Alina Habba resigned as interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey on Friday. By Monday she was running political operations at the Justice Department. The woman who defended Trump in his civil fraud trial now works inside the agency that decides who gets prosecuted. Jared Kushner is backing a hostile bid for Paramount and Warner Bros … Read more
In 2014, Bruna Ferreira asked Karoline Leavitt to be godmother to her newborn son. Ferreira was 22. Karoline was 16. Ferreira chose her son’s teenage aunt over her own sister. Now Leavitt is the White House Press Secretary while the government calls Ferreira a criminal. Investigations show she has no criminal record. She’s in an … Read more
Welcome to the Trump Show, where the rest of us are bit players. After the Indiana House agreed to a gerrymandered congressional map, he published a list of nine state senators who “need encouragement” even though there have already been bomb threats and swatting. His Justice Department told prison rape auditors to stop enforcing protections … Read more
The Trump administration published one of the most significant policy documents since COVID. The National Security Strategy defines America’s threats and how to counter them. This one names the threat as demographic change. These are the actual words in a document sent to Congress. The NSS is the architecture for both foreign and domestic policy. … Read more
They killed survivors clinging to wreckage after watching them for 41 minutes. Hours later, they killed four more. And some Republicans finally broke ranks. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said the attacks “did not pose an imminent threat.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) put Hegseth’s alibi on record. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called it “outrageous” and demanded … Read more
“When you get an order, you move out fast and don’t ask questions.” That’s what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a retiring four-star admiral concerned about the legality of killing people in boat attacks, even though the command’s top lawyer shared his concerns. Now a different admiral who gave the order has been summoned to … Read more
I need to tell you something difficult. Four cabinet secretaries targeted Minnesota’s Somali community in 48 hours this week: Treasury, Transportation, Small Business, Agriculture. Then ICE announced 100 agents heading to Minneapolis. This followed the President saying, on camera, “I don’t care. I don’t want them in our country. Their country is no good for … Read more
The explicit white nationalist call is here, and it’s coming from inside the White House. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, minutes after meeting with the President Monday night: “killers, leeches, entitlement junkies… foreign invaders to slaughter our heroes, suck dry our hard-earned tax dollars… WE DON’T WANT THEM. NOT ONE.” The Defense Secretary, while Congress demands … Read more
The amateurs are running the wars. Two NY real estate guys are negotiating the end of a European land war with Ukraine in West Palm before one jets off to Moscow to meet Putin. A Fox News host ordered the death of two boat attack survivors clinging to wreckage in the water according to two … Read more
Members of Congress get better polling data than we do, so watch what they’re doing. Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she’s leaving Congress. Troy Nehls, the Texas Republican who said “if Trump says jump, we jump,” announced he’s leaving too. Both the House and Senate are now demanding answers from Hegseth about the boat killings. And … Read more
