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President Donald Trump is reportedly using the same “book cooking” to count immigrant deportations that he and Republicans denounced in his predecessor, President Barack Obama.“The White House plans to start counting people who were quickly removed after crossing the border in its deportation statistics, a change that will put it closer to its goal of one million deportations a year,” reported Brittany Gibson from Axios. Even though Trump and his Republican supporters claimed that Obama was guilty of distorting his record when he used this method, White House Border Czar Tom Homan

President Donald Trump’s favorite shoes, Florsheim shoes, are suffering because of the tariffs that the president himself imposed.“Our products are made in China, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Dominican Republic, and India,” Tom Florsheim, the creator of the shoes, told The Bulwark’s Catherine Rampell on Thursday. He went on to explain that although the shoe company used to be “100 percent U.S. manufacturing based” it since moved its facilities offshore “primarily due to the cost of labor. The shoe industry is

Republican strategist and political commentator Scott Jennings fielded no end of hard questions on CNN after Republicans appeared to reject President Donald Trump’s controversial $1.8B weaponization fund orchestrated solely by his personal appointees.Cooper noted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kent.) saying “so the nation's top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops. Utterly stupid, morally wrong. Take your pick.” And he asked Jennings if he agreed with the senator.Jennings found himself in the unfamiliar position of agreeing with a Trump opponent.“Well, I certain

Trump former attorney Ty Cobb expressed professional regret at the transformation of another President Donald Trump lawyer who has clearly fallen over the edge into cringe territory.Speaking to MS NOW anchor Erin Burnett, Cobb cited acting attorney general, Todd Blanche’s failed attempt to sell Senate Republicans on Trump's $1.8 billion “weaponization” fund on Thursday. Blanche and many other critics describe the fund more as a “slush fund” for Trump and his minions charged with trying to overthrow the 2020 election.Cobb called Blanche’s embrace of a clearly illegal fund �

Old guard national evening news anchor Dan Rather spent much of his career being careful about not adopting opinions — but he’s most definitely taken a hard stance against the modern Republican Party and its fawning support of President Donald Trump.Basically, he wants them beaten.“It is becoming increasingly clear even among Republicans that the president has lost interest in anything that doesn’t make him and his family richer or inflate his ego,” wrote Rather, a decades-long veteran of nightly news, stretching back to the Vietnam War. “The Republican Party abandoned hope mon

President Donald Trump was just harshly criticized by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has served the president faithfully as his Senate Majority Leader.“McConnell bringing the heat after Blanche meeting with Senate GOP today,” Burgess Everett, Semafor congressional bureau chief, reported Thursday on X, citing McConnell saying: “So the nation’s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong – Take your pick."This is not McConnell’s first open departure with the president he previously assisted in major policy matters, fro

President Donald Trump once tweeted that President Barack Obama should resign because his predecessor allowed a doctor who treated Ebola patients to return to New York City. As an Ebola outbreak in Africa threatens the United States, that tweet has come back to haunt him.“In 2014 Trump said Obama should resign when a single physician who treated patients in an Ebola-endemic area returned to NYC,” recalled Todd Zwillich, a former reporter at NPR and Vice, in an X post on Thursday. In the

President Donald Trump has destroyed his party’s chances of prevailing in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a prominent conservative commentator.“If you haven't heard, the President of the United States has gotten the Justice Department to agree to a multi-billion dollar fund to reimburse people who they claim were victims of government weaponization,” conservative commentator Erick Erickson posted on X on Thursday. “This is a terrible idea. No one deserves my taxpayer dollars because the government was not nice to them. The government is not nice to people all the time. And you know wha

President Donald Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, Michael Cohen told CNN that he is staking a claim to Trump’s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, and he doesn’t care that Trump hates him.By filing papers, Cohen is joining the ranks of Trump ally Michael Caputo and January 6, 2021 rioters who are also looking for a taxpayer-funded payout for what they consider the weaponization of the justice system, despite outcry from critics.“The first time [I was wronged] … an IRS agent out of San Francisco downloaded my information, put it on a thumb drive, improperly used the finance system, and then gave that thumb

Count Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) among the sparse but growing crew of Republicans with the courage to criticize President Donald Trump as he crushes the GOP.Bacon is also among the ranks of Republicans retiring this year, so he finds his courage “on the way out the door” as some critics have accused. Nevertheless, from the safety of his retirement, Bacon is lobbing major pushback against Trump’s controversial slush fund settlement proposal on CNN.“This whole thing smells,” Bacon told CNN. “You have the pres