Melissa Hortman often told me things she probably shouldn’t have.One time when I was a Capitol reporter with the Star Tribune, she expressed displeasure with a profile I’d written about a Republican operative.“The journalistic equivalent of a b—job,” she told me with that grin of hers, which shone…
Today’s South Lawn of the White House features a huge, brightly lit metal cage called “the Claw.” It is a stage erected to showcase men beating each other bloody, Caligula style, to entertain a wannabe Roman Emperor on his 80th birthday. After musical performers refused to sing at the nation’s 250th…
On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he will nominate federal prosecutor Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence (DNI). Presently, Clayton is a U.S. attorney for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Southern District of New York (SDNY). And according to Politico, SDNY insiders a…
President Donald Trump is obsessed with undoing two of the biggest public humiliations that still haunt him from his first term and is demanding Congress act on it, but according to one political expert who spoke with The i Paper, it will be a pointless win if successful.Trump is the only president …
President Donald Trump and his conservative Supreme Court, which recently gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act, has in theory disempowered Black voters — but he may actually have stirred them to action.“Democrats may have been rightly apoplectic with the Supreme Court’s ruling gutting Section 2 of the …
A ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court Thursa likely made life more difficult for the Department of Justice, legal experts say.Abouammo v. United States is a case that dealt with a former Twitter employee who passed private information of Saudi dissidents to a staffer of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salm…
The UFC Freedom 250 fight night, which will be held on June 14 is being presented as a patriotic celebration to mark the 250th anniversary of the United States. But in actual fact, the date doesn’t coincide with the birth of the nation, it falls on the President’s birthday.By installing an MMA octag…
Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng discussed a forthcoming book from New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. The book describes Trump staring at his TV while watching “Morning Joe” and growing increasingly furious over the article and the book’s revelations. At one point, he went on his so…
President Donald Trump is planning to hassle Congress to expunge his impeachments.The president is trying to get Republican lawmakers to remove his impeachments from the record even though legally such a move is impossible, reported The Wall Street Journal’s Annie Linskey, Olivia Beavers and Natalie…
A staunchly MAGA publication called out President Donald Trump on Thursday for his “obviously untrue” statements about the war in Iran.After reviewing how Trump told Fox News that the Iran war is over and blaming the media for claiming otherwise, The Federalist’s Eddie Scarry wrote that “a lot of us…