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Joyce Vance, a former US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, said President Donald Trump and his cronies are running out of the building with as much money as they can before Trump’s lame duck status puts an end to their raiding party.As part of the government’s settlement with the IRS, President Donald Trump created what “Left Hook” podcaster Wajahat Ali called a $1.8 billion “terrorist slush fund that will pay off violent insurrectionists” with taxpayer money.Earlier today, the

Donald Trump’s rapid descent into his own special hell is gaining speed. This hulking, demented racist conman will eventually land with a thud, with only the billions in cold, hard cash he has drained from the American taxpayer to cushion his collapse.Our standing on the world stage has taken a hit we might never recover from. We have no allies, only old neighbors who are watching in disbelief as the big, old white house on the block burns out of control. Our air and water is getting dirtier by the hour, and food prices are higher every time we wander into a store. Women have less rights than they did 50 years ago, and the Jim Crow South is back. Our government has been dismantled by greedy, billionaire Orcs, so that it works exclusively for them and not us.America has never been worse off, and that is the

Former Washington Police Officer Michael Fanone showed little patience for the $1.7 billion “slush fund” Trump and his administration are trying to create to pay-off the Capitol insurrectionists who nearly killed him.“Adjectives have lost meaning in describing the actions of this administration. I guess there's a combination of two [words] that come to mind, and it’s ‘f—— disgraceful’ that taxpayer money would be used to compensate violent insurrectionists,” Fanone told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace. “And let's make no mistake about what this fund is goin

President Donald Trump’s spending in his second term, which is on pace to reach $9 to $10 trillion by the start of 2029, is so bad that one of Trump’s former aides believes a Democratic president would be impeached for it.“If Barack Obama had done half of what Trump is doing now, Fox News would have been calling for impeachment,” Anthony Scaramucci, former White House Communications Director during Trump’s first term, posted on X on Tuesday. “Trump has no economic philosophy,” he added. “He spent $8.2 trillion in his first term and he's on pace for $9 to $10 trillion in this one. We're at 100 percent debt to GDP held by investors — 122 percent if you count the Fed's bal

Speaking with CNN’s Jake Tapper spoke with a Democratic senator on Tuesday who admitted that she gets so many death threats, one of her harassers was recently sentenced to time in federal prison.“Let's turn to the bipartisan bill that you have worked on with Republican Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma,” Tapper asked Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV). “You introduced it this month to combat the alarming rise of anti-Semitism across the U.S. The Anti-Defamation League published a report on anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. last year and found that 2025 was the third highest year on record for anti-Semitic incidents since the ADL began tracking them in 1979.”After discussing the details of the bill and how it would attempt to comba

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is suddenly rushing off back to Washington, seemingly to save President Donald Trump’s agenda mere hours after Trump endorsed his Republican primary opponent.“I am cancelling my campaign events for tomorrow and heading back to D.C. tonight. As a member of Budget [Committee] GOP and on behalf of the nearly 32 million Texans that I am honored to represent, I will vote tomorrow AM to end the absurd and irresponsible Democratic defunding of ICE and [US Customs and Border Protection] and fund their important work first in committee and then on the Senate floor,” Cornyn announced on X.

A GOP senator Trump successfully ousted is now costing him a vote for his ballroom.U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who just days ago lost his primary race to a Trump-endorsed Republican, says he’s a no on the $1 billion the administration is asking for security upgrades to the $400 million ballroom.Cassidy had voted to convict Trump in his 2021 impeachment trial, and the president responded by endorsing his opponent.“I just know where I a

Research reveals that white people appear to support social safety net programs unless they perceive those programs as also helping nonwhites.“White Americans who feel they are on the losing side of politics are more likely to oppose economic redistribution programs,” reports PsyPost, citing research posted in Research and Politics. “This effect only appears when people compare their political standing directly to that of racial minorities.Economi

President Donald Trump just walked back one of his most controversial immigration proposals — although he is not backing down altogether.Trump is no longer going to sign executive orders directing financial institutions to check customers for proof of citizenship, according to a report from Semafor. Wall Street and other major financial institutions opposed the proposal on the grounds that it would cost them money and be inefficient.Instead Trump’s new executive orders will require Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to guide

President Donald Trump praised a CNN analyst who has repeatedly highlighted his sinking poll numbers — a striking turn given his long battle with the network.On the same day that CNN data analyst Harry Enten asked of the president’s poll numbers, “How low can you go?” Trump called him an “honorable guy” who gives “the good and the bad,” as