President Donald Trump’s $1.776 billion “slush fund” is a “multitool for corruption and maintaining MAGA discipline,” argues The Bulwark‘s editor, Jonathan V. Last, suggesting there are multiple ways Trump can use the fund — all involving corruption.One of the obvious ways is bribery, writes Last. B…
Social media pounced the Trump administration’s proposal to force all employees to sign non-disclosure agreements to prevent leaks to media organizations.The new requirement proposed by President Donald Trump in a Tuesdy draft notice, states that “federal employees do not have discretion to disclose…
On Tuesday, the House Armed Services Committee released the draft of its annual defense policy bill ahead of the panel’s marathon National Defense Authorization Act markup next week, and Punchbowl News defense reporter Briana Reilly has revealed that the $1.15 trillion proposal explicitly bans the c…
The announcement that President Donald Trump’s IRS lawsuit settlement could result in the creation of a $1.8 billion “slush fund” for the benefit of J6 rioters has drawn no shortage of outrage, including from some surprising critics. One example came Tuesday morning, when famed podcaster Joe Rogan n…
Republican U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace is running for governor of South Carolina while waging a two-front campaign to amend both the U.S. and South Carolina constitutions to bar anyone she claims has loyalties “not to America” from holding office.Her proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution would effect…
President Donald Trump has received ample pushback over his decision to launch war with Iran from those outside the GOP, but as a growing number of Republicans question its progress, infighting has broken out between increasingly concerned conservatives and diehard MAGA loyalists. According to the N…
Long before he first ran for president in 2000 or became a reality television star with “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump generated a lot of discussion with his work as a real estate developer. Trump’s detractors often used words like “ostentatious,” “flashy,” “pretentious” and “gaudy” to describe his …
It’s no secret that President Donald Trump enjoys praise and adoration, but according to Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, this is no mere vanity, but part of a “flattery-failure doom loop” that is burning the country down. Citing a recent New York Times piece entitled “Trump Is the Only Person …
Writing at The Bulwark, Bill Kristol is pointing to three Republican Senators who over recent days told the truth about President Donald Trump’s war in Iran and possible deals to end it. The longtime conservative columnist who recently became a Democrat calls their remarks a “brief spasm of Republic…
According to Fox News analyst Howard Kurtz, a change has come over congressional Republicans in recent days. Instead of rubberstamping President Donald Trump’s every demand and whim, a new dynamic has emerged. This time, and for the first time in his second term, “Trump did something beyond the pale…