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A journalist who has written four books about President Donald Trump revealed on Tuesday that the president is exhibiting behavior that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein warned about years ago.

Michael Wolff, who has described himself as a "Trump chronicler," discussed Trump's use of the presidential pardon power on a new episode of "Inside Trump's Head," a podcast he co-hosts with Joana Coles of The Daily Beast. Wolff said that Epstein warned Trump would use the pardon power in a "childlike" way, and some of Trump's recent pardons seem to indicate.

A national security expert slammed the Trump administration during a podcast interview on Tuesday over its shifting defenses about its strikes against alleged drug boats.

The administration has conducted at least 21 strikes against alleged drug boats and killed upwards of 80 people, according to multiple reports. A recent report from The Washington Post, citing two sources familiar with the matter, indicates Defense Secretary gave an order to kill survivors of one of the strikes, which experts have said could amount to a war crime.

A CNN elections expert on Tuesday night singled out one county in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District that should give Republicans "jitters" heading into the 2026 midterm election.

John King, a national correspondent for CNN, analyzed the early election results for the Tennessee 7th race during CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" on Tuesday night. Republican and Trump-endorsed candidate Matt Van Epps, a military veteran, was favored to win the seat against Democrat Aftyn Behn. The district is one that Trump carried by more than 20 points during the 2024 election.

President Donald Trump may have put his administration "in a box" over the strikes against alleged drug boats in international waters, according to one CNN analyst.

The administration has conducted more than 20 strikes against alleged drug dealers and killed about 100 people in those operations, according to reports. Trump has argued that the strikes are a matter of national security, although experts say his administration has provided scant evidence to support that claim.

MAGA TV host Eric Bolling made an eyebrow-raising claim on Tuesday about who is to blame for the shooting that killed one National Guard member and left another critically wounded.

Just before Thanksgiving, authorities said 29-year-old immigrant Rahmanullah Lakanwal, of Bellingham, Washington, shot two National Guard troops a couple of blocks from the White House. One of the troops died in the shooting, and the other has been recovering in a hospital, according to reports. Lakanwal has pleaded not guilty to murder.

CNN host Erin Burnett uncorked a brutal fact check on Tuesday of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's claims that members of the military have to follow orders, regardless of their legality.

During a segment on her show, "Erin Burnett OutFront," Burnett played a video that CNN's KFile investigators found of Hegseth talking about illegal orders in 2016. Burnett pointed out that Hegseth's rationale at the time was starkly different than the one he has displayed recently.

Political observers and analysts bashed a strange prediction SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk made during a reunion of the Department of Government Efficiency in Texas on Tuesday.

Musk appeared via video at the DOGE meet-up, where he predicted the country was in the midst of a "great 12-year span" of the second Trump administration, followed by two consecutive terms for a future JD Vance administration, according to a report by Politico. The event occurred on Nov. 22 in Balstrop, Texas, near the locations of Musk's SpaceX and Boring Company's sites, the report added.

JD Vance appeared to be swiped by his boss on Tuesday, leading one analyst to remark that President Donald Trump "let slip" his disdain for the vice president.

During a Cabinet meeting, Trump appeared to struggle with alertness and coherence while disparaging Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

President Donald Trump repeated his claim on Tuesday that any documents bearing a signature from an autopen used during the Biden administration are "null and void" in a social media post that also included a vague new threat against his political foes.

Trump first made the claim before Thanksgiving that "radical left lunatics" took Biden's autopen away from him and illegally signed pardons and other legal documents. His new post on Tuesday also appeared to reference a group of people he could target for retribution.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper sarcastically mimicked President Donald Trump during Tuesday's broadcast of his show "The Lead" by appearing to fall asleep during the beginning of one of the segments.

Earlier in the day, Trump appeared to nod off during a cabinet meeting held at the White House. The 79-year-old president has been seen falling asleep during other events, which has raised questions about his health and fitness for the job.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the provision of President Donald Trump's tax cut megabill that would defund Planned Parenthood nationwide for one year.

This is the second time U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has blocked this provision. Earlier in the year, she blocked the law from applying to Planned Parenthood affiliates, but this ruling was stayed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, noted Politico's Josh Gerstein.

A former NATO representative issued a startling warning on Tuesday about President Donald Trump's latest peace plan for the war in Ukraine during a radio interview.

Trump's latest peace plan included 28 points that some analysts felt heavily favored Russia's ambitions in the war. The plan included provisions requiring Ukraine to give up its pursuit of joining NATO, significantly reduce the size of its military, and give up land occupied by Russian forces, among others.