended by unceasing political persecutions currently led by Wisconsin’s attorney general," Johnson wrote in the letter.

"Mr. Troupis fittingly described this anti-Trump lawfare as 'the Jack Smith case being tried in Wisconsin and President Trump is going to be tried in absentia.'"

In his order, Hyland said Troupis claimed without evidence "that every judge in Dane County harbors some personal animus toward him and, as a result, recusal of the entire bench is required."

"Nothing in his submissions support this claim," Hyland wrote.

https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/trump-starting-land-strikes-drugs-venezuela-latin-america-maduro/

President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action.

“We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday in the Oval Office.

The US president for days has been pledging to broaden the effort, which comes after the Pentagon has launched a series of attacks on what it has called drug-smuggling boats in international waters off the coast of South America.

While Trump’s posturing has largely been seen as a pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, he on Friday insisted the land targeting may not only impact Venezuela.

“It doesn’t necessarily have to be in Venezuela,” he said, adding that “people that are bringing in drugs to our country are targets.”

Trump has justified the actions in part by framing the fight against drug smuggling as akin to combat operations. He told reporters that if overdose deaths were counted like combat deaths, it would be “like a war that would be unparalleled.”

Striking targets on land would represent a major escalation, and Maduro earlier this week said that if his nation came under foreign attack, the working class should mount a “general insurrectionary strike” and push for “an even more radical revolution.”

https://thehill.com/business/5647288-budweiser-free-beer-covid-19-vaccines/
ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — Budweiser is rewarding adults who have received the COVID-19 vaccine with a free round of beer.

Budweiser sat out of this year’s Super Bowl to reallocate funds for COVID-19 vaccine education and awareness. Now the “King of Beers” continues to drive that message by rewarding those who rolled up their sleeves for the shot.
How can you get a free round of beer:

Budweiser is rewarding people 21 and older who show they’ve been vaccinated with a free round of beer.
Consumers can upload proof of vaccination (i.e. a selfie with their vaccination sticker) to ABeerOnBud.com to enter to receive the free beer.
The prize comes in the form of a $5 virtual debit card that can be used to purchase one Budweiser beer.

The company is sharing its “Reunited with Buds” ad featuring the Clydesdales and puppy set to Queen’s legendary hit “Don’t Stop Me Now.”

The new version of the spot encourages consumers to get a vaccine and contribute to the safe return to bars. It ran for a short time over the summer, and Budweiser is bringing it back to respond to the countrywide excitement for a safe reopening.