President Donald Trump’s poll numbers are so bad that Republicans are facing one of the toughest elections in years. But outside of those poll numbers, Republicans face a deeper problem than the president’s coattails: a president who desperately needs public credit for every success and won’t let th…
This Sunday, June 14, U.S. President Donald Trump will celebrate his 80th birthday by turning the White House’s South Lawn into a cage-fighting arena that is being dubbed “The Claw.” Critics of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event are warning that it will cost taxpayers a fortune, and form…
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…