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On Sunday, January 11, the news broke that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is conducting a criminal investigation of U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell —who has been clashing with President Donald Trump over monetary policy. And it didn't take Trump's critics long to attack the probe as a frivolous, politically motivated waste of DOJ resources.Much of the criticism came from Democrats, especially Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts). But some conservative Republicans called Trump and the DOJ out as well, including Sens. Thom Tillis (R-North Ca

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday issued a scathing rebuke of Donald Trump's new criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, calling the move a "self-defeating fiasco" and advising the president to "do himself and the country a big favor by firing those responsible for this fiasco."On Sunday, reports emerged that the Department of Justice had launched a criminal investigation into Powell, purportedly over allegations that he misled Congress about

When President Donald Trump holds a press conference, he often gets a comprehensive fact-check from CNN and MS NOW. CNN's Daniel Dale will go point by point, debunking false or inaccurate claims. And MS NOW hosts Chris Jansing and Ana Cabrera will pause coverage of a Trump presser to point out something that's blatantly false. Trump typically responds to debunking on CNN or MS NOW by attacking it as "fake news." In a biting article pub

Republican senators are furious over President Donald Trump's retribution campaign against Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) served Powell with a subpoena as part of its investigation into whether Powell intentionally lied to Congress during testimony about the ongoing renovations of the central bank's headquarters. By Sunday, Powell made a bombshell announcement: He is

Democrats should be loudly calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump now, run on it in November, and then, when they take the House, actually do it.Because what he’s is doing right now is not “norm-breaking,” or “provocative rhetoric,” or even the oft-quoted “Trump being Trump.” It’s an open assertion of unchecked power, limited — in his own words — only by his own “personal morality.”His shocking interview in the New York Times was decisive. That isn’t how a president speaks in a constitutional republic. Instead, it’s a classic example of how a strongman, a wannabe Mussolini or Putin, speaks as he trie

Immigration agents have put civilians’ lives at risk using more than their guns.An agent in Houston put a teenage citizen into a chokehold, wrapping his arm around the boy’s neck, choking him so hard that his neck had red welts hours later. A black-masked agent in Los Angeles pressed his knee into a woman’s neck while she was handcuffed; she then appeared to pass out. An agent in Massachusetts jabbed his finger and thumb into the neck and arteries of a young father who refused to be separated from his wife and 1-year-old daughter. The man’s

The fatal shooting of 37-year-old motorist Renee Nicole Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 7 is drawing scathing condemnation on both the left and the right. Some prominent conservatives and libertarians — including The Bulwark's Bill Kristol, MS NOW's Joe Scarborough, former Judge Andrew Napolitano (a legal analyst for Newsmax), The New York Times' David French and

The D.C. pipe bomb suspect, Brian Cole Jr., will pursue the legal strategy many expected and argue that President Donald Trump's sweeping pardon of all January 6 defendants applies to him as well, his attorney told Fox 5 News.Cole's legal representative, Mario Williams, spoke out about his case for the first time in a "wide-ranging" interview with the local Washington D.C. news affiliate, for a piece published Monday evening. In it, Williams said that he "100 percent" believes Trump's January 6 pardon applies to his client and confirmed plans to present his argument to the co

Donald Trump has claimed that his ongoing feud with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is about lowering interest rates, but according to one historian who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, his latest attack is more broadly about taking complete "control of the board" at the Fed and directing all of its decisions.On Sunday, reports emerged that the Department of Justice was launching a criminal probe against Powell ov

Donald Trump is desperate to spend, according to a new analysis from Axios, but in order to do so without Congressional oversight, his administration is turning to means of funding that are "nontraditional at best," which the outlet summed up as "going through the couch cushions of government."In a Monday report, Axios highlighted Trump's tapping of certain pockets of money in the federal government that would not require Congressional approval or oversight to use in order to advance parts of his agenda. This included "$200 billion from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for mortgage bonds, $20 billion from the Treasury fund for Argentin