White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s aggressive browbeating of reporters before Donald Trump’s Thursday night address has spectacularly backfired, with a former Trump State Department official tearing apart her credibility in a scathing column.Matthew Bartlett, who held a Trump-appointed p…
It was one of those stories that causes barely a ripple of interest anymore, one that we’ve become so inured to that it passes almost unnoticed but that would trigger a massive investigation/impeachment hearing were this any other administration.Here was the New York Times headline on Tuesday: “Trum…
Fox News’ Jesse Watters “visibly tensed up” Thursday at the mention of a progressive journalist he got into a physical altercation with roughly a decade ago – one who, by some accounts, got the better of him, multiple journalists said.Appearing Thursday on Fox News’ “The Five,” Democratic strategist…
“Frustrated” White House officials are already pushing for the removal of Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar from the Department of Homeland Security after his return to the agency in April, according to a new report.”He has quickly exasperated administration officials who say he inserts himself in issues…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) took to the Breaking Points podcast Thursday to promote what may be his last legislative win as a member of Congress: a follow-up to his Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA), something he claimed would take efforts to expose the Trump administration’s knowledge of Jeffrey …
During my Capitol Hill days eons ago, I made friends with a handful of Secret Service agents. It was during my crazy Dewey Beach summers on the Delaware shore.Once in a while, depending on how many beers I had, and they had, I’d ask them questions about the job, what it was like, and who they liked …
CBS News head Bari Weiss’s handpicked evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil got an on-air tongue lashing from Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) last night after his network carried Donald Trump’s fact-challenged election fraud speech.Brought on to comment after the embattled network went ahead with covering the s…
Several Jeffrey Epstein survivors and family members met with Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, describing the meeting on Thursday as “deflating” and detailing what happened behind closed doors.Blanche, Trump’s nominee for attorney general who has been facing tough questioning during his Senate …
President Donald Trump is privately furious about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent moves to snub and try to control him, Axios reported on Thursday.The spat between the two, who were firm allies for years as leaders of their respective countries’ right-wing coalitions, involves mul…
President Donald Trump’s push for voting restrictions is complicating an already troubled Iran war funding bill, according to the New York Times.GOP senators are rejecting the idea of bolting strict new voting restrictions laid out in the SAVE Act onto a massive Iran war spending bill, imperiling it…