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President Donald Trump has so transformed the Republican Party that it is beyond saving, at least according to one prominent conservative.Writing for The Dispatch, conservative commentator Kevin D. Williamson compared Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) to one of the state’s political heroes, Sam Houston. Like Cornyn, Houston was punished by Texas voters for an unpopular position: In Houston’s case, opposing the extension of slavery, and in Cornyn’s case

President Donald Trump is making endless news with tales of corruption, grift and self-dealing, but Protect Democracy leaders Justin Florence and Justin Vail say there are already tools in place to snatch away Trump and his family’s ill-gotten goods, even before he’s found guilty of it. “Simply put, under a legal principle called disgorgement, you don’t get to keep what you stole,” they told MS NOW.Disgorgement, they say, has “deep roots in moral tradition and American law.” The Securities and Exchange Commission’s disgorgement authority,

A former aide to President George W. Bush is accusing the current Republican president, Donald Trump, of committing more corruption than America is capable of handling.“Donald Trump's corruption has become an open fire hydrant. There are no words to describe it," Steve Schmidt said in his Wednesday Substack, citing the acting Attorney General of the United States, Trump's former personal lawyer, testifying before the Congress.”After reviewing how interim AG Todd Blanche refused to clarify the details about Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for his supporters and possibly himself

“This is what happens when you break your promises,” said polling analyst G. Elliot Morris, describing the kind of polls President Donald Trump and the Republican Party is facing as the nation careens into the November midterms.“The big problem for Trump and Republicans is that the president said he would lower prices on day one, and then he went and actively made decisions that produced the opposite outcome — and took credit for them. Basically everything about the current political environment is

The New York Times Editorial Board, in a strongly worded editorial, says “there has never been an example of presidential corruption like this.”The paper of record is accusing President Donald Trump not only of “presidential corruption,” but also of “political self-dealing,” and “destroying the pillars of American democracy to empower himself.”At issue is what the Times calls the Trump Justice Department’s “$1.8 billion political slush fund.”“Ostensibly set up to compensate those who the department claims have ‘suffered weaponiz

President Donald Trump’s proposed $1 billion ballroom and $1.8 billion slush fund for his political allies, and possibly himself, is destroying the Republican Party — at least, if The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Stassle is to be believed.“There’s a time and place for every fight, and choosing the best battleground isn’t one of the impatient Donald Trump’s strong suits,” wrote The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel on Wednesday. “See his demand that a Republican Congress dedicate its recent weeks to a damaging side debate over ‘security fundi

Polls suggest Trump’s last-minute endorsement of a scandal-laden Republican AG is mussing up a pivotal Senate race in Texas that Republicans must win in order to keep their slim Senate majority. But those concerns don’t appear to be registering over at Team Trump, according to an interview with President Donald Trump’s top advisor.“I will note that the endorsement of Ken Paxton, the attorney general, who has been indicted, not convicted, impeached, not convicted, his wife filed for divorce on Biblical grounds just a year ago,” said CNN anchor Jake Tapper. “The [National Republican Senatorial Committee] was highlighting that — it’s the only reason I bring it up.

President Donald Trump’s administration would disgust America’s founding fathers, explained a top historian and documentarian — and they'd be even more shocked at Republican lawmakers who fail to fight back.“The founders would less be surprised by someone taking authoritarian power than they would be by [Congressional] abdication,” said historian Ken Burnshistorian Ken Burns, who has made more than 30 acclaimed documentaries on American history and other subjects. “Article One is the legislative and Article Two is the executive. That would be the manager ca

Wichita Eagle Editor Dion Lefler says a Republican financial bundler is heading off to Washington to slurp up some pubic cash after spending much of his recent career blasting public employees.“After years of railing against the Deep State, former Kansas Republican Party Chairman Mike Brown is now up to his eyeballs in the swamp Donald Trump keeps promising to drain,” said Lefler. “In a shameless act of political patronage by the Trump Administration, Brown has been appointed as the director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at the U.S. Treasury.”This is the bureau responsible for the design, print and ci

President Donald Trump is making mistakes as president that, according to his former Homeland Security Chief of Staff, will cost Americans their lives.Miles Taylor, who served during Trump’s first term, told MS NOW on Wednesday that the $1.776 billion slush fund that Trump created for his political supporters and possibly himself is more expensive than the government spends on important national security projects."It's probably the biggest heist in American history of any kind, of any sort, that tells you a lot about the United States Congress,” Taylor said during an MS NOW appearance on Wednesday. “The Congress that spent most of its legislative time this week talking about the ballroom, trying to get ballro