Politico reports a lawyer for the Justice Department stammered into a freeze when asked to justify President Donald Trump’s unconstitutional power grab.A pretrial Thursday conference over Maurene Comey’s lawsuit against the Trump administration for her termination last summer delivered a cringy mome…
Puck Chief Political Columnist John Heilemann says the jabs poking President Donald Trump are not just coming from late-night comedians anymore. Much of America appears to be jumping in on the comedy, thanks to Trump’s wash of bad policies and his cratering polls.Heilemann, reacting to Trump’s lates…
President Donald Trump concluded his executive time Friday morning with a statement announcing he would end the U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, and laid out his requirements for a deal with Iran, before declaring, “I will be meeting now, in the Situation Room, to make a final determinat…
Austin, Texas, single mom August Tapia says she’s had it with President Donald Trump’s economy.“It’s a little daunting. I’m not gonna lie,” Tapia told MS NOW reporters. “Even though I have the support of family … the prices are just through the roof. I’m on a very fixed income. I’m only bringing in …
It’s been three days since President Donald Trump visited Walter Reed Medical Center for his latest physical examination, and the White House has yet to release the results. As CNN reports, this break from the administration’s own previous practices will likely “fuel further questions about his heal…
A federal judge has ordered that President Donald Trump cannot rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, nor may he close it for what the Trump administration said were two years of renovations.“The Kennedy Center’s organic statute makes crystal clear that the Center is to be named …
On Wednesday, the musical lineup was announced for the Great American State Fair, an event that will be held at the National Mall to mark the country’s semiquincentennial, which President Donald Trump has promoted as something of a MAGA-patriot bash. By Friday, the concert series was in disarray as …
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports the Trumpified mpified Georgia Election Board has quietly hired an election denier to be the board’s official state investigator, even as Trump’s grip on the state becomes less guaranteed.Jason Frazier is a MAGA activist who has challenged the registrations o…
Former CIA intelligence officer John Kiriakou is perhaps most known for blowing the whistle on the Bush-era torture programs in a 2007 ABC News interview. But in a recent conversation with Zeteo’s Mehdi Hasan, Kiriakou walked through a number of discrepancies in his stories about the Bush torture pr…
Two-hundred and fifty years after the founders signed the Declaration of Independence, President Donald Trump is attempting to “vulgarize” the meaning of America, turning it into a celebration that is very much unlike the America those same signatories intended, argues Bill Kristol at The Bulwark.Fo…