President Donald Trump’s threat to use military intervention to handle the troubled bond markets is baffling his online critics.On Friday, a reporter asked Trump about increasing bond yields, which Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has struggled to contain after a failed debt buyback intervention ear…
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While the political world gawked at Michael Cohen’s on-air reunion with Donald Trump, Jim Acosta zeroed in on a moment he said slipped under the radar — and it hinged on something the president said that wasn’t true.On his show Friday, Acosta flagged an exchange from Cohen’s Thursday radio interview…
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to be gone by the end of the year after he insisted just four months ago he was going nowhere. Driscoll, a former Army Ranger and close friend of Vice President JD Vance, is expected to step down by year’s end, if not sooner, after months of bruising tension w…
President Donald Trump’s Grand Prix IndyCar race on the National Mall is spurring alarm over grift and traffic in Washington, D.C.Trump set in motion the Freedom 250 Grand Prix with a January executive order. It’s meant to cap a summer of Trump-backed events celebrating the country’s 250th anniversa…
MAGA businessman Zach Lahn is out with a new TV spot hitting at his Democratic rival for governor of Iowa, state auditor Rob Sand. But a major detail of his ad was completely false.”On our farm here in Belle Plain, we see it every day. Gas, groceries, everything’s expensive. Iowa families are hurtin…
When DHS officials got on a call with Nevada’s election officials to discuss the Trump administration’s claims of noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, the state’s top elections official had a lot to push back on, including the mispronunciation of his state.As a DHS official spoke, Nevada Deputy S…
A federal judge threw out a Justice Department lawsuit against a Michigan county after one of its lawyers admitted no case supported his argument.In a Friday decision, U.S. District Judge F. Kay Behm dismissed all six counts of the DOJ’s suit against Washtenaw County, which had ended its cooperation…
New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman declined to render a clinical verdict this week on whether President Donald Trump is in cognitive decline, but she drew a pointed distinction between the president’s age, which she said plainly shows, and the behavior critics call erratic, whi…
The fully exposed letters of President Donald Trump’s aide Natalie Harp are drawing unease about how she writes him.On Friday, online critics reacted to Harp’s letters that were released the previous evening by Trump biographer Michael Wolff and The Daily Beast, which produces his podcast Inside Tru…
President Donald Trump’s latest beef import order has enraged the trade group that oversees the American cattle industry.The “Great American Beef plan” came down via Truth Social on Friday morning, with the president proclaiming that up to 300,000 metric tons of ground beef will be imported free of …