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Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt swore the American people will eventually come face to face with the colossal depths of President Donald Trump’s corruption and the fraud of his administration’s top lieutenants Schmidt was a guest on Jim Acosta’s Friday “Jim Acosta Show” podcast when the conversation veered from the Supreme Court’s Friday decision to yank Trump’s illegal exploitation of an emergency order to impose tariffs at his whim.“Seems to me a part of this is … that the Supreme Court, un

The conservative learning Wall Street Journal blasted President Donald Trump for “smearing” members of the Supreme Court who overruled his unilateral tariff policy Friday.“President Trump owes the Supreme Court an apology — to the individual Justices he smeared on Friday and the institution itself,” WSJ reported. “Mr. Trump doubtless won’t offer one, but his rant in response to his tariff defeat at the Court was arguably the worst moment of his Presidency.”Where other presidents have criticiz

New York Times Colunist and podcaster Ezra Klein asked two people familiar with the Trump White House and past administrations to describe how the late-night diving and social media-obsessed President Donald Trump spends his days.“He wakes up late,” said Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer. “[Former President Barack] Obama would start work very early in the Oval Office and work until dinnertime, and then he’d go back to the residence. Trump comes down later in the morning. I think on an average day he’s in front of live cameras, if he’s at the White Hou

Let it be said that President Donald Trump’s people know how to put on a showNew York Times reporter Chris Cameron noted that The White House “turned down the lights for President Trump’s news conference on Friday after the Supreme Court decision that struck down his sweeping tariffs,” as if in response to the president’s smoldering mood.Cameron cited White House spokesman Steven Cheung saying in a social media post that “President Trump will not be stopped.” His post highlighted the shadowy lighting, whi

CNN reports a federal judge tore into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of a law that could have undermined a federal search warrant. The law that government lawyers omitted applied to protections granted to journalists to protect them from government searches and seizures.The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 is designed to protect journalists and newsrooms from government searches and seizures of a reporter’s work product materials unless the reporter is personally the subject of a criminal investigation or prosecution. But CNN reports federal lawyers failed to cite it.“How could you miss it? How could you think it doesn’t

Pope Leo XIV has officially dissed Catholic JD Vance’s formal invitation to the upcoming July 4th 250th festivities in the United States. Instead, the Pope, formerly of Chicago, will be celebrating that day “on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa — a migrant gateway in the Mediterranean,” reports Christopher Hale, who chronicles the Vatican’s doings with his “Letters from Leo” reports.“… [B]ack in May 2025, JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to take part in the anniversary celebrations. Many assumed Trump and Vance would welcome the first American pope with open arms

NBC News reports “a visibly irritated President Donald Trump” blasted the Supreme Court on Friday for striking down unilateral tariffs he had imposed under an economic emergency law.Before stalking off, Trump assailed the conservative justices of the court who he had apparently expected to rule in alignment with him — as they already have

Costco’s decision to buck President Donald Trump appears to have paid off now that a majority od Supreme Court Justices have destroyed his self-appointed power to impose arbitrary international tariffs at the whim of a social media post“Back in December, I wrote about how Costco became the first major retailer — and the largest company — to sue the Trump administration over tariffs. At the time, the question practically asked itself: brilliant or insane?”

Raw Story reports President Donald Trump raged at the Supreme Court on Friday for snatching away his ability to wield unilateral tariffs to punish nations that make him angry.The courts, complete with its conservative majority — many appointed by Trump — ruled against his claimed authority to impose tariffs, sending Trump on a tear of vowing to circumvent the court with tariff “alternatives.” Trump called the decision a "ridiculous opinion,” and accused conservative members of the court who sided against him of a kind of betrayal, and said he was “ashamed” of th

Savannah Crisley joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Friday at the "Hot Topics" table. She has been invited to the show to fill in for Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is on maternity leave. Crisley's parents are the reality television personalities and former felons who were jailed after being found guilty of federal bank fraud and tax evasion. It was thanks to her that her parents were able to get a pardon from President Donald Trump.