WASHINGTON — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), a close ally of President Donald Trump’s, threw cold water on the president’s latest attempt to prosecute one of his political foes in an exclusive interview with Raw Story Raw Story caught up with Johnson on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and asked him about the ind…
Month: May 2026
Hidden among a sea of blue campaign signs for Democrats off the side of a road in the Atlanta metro area lies a dark navy blue and green sign for a conservative candidate for governor.The placard is for Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, whom President Donald Trump famously called aft…
If you’ve ever been to Pearl Harbor, you know that the area around the USS Arizona is revered. It is not a recreational dive site. It’s not some playground for pampered, spoiled, and pompous buffoons.It is a military cemetery. Hundreds of American sailors and Marines are entombed beneath its rusted …
In 2019, Kathy Zhu had her title of Miss Michigan beauty queen taken from her due to offensive tweets deemed by many to be racist and Islamophobic. Almost seven years later, she’s handling digital media for the Michigan House Republicans.Zhu has been employed as digital strategist director for the R…
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper lost his cool on Tuesday when Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) demanded to know how many more Americans would have to die for Donald Trump’s war with Iran.”I would like to know how many more Americans we have to ask to die for this mistake,” Moulton said at a House Arme…
Back in 2019, Donald Trump pointed at Hunter Biden’s brief “cup of coffee” with a Chinese banker during a 2013 ride on Air Force Two and turned it into the single biggest line of attack he ran against Joe Biden for the next five years.The grift! The corruption! The selling-out of America! Oh, the hu…
WASHINGTON — It’s an election year, and impeachment’s in the air in the nation’s capital.After 187 Democrats signed onto the effort to impeach now-former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, restive Democrats have now turned their attention to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. Recently, a group of…
Ivan Raiklin, the far-right operative who built his profile as a self-styled “Secretary of Retribution” tasked with going after Donald Trump’s enemies, has spent the past several days using his X account to attack the president himself.Raiklin, a former Green Beret and Army Reserve lieutenant colone…
Friends,My first quote of the week comes from Trump on Air Force One, on his way back from Beijing on Friday — telling David Sanger of The New York Times:“I had a total military victory. But the fake news, guys like you, write incorrectly. You’re a fake guy. We had a total military victory. I actual…
Three nonprofits associated with dark money megadonor and architect of the conservative Supreme Court supermajority Leonard Leo funneled more than $50 million into the world’s largest lay Catholic organization — whose donations, in turn, advanced anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes, according to an…