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Former FBI Director Robert Mueller, who led the high-profile investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow, passed away Saturday, prompting an immediate and inflammatory response from President Donald Trump on his Truth Social platform.Mueller, 79, had served as the FBI's director from 2001 to 2013 under both Republican and Democratic administrations. He was appointed special counsel in May 2017 to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election and potential obstruction of justice by Trump. The investigation lasted nearly two years and resulted in the Mueller Report, which detailed extensive Russian interference efforts and numerous contacts between Trump campaign officials and Russian operatives, though it stopped short of making a pro

Social media reacted with fury at the news that unknown officials were shredding “bales” of paper connected to Jeffrey Epstein in the prison housing convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein soon after his death.Famed Epstein reporter Julie K. Brown reported that just six days after Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, a Bureau of Prisons “After-Actions team” rounded up inmates to help shred “huge amounts of paperwork.”According to the Miami Herald all the officials from the FBI, BOP and OIG in the building participated in the removal.“They are shredding everything

The New Republic reports President Donald Trump is feeling his rage these days, and it appears to be coming from a predictable source.“Judging by Trump’s outbursts of late, he can’t seem to decide whether reopening the Strait of Hormuz is easy or hard. He also can’t seem to decide whether he needs international allies to help with this urgent task or not,” said TNR writer Greg Sargent. “Iran’s blockade on oil shipments exiting the strait — done in response to Trump’s attack — is causing worsening global consequences daily. So it would be useful for Trump to settle these arguments in his own mind alre

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt says he’s been a Republican for nearly 30 years, long enough to see it’s sad “devolution” over the last few.“Yesterday, was the 172nd anniversary of the Republican party being born in 1854,” Schmidt wrote on his Saturday Substack. “Horace Greeley, one of its founders, promised that it would be ‘the greatest party for freedom the world had ever seen.’”The party, he points out, was born in the 1850s “in opposition to the expansion of slavery.”“It was the party of Abraham Lincoln, the party that prosecuted the Am

New York Times columnists Michelle Cottle, Jamelle Bouie and James French could not fathom the disconnect between Republicans who watching their fortunes sink in November and their fealty to the man determined to sink them.The argument on Saturday touched upon the puzzling determination of House and Senate GOP to press for the unpassable SAVE Act — and their willingness to deep-six other legislation in a bid to support it for the favor of President Donald Trump.“This is Trump’s obsession,” said Bouie. “… [Trump] is still incredibly bitter about the 2020 election. He still complains about not winning the popular vote in the 2016 election. It’s like a fundamental injury to his ego that he has lost an election and he blames everything but himself. And so, it’s his personal obsession. And the Republican P

The New York Times rarely resorts to the word “lie” when it comes to U.S. president, but the editorial board did not mince words on Saturday when it accused President Donald Trump of nonstop lying about his war with Iran on Saturday. “From his first announcement of the attack on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has issued a stream of falsehoods about the war,” said the Times. “He has said Iran wants to engage in negotiations, though its government shows no sign of it. He has claimed that the United States ‘destroyed 100 percent of Iran’s Military capability’ when Tehran continues to inflict damage throug

The grand jury subpoena earlier this month that led the Arizona Senate to give the U.S. Department of Justice terabytes of data, including images of ballots, related to the legislative chamber’s partisan review of the 2020 election shows that federal investigators sought virtually all of the records from that “audit.”The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona sent the request to Senate President Warren Petersen on March 5, just over two weeks after former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited the state, spreading election fraud claims while stumping for Republican voting legislation that would disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Slate Senior Editor Dahlia Lithwick and legal writer Mark Stern say there may be a reckoning underway among the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with plans to deport roughly 6,000 Syrians and 350,000 Haitians who were granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) by Presidents Obama, Biden, and Trump himself in his first administration, which is a contradiction to conservatives’ apparent eagerness to give President Donald Trump his way on the shadow docket while the case plays itself out in court.Stern said it was the right thi

It was an off-the-cuff moment, but the Guardian reports that when President Donald Trump revealed that Rep. Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) would have been “dead by June” if not for White House doctors, many were shocked by his disclosure.The Guardian reports Trump let slip the comments during “a meandering presser” with House speaker Mike Johnson, and Johnson’s response suggested he was taken aback by the reveal.“OK, that wasn’t public,

States were on notice from the U.S. Department of Justice that if they didn’t fall in line, the federal government would force them into compliance.It wasn’t President Donald Trump’s administration applying pressure. It was the early 1990s, and President Bill Clinton had signed the “motor voter” law requiring states to offer voter registration when someone applies for a driver’s license.Idaho, with its fiercely independent streak, didn’t want to participate. So instead of going along with the federal government’s new National Voter Registration Act, state legislators followed the recommendation of Idaho’s top election officials and scrambled for a way out. Because the federal voter law said states with same-day voter registration could be exempt, Idaho lawmaker