John Cleese may be a famed funnyman, but on Wednesday, the Englishman delivered a not-so-hilarious assessment of his neighbors across the Atlantic, tweeting, “I’m afraid that all Americans are becoming tarred by the MAGA brush.”The co-founder of the renowned comedy troupe Monty Python made this asse…
A former Justice Department prosecutor is facing court on the other side after she was caught sending herself information from special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into classified documents taken by President Donald Trump. Carmen Mercedes Lineberger, 62, was indicted after she sent Volume II o…
President Donald Trump has concocted a “fantasy world” where prices were low in the months before he began his Iran war, says CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale. Prices are up and Americans are “unhappy.”“When he’s been asked about the inflation or the unhappiness, Trump has repeatedly responded with lies…
Chief Judge Jeffrey Kuntz of Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeals appears before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington, D.C., U.S. April 29, 2026.Law and Crime reports an ethics complaint has been lodged against a judge who paved the way for President Donald Trump’s stalled “Russia…
Bulwark Managing Editor Sam Stein and Bulwark writer Lauren Egan say Democrats are reluctant to make President Donald Trump’s advanced age and health a political issue. Only they really should. In Egan’s words: Trump is old. And he is a mess.“We have all seen the signs of Donald Trump growing older,…
There has been much debate lately over President Donald Trump’s ballroom construction project, which he started under the assertion that its $400 million price tag would be covered by private donors, only to more recently up the cost to $1 billion, which would be paid by taxpayers. Then on Monday, S…
Former FBI Director James Comey submitted a court filing on Wednesday asking that his July court date be moved to October. The reason, his lawyers explained, is that they have many more pre-trial motions that they intend to file. “Mr. Comey expects to file multiple motions on constitutional grounds …
Tuesday brought a wave of defeats for Republican primary candidates opposed by President Donald Trump, with incumbents in Texas, Kentucky and Louisiana being unseated after drawing his ire over their willingness to oppose him on a handful of policies. But while Trump is celebrating, longtime Esquire…
Buoyed by defeating Republicans at the ballot box he deemed disloyal to him, President Donald Trump is “almost maniacally focused” on doing whatever he wants, despite the very real potential consequence that could lead to the GOP losing majority control of the House and possibly the Senate in Novemb…
President Donald Trump has a shady new “BFF” he has been keen to keep close to him at all times, and as his one-time biographer told The Daily Beast, this decision reveals that he is well aware of how badly all of his massive failures are going.Michael Wolff is a longtime author and journalist who h…