Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) issued a stark warning to his own party Tuesday as Republicans struggle with the fallout from Texas statewide candidate Bo French’s racist social media rant.Asked by Washington Sun reporter Igor Bobic whether the GOP has a broader problem following French’s comments and repor…
After repeatedly taking credit for what he claims are successes at the FBI since he took over, Director Kash Patel curiously put distance between himself and the agency under questioning.Appearing on MS NOW with host Alicia Menendez, former high-ranking DOJ official Andrew Weissmann pointed out a co…
Thomas Smith, the Republican nominee for a competitive Michigan congressional seat, deleted social media accounts containing thousands of posts revealing years of inflammatory and conspiratorial rhetoric, according to a new analysis.The 75-year-old retired General Motors employee and Flint-area smal…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) moved to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him on Tuesday of being responsible for the deaths and injuries of more than 200 civilians during the war in IranThe Kentucky Republican read his impeachment resolution on the House floor, where he accused Hegseth of…
President Donald Trump continued his campaign to seize control over the Kennedy Center on Tuesday by insisting that a security guard had come mere “seconds away from certain death” due to the building’s state of disrepair.A small chunk of ceiling at the Kennedy Center collapsed earlier this month, t…
FBI Director Kash Patel derailed a Senate oversight hearing with personal attacks on a Democratic senator until the Republican presiding over it banged his gavel and ordered him to stop.The clash came Tuesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s annual oversight hearing on the FBI, Patel’s second sin…
The Vladimir Putin ally who secretly bankrolled much of Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding had apparently met him only once in public — at an event where they bonded over a MAGA outrage.In what appears to be the only recorded meeting between Trump Jr. and Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, Trump Jr. ran…
FBI Director Kash Patel sparked mass confusion Tuesday after being grilled by Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) over the FBI’s bizarre new recruiting policy regarding bestiality.Late last month, reporting revealed that the FBI had quietly loosened its vetting standards to make acts of bestiality no longer an…
FBI Director Kash Patel and a Republican senator went around in circles during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning about the agency’s stance on agents and acts of bestiality.After a grilling from the ranking Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), on the topic, Sen. J…
President Donald Trump’s speech at the Pentagon on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks gave every indication that “his mind is trapped in a fictional world,” according to a New York Times columnist.Reflecting on the speech days later, longtime political observer Thomas Edsall felt the need…