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In 2021, conservative Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) committed what many MAGA Republicans — including President Donald Trump — consider an unpardonable sin: He voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate. Now, five years later, Cassidy is seeking reelection, but he may not make it to the general election in the 2026 midterms.Cassidy is facing a bitter GOP primary battle that finds him competing for the nomination with former Rep. John Fleming (R-Louisiana) and Rep. Julia Letlow (R-Louisiana). Fleming has a very conservative resumé: he was a co-founder of the House Freedom Caucus and was a prominent figure in the Tea Party movement during Barack Obama's presidency. But Trump views Letlow

The U.S. government has seemingly never been more incoherent and chaotic than it is now, and according to a new analysis from the New York Times, this is because President Donald Trump's own broken brain has rendered the rest of his administration "psychotic."Writing for the Times on Friday morning, Jonathan Rauch, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, laid out the extensive examples of how Trump's "disorganized mind and a disordered personality" have so thorou

Trump’s Armageddon insanity in Iran reminds me of an old funny-not-funny joke: ‘When it’s my time to die, I want to go peacefully and in my sleep, like my uncle. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.’The world is careening as an indulged manchild sets the world on fire, while Republicans in Congress dishonor their Constitutional oaths by refusing to stop him. From burning hellscapes in the Middle East to the

Trump is suing the IRS for $10 billion. He accuses the IRS of not doing enough to prevent a former IRS contractor from leaking Trump’s tax returns to The New York Times in 2020. (Using those tax returns, The Times published a series of articles revealing that Trump had paid little or no income tax for many years.)On February 18, Trump’s lawyers served the government with the lawsuit, giving the Justice Department 60 days to respond — a deadline that will be reached, ironically, just around tax day, April 15. So who’s representing you and me and othe

Author Leigh McGowan had no patience with National Review Senior writer Noah Rothman's characterization of President Donald Trump as a Middle East savior defusing an Iranian nuclear threat.The spat began on the Thursday night episode of CNN Newsnight with Abby Phillip, with Rothman claiming “the Iran threat was metastasizing” and that presidents preceding Trump “did nothing about it.”“So yeah, all of that did happen over the course of several administrations that did nothing about it. … and that got us to here,” Rotman told the panel. At that point cross-talk erupted between Rothman and McGowan, the author of “A Return to Common Sense�

President Donald Trump needs to retain the North Carolina Senate seat being vacated by Republican Sen. Thom Tillis — but according to a prominent local columnist, Trump’s Iran war stance is getting in the way of that goal.“Recent polling suggests that slim majorities of North Carolina voters oppose military involvement in Iran, while even larger majorities oppose putting troops on the ground in Iran,” wrote Deputy Opinion Editor Paige Masten for The Charlotte Observer on Thursday.Yet despite the unpopularity of Trump’s Iran war positions in North Carolina, Masten wrote that the Republican Senate candidate in that state, Michael Whatley, has

Many influential supporters of President Donald Trump are publicly expressing regret for backing him, but online trolls are having none of their excuses."THAT DOES IT I AM DONE THIS WAS THE LAST STRAW I'M SO ANGRY,” posted right-wing podcaster Tim Pool, who openly supported Trump. Pool was angry at Trump for calling conservative commentators like Candace Owens, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson as “NUT JOBS�

President Donald Trump’s first lady, Melania Trump, issued an unexpected public statement on Thursday about her relationship with the late child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and one journalist has a theory to why.“A new book was published yesterday in the US and UK, entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of The House of York,’” journalist Michael Wolff posted on the social media X on Thursday. “It's by a British journalist by the name of Andrew Loney, and it's about the life of Prince Andrew. But it is also about his connection to Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Melania Trump.”Wolff adde

A Maine Republican running for state governor failed to qualify for the state’s clean election program due of fraud allegations, according to the Bangor Daily News.Republican Sen. James Libby was the most prominent Republican running for the state’s “clean election” campaign funding program, but his staffers got him disqualified by the state board over allegedly shady dealings.“The Maine Ethics Commission on Thursday quashed [his] aspirations after ruling that only 2,870 of the 3,937 qualifying $5 contributions Libby submitted were valid. He needed at least 3,200 to qualify for the clean election program,” reports Daily News.The commission rejected his qualifying contributions due to defects such as missing or unsigned documentation, signatures on his paperwork not appear

For many years, the United States and Canada — a fellow member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) — enjoyed a very close relationship. But U.S./Canada relations became strained when U.S. President Donald Trump called for Canada to become "the 51st state" and threatened the country with steep tariffs. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remains adamant in saying that Canada has no desire to become part of the United States.According to author Robert Hardman, Trump raised the possibility of annexing Canada when he was writing his new book on Britain's royal family, "Elizabeth II: In Private. In Public. The Inside Story."CTV News' Afua Hagan, in an