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Wine importer Victor O. Schwartz — who would one day initiate the downfall of President Donald Trump’s signature tariff policy — crossed paths with the future commander in chief once back in the 1990s. He was having lunch at a restaurant in Trump International Hotel when he heard a nearby table cracking jokes about the repeat-bankrupt business mogul, whose Atlantic City casinos had just failed. “A bunch of people were trash-talking him and making fun of his hair,” Schwartz told the New York Intelligencer. “And then he walked by, and, of cour

Former U.S. solicitor general and conservative attorney Paul Clement says the Trump administration’s lawsuit against an entire federal court in Maryland must die, and die quickly, before the spirit of the infection spreads to other courts and dismantles the U.S. justice system.Last June, President Donald Trump’s

After almost 30 years of broadcasts and MAGA-style conspiracy theories, MS NOW reports the lights are off at Infowars on Friday. And the new company owner couldn’t be more pleased to see founder Alex Jones bump the door on the way out.“Good riddance to the world’s worst rubbish,” The Onion’s CEO, Ben Collins, wrote in a text to MS NOW. “The second this man is disallowed from abusing these courts, from paying out the $1.4 billion he owes to these families, we are ready to take over with something that will make you forget about what was ever there before.”MS NOW reports the leg

Former Republican speechwriter Tim Miller, MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace, and civil rights activist Al Sharpton did not hide their confusion after U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) tried to claim the economy was “firing on all cylinders” and feeling great.“The fact of the matter is that all of the cylinders are kicking. It is good news. You can even feel in our environment how good things are getting,” Scott told Fox Business Thursday. “Gas prices continue to come down, which means that your groceries will come down a little bit as well. We've got a lot of good signs in the economy.”It was a response that Wallace call

CNN reports the federal judge overseeing the White House Correspondent’ Dinner gunman matter is already losing patience with President Donald Trump’s prosecution team.Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya “privately admonished” prosecutors for attempting to grandstand Thursday at a detention hearing for accused gunman Cole Tomas Allen, according to a transcript obtained by CNN.“I don’t know what’s going on

While Ohio was long considered a purple swing state, over the course of President Donald Trump’s political career, he has managed to push it deep into red. But now, as his war on Iran and other failed policies inflict pain on rural voters, CNN reporter John King says that Trump appears to be pushing the state back in the other direction. King recently took a trip through Ohio to search for the answer to an important question: “Is Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition cracking?”Part of Trump’s success in Ohio came from his promises to bring back jobs. “But as we head into the midterms,” notes King, “the jobs he promised are not here. The revival in American manufacturing he promised is not here.”Quite the opposite. A General Motors fa

President Donald Trump is on course to make things "even uglier" for the country, according to his one-time biographer, as he begins to once again absorb just how much the walls are closing in on him.Michael Wolff is a longtime reporter and author, best known for books that used insider sources to chronicle the chaos inside the White House during Trump's first term. During the latest episode of his Daily Beast podcast, "Insi

The latest polls show that Americans are firmly against the war in Iran, with 61 percent of voters agreeing that military action was a mistake. According to CNN political reporter John King, that’s a “disaster for Trump and disaster for his party” as such numbers have historically signaled a public hunger for big change — and a willingness to bring it at the ballot box.Per the new poll, not only do most Americans think the war was a mistake, but a whopping 71 percent of independents are again

As President Donald Trump's war with Iran has dragged on for the last two months, a new NOTUS report revealed that defense contractors have been flooding congressional candidates with their hands on major regulatory powers with campaign money.In a report published Friday, NOTUS revealed several telling findings from campaign contribution data pulled from Jan. 1 through March 31, revealing that "the defense industry spent millions" to boost the funding for candi

U.S. President Donald Trump is saying that the United States' war with Iran could be ending soon, but many critics of the war are skeptical about that claim and fear that the war could drag on for a long time. Meanwhile, the Strait of Hormuz — a waterway crucial to the flow of oil in the Middle East — remains blocked. Oil prices continue to soar, and liberal economist Paul Krugman is warning that a wide range of goods could become much more expensive in the weeks and months ahead.The Wall Street Journal's Benoit Faucon examines the U.S./Iran impasse in the Strait of Hormuz in an