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Read more Three cases of rare tick-borne disease \u2018rabbit fever\u2019 suspected in New York<\/a><\/p>\n

\n President Donald Trump lashed out at oil companies and his own US attorney in the gilded Oval Office on Monday as his spin ran into the real world.\n <\/p>\n

\n It was more evidence that Trump 2.0 is losing some of its juice.\n <\/p>\n

\n Oil executives are capitalizing on Trump\u2019s war against Iran and \u201cmaking too much money,\u201d the president said. He singled out Chevron and warned it to make gasoline cheaper even though, he said, he\u2019s a \u201cbig free enterprise guy \u2014 nobody bigger.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Jeanine Pirro, his handpicked US attorney for Washington, DC, \u201cchoked,\u201d Trump said, when she about-faced in court papers and admitted it was a botched rehab by the Interior Department and not vandalism that caused setbacks in the renovation of the Reflecting Pool, which Trump has taken on as a pet project. It was he, he said Monday, who had the idea of applying material meant for swimming pools to the 100-plus-year-old landmark.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cShe folded like an umbrella,\u201d Trump added of his longtime ally.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN reported Monday that he is now considering removing the former Fox News personality from her position.\n <\/p>\n

\n Pirro\u2019s transgression, in Trump\u2019s eyes, is that she was forced to admit that the narrative he\u2019s pushed in public is not one that can be prosecuted in court.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump\u2019s victory to open the week is winning enough support for Todd Blanche, his former personal attorney, to be confirmed as attorney general.\n <\/p>\n

\n But there\u2019s a loss in the fine print of that deal. Blanche, currently acting attorney general, had to officially and permanently squelch the $1.8 billion fund widely seen as a way to pay Trump\u2019s political supporters.\n <\/p>\n

\n Blanche admits defeat. Will Trump sign on?\n<\/h2>\n

\n In Trump\u2019s world, the fund \u2014 part of a settlement between him and his own Department of Justice \u2014 was a way to right wrongs against his allies. Other people saw it as an ethical minefield that would put taxpayer money in the pockets of people Trump previously pardoned.\n <\/p>\n

\n Blanche\u2019s promise not to pursue the fund wasn\u2019t enough for Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Thillis, who wanted it rescinded in writing.\n <\/p>\n

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\nWhile CNN reported Monday that the White House was deeply involved in the decision to rescind the settlement, CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig noted that Trump and his lawyers have not signed the document clawing back the agreement. That means Trump or his attorneyscould, in theory, sue to have it reinstated.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cFor all the drama around this written document from Todd Blanche, it really accomplishes essentially nothing as a legal matter,\u201d he said Monday on CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Situation Room.\u201d\n <\/p>

Read more One mistake Trump hasn\u2019t made on Iran<\/a><\/p>\n

\n The \u2018SAVE America Act\u2019 still doesn\u2019t have the votes\n<\/h2>\n

\n Those same two Republicans who insisted on having Blanche kill the settlement in writing have also been vocal in arguing the GOP should move on, for now, from Trump\u2019s voting restrictions bill, which would impose new proof-of-citizenship requirements in addition to voter ID conducted in the states.\n <\/p>\n

\n For months, Trump has argued the bill is required to address the threat of mass voter fraud. There\u2019s no evidence for that kind of fraud in the real world, as CNN\u2019s Daniel Dale has repeatedly documented, but it remains an animating principle of Trump\u2019s presidency. None of the political pressure from Trump or from the MAGA side of the GOP has created momentum to get enough votes for the legislation. And there wouldn\u2019t be enough time to implement it before the midterm elections.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Neither Tillis nor Cornyn will be on the ballot in November. Tillis, a longtime but selective Trump critic, is not running for reelection. His North Carolina seat is considered a strong pickup opportunity for Democrats by political handicappers.\n <\/p>\n

\nCornyn lost a primary election runoff against a more MAGA opponent who won Trump\u2019s late endorsement. Democrats are salivating over the prospect of making Texas competitive this year.\n <\/p>\n

\n A pause on handing more power to Trump\u2019s political appointees\n<\/h2>\n

\n Another Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, slipped language into a spending bill unveiled by Republican leaders to block, for now, a rule proposed by Trump\u2019s Office of Management and Budget that would give political appointees, rather than subject experts, more power over federal grants. Collins, the only Republican running for reelection in a state Trump won in 2024, is locked in a tight reelection battle.\n <\/p>\n

\n Meanwhile, Trump\u2019s approval rating is dipping to record lows \u2014 about one-third of Americans approved of his job as president in a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released last week. The last time a US president drew approval that low was at the tail end of Trump\u2019s first term, after the storming of the Capitol by his supporters in January 2021.\n <\/p>\n

\n Two major drags on his popularity have been his handling of the economy and the war he launched on Iran. In Trump\u2019s telling, the war would last at most a couple of months and the US would have more control over worldwide oil markets as a result.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Things have not worked out that way. Instead, despite Trump\u2019s repeated claims that Iran wants badly to negotiate an end to the war, the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed, and the status of talks is unclear.\n <\/p>\n

\n Disruptions to oil from the Middle East, paired with the opening of markets in Venezuela thanks to Trump\u2019s order to snatch then-President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from his bed, have created a situation where US oil companies are benefiting more than they have since the 2022 inflation crisis.\n <\/p>\n

\n For those who need their memories jogged, the Biden administration\u2019s refusal or inability to acknowledge the economic pain Americans were feeling then sapped much of the juice from Joe Biden\u2019s presidency.\n <\/p>

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