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Far-right activist with history of anti-gay comments fired from leadership role at Kennedy Center after CNN investigation

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KFile: Too toxic for Trump’s first term, some officials are back in the fold

Interim US Attorney for Washington, DC, Ed Martin at a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in 2024.

Trump’s top DC prosecutor nominee claims not to recall numerous past controversial statements under oath

Ed Martin during an Anacostia Coordinating Council monthly meeting at Martha's Table in Washington, DC, on March 25.

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‘A great friend’: Audio undercuts Trump US attorney nominee’s disavowal of alleged Nazi sympathizer

Interim United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Edward Martin during an Anacostia Coordinating Council monthly meeting at Martha's Table in Washington, DC, on March 25.

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Trump’s pick to be DC’s top prosecutor failed to report nearly 200 appearances on far-right media outlets to Senate

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 02: U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance arrives for a "Make America Wealthy Again" trade announcement event in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025 in Washington, DC. Touting the event as "Liberation Day", Trump announced sweeping new tariffs targeting goods imported to the U.S. on countries including China, Japan and India. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

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‘The policy may very well fail’: JD Vance doubted Trump’s first-term trade policies, previously bashed tariffs

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Ben Ferguson at the Gaylord National Resort in Oxon Hill, MD on Thursday, 20, 2025.

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Trump Justice officials demanded charges for Hillary, Biden for classified docs scandals. They’re silent on SignalGate

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, listen to a question from a reporter during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13, in Washington, DC.

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‘Nobody is above the law’: Trump officials who criticized Clinton’s emails now under scrutiny for leaked war plans

California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Atlanta in June 2024.

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KFile: Gavin Newsom spent years fighting for progressive positions he now bashes on his new podcast

Darren Beattie's address at the Miami National Conservatism Conference on September 12, 2022.

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Deleted tweets show top State Department official spread false rumor about Rubio’s sexuality, called him ‘low IQ’

Dan Bongino during a forum examining the attempted assassination Donald Trump at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC, on August 26, 2024.

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FBI Deputy Director Bongino repeatedly said pipe bombs planted ahead of Jan. 6 were ‘inside job’

Donald Trump's social media platform Truth Social is shown on a cell phone on March 25, 2024 in Chicago.

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Trump’s media company defends its ‘diversity and inclusion’ policies as his administration dismantles DEI

Paul Ingrassia, White House Liaison to the Justice Department, left, outside of the DC Central Detention Facility on January 20, in Washington, DC.

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White House point man at Homeland Security shared ‘martial law option’ post to keep Trump in office

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the media during a visit to aircraft maintenance firm Aeroman in San Luis Talpa, El Salvador, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool)

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Rubio’s years of strong support for USAID stand in contrast to his sudden criticism of the aid agency

In this 2022 photo, Darren Beattie, left, Kash Patel and Andy Biggs speak at a Turning Point USA panel in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Trump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with White nationalists to top State Department role

Robert Kennedy Jr. sits in a meeting with Sen. John Cornyn on Capitol Hill on January 9, 2025.

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RFK Jr.’s litany of controversial views to come under scrutiny in Senate confirmation hearing

David Sacks during a Bloomberg West Television interview at the South By Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas, in 2013.

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In deleted tweets, Trump’s incoming AI and crypto czar argued Trump Jan. 6 rhetoric not covered by First Amendment

Pete Hegseth walks through the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on December 3, 2024.

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Pete Hegseth says US military bases should restore names of Confederate generals