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Far-right influencers steer Team Trump, rather than the other way around It’s a problem that the White House is filled with amateurs. It’s also a problem that they’re taking direction from other amateurs with media megaphones.

Sept. 10, 2025, 1:11 PM EDT

By Steve Benen

After the recent deadly school shooting in Minneapolis , some far-right influencers raised the idea of banning transgender American consumers from buying firearms. There was some reporting soon after about Donald Trump’s administration taking this seriously, at least to a degree, and the White House unexpectedly confirmed those reports on Tuesday. NBC News reported :

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at her briefing ... that Justice Department officials had ‘preliminary’ convers

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