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Over the past year, election-denying allies of President Donald Trump from both inside the government and out have sought voting data from across the country in an effort to “investigate” their assertions of electoral fraud. Now, according to new reporting from Talking Points Memo, “election conspiracy theorists” are attempting to lay the groundwork for a Department of Justice probe into Michigan. In April, Michigan officials were left in “bewilderment” when DOJ Civil Division chief Harmeet Dhillon demanded public records pertaini

Catholic theologian Chad Pecknold is among those questioning the legitimacy of President Donald Trump's Christianity. Columnist Christopher Hale recalled Pecknold's CNBC interview, in which Trump claimed to be a Presbyterian. However, he implied that Trump doesn't appear to know much about his own religion, or Christianity in general. Pecknold asked whether Trump understood the differences between

President Donald Trump has been promoting the World Cup event, where many countries will come to the U.S. for the International football games, but it turns out ticket sales aren't going well. Newsweek reported Wednesday that "despite the scale of the tournament, ticket demand has proven to be somewhat lackluster." On Monday, ticket prices began falling to below $100 for games held in the U.S. Ticket Talk host Scott Friedman told Newsweek previously that FI

President Donald Trump spent months angrily berating U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for not lowering interest rates as much as he would like, and the Trump-era U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) even targeted Powell for a federal investigation. Financier Kevin Warsh, Trump's nominee to replace the outgoing Powell, is scheduled to be sworn in as Fed chair this Friday, May 22. But according to liberal economist Paul Krugman, Trump has placed Warsh in a very difficult pos

On Tuesday, GOP primaries in Texas, Louisiana and Kentucky resulted in wins for candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump, garnering him triumph over three Republican congressional leaders who had drawn his ire. While Trump is celebrating the victory, political commentators like Alyssa Farah Griffen — who served as the White House Communications Director during his first term — are saying that the president’s win today has made the midterms “a lot harder for Republicans” in November. Appearing on CNN on Wednesday, Farah Griffen explained that Trump is “absolutely the dominant force when it comes t

President Donald Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday morning.One reporter asked about Israel, and Trump touted his popularity there and said Benjamin Netanyahu "will do whatever I tell him to do." He then teased the idea of running for prime minister in Israel after he leaves the U.S. presidency. Spencer Pratt, a Trump ally, is running for mayor of Los Angeles, and Trump championed his candidacy before complaining about "a really rigged vote in California." "I'd like to see him do well. He's a character. I assume he probably supports me...I heard he's a big MAGA person. He's doing well, I don't know! You have a rigged vote out there, that's the problem," said Trump.

Georgia's importance as a make-or-break swing state has continued to increase in recent years, and its complex political landscape is evident in the fact that it has a conservative two-term Republican governor, Brian Kemp, but two Democratic U.S. senators (the Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, who is up for reelection this year). Although not a full-fledged Never Trumper, Kemp isn't ultra-MAGA either. Georgia is seeing an ongoing battle within conservatism, but according to Politico reporters Erin Doherty and Alec Hernandez, the "MAGA takeover of the Georgia GOP is nearly complete."MAGA Republicans deeply resent traditional conservative Kemp for certifying Joe Biden's victory in Georgia in the 2020 election, and Doherty and Hernandez emphasize that old-sch

President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies continue to boast about his recent primary successes, but according to a new report from Politico, others in the GOP are growing concerned these wins are at best "mirages," and at worst, "self-owns."Trump is coming off a string of wins and shows of strength after several primary candidates he endorsed defeated incumbent Republicans whom he had deemed to be enemies or disloyal. In Indiana, Trump-backed candidates defeated several state-level lawmakers who broke with the party and voted against a new gerrymandered map. In the last week, his endorsed candidates defeat

President Donald Trump's decision to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is sending shockwaves through the Republican Party/Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporter Bill Melugin she doesn't understand why Trump would choose someone like Paxton over Cornyn. "I don't understand it," she said. "He is an ethically challenged individual. John Cornyn is an outstanding senator and deserves, in my judgment, the president's support. Obviously, it's the president's call, but I'm disappointed that he did it." Journalist Joh

The Founding Fathers of the U.S. had a system in mind to rein in a rogue, criminal president, one who might try to pardon themselves for their own crimes.It was a system, however, that could never have conceived of a president like Donald Trump, or a party like the modern GOP that surrounds him, according to a new piece from The Dispatch, leaving the fundamentals of the constitutional order in disarray.In the piece, Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldbe