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The Daily Beast reports MAGA influencer Steve Bannon “has an ulterior motive for banging the ‘Trump 2028’ drum. “Close associates of Bannon, 72, told Axios that the former White House adviser keeps mentioning a third term [for President Donald] Trump — which is unconstitutional — because he wants to run for president himself,” the Beast reports.“When Trump doesn’t end up running, [Bannon] will reluctan

Glenn Anton "Doc" Rivers, who is the head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks NBA franchise, spent several minutes from a recent post-game press conference to denounce the killing of Minneapolis, Minnesota resident Renee Good at the hands of federal agents.The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported that Rivers — whose team defeated the Los Angeles Lakers by a score of 105-101 on Friday — called Good's killing "morally wrong" while speaking to reporters after the game. The 20

National Review conservative columnist Andrew McCarthy says there’s a threat lurking in the Republican Party’s decision to keep ceding power to President Donald Trump, and it’s going to come back and bite them possibly as soon as the next presidential election.“You’ve got to hand it to President Trump: He has definitely shifted the terms of public discussion and debate,” said McCarthy.The problem with a shifted debate, however, is that the debate remains shifted long after Trump is gone and a Democrat enters the White House.

Never Trump Conservative website The Bulwark periodically “takes the pulse” of swing voters who voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, and their most recent survey revealed what “a difference a year makes,” according to publisher Sarah Longell.“The swing voters we're going to hear today are about as sour on Trump as they have been since he re-took office,” said Longwell, on Bulwark’s “Secret Podcast” Saturday.Podcast guest speaker and Atlantic contributor Jonathan Chait shared his own frustration at the swing voters’ shift in opinions, saying “every time I hear swing voters, I want to ki

One of President Donald Trump's most vocal supporters in the media is offering a full-throated defense of a federal agent's fatal shooting of an unarmed U.S. citizen — and is being pilloried for it.The Daily Beast reported Saturday that Kelly excused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross' shooting of 37 year-old mother of three Renee Nicole Good by blaming Good for her own death. On Friday, Kelly posted the new video filmed by Ross on his cellphone on her X account that shows Good turning her st

Intelligencer features writer Zack Cheney-Rice said the international community is increasingly viewing President Donald Trump as the world’s "most powerful thief," and they’re responding accordingly.“It’s true that, in spite of the shocking developments of the past few weeks, there’s a creeping sense that we are witnessing a tale as old as time,” Cheney-Rice said of Trump’s announcement that he was using the U.S. military to steal Venezuela’s oil, and is even now trying to

Author, attorney and CNN host Michael Smerconish couldn't help but laugh when reading one MAGA supporter's take on this week's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota.During a Saturday segment on his show "Smerconish," the CNN host read social media reactions to the death of 37 year-old mother Renee Good at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross. One supporter of President Donald Trump wrote: "You are making it way to[sic] complicated. The rule should be 'if you run from the police - you'll be shot.' Your analysis

Any effort to impeach President Donald Trump while Republicans control Congress is unlikely to succeed. But one columnist is arguing that Democrats should "do it anyway."In a Saturday article for The New Republic, the outlet's Jason Linkins laid out why Democrats stand to benefit significantly by aggressively pursuing a third impeachment of Trump, who endured two impeachment trials during his first term. First, Linkins asserted that Trump had committed numerous "impeachable offenses" that would have subjected any other president to the process."

The Washington Post reports House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) razor-thin House of Representatives majority is now a majority “in name only’ after numerous retirements and deaths.“On Thursday, neither party really had the majority in the House,” wrote Post columnist Paul Kane. “Over the course of seven roll-call votes, five times the final tally showed that the exact same number of Republicans and Democrats had voted. The actual tallies of yeas and nays varied between noncontroversial legislation passed by wide margins to a narrow victory

The increasing number of Congressional Republicans willing to publicly buck President Donald Trump suggests that his "iron grip" on the Republican Party is rapidly weakening.That's according to a Saturday analysis by CNN's Aaron Blake, who reported on multiple recent instances of rebellion against the White House from House and Senate Republicans. In the Senate, Republicans Susan Collins, Josh Hawley, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul and Todd Young all voted with Democrats this week to curb Trump's ability to wage war in Venezuela. The president even reportedly lashed out at Collins in what one unnamed Senate Republican descri